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Evangelist Angela Pewett | It Is Well
Message: Evangelist Angela Pewett | It Is Well
Location: Progressive Baptist Church Aurora, IL
Date: May 12, 2019
Scripture Reference
A Woman in Shunem Gives Elisha a Room
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where an important woman lived. She asked Elisha to stop and eat at her house. So every time Elisha went through that place, he stopped there to eat.
The woman said to her husband, “Look, I can see that Elisha is a holy man of God. He passes by our house all the time. Please, let’s make a little room on the roof for him. Let’s put a bed in this room and a table, a chair, and a lampstand. Then when he comes to our house, he can have this room for himself.”
One day Elisha came to the woman’s house. He went to this room and rested there. Elisha said to his servant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite woman.”
The servant called the Shunammite woman, and she stood in front of Elisha. Elisha told his servant, “Now say to her, ‘Look, you have done your best to take care of us. What can we do for you? Do you want us to speak to the king for you, or to the captain of the army?’”
She answered, “I am fine living here among my own people.”
Elisha said to Gehazi, “What can we do for her?”
He answered, “I know! She does not have a son, and her husband is old.”
Then Elisha said, “Call her.”
So Gehazi called the woman. She came and stood at his door. 16 Elisha said, “About this time next spring, you will be holding your own baby boy in your arms.”
The woman said, “No, sir! Man of God, don’t lie to me!”
The Woman in Shunem Has a Son
But the woman did become pregnant and gave birth to a son that next spring, just as Elisha had said.
The boy grew. One day the boy went out into the fields to see his father and the men cutting the grain. 19 The boy said to his father, “Oh, my head! My head hurts!”
The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother!”
The servant took the boy to his mother. The boy sat on his mother’s lap until noon. Then he died.
The Woman Goes to See Elisha
The woman laid the boy on the bed of Elisha, the man of God. Then she shut the door to that room and went outside. She called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey. Then I will go quickly to get the man of God and come back.”
The woman’s husband said, “Why would you want to go to the man of God today? It isn’t the New Moon or Sabbath day.”
She said, “Goodbye!”
Then she put a saddle on a donkey and said to her servant, “Let’s go, and hurry! Go slow only when I tell you.”
The woman went to Mount Carmel to get the man of God.
The man of God saw the Shunammite woman coming from far away and said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman! 26 Please run now to meet her! Say to her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is the child all right?’”
Everything Is Alright
She answered, “Everything is all right.”
But the Shunammite woman went up the hill to the man of God. She bowed down and touched Elisha’s feet. Gehazi came near to pull her away. But the man of God said to Gehazi, “Leave her alone! She’s very upset, and the Lord didn’t tell me about it. He hid this news from me.”
Then she said, “Sir, I never asked for a son. I told you, ‘Don’t trick me!’”
Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready to go. Take my walking stick and go! If you meet anyone along the way, don’t even stop to say hello to him. If anyone says hello to you, don’t answer. Put my walking stick on the child’s face.”
But the child’s mother said, “I promise, as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave without you!”
So Elisha got up and followed her.
Gehazi arrived at the house before Elisha and the Shunammite woman. Gehazi laid the walking stick on the child’s face, but the child did not talk or show any sign that he heard anything. Then Gehazi came back to meet Elisha and said, “The child will not wake up!”
The Woman’s Son Comes Back to Life
Elisha went into the house, and there was the child, lying dead on his bed. Elisha went into the room and shut the door. He and the child were alone in the room now. Then he prayed to the Lord. Elisha went to the bed and lay on the child. He put his eyes on the child’s eyes, his mouth on the child’s mouth, and his hands on the child’s hands. He lay there on top of the child until the child’s body became warm.
Then Elisha turned away and walked around the room. He went back and lay on the child until the child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman!”
Gehazi called her, and she came to Elisha. Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
Then the Shunammite woman went into the room and bowed down at Elisha’s feet. Then she picked up her son and went out.
Evangelist Angela Pewett CLC, is a 21st century “Game Changer” whose passion is to motivate individuals to embrace their “True Self” to achieve an honest place of being which produces an Authentic Change.
She is an Evangelist, Teacher and Certified Transformational Life Coach with a private and public practice helping transform lives from the inside out. Evangie, which she is affectionately known as, has over 20 yrs. of experience in Church Leadership and brings a wealth of wisdom to help equip and mature the believer in the body of Christ. She has served as the Director of Christian Education, Sunday School Superintendent, Small Group leader, and Adult Bible Study teacher.
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Mailing Address: 75 Executive Drive Suite 423 Aurora, IL 60504
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