Faith That Believes and Moves
Hi Family!
So i'm stuck in those same scriptures from my last post and something else struck me. I figured since I shared the first part, I should complete the revelation that I received.
So, you'll have to catch yourself up by reading yesterdays post which was centered on 2 Kings 4:8-17. Now i'm going to give you a visual of what the Lord showed me through verses 18-24. Yesterday we talked about the woman. What I felt from her actions and her reactions. Just finding how it seems that she was living her life of faith. In these verses, God was having me focus on the husband. His actions, reactions and lackadaisical action. Here are the verses:
18 One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters.
19 Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”
His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”
20 So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. 21 She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there.
22 She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.”
23 “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”
But she said, “It will be all right.”
24 So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down unless I tell you to.”
So a Pastor that I love pointed out the fact that you never hear anything about the husband. Not a name, not that he did anything notable, if he was nice or a mean or anything. He was just "the Shunnamite Woman's husband". Also, remember, they had no children and we have no clue why. They were wealthy, so it's not that they could not care for a child. So why didn't they have a child? But God had searched her heart's desire and had Prophet Elisha speak a child into her future. And it happened. 😇
So according to these new verses, the child was likely 10 years old or older. I think that because he was working in the fields with his dad. One day the boy fell ill and cried out to his dad. What caught me was dad's lackadaisical response. He told his servants to carry him home to his mother????? A Son is a big deal to any man in today's times, but it was even more important in the biblical days. So i really didn't understand that. I felt like he didn't really care too much for his son. He didn't take him home himself with concern or anything, he asked the servant to take him home to his mother. Like he didn't have time for that. But maybe it was because he was old when the prophesy came, so clearly he was even older now. Trying to give the benefit of the doubt here. But still, that's just not the feeling I got.
THE WOMAN held the boy on her lap til he died. SHE brought him to the bed that she had made for Prophet Elisha. SHE told her husband what preparations SHE needed in order to get to Prophet Elisha in a hurry. Hmmm..... She sure is doing a whole lot, and like I said before, you don't hear much about the husband doing much of anything.. but talking. She was preparing to go to the Prophet and this husband is asking her about the day? Why does it have to be today? Because it's not new moon or Sabbath? That made me feel like he had no real concern for the situation. This could NOT have been a son that he truly loved. That he desired himself. Suddenly the Lord gave me an image of a man telling a woman "This is a blessing YOU wanted. This is the blessing God granted YOU. Now YOU take care of it how YOU see fit." It made me feel like HE was the one that truly did not want any children, and maybe that is the reason why they had no children to begin with when Elisha was first coming through. And her being the good woman that she seemed to be, did not push her husband for children. She was content (or maybe she just decided to give in and settle) with being wealthy and being a loving giver. Clearly, the husband wasn't stopping her from being a loving giver because they built a room for a "stranger" that she felt was a Man of God (Prophet Elisha) and it was done.
Now I, being the woman that I am, love the response that she gave her husband when he asked such a question about the day. "It will be alright." In my speech, it may not have been so nice, i'll admit. It wouldn't have been disrespectful, but it probably wouldn't have come out so nice. If my blessing has been threatened "It will be alright." or "It is well" is likely not the words to come out. It would probably be "It's all good! Me and GOD got this!" (Sounds very much like "I don't need you!" but i'm just being real. LOL) And i'll be on my way to handle business and protect the blessing that GOD gave me!
Now please, this is not a sexist message. This type of situation goes both ways. This is just a biblical representation of what so many of us go through, not just in marriages, but in friendships, in ministry, in jobs and in your normal every day life.
How many of us have had someone at some point in our lives standing between us and our true desires? Not that the person is not nice or not Godly. But because your desires are just not the same, that, which is so important to your heart has been dismissed. It's been "denied" in your mind. It's been "refused". Maybe you have decided to settle and give up on that thing that you truly desired. To you i'll say, don't dismiss it. Don't give up on it. If it is that important to you, you must believe. But not just mentally, YOUR FAITH MUST BELIEVE even if it's silently. And your faith must BELIEVE ENOUGH TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO MOVE when necessary. When your faith reaches a point where it truly believes and is willing to move, you will see the Power of God to move on your behalf. And NO ONE, even the person who you thought stood between you and your hearts desire will have the power to stop the Power of God moving for you. Just like it is said in Romans 8:31..
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
So don't give up. Whatever your heart is that it is calling for, don't give up. The family. The career. The house. The ministry. Whatever it is keep believing in faith and be ready to move to maintain and protect it!!
I love you all!!! Be Blessed!!!!!
