<TITLE>07. Par 59-70</TITLE>L-59 In the days of Elijah, there was a woman by the na-... by a Shunammite woman. And she was barren. And she had faith in a man, a prophet, was of that day, in Elijah. And she had built him a little place on the side of her house. Or, she and her husband had a nice home. They built a place and put a--a water bowl in there, and a place for him to wash and clean up, and just made a real nice place, comfortable. And when he come by, he and Gehazi, his servant, and he said, "Look what kindness this Shunammite woman has--has showed to us." Said, "Go ask her if I shall speak to the chief captain I--I know about. I know him very well. Or, should I speak to the king? I've also been called on times to talk to him and consult with him." Said, "Now, I wonder if I could speak when I go before him again, or when I'm called to one of these people?"

L-60   So Gehazi went and ask her. And she said, "No." She said, "I abide with my own people. I don't have any reasons to ask things like that. That was just out of my heart, just 'cause I know He's a man of God. And I want to show favor to him. That's all." He said...

L-61 Well, come back, and Gehazi said, "But her husband is old and they have no children."

L-62 So, Elijah must have saw a vision. And he said, "Go, tell her, 'About the time of life, about a year from now, she'll embrace a child.'" And she did. She had a little boy.

L-63   The little boy was about twelve years old. He was out in the field with his father, about eleven o'clock in the day, so it must have been a sun stroke. He cried, "My head! My head!" And the father had him sent into the home, and--and so they laid him upon the mother's lap. And about noon, the little boy died, he got so sick; probably a sun stroke. No breath in him. He had died.

L-64 So she took him and laid him upon Elijah's bed. What a place to lay him! Oh, my! Just exactly right. Laid him upon Elijah's bed.

L-65 And she said to the servant, "Saddle a mule now, and go forward. And don't stop till I tell you, because we want to go to the man of God." She knowed, if she could get to that man, she would find out the reason why. If God could tell him that that baby was coming, and he would bless her with the blessing of God, that her--that her barren womb could bear a son, surely God could tell that man why He took him. She said, "Don't you stop till I tell you. Go to that man of God."

L-66   Now, when the--the rider got near the man of God, he didn't know. God don't tell His prophets everything that's going to happen. He didn't know what to do. So he said, "Here comes that Shunammite," he said to Gehazi. Said, "And--and she is sad, and God has kept it from me. I don't know what she wants."

L-67 So, when she come up. I like this. When she got up close to Elijah, Elijah screamed out, said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?"

L-68 Notice, a husband walking the floor, screaming. See? He didn't have the faith that she had. And him, just screaming and going on; all the neighbors, going on. And the baby, hours before that, was laying cold, on the bed.

L-69   Watch, when she got to this man of God. She said, "All is well." Amen. I like that. "Everything is all right now. I'm in the presence of His representative." Amen. There you are. "All is well." And then she fell down by his feet and begin to reveal to him; not him tell her. She told him.

L-70 And then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins, and take this staff and go lay it on the child." He didn't know what to do.


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