<TITLE>22. Par 78-80</TITLE>L-78 That day, God's representative... God's never without a representative in the earth: always, every age. And His representative then was a prophet, Elijah. And she was old, this Shunammite woman had no children. And Elijah prayed for her, and blessed her, and prophesied, and told her she'd have a child. And she had it. About... Got about ten or twelve years old, the child must've had a sunstroke. He cried, "My head, my head." About the in middle of the day. Father had a servant bring him in, set him on the mother's lap. And the baby died. What an appropriate place to take the baby and lay him on the prophet's bed, where the prophet had been laying.
And then she said, "Saddle a mule. Go straight, and don't you speak to anybody, but go on."

L-79 And when the prophet come... God don't always tell His prophets everything, just what He wants them to know. And said, "Here comes that Shunammite." He said to Gehazi, said, "She's got sorrow in her heart, but 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. I like that. She said, "All is well": her baby dead.
But she was before the servant of God. She knew if God could tell that servant she'd have the baby, he could tell why He took the baby. So she stood there. Then she fell down before him, begin to reveal.

L-80 Now, that's where I think Paul got laying handkerchiefs. You see? He said, told Gehazi, "Take my staff, gird up your loins. And if anybody speaks to you, don't you speak back. Just go on, lay this staff on the baby." See, he knowed whatever he had touched was blessed, if he could just get the woman to believe it.
But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. She held him. She said, "As the Lord God lives and your soul never dies, I'll not leave you." And Gehazi... I mean, Elijah went with her. And he went there, and laid his body upon that dead baby, walked back and forth in the room, put his face upon the baby, and the baby sneezed seven times and come to life. And what? Because that Shunammite woman, "Don't stop. Don't have any social affairs. Get to the Word."
And she knew... Martha knew if--if Elijah... If God was in Elijah to bring forth, to anchor that faith, how much more was He in Christ the Son of God? So that's the reason she was very persistent in the face of Jesus. So was the Shunammite woman in the face of--of Elijah.


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