I awoke this morning with body aches, a swollen eye, and just experiencing pure exhaustion. My husband and I are presently attending our business convention and we have been running since we arrived in Louisville, KY. I lay in bed this morning thinking about how I could continue to acknowledge everything that felt wrong in my body or I could choose to speak what God has said about my body already; that is, I am healed (I Peter 2:24). I chose the latter.
As I blog, I am reminded of the Shunammite woman in II Kings 4. The very thing she had gone without was finally given to her and then suddenly taken away. But being a woman of faith who discerned Elisha was a man of God, she trusted him to be just that in her difficult situation (II Kings 4:9, 30). When Elisha sent his servant, Gehazi, ahead of him to see what could be wrong, as he saw the Shunammite woman coming towards him, she responded to Gehazi, "It is well" (II Kings 4:26). Her son is dead, but yet she stood in faith, despite neither seeing nor knowing whether things were truly going to be well.
When she came to Elisha, she fell at his feet and put him in remembrance of her words. Elisha asked no questions, but began to move quickly. As believers, we have to speak what God's word says, despite what our natural eyes see or how our situations seem. Even when we are not sure of the outcome of our situations, we must trust God to be God. We also must have God's word hidden in our hearts so that when we speak, the words we speak will not be our owns, but His; thus, putting Him in remembrance of His word. When we do this, God will began to move speedily, stratigically and expeditiously in our lives; and dead things we began to live again.
So I encourage you to not only profess God to be God, but trust Him to be God in every area of your life.
