DANGER OF SILENCE
MEMORY VERSE
Call unto me, and I will
answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jeremiah 33:3
READ
2 Kings 4:1-7
2 Ki 4:1 Now there cried a
certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy
servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the
LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2 Ki 4:2 And Elisha said unto
her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she
said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
2 Ki 4:3 Then he said, Go,
borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow
not a few.
2 Ki 4:4 And when thou art
come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour
out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
2 Ki 4:5 So she went from him,
and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her;
and she poured out.
2 Ki 4:6 And it came to pass,
when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel.
And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2 Ki 4:7 Then she came and
told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live
thou and thy children of the rest.
MESSAGE
There are several lessons to be learnt from the
Shunammite woman of 2 Kings 4:18-26, one of these is that in her time of need,
she cried persistently for help until she got it. Another aspect for which she
must be commended is that when her son died, she did not immediately set out
for the man of God but first exercised her faith by placing the boy on the bed
of the man of God. It was when the matter was beyond her faith that she set out
to meet the man of God. Today, many Christians are very lazy. They hardly
exercise their faith in times of crisis. They are used to calling one person or
the other over the most trivial matter. What happens if there is crisis and
there is no one you can call? Start trusting in the Lord. God wants you to
grow. If only you can exercise your personal faith, no matter how small, it
will begin to grow.
When the boy failed to wake up on the bed of the man
of God, she decided to take the matter to the man of God himself. Sighting her
from afar, Elisha sent Gehazi his servant to her but she failed to disclose her
problem to him. This raises the question of credibility and integrity. If as a
minister of God people cannot share confidential matters with you, it may be
that you rate quite low in integrity. If you are loose tongued and what is
shared with you in secret filters out, and probably becomes common knowledge,
then you will end up overseeing strangers. Are you trustworthy as a leader?
Moreover, when she got to the man of God, she grabbed his feet, resolving not
to leave him. The reason many people are still nursing their problem is because
they are too quiet. If you keep quiet, God will assume that you are enjoying
the situation, so He too will be silent on the matter. A widow of one of the
sons of the prophets had a serious financial problem that could have led to her
untimely death and she kept quiet. It was when she cried out that God arose for
her. What situation are you or your family in? Cry out today and the Lord will
come to your rescue.
KEY POINT
It is your outcry that tells God you truly need what
He thought you needed.
This applies to a lot of senior ministers who would rather not share their problems with other senior ministers who are more anointed than they are for fear of being described as faithless.
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