For some Christmas is a happy time. This is also the time of year when there’s more depression and suicide. People that have losses have grief. Losses that cause grief come from the death of a loved one, family problems, lost job, lost health, lost hope for the future, and many other things. Job lost […]
There’s a right way and a wrong way to wait. Our heart will be strengthened if we’re waiting right. Psalm 27:13-14 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: […]
Faith alone without works is dead. When we’re saved there’s a change in us. James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. We’re a new creature when we’re saved. If we think of a boat, one oar is faith and the other is our works. We would only go […]
There’s a difference between tired and being weary. Weary means we loosen our hold on doing what God wants us to. Galatians 6:9 (Amplified Bible, Classic Edition) And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall […]
Unbelief will always limit what God can do. If we think God is just like us, we won’t believe he can deliver and free us from all our sins. Those in the synagogue were only thinking of Jesus as Mary’s son. Matthew 13:53-56…when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. And when he was […]
“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” Psalm 103:13-14
There were no social support systems like we have today when the Psalms were written. If a woman lost her husband and she had no other family, she would be destitute. Psalm 68:5-6 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in […]
God’s works are great God’s work is honorable God’s righteousness endures forever God is gracious God is full of compassion God is generous God has redeemed His people God gives wisdom to those that fear Him God is faithful to His covenant God gives understanding to them that obey Him God is powerful God’s judgments […]
“So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well: And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.” II Kings 4:26-27
This scripture is about a woman that Elisha knew. She came to him with a very serious need. The woman was grieved. In her grief, she did something that was probably not acceptable in their culture: she grabbed his feet. Gehazi, Elisha’s servant, only recognized her actions on the surface- as improper. But Elisha saw there was a deeper need and addressed her accordingly. In 1 Samuel 1 we read about another woman that seemed to be behaving in a wrong way. The prophet Eli saw her actions and put one and one together to come up with three. He didn’t recognize the grief in her heart.
