THERE’S A MIRACLE COMING YOUR WAY

 

2 KINGS 4:8-17

 

This morning, I would like to emphasize that the word Prophet symbolizes or represents the Word of God & the power of God. Therefore, Elisha’s coming to Shunem is equivalent to the Word of God coming to your ears. Thus, I want you to know that the day that you finally hear the Word of God is the most important day of your life because the Word of God is the power of God. What AM I trying to say? River of Life, the Lord would have me to say that your healing is in the Word; your deliverance is in the Word; your joy is in the Word; your prosperity is in the Word; your anointing is in the Word; and your destiny is in the Word. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God, the same was in the beginning with God, all things were made by Him (The Word) and without Him (The Word) was not anything made that was made … and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth (John 1:1-3,14).

I stand before you to say that everything begins and ends with the Word. You can run, dance, shout, holler, and talk in tongues, but you haven’t even got started until you get in the Word of God. I don’t know what your current situation or condition or problem is, but I do know what the answer and the solution is … it is the Word of the Almighty God. David declared in Psalm 107:20, “He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from all their destructions.” Therefore, faith is the hand that reaches out and takes hold of the blessings of God, but it is the Word of God that quickens the hand of faith. If you’re looking for a miracle this morning, look in the Word of God. The Bible says that you are the seed of Abraham, and because you are, you are already blessed. You’re blessed in the city, you’re blessed in the field; you’re blessed coming and going. My Bible tells me that you are the head and not the tail; you are above and not beneath; you are not just a conqueror; but you are more than a conqueror. Therefore, I declare/decree by the Word of God, “There’s a blessing coming your way.”

As did Elisha passed to Shunem where there was a great woman, I passed by to let you know unequivocally that there’s a miracle coming your way. I don’t care what you might be going through right about now; but I do declare and decree to you that today restoration is coming your way, financial breakthrough is coming your way, and salvation for your house is coming your way because the anointed, God-breathed Word of Almighty God is in the House. When will you realize this Word that has been passing you by continually is your healer, your savior, your deliverer, your baptizer? The logos is passing your way, but it will never become Rhema (alive) until you let it live in your heart. Stop worrying and complaining, today, there’s a miracle coming your way!

Before this woman received her miracle she made a place for the Prophet. In other words, she made a place for the Word to live in her house. River of Life, the Lord would have me to remind you that it’s not enough for the Word to pass by you every Sunday; you’ve got to take hold of the Word and pull it into your world or environment. Solomon declared in the Word, “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:20-22). The LORD told Joshua, “Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success” (Joshua 1:6-8).

This woman got her miracle first of all because she perceived the Word. She perceived the Prophet as the spokesman for God. What I’m trying to get across is that you have got to recognize the Word as the very life force of God. You have to realize the Word is the creative power of God, and that it’s not just another book. Hebrews 4:12 declares, “For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” It is alive with healing, salvation, deliverance, miracles, supernatural provision, direction, correction, and instruction. Every promise is a miracle seed waiting to be planted in the soil of your heart. So, when you truly perceive the power of the Word, you will fall in love with it; you will eat it like a starving man; and you will drink from it like a man dying of thirst.

Secondly, this woman received the Word. In other words, she took it in; she made it personal. I want to make something very clear; it’s one thing to recognize the validity of the Word of God and the truth and the necessity of the Word of God, but it is another to personalize it and make it the priority of your life. So, what AM I saying? I’m saying, she changed her house to accommodate the Man of God—the Word of God.

Sadly today the attitude of many people is to change the Word to accommodate their lifestyle. But the problem for them is this; there is no amended version, there are no amendments to the Word of God. The Word of God is not negotiable. I can hear David in my spiritual ear saying, “Forever O Lord thy Word is settled in the heavens” (Ps. 119:89). My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips” (Ps. 89:34). To truly receive the Word means it has to become the final and ultimate authority in your life. It is the standard that you measure your life by and live by.

In Shunem, there was a great woman. This woman had a reputation of being kind, generous and hospitable, but what really made her great was her insight, her spiritual perception, her ability to discern where God was at work. I want you to know this morning my brothers and my sisters, Elisha had passed by many houses and they failed to identify the anointing and recognize the presence of God in his life. In fact, he had passed by this woman’s house also, and at first she missed it too. Sometimes you’ve got to miss it before you get it right. So, don’t condemn yourself if you missed it.

