Awakening
One Year Bible: Day 182 – 2 Kings 3:1-4:37; Acts 21:1-26; Psalm 78:56-72
“Then the Lord awoke from sleep” (Psalm 78:65). When the Lord awakes from sleep, there is awakening.
In 2 Kings 4:32-35, (When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm. Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes).
We see an example of such awakening – resurrection from the dead. How does such awakening come? It comes when the Lord’s people pray earnestly, with actions as well as words, “The Lord’s will be done” (Acts 21:14). To say this and mean it will be costly: “I am ready … to die … for the Name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 21:13).
Charles Cameron, better known as Charlie to his friends, lives in Scotland and is a member of the Church of Scotland. He owns several Christian blogs found at the following links:
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Thanks, Andy, for reblogging these notes. God bless you.