<TITLE>14. Par 99-106</TITLE>L-99   And, notice, she wasn't selfish. When God heard her, and answered her prayer and gave her a son, she gave him back to God. And because that she was willing not to be selfish after God had answered her prayer, He gave her a prophet. Oh, that was a extra blessing. Oh, He's just full of them, those little extra things that He gives. Not only a son, but a prophet. And there had been no open vision for many, many years, in Israel. Samuel, the first prophet, for many, many years, because a mother got desperate; that she could have no children, and she was past the age of bearing, probably sixty, seventy years old. And she prayed with desperation, she must have this child! What was it? God had spoke to her, no doubt.

L-100 You can't be desperate till God speaks to you. Oh, Church, rise and shake yourself! Pinch your conscience, wake yourself up, in this hour! We must be desperate, or perish! There is coming forth something from the Lord! I know it as THUS SAITH THE LORD. There is coming forth something, and we better get desperate. It's between Life and death. It'll pass through us and we won't see it.

L-101 Because that she wasn't selfish, she was given a prophet.

L-102   The Shunamite woman had a little boy that the prophet had spoke the Word of the Lord over, though she was old and her husband old. They had no children, but she was kind to this--this prophet. And she knowed that he was a man of God. She perceived that he was honorable, a real man. He come into the house, her husband not there, and whatevermore. He was a holy man. They could see that he was an honorable person. She had watched him do signs and wonders. She had heard him tell things that happened. He was an honorable, holy man.
She said to her husband, "I perceive that this man that stops with us is a holy man." The lady of the house, she knowed that he was a holy man. And she built a little house out there for him, so he wouldn't be embarrassed. He could come by when he wanted to, and so forth. She put a--a little bed out there, and a--and a jug of water, and so forth, so he could wash hisself and have something to drink. And she would probably send the maid out, or somebody, the butler, with--with some food to feed him, and come by and bid the--the day to him, or something.

L-103   And, so, when Elijah saw this kindness done to him. And it's written, "What you do to My little ones, you do it to Me." So she saw that, the woman was honoring God as she honored this prophet, as she seen God in the prophet. And, so, she wanted nothing for it. It wasn't in her heart for anything. She just done it because she loved God. She didn't do it for any blessing. She just done it.

L-104 Now, now Elijah said, "Go ask her, shall I speak to the king for her? I'm a personal friend. Or, the chief captain, I--I know him real well. There is some favor, something I could do for her, I want to give her something for how she's been to me. She's--she's fed me. She's let me sleep in the beds. And--and she's been real nice to us. Now what can I do?"
She said, "No, I just dwell among my people. We're--we're well off. We have a living, and that's all. We don't need nothing."
And Gehazi said to him, "But she doesn't have any children."

L-105 No more than Gehazi saw it, no doubt the prophet saw a vision, for he said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go tell her, in the appropriate time, or the proper time, a year from now, she'll embrace a son."

L-106   And the son was born. When he was about twelve years old... How that old couple must have loved this little boy, their only child. And one day he was out cutting wheat, with his daddy. Must have been about the middle of the day, he had a sunstroke, I suppose, because he begin to holler, "My head." He got sicker and sicker. His daddy had to take him from the field, and it was such a emergency there, that he sent a servant, and sent him in.


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