"A little care you show by making a man of God inhabit a little chamber you've made to make his ministry convenient might be a route for your long-standing request to receive divine attestation"
Don't ever think that the little cup of water you give to children in the name of the Lord will ever go unrewarded. You might even say it's normal but God has a reward for you for that.
Never underestimate the support or assistance you render to real men of God. To you it might be so insignificant that you call it a "little Chamber".
From 2 Kings 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God. A holy man of God carries the presence and the power of God; making a chamber for him in your house is like bringing the presence and the power of God into your house. Which is tantamount to bringing the ark of God into your house. And where the ark of God is becomes an arena where the aura of His presence lives.
The care the Shunammite woman showed simply teaches us that we can contribute in our own little way to making the work of God convenient and conducive to real men of God. And by extension to everyone around us. It must also be noted that, no effort put up for the work of God will be unrewarded. For the Shunammite woman, the little chamber brought
- in the presence of God to her home
- into action the power of God in her home
- in the preeminence of God in her home
- into her womb provision of God
- an end to perennial problem that brought humiliation
- promotion, from humiliation to honour
- praises to God in her home
Some people still remain in their problems because they have refused to care for the person who would have lifted them off the mire when they had the opportunity. Opportunity in life comes but once. Never let the opportunity to put up a caring act pass you by without doing it. You never can tell, the person who is receiving your care today might have the key to open the door locked against you that will lead you to laughter throughout out life.
Show some care!
2 Kings 4:8-10, 16-17 (KJV) And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
"Always take note of little things"
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