<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Then just... He said then, "One day this little boy was out in the field with his papa, just like you go out, Bartimaeus. And you know, he must've got a sunstroke, because it was hot, and it was around noontime, and harvest time too. And so he begin to cry, 'My head, my head.' So he had a servant to take him in to his sweet mother, and she set him upon her lap. And she tried to do all she could to bathe his little face with cold water, but his breath got shorter and shorter, and finally ceased to breathe. And he straightened his little arms and legs out, and shut his little eyes, and died."
And she might have said something like this. "But Bartimaeus, you remember, that woman knowed God. So she took the little boy and put him on the bed that the prophet slept in." What a place to put him. "Laid him upon the prophet's bed. And all was lamenting and going on. And her husband just about wild, and all the neighbors was screaming and a crying.

L-16 "But she said to the servant, 'Saddle me up a little mule, and you get on one too. And let's go straight to Mount Carmel where the prophet's hid off yonder in a den somewhere, praying. And don't you stop unless I tell you to.'"
That's the way. The message is urgent. Don't stop, keep going. Just keep moving. We haven't got time for socials, and picnics, and card parties, and things. The message is urgent. Let's get to God with it, quickly. The world's a dying.
"And on they rode." And then she'd say, "You know, Elijah looked out of his cave, and he noticed that here come the woman on the mule, and the servant running as hard as he could. And he said, 'Here comes that Shunammite, and God has hid from me her troubles. But I see that she's in trouble.'"

L-17 Now, she might've said something like this. "Bartimaeus, you see, God doesn't reveal everything to His prophets. He just reveals what He wants them to know, because here was a woman: Her baby was dead, and God had kept it all a secret from Elijah. He said, 'The Lord has hid it from me.'"
So the woman come up and reverent, she bowed down before the prophet and begin to reveal to him that her baby was dead.
And he told Gehazi, "Take my staff and go to the baby. If anybody speaks to you, don't speak back. Just go straight and do what I tell you."
Now, I think there's where Paul got laying on handkerchiefs on the sick.
Now, the prophet knowed that everything that he touched was blessed. He knew that. If he could only get the woman to believe it. And said, "Take my staff and lay it on the child."

L-18 But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. And she said, "I'll not leave you un... le... I--I'm determined to stay with you and hold on till I find out why God took my baby." She knew if she ever got to him, that God would reveal it, why He took the baby.
I like that determination too. She was determined to hold on to it. When you--something's wrong and you can't understand, take a hold of God and hold on to Him till something answers. Just don't be... "Well, I prayed last night, and I haven't heard yet. So I guess He doesn't answer no more." Hold on to Him. Just keep holding on. "I'll not leave you." Be like Jacob, wrestle all day and night as he did with the Angel. "I'll not leave you."


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