THERE'S A MIRACLE IN YOUR MOUTH !

THERE'S A MIRACLE IN YOUR MOUTH ! "I just don't know if I can do what Abraham did, Brother Lewis. He was someone special. He was one of a kind." No, actually, he wasn't. The Bible is filled with accounts of people who walked in that kind of faith. We've already study several of them--- people like Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. (Hebrews 11) is a veritable Faith Hall of Fame that lists one person after another who believe God much the same way Abraham did. It's not a comprehensive list, either. There are others written about in the Bible who did amazing things by faith that (Hebrews 11) doesn't mention. One of my favorite is "the Shunamite woman," whose story is recorded in (2 Kings 4: 8). She was a seamlessly ordinary person who only outstanding characteristics was her reverence for THE WORD of God and the man of God. She has such faith and respect for him, she built a room unto her house so when the prophet Elisha came to town to preach, he could stay with her and her husband. As a result of her faith, THE BLESSING of God came on every area of her life. One day, Elisha went to Shunem where this wealthy woman live . She urged him to stay for a meal , and when ever he passed that way, he would stop there to eat. She said to her husband, "I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. Let's make a small room on the roof with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us." One day when Elijah came, he went up to his room and laid down there. He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite." So he called her, and she stood before him. Elisha told Gehazi to say to her, "you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the Army's?" She replied, "I have a home among my own people." Elisha asked Gehazi what could be done for her, and Gehazi said, "She has no son, and her husband is old Then Elisha said, "Call her." So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. "About this time next year, "Elisha said, "You will a hold a son in your arms." She exclained, "No, my lord! Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!" But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time, she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant to Him carry him to his mother, The servant lifted him up and carried him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then the door and went out. She called her husband and asked him to send her a servant and a donkey so she could go to the man of God quickly and return. He asked why she was gone to him today, as it was not the new Moon or the Sabbath. She said, "it's all right." She settled the donkey and told her server to lead on and not slow down unless she told him to. She set out and came to the man of God and Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, he said to Gehazi, "Look, there's the Shunammite! Run to meet her and ask her, are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?" She replied, "Everything is all right." When she reached the man of God and the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why." She said, "Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn't I tell you, Don't raise my hopes?" Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and run. Don't greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Let my staff on the boy's face." But the child's mother said, "as surely as the Lord lives and as you live. I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her. Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy's face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, The boy has not awakened." When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, Shut the Door on the Two of Them, and prayed to the Lord. Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, Mouth to Mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy's body grew warm, Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and open his eyes Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite." And he did. When she came, he said, "Take your son." She came in, fell at his feet, and by him to the ground. Then she took her son and went out Elisha returned to Gilgal, and that was a famine in that region. The Blessing of the Lord even caused Elisha to prophesy over her that, after years of barrenness, she would have a son. Sure enough, the next year, she did. Everything went smoothly for a while. if she was not operate by faith in THE BLESSING, she might have reacted like any other mother, she could have fallen apart and started screaming, "My baby is dead ! My baby is dead !" Instead, she put on her coat without a word and headed out the door to see Elisha. When her husband asked her why she was going, she simply said, "All is well." If that would have been some of us in this dispensation of time, we would have probably said something that totally contradicts God's WORD. Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you" and so she departed, and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So it was, when the man of God saw her a far off, that he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, the Shunamite woman ! Please run down to meet her, and say to her, "is it well with you ? Is it well with your husband ? Is it well with the child ?" And she answered, "it is well "(versus 24-26) the new King James Version. Think of it. Though her son was lying dead, back at home, that woman refused to say anything contrary to THE BLESSING. The only words she let cross her lips were: "All is well !" That was the phrase people used to communicate that they were BLESSED. At that moment, the Shunamite's woman circumstances didn't look BLESSED. Emotionally, she didn't feel BLESSED. But she believed she was BLESSED. So she called things that be not as though they were, knelt down, caught him Elisha by his feet: and but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, let her along; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me.refused to leave him until he agreed to go back with her and minister to her child.