Tag Archive - Elisha

Tools perfected in the hand of God: 2 Kings 5 and 6

July 2, 2010 in Bible Blog with 1 Comment

Do you place any requirements on your ability to serve God? Do you need assurance that there will be many people, a lot of danger, a great distance between you and home, or a difficult task before you are willing to be a tool of God? How often do you think of the renown that you get in your service at church, the soup kitchen, or the mission field and wish you were recognized more for your work?

The man Naaman in 2 Kings chapter 5 was a man of renown within the armies of Aram because God had used him as a tool, a valiant warrior and captain, to bring about a great victory. This man of renown within the Aramean society was also an outcast because he was a leper. Can you imagine how this man hurt because he couldn’t live a normal life let alone enjoy the renown of life that God had granted him? Continue Reading…

Where will you turn in your moment of crisis: 2 Kings 3 and 4

July 1, 2010 in Bible Blog with 0 Comments

I love the intentional, specific, and beautiful language that is used throughout Scripture. In 2 Kings 3 Jehoram the son of Ahab becomes king of Israel. He did what was evil in the sight of God, not to the extent of Ahab and Jezebel, but he choose to cling to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. The struggle that was faced by Jehoram and by everyone living today is choosing to follow the sins of those around us instead of clinging to God. This language steams from when Joshua gave his final instructions to the people of Israel to cling to God instead of the ways of the people around them. What do you cling to? Continue Reading…

Rekindling the reverence, awe, and wonder of God: 2 Kings 1 and 2

June 30, 2010 in Bible Blog with 0 Comments

How do you want to be remembered when you finally die? Who do you know that would be faithful enough to follow you wherever you go? When we seek out God in prayer do we actually expect God to listen and respond to our request? Is there a relation between Baal-zebub in 2 Kings and Beelzebul in Matthew? These are the questions that I asked as I read about two moments in Elijah’s life related in 2 Kings 1 and 2. The first moment we see is Elijah telling Ahaziah that he would die for honoring pagan gods above the one true God and the second moment Elisha replaces Elijah as prophet. Continue Reading…

Egocentricity defeated as we experience God in stillness: 1 Kings 19 and 20

June 27, 2010 in Bible Blog with 0 Comments

How do you judge success in your life? How do you react when you fail? As you trust God and walk by faith do you become discouraged by the situations that appear be complete failures? When we view our successes and failures through human eyes we are not seeing the whole picture because the our baseline measure of life resides in faulty human emotions that shift like the wind driven sands of the desert. In 1 Kings 17 and 18 the prophet Elijah made a stand for God against the the prophets of Baal and Asherah showing the people of Israel that the Lord, He is God. After seeing God work in such a mighty way Elijah was faced with the wrath of Queen Jezebel in 1 Kings 19. Continue Reading…