15/12/2019
Today's Service at God's Victorious Army Church in Lydenburg
Preacher: Pastor TJ Masinga
Subject: "What do you do when your blessing dies"
Scripture: 2 Kings 4:8-35
2 Kings 4:8-35
[8]One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a rich and influential woman lived, who insisted on his eating a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.
[9]And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by continually.
[10]Let us make a small chamber on the [housetop] and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then whenever he comes to us, he can go [up the outside stairs and rest] here.
[11]One day he came and turned into the chamber and lay there.
[12]And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.
[13]And he said to Gehazi, Say now to her, You have been most painstakingly and reverently concerned for us; what is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army? She answered, I dwell among my own people [they are sufficient].
[14]Later Elisha said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, She has no child and her husband is old.
[15]He said, Call her. [Gehazi] called her, and she stood in the doorway.
[16]Elisha said, At this season when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
[17]But the woman conceived and bore a son at that season the following year, as Elisha had said to her.
[18]When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father with the reapers.
[19]But he said to his father, My head, my head! The man said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.
[20]And when he was brought to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
[21]And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him and went out.
[22]And she called to her husband and said, Send me one of the servants...
