We get to have dinner with Elisha twice. Both times there is trouble with having enough. Both groups depended on Elisha. And both meals were blessed beyond measure. I don’t know if these two groups depended on Elisha on a daily basis but for their respective meals that day they did. The first group was […]
Elisha’s ‘thank you gift’ encounters trouble. The child the Shunammite woman received dies. She clings to faith and her child is restored. Another title for our story could be Twice Broken, Twice Restored. We met this woman the last time we were together. She KNEW Elisha was a holy man of God and she did […]
Elisha is always on the move traveling a circuitous route. A devoted woman gives him a gift to make life easier and he returns the favor with an even greater gift. When I was reading this story a verse popped into my head; “As you did it unto one of the least of these my […]
Elisha helps out a widow who is about to lose her sons to pay her debts. The Lord provides abundant oil to her through him. This story holds some similarities to one of the stories of Elijah. The story I’m thinking of is the widow he went to stay with during the drought. God provided […]
There is still peace between Israel and Judah. They join forces and go to war against Moab who was in revolt against Israel. Jehoshaphat was the author of this peace accord/alliance between the two. It apparently didn’t end with Ahab. Edom was in disarray at the time of Ahab’s death but they will join Israel […]
