God uses different ways to work His miracles in our lives

When Elisha arrives at the Shunammite's house, the boy is still dead because Gehazi has not been able to perform the miracle, confirming what this woman suspected, that the prophet's own presence was required to perform the miracle.

So in verses 32 onwards we are shown Elisha entering and performing a series of, say, symbolic prophetic exercises to perform the miracle. It says that Elisha closed the door and prayed to the Lord, and then he got on and stretched out on the child, this is very curious because it tells us something about prophetic acts and symbols that many times as symbolically suggest and express what is you have to give in the spirit world.

Elisha wants to transfer his life, his power, his anointing on the already inert body of the child. So it is interesting because on other occasions, in the case for example of the fertilization of the woman and her husband, Elisha gives a prophetic Word. There are many times when all God has to do is give a Word, but many times God wants us to interact more deeply with us.

We will remember, for example, the case of the centurion, that when the Lord goes to his house to heal the centurion to heal his servant, the centurion tells him: Lord, it is not necessary for you to come to my house, I am a secular man, impure, but I know of authority. I know that when I give a word to my subordinates they obey it, if I tell them: go to such a place he goes, if I tell him: come, he comes, and I know what authority is, you have authority. Simply say the Word and my servant will be healed and the Lord is amazed at the faith of this man, and tells him: Certainly be done according to your faith and when the Lord gives the Word, precisely at that moment his servant, the centurion's servant is healed.

At other times the Lord interacted directly through a contact such as when He healed the deaf-mute and put His fingers inside his ears and physically interacted in that way, as if He mixed His Power, His life with the life of the deaf-mute and groaned, as if made an electrical connection. He plugged his fingers into the socket of this man's life and received the burden of his illness, and groaned giving the Word that his ears were opened and his tongue was released.

I say: this is important because many times God is going to use different ways to work His miracles in our lives. Sometimes God's miracles are going to be sudden and immediately we are going to ask God and we are going to see the miracle. At other times the healings, financial solutions or interventions in our family life or in our marriage will be gradual, in the long term. Sometimes God will say: No, and he will simply not answer affirmatively or there will be a long waiting time and then God will make the solution even though we have forgotten the request, then God will answer. Sometimes God will work in a more humble way through doctors and medicine, and medical processes. There are many ways that God decides to work his great miracles.

In this case God uses the body of the prophet and Elisha discerns through the Holy Spirit what should be stretched over the child and how to establish a parallel between his body and the child's body. And not only does he do it once but he does it twice the same type of process, and there is a kind of waiting time where Elisha says in verse 35, "turning then he walked through the house to one side and another, and then he went up and lay on the boy again "and then he says that:" and then the boy sneezed seven times, and opened his eyes. "

Perhaps this sneezing seven times, the number seven we know is the symbol of perfection, it is like perhaps the spirit of death that was within him the child expelled him sneezing as an expression of the life of God that was reactivated within of the.

We see all these physical elements here, right? Many times the Power of God manifests in physical ways. The Lord used mud and saliva to heal another character in Scripture, sometimes He touched people with His Hands. Elisha sometimes took, in one case for example when there was a pot that was poisoned, he took salt and poured it over the poisoned pot and healed the food that was inside the pot, prophetic symbols sometimes yes; When we put oil on the sick, the Bible says that we anoint oil on the sick, when we lay hands on it is a way of transferring the power from us to a person.

The miraculous spiritual world is nourished by the actions of people and it is important that we learn to discern the Holy Spirit when God wants us to do something symbolically to exemplify and strengthen and focus the miraculous action of the Holy Spirit.

Then the boy opened his eyes pointing out that he was finally alive and resurrected, and Elisha calls for Gehazi and tells him: "Here, take this woman's son to her" and called her, gave her his son and verse 37 ends the episode, it says that: "So she came in, fell at Elisha's feet and bowed to the ground" in other words, it was not before Elisha but before the God that Elisha represented that this woman expresses her adoration and gratitude to the Lord , and then she takes her son and goes out.

This woman leaves our life for an instant in the same way that she entered, in action. At first we see her restless looking for ways to bless the servant of God and now, very dynamically, she adores the Lord, takes her son, takes him away and there the story ends. What a wonderful woman, so dynamic, so powerful, so active, so concentrated, she is a true example for all of us, I hope that we can incorporate into our lives such beautiful qualities as those that this woman embodies.

May God bless you and I hope that this study of the Shunammite and Elisha has blessed you as much as it has blessed me. God bless you, I say goodbye to you and I hope that in another moment we can continue our study of the Word of the Lord, many blessings.