Thursday, September 4, 2008

"Tell Me All the Great Things"

2 Kings 8:1-6
"Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years." The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.
At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king to beg for her house and land. The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, "Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done." Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to beg the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, "This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life." The king asked the woman about it, and she told him. Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, "Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now."

Notes taken from Isaac Hunter's sermon...
*"Always start with who Jesus is..."
*"Not just recipients of grace but conduits of it."
*"The world is not a place where it breathes life into people. We need to breathe life into people by encouraging them. Everybody needs it, therefore, everybody needs to be part of it."
*"Don't quit, God has got something great for you."
*"Lost vision, lost hope...think God has forgotten about you. What we see as dead and broken, God can restore and breathe life into it."
*"How are you treating those around you?"
*"His grace is as deep as His expectations are high."
*"God will use broken people to help broken people."
*"God will entrust much to those who will return the glory to Him."