10 June 2022 - Pick up your promise

We read about a couple who were childless in 2 Kings 4:8. Later God promised this couple a son. God delivered on that promise, and the woman gave birth to a son. One day during a harvest season, the couple’s son fell sick in the fields where his father was working. The father sent the young man to his mother by one of the servants, and later that day, the son died! She arose to go to Elisha on behalf of her dead son. When her husband questioned her, she said, “It is well”

2 Kings 4:23 (NKJV) “So he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.” And she said,“It is well.”

Her son was dead, but this mother declared, “It is well”! She immediately run to Elisha, the prophet of God. When Elisha saw her coming, he instructed his servant, “Run now, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, “everything is fine” What a bold statement under these circumstances?

2 Kings 4:26 “Run out to meet her and ask her, ‘Is everything all right with you, your husband, and your child?’” “Yes,” the woman told Gehazi, “everything is fine.”

Although she knew that her son was dead, she kept believing in the promise. Remember, the son was a promise of God. She believed that God was bigger than her problem. And she refused to let go of her faith, which was so powerfully echoed by three simple words: “It is well!”

2 Kings 4:36 “So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, “Pick up your son.” 37 So she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out.”

The outcome, the son lived. This woman refused to allow the promise to die.

Although, Abraham was faced with a similar situation, he kept believing the promise of God.

Hebrews 11:17-19 (AMP) “By faith Abraham, when he was tested , offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to sacrifice his only son ; 18 to whom it was said, “Through Isaac your descendants shall be called.” 19 For he considered that God was able to raise Isaac even from among the dead. Abraham did receive him back figuratively speaking.”

Today, maybe it feels like your promise is dead, but I want to encourage you, “Pick up your promise.” Don’t allow your promise to die. “It is well, everything is fine”