A pastor friend of mine had to find a house on rent
urgently as he and his family had been asked to vacate the rented house that
they were living in as soon as possible. He had been praying fervently about
the matter and searching for a house in different places for the same, but to
no avail.
I too joined in the hunt and for several days searched
and enquired of houses that were to be rented. It had almost been a week and
the pastor had to vacate the house that he stayed in now, the next morning.
Early next morning I had to go to the market to buy
groceries and as I drove my car towards the market, I was telling the Lord how
my master friend needed a miracle that day. It was then that I saw them- 4
lepers walking together and in a moment the Lord spoke to me & reminded me
of the 4 lepers during the great famine of 7 years when Elisha was prophet in
Israel.
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the
gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? If we say,
‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die
there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s
surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and
if they kill us, we will only die.” They rose up in the twilight, to go to the
camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of
the Syrians, behold, no man was there. For the Lord had made the army of the
Syrians to hear the sound of chariots, and the sound of horses, even the noise
of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has
hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to
attack us.” Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their
tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled
for their life. When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they
went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold, and
clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another
tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them. Then they said
to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we
keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us.
Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.” (2 Kings 7:3-9)
What the Holy Spirit was impressing me was that ‘this was
a day of good news’ (verse 9 above). At once I knew that my pastor friends’
prayer had been answered.
Surely enough later that day one of the patients who came
to consult me in my clinic told me (without me asking him) that his brother’s
house was available for rent should someone whom I knew needed it.
I smiled when he said that and soon my friend had the
rented house that he needed so urgently. This was another occasion that the
Lord had spoken to me clearly and performed a much needed miracle. Praise the
Lord.
By awesome
deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the
hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea. (Psalm
65:5)
