<TITLE>17. Par 74-78</TITLE>L-74 No doubt she'd read many Bible stories. She'd read about the Shunammite woman, and how the woman was past the age of bearing. And she had made a little chamber for the prophet, because she said to her husband, "I perceive that that's a holy man that passes by our way. Let us, I pray thee, make a little chamber on the side of our house, that he might be able to rest. And if we're not home, he can just go on in. He can have the key to the door." And she was showing kindness.
And Elijah gave her a blessing, and told her she'd have a son. When that son took sick at about twelve years old... He must've had a sunstroke. He cried, "My head, my head." His father had taken him in, or had him took in; set on his mother's lap until noon, and he died.

L-75 Now, look at the faith of that woman. She took him and laid him on the prophet's bed. Mm-hmm. What a place to put him. See? She laid him on that bed, and she said, "Saddle a mule now, and don't you stop until I tell you to stop." And so she took off to the mountain, where she went to this cave where Elijah was.
God don't tell his prophets everything--just what He wants them to know. And Elijah looked up, and said to Gehazi, said, "Here comes that Shunammite. And I... She's full of sorrow. I don't know what it is. God's kept it from me." He said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?" Look at that Shunammite woman. "All is well." Amen.

L-76 What? She was in the presence of a man, the agent of God, the man who could perform a miracle that'd take a woman of her age past bearing, and an old--old man like her husband, and bless them in the Name of the Lord God; and see a vision, and tell her she'd embrace a child. And she did it. She knowed then that was a man of God.
So she said, "Let me go to him." And when she got to him she said, "All is well." Amen. "All is well." And then she begin to reveal.

L-77 And then Elijah, he told to Gehazi, said, "Take this staff," 'cause Elijah knowed that everything that he touched was blessed. Now, whether the woman would believe that or not, I don't know. I think that's where Paul, being fundamental, got the idea of laying handkerchiefs and aprons he took from his body on the people.
And then Elijah said, "Take this staff. Gird up thy loins. If anybody speaks to you, don't speak back, and go, lay this upon the dead baby."
But the woman's faith wasn't in the stick; it was in the prophet. The stick never told her so; the prophet told her so. And she was persistent. She said, "As the Lord lives, and your soul never dies, I'll not leave you."
Oh, I like that. Bless God, if the people would take a hold of the Holy Ghost, God's Agent in the earth tonight, and hold on to it like that, "I'm not going to turn it loose."... Might have to wrestle like Jacob all night, but you get your request. Hold on to it. Be persistent. And she held on until she got her request.

L-78 Maybe Martha had read that story. And she knowed if God was in that prophet, that Jesus was the Man of the hour then. And surely God was in His Son if He was in His prophet. So she goes out to meet Him. And when she met Him... She could've upbraided Him, now, because she sent for Him to come. Lazarus had been dead four days and was stinking. And she run out to meet Him. She heard He was coming. So she was persistent. She left the funeral procession and run out to meet Jesus. Though He'd done turned her down, she went to meet Him. She was persistent.
And she run up to Him, 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." I like that. See? "Though he's dead, though he stinks, yet whatever you ask God, God will give it to you."


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