<TITLE>08. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 So, Elijah, he had to pass through a little place called Shunem. It's not very well mentioned in the Bible. I think over in Joshua when they was dividing the land, they mentioned where this little place, Shunem, was. But every little spot God's going to have a witness somewhere. So there happened to be a real lady lived up there in Shunem. And she was a loyal woman, a real lady. Her husband was an elderly man.
And it come to pass that Elisha, when he would go through, he went up to Mount Carmel. And on the road up, he had to pass through Shunem in order to get to Mount Carmel. Now, Elisha had a cave up there. He had him a special cave where he went to pray. By the way, that's what it was, a cave up in Mount Carmel. He went up there at the new moon and on Sabbath to pray.

L-28 Well, he wasn't very well wanted in the city, I suppose; for this woman must've seen him as he passed through and seen him rejected. And Shunem was just about as far up as he could get in his journey, and he'd have to stay there overnight. So he would rest there, and maybe in the street, or in the woods, in the fields somewhere as he passed by. And maybe sometime without food... And this good woman as she went up into the city, quickly she spotted this man and knew that he was a holy man.
Now, she being a Shunammite, yet in her heart she was a believer. And no matter where the person is that is a believer, God in some way will get the true Message to them just as certain as He's God. That's right. He will manage to get it some way. He will put an ache on somebody's heart somewhere, they'll write to them, to hear testimony, turn the radio or something or other; they'll hear the true Message. God will grant that to them.

L-29 And this woman, perhaps, maybe, let's say she... One day she went up in the street and she heard someone preaching on the street corner. And she seen him rejected, and she knew that was a servant of God. So I can imagine that after Elisha got through preaching, she said, "Kind, sir, would you go and meet my husband. I will fix you all some lunch, right away."
Well, I can hear Elijah say, "Thank you, ma'am. I'll be glad to do that for I'm a bit hungry after the message." And down to the house they went. She goes in and introduces her husband to this prophet, and Gehazi, the servant. And she made some cakes ready right quick, and some little dainties, some little cookies, and so forth.

L-30 And by the way, there's a little Danish woman last evening that sent me a box of cookies and some things to take... I know she's not... She can't understand English anyhow; she's here. Probably don't want to know what the right hand, know what the left hand's doing. And I thank you, each one, for your little tokens and blessings. I appreciate them. And this little Danish woman sent me some cookies to take home to the baby. And said they were Danish, and she couldn't write English, so had someone else to write it. Now, I'm having an awfullest time to keep out of them before I take them to the kids. I'm just having an awful time. I walk back and forth, look at them, and back to the other side and look at them. Well, I'm trying to make it out till I go home.


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