Get Your Hopes UP
From 2 Kings 4
📖 1 Corinthians 13:13 (ESV) So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
📖 John 14:12 (ESV) “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
How to get your HOPES UP:
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📖 2 Kings 4:8 (ESV) 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 4:9 (ESV) And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way.
📖 2 Kings 4:10 (ESV) Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”
📖 2 Kings 4:11-13 (ESV) One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there. 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him. 13 And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you?
If she didn’t make – she wouldn’t have God move!
📖 Isaiah 54:2-3 (ESV) “Enlarge your house; build an addition. Spread out your home, and spare no expense! 3 For you will soon be bursting at the seams.
📖 2 Kings 4:18-20 (ESV) When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers. 19 And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.
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How to get your HOPES UP:
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📖 2 Kings 4:22-23 (ESV) Then she called to her husband and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.” 23 And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “All is well.”
📖 2 Kings 4:25-26 (ESV) So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite. 26 Run at once to meet her and say to her, ‘Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?’ ” And she answered, “All is well.”
How do I keep ? life.
📖 Proverbs 18:21 (ESV) Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
📖 Romans 8:35-37 (ESV) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
📖 Psalm 42:5 (ESV) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation.
“Most of our unhappiness comes from the fact that we listen to ourselves far more than we speak to ourselves.”
📖 2 Kings 4:22 (ESV) Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.
📖 2 Kings 4:24 (ESV) Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”
📖 2 Peter 3:13-14 (ESV) we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness. 14 And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.
How to get your HOPES UP:
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📖 2 Kings 4:27 (ESV) And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet.
📖 2 Kings 4:30 (ESV) “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.
📖 Hebrews 10:36 (ESV) For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
📖 2 Kings 4:32-35 (ESV) When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed. 33 So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD. 34 Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm. 35 Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
📖 Colossians 3:3 (ESV) For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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📖 John 10:28 (ESV) I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
