Month: December 2025

And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.” 2 Kings 4:14 I saw a clever Christmas commercial recently which told the story of a guy buying a secret Santa gift for a coworker for the office Christmas party. Not knowing…
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One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. 2 Kings 4:8 A few years ago, I traveled to India, visiting churches and orphanages which were run by a ministry that…
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Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.” 2 Kings 4:1 A couple years ago, my wife and I set…
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Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. 2 Kings 3:27 I don’t have to look very far to witness poor parenting. Daily in clinic, I observe families in times of stress and sickness with screaming, crying kids, and the…
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For thus says the LORD, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.’ This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD. 2 Kings 3:17-18 A couple years ago, I was weightlifting with a buddy,…
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And Elisha said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.”  2 Kings 3:14 You know those suites you see at professional football and basketball games where celebrities sit? I’ve always…
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And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” 2 Kings 3:13 Recently, I was witness to a conversation about ICE and the deportation of Somalis from Minnesota (where I live). I’m not very political,…
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Then one of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.”  2 Kings 3:11-12 In my own opioid addiction, I became quite liberal with my prescribing practices. It was the medical…
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He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD.…
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Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the LORD, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.” So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke. 2 Kings 2:21-22 The…
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