This past Sunday I was in our prayer room at church. There’s a door in the corner of the room that I’ve noticed and casually wondered about for the last 6 years. Every time I considered it I overlooked it dismissing it as a closet. This past Sunday the door began to open and my friend sitting next to me said “there’s someone in there!” I was astounded and frozen for a moment not understanding what I was seeing. Then suddenly a prayer team friend became visible on the other side and a whole room behind her. The door led to a complete other side of our church. The Lord immediately spoke to me and said: “I’m opening doors you don’t even know about.” Later in the day he began speaking this scripture to me:
“Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Lord says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver.” The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, “That couldn’t happed even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven!” But Elisha replied, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!” Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.” So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of the great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another. So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives. When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.” So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. “We went out to the Aramean camp,” they said, “and no one was there! The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around!” Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.”
2 Kings 7:1-11 NLT
This is a story where God led an entire nation from plague to plunder and completely restored their economy in a single day! How can He do that? Because He has the power to open doors we don’t know about, doors to blessing, doors that have been prepared for us to enter since the beginning of time. When the door in the prayer room opened I saw a new path leading to the other side of the church, a path I didn’t know was there.
“Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters—a pathway no one knew was there!” Psalm 77:19 NLT
This story details a very severe situation. For some in this city it was detrimental for others it was just very intense. If you go back and read the verses leading up to this part of the story you read a heart breaking account of a woman cooking her own child. Can a nation ever come back from something like this?
Let’s look at the people God used. The lepers were the unexpected heroes of this story. They were social outcasts, overlooked, dismissed by others they were people others don’t see or consider.
God restored a nation’s economy in a single night. He allowed the enemy to hear into the spirit and hear the sound of Heaven’s armies that were released to do battle against them the moment the prophet spoke the words of God.
Love this. I am so excited