Last week we looked at the story of Elisha with the Shunammite woman and her husband. You can read her story 2 Kings 4:8-37
She and her husband were unable to have children. She had accepted this condition thinking children were not in God’s plan. Out of gratitude for her hospitality and generosity, Elisha and his servant, the prophet prayed she may have a child and a son was born. God changed her situation when it did not seem possible.
This lady rejoiced in God’s providing a son, but several years later he becomes sick while working with his father. We do not know the cause of his headache, but tragically it led to his death in the arms of his mother. She takes off for Mt. Carmel to see the prophet, Elisha.
Maybe she had heard Elisha tell of God raising the widow of Zarephath’s son back to life through Elijah’s prayer so that provided some hope. She was not going to quit. She knew God could do that impossible.
We learn in the Old Testament how God worked miracles for a nation and with leaders called of God, but what about in personal lives of the people? Yes, there are examples of God’s grace to individuals as well. God is not just the God of the universe but takes special love and care of His children of faith. He works mostly in natural ways, but for reasons unknown to us, He also chooses to work in supernatural ways. We come to understand there is nothing – no category, no case too extreme that is outside His ability to work.
As we conclude the Shunammite woman’s story, we see God not only provided a birth, but more than a healing, she will see God bring her son to life again.
The greatest miracle of all is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This provides the hope we all have in Jesus Christ when He returns. Our new bodies will arise. 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 “. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
In some of the impossible situations I face and know of it is not so much a case of I don’t believe God can change the unchangeable but rather whether it is His will to change it. We still must come to Him and lay it at His feet and in faith ask. Where else is there to go? I can tell you many prayers have been answered in miraculous ways.
I agree with Dr. Paul Cho who said, “I have found God more often does a miracle in my life when I pray for it than when I don’t.”
Until He returns, we can still ask of the Lord, even when it seems impossible! By the power of the Holy Spirit even the dea
Application: Jesus tells us to ask, seek and knock.
Prayer: Lord, I will continue to pray and ask You for a breakthrough, knowing that nothing is impossible for You. I trust You Lord.
