One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So, whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat. She said to her husband, "I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. Let's make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us." 2 Kings 4:8-10
Do you know that the Lord wants to bless you? The woman from the scripture above was a wealthy Shunammite with the gift of hospitality. Elisha wanted to bless her for all that she had done for him. The Lord also wants to bless you when you obey His Word and the calling on your life.
One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him. Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I have a home among my own people.” "What can be done for her?" Elisha asked. Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son and her husband is old." Then Elisha said, "Call her." So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. "About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms." "No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!" But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her. 2 Kings 4:11-17
What would have been your answer to that question, “What can be done for you?" Do you want a closer walk with the Lord? Do you want to get out of financial debt, or a healing touch on yourself or loved ones or a broken-hearted child, or for the Lord to go rescue one of your prodigal children? God was blessing her by having a child later in life. May you learn and never doubt that God can do anything in His perfect timing. The boy grew and went out with his father into the fields, and then a tragedy struck.
He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother." After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out. She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return." "Why go to him today?" he asked. "It's not the New Moon or the Sabbath." "It's all right," she said." 2 Kings 4:19-23
Look at this woman's response of faith to her husband! She did not tell him any details, but she, by faith, laid her son on Elisha's bed, believing that only he could do a miracle for her son, who had died.
Let's watch this woman of faith. What did she do? She told no one about her child dying. She took the child into the room that she and her husband had made for the man of God and laid him on his bed. She then said, "It's all right!" What a woman of faith. She prayed and decided that she would not give up on her son. I encourage you to never give up on your husband or wife.
So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the Shunammite! Run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?'" "Everything is all right," she said." 2 Kings 4:25-26
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy's body grew warm. Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. 2 Kings 4:32-35
Will you become like this woman of faith? She believed in Elisha, the man of God, to do a miracle for her dead son. Notice that Elisha had to pray for some time. Will you believe in the Lord God to do a miracle lost loved ones? Never stop believing!
Don't let time hinder you but ask the Lord for His wisdom and knowledge. Stop speaking words of hopelessness, but instead, say words of faith in your Lord God.
