“Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Lord says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver]” 2 The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, “That couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!” But Elisha replied, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!
3 Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. 4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”” 1 Kings 7:1-4 NLT
Almighty God,
Even though Israel are sinful and not worshipping You as they should. Their King was Jehoram (Joram) the son of Jehoshaphat and Jezebel which says it all. Not a godly upbringing! You still kept watch over them.
I love this story it is worth the read fully 2 Kings 6:24-7:20. Four lepers had this choice: 1. stay where they were and die. 2. Go back to the city and die. 3. Go out and surrender and most probably die. They decide on the most probably as it has the whisker of hope. And You do not let them down. I love that you can answer the smallest whisper of hope in our hearts.
On the other hand the Captain killjoy believes none of it and true to Elisha’s words he pauses in the gate in disbelief and gets trampled to death. What a warning.
Thank you for hearing the smallest whisper of hope in our hearts. Please fan the flame, Holy Spirit.
In Jesus name we pry, Amen.
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Begone, unbelief,
My Savior is near,
And for my relief
Will surely appear;
By prayer let me wrestle,
And He will perform;
With Christ in the vessel,
I smile at the storm.
Though dark be my way,
Since He is my Guide,
’Tis mine to obey,
’Tis His to provide;
Though cisterns be broken,
And creatures all fail,
The word He hath spoken
Shall surely prevail.
His love, in time past,
Forbids me to think
He’ll leave me at last
In trouble to sink:
Each sweet Ebenezer
I have in review
Confirms His good pleasure
To help me quite through.
Why should I complain
Of want or distress,
Temptation or pain?
He told me no less;
The heirs of salvation,
I know from His Word,
Through much tribulation
Must follow their Lord.
Since all that I meet
Shall work for my good,
The bitter is sweet,
The medicine, food;
Though painful at present,
’Twill cease before long,
And then, oh, how pleasant
The conqueror’s song!
Lyrics: John Newton