<TITLE>15. Par 107-113</TITLE>L-107 The mother held him on her lap until noontime, and he died. Notice, her only child, that had been give to her by the Lord, through the prayer and the promise of a prophet and THUS SAITH THE LORD. She knowed there was something wrong somewhere. It just wouldn't work. How would God give her that son and let her--her love come to that baby? Yet she never asked for it. She was too old to have it. The hand of God had to pronounce it. A man spoke it, the prophet. And there this baby in this condition, had died, her only son.
So she said to the servant, "Saddle me a mule, and you ride, and don't you stop. If anybody tries to stop you, don't you say a word, and you drive straight to Mount Carmel. Up there in a cave somewhere, pulled back, there is a servant of the Most High God; the one who told me, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I'll have the baby. I want to know why God has did this." So he said... "Go straight forward and don't check that mule. Let him run just as hard as everything is in him. Let him run till you get there." Desperation!

L-108   And Elijah the prophet raised up, looked, and said, "Here comes that Shunammite, and, she, something wrong with her. God has kept it from me. I don't know what's wrong." Said, "Go, meet her. I got... Let's hurry. There is something wrong."
Desperation set in on the prophet, desperation on the woman. See, they were coming together; one wanting to know what the Word of the Lord was, and the other one didn't know what the Word of the Lord was. There you are. One wanting to know it, and the other one didn't know it. The woman wanted to know it, and the prophet didn't know it. Said, "God has kept it from me. I don't know what to tell her when she gets here."
So she was almost there then. He raised up his hand, he said, "Is all well with thee? All well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?"

L-109   Now, the woman had reached the end of her desperation. She said, "All is well!" Glory! "All is well!" Her desperation was over. She had found the servant of the Lord. If he hadn't been there, she'd still been in desperation. But, you see, he was there. She said, "All is well!"
Elisha thought, "Well, what's going on now?"

L-110 So she run up and fell down at his feet. That looked kind of uncommon, so Gehazi just lifted her up. Said, "Let her alone, don't do that." Elijah said to his servant, "Don't do that. Let her alone. There is something wrong. God keeps it from me." Then she revealed to him that the baby was dead.

L-111   Now, the prophet didn't know what to do. He said, "Gehazi, take this staff that I've walked on." He knowed that whatever he touched was blessed, 'cause it wasn't him, it was God in him. He knew who he was. He knew that he was a prophet. So he picks up this staff and said, "Gehazi, you take this, and you go and lay it upon the child. And if anybody speaks to you, you get desperate. And don't you salute nobody, and let no... Just keep going on, don't speak to nobody. Put it upon the child."

L-112 But, the woman, that didn't end her desperation. That didn't satisfy what she come for. She said, "As the Lord God lives, I'm--I'm not going to leave you until you go minister to the child."

L-113 And Elijah got desperate. And here he went, down the road, him and the woman. And when they got there, the... all the people were out in the yard, screaming and crying. And the woman had done the most appropriate thing could be done. She took the baby and laid him on the bed where Elijah had laid. That was as good as his staff. And he didn't wake up there, so the thing wouldn't work. She wanted to know something different.


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