<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 And Elijah was so well pleased with this, till... I hear her say, "Bartimaeus, you know what that woman needed worst of all when he asked?"
He said, "What favor could I do for you? Could I speak to the king or could something I do?"
She said, "No, I dwell with my people. There's nothing I have need of. I just done it out of my heart because I respect the God that you serve, and I respect the life that you live."
And then Gehazi said, "She's old. Her husband's old, and they have no children." (Bartimaeus liked this.)
And the great prophet Elijah said, "Go, tell her to stand here at the door." (He'd saw a vision.) He said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, you will embrace a son."
And when this little boy became about the age of twelve years old, oh, how his papa and mama loved him. (That must have been about the age of little Bartimaeus.) And how that papa and mama loved him. How that papa had taken him out in the fields, and showed him all the way to raise grain. And one day when he was out in the field, he must got a sunstroke, because he kept saying, "My head, my head." (That Palestinian sun's hot, the direct rays of it.) "My head, my head."

L-27 And he... the father was busy, so... The boy was sick. He said to the servant, "Take the child to its mother." And the boy got sicker, and sicker, until finally on his mother's lap he died.
And the gallantcy of that famous woman, who showed favor to a servant of Christ... She knowed exactly, and was led by the Spirit what to do. Oh, I like that. Not only Bartimaeus, but I like that. She took him over to the prophet's chamber and laid him on the prophet's bed. What a place to lay him. Just right.
And she said to her servant, "Saddle me a mule, and don't you stop until I bid you. Go forward."
And her husband said, "There's no need of going after him. This is neither new moon or sabbath. He's not up there."
She said, "All is well."
"And another thing, Bartimaeus. Do you know God don't reveal everything to His servants? He just reveals to them what He wants them to know (See?), just what He wants them to know. So when the woman come in sight of this great, mighty man of God..."

L-28 He walked to his cave door, and set his staff up side of the wall, and getting rather aged. And he put his hands up like this, and he looked out. He said, "Who is that I see coming?"
Gehazi said, "It's the Shunammite. She looks like she's full of grief." (She was crying and going on.)
So he said, "Her heart is grieved, but God's hid it from me. I don't know what's the matter with her." Said, "Go, meet her."
And he went and met her. And when she come close to this great prophet, he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with thy son?"
Oh, I love that woman's expression. She said, "All is well."

L-29 I think that's where Martha and Mary... Martha's always kind of dilatory, seemed like. But when she knowed that if (referring back to this woman), if... This Shunammite woman knowed that God was in that prophet; that was God's representative of that day. And if God was in His prophet, how much more was He in His Son?
And she said, "Lord, if thou would've been here my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever you ask God, God will give it to you." That's it. That's the idea.


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