Ana
So i'm stuck in those same scriptures from my last post and something else struck me. I figured since I shared the first part, I should complete the revelation that I received.
So, you'll have to catch yourself up by reading yesterdays post which was centered on 2 Kings 4:8-17. Now i'm going to give you a visual of what the Lord showed me through verses 18-24. Yesterday we talked about the woman. What I felt from her actions and her reactions. Just finding how it seems that she was living her life of faith. In these verses, God was having me focus on the husband. His actions, reactions and lackadaisical action. Here are the verses:
18 One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters.
19 Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”
His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”
20 So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. 21 She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there.
22 She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.”
23 “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”
But she said, “It will be all right.”
24 So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down unless I tell you to.”
So a Pastor that I love pointed out the fact that you never hear anything about the husband. Not a name, not that he did anything notable, if he was nice or a mean or anything. He was just "the Shunnamite Woman's husband". Also, remember, they had no children and we have no clue why. They were wealthy, so it's not that they could not care for a child. So why didn't they have a child? But God had searched her heart's desire and had Prophet Elisha speak a child into her future. And it happened. 😇
So according to these new verses, the child was likely 10 years old or older. I think that because he was working in the fields with his dad. One day the boy fell ill and cried out to his dad. What caught me was dad's lackadaisical response. He told his servants to carry him home to his mother????? A Son is a big deal to any man in today's times, but it was even more important in the biblical days. So i really didn't understand that. I felt like he didn't really care too much for his son. He didn't take him home himself with concern or anything, he asked the servant to take him home to his mother. Like he didn't have time for that. But maybe it was because he was old when the prophesy came, so clearly he was even older now. Trying to give the benefit of the doubt here. But still, that's just not the feeling I got.
THE WOMAN held the boy on her lap til he died. SHE brought him to the bed that she had made for Prophet Elisha. SHE told her husband what preparations SHE needed in order to get to Prophet Elisha in a hurry. Hmmm..... She sure is doing a whole lot, and like I said before, you don't hear much about the husband doing much of anything.. but talking. She was preparing to go to the Prophet and this husband is asking her about the day? Why does it have to be today? Because it's not new moon or Sabbath? That made me feel like he had no real concern for the situation. This could NOT have been a son that he truly loved. That he desired himself. Suddenly the Lord gave me an image of a man telling a woman "This is a blessing YOU wanted. This is the blessing God granted YOU. Now YOU take care of it how YOU see fit." It made me feel like HE was the one that truly did not want any children, and maybe that is the reason why they had no children to begin with when Elisha was first coming through. And her being the good woman that she seemed to be, did not push her husband for children. She was content (or maybe she just decided to give in and settle) with being wealthy and being a loving giver. Clearly, the husband wasn't stopping her from being a loving giver because they built a room for a "stranger" that she felt was a Man of God (Prophet Elisha) and it was done.
Now I, being the woman that I am, love the response that she gave her husband when he asked such a question about the day. "It will be alright." In my speech, it may not have been so nice, i'll admit. It wouldn't have been disrespectful, but it probably wouldn't have come out so nice. If my blessing has been threatened "It will be alright." or "It is well" is likely not the words to come out. It would probably be "It's all good! Me and GOD got this!" (Sounds very much like "I don't need you!" but i'm just being real. LOL) And i'll be on my way to handle business and protect the blessing that GOD gave me!
Now please, this is not a sexist message. This type of situation goes both ways. This is just a biblical representation of what so many of us go through, not just in marriages, but in friendships, in ministry, in jobs and in your normal every day life.
How many of us have had someone at some point in our lives standing between us and our true desires? Not that the person is not nice or not Godly. But because your desires are just not the same, that, which is so important to your heart has been dismissed. It's been "denied" in your mind. It's been "refused". Maybe you have decided to settle and give up on that thing that you truly desired. To you i'll say, don't dismiss it. Don't give up on it. If it is that important to you, you must believe. But not just mentally, YOUR FAITH MUST BELIEVE even if it's silently. And your faith must BELIEVE ENOUGH TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO MOVE when necessary. When your faith reaches a point where it truly believes and is willing to move, you will see the Power of God to move on your behalf. And NO ONE, even the person who you thought stood between you and your hearts desire will have the power to stop the Power of God moving for you. Just like it is said in Romans 8:31..
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
So don't give up. Whatever your heart is that it is calling for, don't give up. The family. The career. The house. The ministry. Whatever it is keep believing in faith and be ready to move to maintain and protect it!!
I love you all!!! Be Blessed!!!!!
Ana
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