DEAD PROMISES RESTORED TO LIFE
There is a phenomenal story in the
book of 2 Kings Chapter 4: 8- 36 of the prophet Elisha who went into a
town called Shunem (Shunem means double resting place). There was a
prominent woman there who prepared a meal for him and built a small
upper room for him to stay each time he came to town. The room had a
bed, a table, a chair and a lamp stand. She prepared this place for him
because she perceived the anointing on his life.
Elisha
wanted to pay her back for her kindness so he told his servant Gehazi
to ask her what he could do for her. He even asked her if she wanted him
to speak on her behalf to the king or the commander of the army. Gehazi
told Elisha that her husband was old and that she didn’t have a son.
Elisha had the anointing and authority to prophesy into her life that
she would have a son in one year. When he first prophesied this to her
she didn’t believe it. One year later she conceived and bore a son just
as Elisha said.
After
a few years her promised son died. She took him up to Elishas room and
laid him on his bed. When her husband questioned her what was wrong she
replied “all is well”. She then saddled her donkey and went to Mt.
Carmel to look for Elisha. As she arrived in Mt.Carmel Elisha saw her
afar off and sent his servant Gehazi to ask her if all was well with her
husband and her child. She replied “all is well” because she believed
the promise of God. When she told Elisha that the boy was dead, he sent
Gehazi immediately back to the boy to lay his staff on his face. Then
she said something familiar to Elisha that he always said to his mentor
Elijah. She said: “As the Lord lives, and as you live I will not leave
you.”
Gehazi went ahead and did as he was
told but returned to tell Elisha that the boy did not wake up. Elisha
then went into the house himself, up to the room and shut the door. The
boy was dead. He put his eyes to his eyes, mouth to his mouth, hands to
his hands and stretched himself out on him. The boys body became warm.
Elisha then walked back and forth and then stretched out on the boy a
second time. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes as life
returned to his body. Elisha told the women to go into the room and pick
up her son. God had resurrected the Shunamite woman's son. A similar
miracle occurred in the same manner when his mentor Elijah raised a boy
back to life. (1 Kings 17:19 - 24)
There are promises that the Lord has
made to you that have died. Some of you have ministries that were once
thriving but are now non existent. Some of you used to heal the sick but
you feel as if the glory has left you. The Lord wants to resurrect the
gifts and callings that have perished. He is about to breathe into those
situations that are impossible in the natural. Just as Elisha brought
the Shunammite woman's dead son back to life as he laid on the boy mouth
to mouth, eye to eye, hand to hand, the boy was restored back to life.
He is going to resuscitate you with his breath and revive those dead
areas in your life. He is breathing life into believers in this season
of great exploits. Don’t look at things in the natural because the Lord
is about to commission you in what he has called you to do. As you rise
up and decree and declare that "all is well" Jesus will honor your faith
and raise that which is dead back to life.
2 Kings 4: 32 - 35
When
Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed.
He went in therefore, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed
to the Lord. And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on
his mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and he
stretched himself out on the child, and the flesh of the child became
warm. He returned and walked back and forth in the house, and again went
up and stretched himself out on him; then the child sneezed seven
times, and the child opened his eyes.
Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
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