<TITLE>05. Par 32-49</TITLE>L-32 So she believed that Elijah was a prophet, a great prophet of the Lord. So when... One day she said to her husband, "Let's build him a little room on the side of our house, and show him kindness, because he's a--he's a great man.

L-33   And how that one day when Elijah and Gehazi, his servant, came up and they seen all this kindness, he said to Gehazi, "Go in and--and--and ask, 'What can we do? Can I speak to the king or the chief captain?'"

L-34 She said, "No, I'll just dwell among my people. It's alright."

L-35 But Gehazi said, "She is barren. She is old, her husband is old, and they have no children." And said...

L-36 And Elijah must have saw a vision. He said, "Go, tell her, THUS SAITH THE LORD, she is going to have a little boy." And, in nine months, the little boy come along.

L-37   [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... old, he was with his father, out in the field, in harvest, and he must have had a sunstroke. He kept crying, "My head! My head!" And the father sent him into the house. The mother held him on her laps, and rocked him, and perhaps give him all the remedies there was to give him. And the little boy got worse until, finally, about noon, he died.

L-38 And how that little mother wasn't going to be defeated! When the father come in, and the neighbors all come in, and they were wailing and screaming, the little fellow dead, but she still had faith in this prophet, a Hebrew prophet; her, a Gentile. She said, "Saddle me a mule, and--and don't--don't--don't stop, but let me go to that cave where this prophet lives, up at Mount Carmel."

L-39 And her husband said, "It's neither new moon or sabbath, and he won't be there."
She said, "All will be well."
Said, "Go on."

L-40   And when Elijah saw her coming, he and Gehazi come out of the cave, and looked, standing out there. And here she come. He said, "Here comes the Shunammite, and she is troubled, but God has kept it a secret, to my heart."

L-41 You know, God don't tell his prophets everything, just what He wants them to know.

L-42 So he--he looked, and he said, "She is..." Said, "Go, meet her, and say, 'Is all well with thee? Is all well with the husband? Is all well with the child?'"
And this is the part I like, too.

L-43 When Gehazi met her, he said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?"

L-44 She said, "All is well." A baby laying dead, a husband screaming, tears dropping down in her heart, but, "All is well." She had come before the man that could tell her and bless her, and, she had the baby, surely God would reveal why He took him. "The Lord gave, the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord!" She wanted to know why.

L-45   And then how that she come up and fell down at Elijah's feet, and Gehazi jerked her up; that wasn't becoming around his master. And she revealed what was wrong. And Elijah went down and raised up the little boy, by laying his body upon the little fellow.

L-46 And I want you to notice the mother's faith, too. She laid the baby upon the bed that Elijah had been laying on. I want you to...

L-47 I want to clear up Paul's idea here, to my way of thinking. You know, Paul put handkerchiefs upon the sick and the afflicted, and aprons. I don't believe Paul was unscriptural. I think here is where he got it. You remember what the first thing Elijah said to the--to the Gehazi? "Take my staff and go lay it upon the baby." He knowed everything he touched was blessed. And so, you remember, Paul didn't pray over the handkerchiefs. They just took off of his body. That was the people's faith.

L-48 So, you see, he said, "Take my staff and (if anybody salutes you, don't salute back) lay it on the baby."

L-49 But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. And she said, "I'll not leave you till... Sure as your soul lives, I--I'm not going to leave you."


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