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February 12 - 2 Kings 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's I was about to say Tuesday
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  but it's not it's Wednesday. It's the 12th of February.
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  Lovely that you could invite me into.
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  Whatever is happening in your day, whether you are flat chat
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  going for it, or whether you are nice and calm, whether the day
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  has barely begun, whether the day is now at its end.
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  Wherever you are friends, doesn't matter.
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  What matters is that you have tapped on play tapped on this
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  little picture and we get to read a chapter of God's word
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  together. Now yesterday, boy, we were left
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  on a cliffhanger, weren't we? There was this terrible
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  situation where a mother had killed and eaten her child and
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  then the neighbour who they had made a pact with had said, no,
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  we're not doing it to my child, your child was enough.
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  So, oh, terrible times. As they're being besieged by
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  their enemies and the king is ready to relieve Elisha's neck
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  of its head and he's just arrived and we are going to see
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  well either some magical escape or a rabbit pulled from a hat.
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  But friends, we worship an incredible God where anything is
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  possible. So let's see how God through his
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  prophet gets them out of this terrible, terrible situation.
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  As we continue the story reading Second Kings Chapter 7,
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  Elisha replied. Listen to this message from the
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  Lord. This is what the Lord says.
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  By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, 6 quarts of
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  choice flour will cost only one piece of silver, and 12 quarts
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  of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver.
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  The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, That
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  couldn't happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven.
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  But Elisha replied, You will see it happen with your own eyes,
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  but you won't be able to eat any of it.
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  Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance
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  of the city gates. Why should we sit here waiting
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  to die? They asked each other.
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  We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city,
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  we will starve if we go back there, so we might as well go
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  out and surrender to the Aramean army.
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  If they let us live, so much the better.
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  But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.
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  So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans.
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  But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there.
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  For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter
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  of speeding Chariots and the galloping of horses, and the
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  sounds of a great army approaching.
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  The king of Israel has hide the Hittites and Egyptians to attack
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  us. They cried to one another.
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  So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their
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  tents, horses, donkeys and everything else as they fled for
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  their lives. When the men with leprosy
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  arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after
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  another, eating and drinking wine, and they carried off
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  silver and gold and clothing and hid it.
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  Finally they said to each other, this is not right.
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  This is a day of good news, and we aren't sharing it with
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  anyone. If we wait until morning, some
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  calamity will certainly fall upon us.
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  Come on, let's go back and tell the people at the palace.
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  So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what
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  had happened. We went out to the Aramean camp,
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  they said, and no one was there. The horses and donkeys were
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  tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn't a
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  single person around. Then the gatekeepers shouted the
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  news to the people in the palace.
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  The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his
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  officers, I know what has happened.
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  The Arameans know we are starving, so they left their
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  camp and have hidden in the fields.
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  They are expecting us to leave the city, and then they will
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  take us alive and capture the city.
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  One of his officers replied. We had better send out scouts to
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  check into this. Let them take five of the
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  remaining horses. If something happens to them, it
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  will be no worse if they stay here and die with the rest of
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  us. SO2 Chariots with horses were
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  prepared, and the king sent scouts to see what had happened
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  to the Aramean army. They went all the way to the
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  Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that
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  the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape.
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  The scouts returned and told the king about it.
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  Then the people of Samaria rushed out and plundered the
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  Aramean camp. So it was true that 6 quarts of
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  choice flour were sold that day for one piece of silver, and 12
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  quarts of barley grain was sold for one piece of silver, just as
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  the Lord had promised. The king appointed his officer
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  to control the traffic at the gate, but he was knocked down
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  and trampled to death as the people rushed out.
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  So everything happened exactly as the man of God had predicted
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  when the king came to his house. The man of God had said to the
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  king, by this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, 6 quarts
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  of choice flour will cost one piece of silver, and 12 quarts
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  of barley grain will cost one piece of silver.
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  The King's officer had replied that couldn't happen even if the
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  Lord opened the windows of heaven.
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  And the man of God had said, you will see it happen with your own
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  eyes, but you won't be able to eat any of it.
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  And so it was for the people trampled him to death at the
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  gate. Oh, Father, we often think we're
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  pretty smart and we think we can come up with some great
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  solutions to the problems we face.
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  And while yes we can, what we are able to do pales in
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  comparison with you and your creativity and the incredible
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  way that you go about bringing your desired outcome in a way
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  that we would never even anticipate.
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  So Lord, give us the faith and the strength to put our own
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  plans down and open our hearts to you and be ready for the the
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  doors that you will open in the little things in our day to day
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  lives, but also in the big things as we plan for our
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  futures. Ah, Lord, You often would lead
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  us in ways that we cannot ever predict.
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  Thank you that You care enough about us that you would be
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  involved in the day to day workings of our life, that you
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  would guide us and lead us into paths that we don't even know
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  are there yet. You are a glorious, wonderful,
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  loving and kind Father, and You provide for us in so many
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  beautiful ways. Thank you.
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  Thank you that you do guide us and that our lives are not
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  caught on the whims of the world, but they are firmly held
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  by you and that you guide our path.
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  Ah, you are so good to us and we love you.
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  And we pray all of this through the saving name of your Son,
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  Jesus. Amen.