God would have you to know that sometimes He hides His anointing in a shepherd boy; sometimes in a Gideon hiding behind the wine press; sometimes He takes a nobody trying to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody; who nobody ever expected to do or be anything; or go anywhere, and He puts His anointing down on the inside of them and uses them to change the world. Sometimes we miss what God wants to do because we can’t get past the wrapper. In other words, we’re stuck on the packaging, and they don’t fit our idea of a Man or a Woman of God.

Tell your neighbor: There’s more to me than what you see.

Don’t judge me by my size, because I’m bigger than that.

Don’t judge me because I was born on the wrong side of the tracks.

Don’t judge me because I don’t have a degree.

Don’t judge me based on my car, or my house or my clothes.

 

I came by to serve notice to somebody in the House of God that if you’re looking in the natural you’re going to miss it. If you judge me by the flesh you’re going to miss it. That’s why the Apostle Paul said under the unction and anointing of the Holy Ghost, “Henceforth know we no man after the flesh” (2 Corinthians 5:16). “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the Excellency of the power may be of God and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). One day this woman looked at her husband and said: “Now I perceive” … in other words, “now the eyes of my spirit are open. I see something that was already there but I didn’t know it.” A miracle is coming our way!

Many times the reason we aren’t seeing with the eyes of our spirit is because our natural eyes are in control; our natural eyes are full of earthly matters and concerns, even good and legitimate things, our business or career, our spouses, our children, even our ministry, and God is passing by us and we are missing it because our spiritual eyes are closed. It has been said, “Every hill in life is too high if we think we must climb it all at once. But no hill is insurmountable if we take it one step forward at a time—with God’s help.” River of Life, you ought to take a few minutes right about now and put your hands over your eyes and say: “Lord let me see it, open my spiritual eyes.”

In between the prophet’s passings, this woman got a revelation. She recognized the anointing of God in Elisha’s life. And basically she said to her husband, “Next time I’ll be ready, next time I’ll be watching, next time I’ll be listening, next time I’m going to be looking with the eyes of my spirit. Next time he passes by, I’m going to reach out and get a hold on him.” I can hear this woman say: “I missed it the last time, but the last time was the last time. I refuse to let him pass me by one more time, this time I’m going to make some room for him. I’m going to clear the clutter out of my life and create an environment for the Man of God, the Word of God, the anointing to be comfortable in.”

Right about now, you need to look at you neighbor and say, “Excuse all the commotion neighbor, but I’ve got to make some room, I’ve got to move some things around, I’ve got to get my priorities straightened out, there’s some excesses in my life that have to go. There are some movies I’ve got to throw out, some music I’ve got to get rid of, and there’s some friends I’ve got to cut loose that are holding me back.”

This woman was great because her spiritual eyes were opened and she recognized the authority of the Word of God and the presence of the anointing of God because she created an environment for the Man of God, and because she pursued the anointing. One of the greatest dangers we face as believers is that of becoming indifferent to the anointing, taking the presence of God and the Word of God for granted. Every time we come to church we should be looking for where God is moving, pulling on the anointing, pulling on the Word of God, constraining Him, seeking Him out.

As I begin to close, this woman tapped into the miraculous; she tapped into the supernatural because she perceived the anointing, she made room for the Word of God in her life, and because she sowed into the anointing. She sowed a room with a bed, a stool, a table, and candle; and as a result, she reaped a miracle harvest—a son. I know somebody needs a miracle harvest today. It may be healing for your body, salvation for a loved one, or it may be a financial miracle that you need. Or it could be for your ministry. I don’t know what your need is, but I do know your miracle is in your seed. So, what AM I saying? I’m saying that the woman named her seed; it was a son seed. I want you to know that your seed documents your faith. Your seed tells heaven, “I expect a miracle.” Like the natural seed puts a demand on the soil, your seed puts a demand on the power of God. Tell somebody, “All you need is a seed.” We are going to have to seek Him with all our hearts. We are going to have to lay hold upon Him and constrain Him, seize Him and fasten upon Him, and catch Him. Like the Prophet, God is passing by continually, waiting and hoping for somebody to desire Him enough that they will constrain Him. We must be willing to do whatever it takes to get Him to abide with us. How many times are we going to let Him pass us by before we finally say: “Let’s build Him a house and make Him feel at home? There’s a miracle coming your way!