In West Texas is a famous oil-field known as the Yates Pool. During the Depression, this field was a sheep ranch owned by a man named Ira Yates.
Mr. Yates was not able to make enough money on his ranching
operation to pay the principal & interest on the mortgage, so he was in
danger of losing his ranch.
With little money for clothes or food, his family like many
others had to live on government subsidy. Day after day, as he grazed his
sheep, he wondered how he would be able to pay his bills.
Then a seismograph crew from an oil company came into the
area & told Mr. Yates that there might be oil on his land. They asked
permission to drill a wildcat well & he signed a lease contract.
At 1,115 ft they struck a huge oil reserve. The first well
came in at 80,000 barrels a day. Many of the later wells were more than twice
as large. 30 years after the first well was drilled, all the wells still had
the potential of pumping 125,000 barrels of oil a day.
And Mr. Yates owned it all! The day he purchased the
property he received the oil & mineral rights, yet he was living on
government assistance.
A multi-millionaire living in poverty!
The problem? He did not know the oil was there. He owned it,
but he did not know it!
Jesus Christ came so that you might have life, full &
meaningful. Yet, many people are not aware of all that is theirs even though
it's right at their fingertips.
Lord Jesus said in John 10:10... "I have come that they
may have life, and that they might have it abundantly."
Don't just sit on it. Live it!
- (aksermonillustrations.blogspot.in)
“When you become satisfied with God, however, everything
else so loses its charm that He can give it to you without harm.” - A.B. Simpson.
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