Our Fire-starter comes from 2 Kings 8. Our Fire-starter thought is: who
are you being a witness to right now?
A witness is someone that has seen or has experienced something. For
example, if you see a wreck happen you are an eye witness of what took
place. In our text, the woman,that Elisha had raised her son from the
dead with the help of the Lord, has been told by Elisha to go sojourn
wherever you can sojourn. After seven years of famine she comes back
requesting from the king her house and her land. Gehazi is talking with
the king telling the king all the great things that Elisha has done.
Gehazi speaks to the king of how Elisha restored a dead body back to
life according to Verse 5. While he is telling this to the king the
woman that her son had been raised from the dead came in and cried unto
the king and Gehazi said this is the woman and this is her son. Gehazi
was a witness of what the Lord did. As we know in acts 1 Jesus told his
disciples that they would be witnesses. I want you to think of how many
people believe witnesses. Some believe witnesses some don’t believe
witnesses but the truth is if Christ has saved you, you are a witness to
the fact what Christ can do. This woman in our text was a witness and
even her son was a witness to what Christ can do. Don’t get an opinion
get the facts from a witness. We are witnesses this morning may we be
telling others about Christ and what he has done for us and in our lives.
I apologize for sending the devotional out once again a little later we
will get back on track tomorrow morning Lord willing. A prayer request
that you can pray with me about if you will. A man by the name of Thomas
he is not saved and pray that the Lord will open his eyes and heart.
Hope you have a Great Thursday being a WITNESS FOR CHRIST!!!!

2 Kings 8:1-29 KJV
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life,
saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever
thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall
also come upon the land seven years. [2] And the woman arose, and did
after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and
sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. [3] And it came to
pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of
the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house
and for her land. [4] And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the
man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that
Elisha hath done. [5] And it came to pass, as he was telling the king
how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose
son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her
land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is
her son, whom Elisha restored to life. [6] And when the king asked the
woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer,
saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since
the day that she left the land, even until now. [7] And Elisha came to
Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him,
saying, The man of God is come hither. [8] And the king said unto
Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and
enquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? [9]
So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every
good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before
him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee,
saying, Shall I recover of this disease? [10] And Elisha said unto him,
Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath
shewed me that he shall surely die. [11] And he settled his countenance
stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. [12] And
Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the
evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds
wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the
sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
[13] And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do
this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou
shalt be king over Syria. [14] So he departed from Elisha, and came to
his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered,
He told me that thou shouldest surely recover. [15] And it came to pass
on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and
spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
[16] And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel,
Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah began to reign. [17] Thirty and two years old was he when
he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. [18] And he
walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for
the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the
Lord. [19] Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s
sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
[20] In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a
king over themselves. [21] So Joram went over to Zair, and all the
chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which
compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people
fled into their tents. [22] Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of
Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. [23] And the
rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [24] And Joram slept
with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David:
and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. [25] In the twelfth year of
Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king
of Judah begin to reign. [26] Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when
he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his
mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. [27]
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight
of the Lord, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the
house of Ahab. [28] And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war
against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded
Joram. [29] And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the
wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against
Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went
down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.