2kings 4

Elisha was a great man of God. The chapter opens with the story of a woman the wife of one of the prophets.

The late husband was having alot of creditors who were planning to take the two sons as slaves. A miracle was performed by Elisha the prophet. Jars of oil came out of jars filled with water. Thereafter , part of the oil was used to pay back the creditors.

Also a shunamite woman was provided with a son. She and the husband provided a place of abode for Elisha. Later that boy fell ill and died mysteriously. But he was restored to life by Elisha again.

In another story ,Elisha made a food free and safe from poison.

Finally a hundred people was fed with twenty loaves of barley bread. That was a miraculous provision.

Lessons

Elisha was a man of authority. As believers we should walk with God with great devotion . When we do this we become men and women of authority.

God wants to use us to make a difference in our generation . We need to grow in faith and fellowship with God..

2kings 5

Naaman the commander in the army of Aram was a leper. He on one of his campaigns had raided an Israeli village where he took a girl that was his servant.

This girl told him about Elisha and urged him to meet him for a healing.

Naaman later left for Israel and was given instructions by Elisha to take a bath seven times in the river Jordan.

At first he felt offended and mentioned that there were better rivers in his nation if he needed a bath. Meanwhile the girl servant from Israel persuaded him to obey . Afterwards he was healed and he brought gifts to Elisha

Prophet Elisha didn't accept the gift . Then Naaman took sands from Israel to use as a platform to worship God.

Gehazi was not happy with his master as he had not accepted the clothings and sliver brought to him. So Gehazi went after Naaman and took the gift lying that his master needed them.

On getting back to the house. Elisha reproved Gehazi and all the while he was seeing what Gehazi was doing (he being a grea prophet ) .

Elisha then cursed Gehazi that he will be leprous with his generation.

Lessons

Learning from the story of Naaman , teaches that we should not commonize God's instructions. It might not make sense to us but we should be obedient.

Gehazi allowed greed to destroy him. We should run away from greed and out on the cloak of contentment .

2kings 6&7

Chapter six opened with the story and the company of prophets and how they needed a bigger place of meeting. As they were cutting down trees on the new place an ax fell into the water . Elisha cut a stick and dropped it in the water and the ax miraculously floated .

Meanwhile there was a plot by the Aramean king to capture the king of Israel . But Elisha revealed that plan to the king of Israel . Then the king of Aram was told about Elisha. Hey then sent soldiers to capture him. The soldiers were blindfolded miraculously by Elisha and led to the king of Israel. Elisha asked them to be fed and they made it back to Aram unscathed .

In another story , the king of Aram came with a large army and besieged Samaria the capital of Israel kingdom . So that there was a great famine in the land. People resorted to cannibalism to survive. Later the king of Israel heard a disturbing story of this and sent men to kill Elisha.

Then Elisha made a proclamation that the famine would end. It happened that some lepers discovered the deserted camp of the Arameans .

They had fled thinking an army was coming to attack them .

Therefore the prophet Elisha words came to fulfilment. A certain man who was close to the king of Israel had doubted Elisha . He also met his demise according to the words of Elisha .

Lessons

As it was displayed by Elisha , the power of God is great and greater than any challenges we might be facing. We should believe and have a strong faith in God.