Our Fire-starter comes from 2 kings 4. Our Fire-starter thought is: is
it well? It is well!!!!
In our text we read of the family in Shunem this family would become
friends with the man of God, Elisha, and he would stay with them as he
passed that way. The Shunammite woman and her husband were so kind to
the man of God that the man of God wanted to do something for her and
God blessed her with a child. The Bible tells us in verse 18-20 that the
child went out with his father and the reapers and cried to his father
saying my head, my head. He has a servant take the child to his mother
and the child dies. She ran to the man of God and when asked is it well
she replied it is well.
The faith of this woman was great believing it is well when times are
tough. How many of us have this attitude when we are in trials and
troubles and things are not going our way? When there is a death in the
family, when the bills are due, when work is overwhelming, when it seems
like you are taking on more and more water can you say like the
Shunammite woman it is well?
Horatio Spafford wrote the Hymn it is well with my soul. This is a great
example of a man that has just lost it all and is saying it is well!!!
He lost his daughter’s in a ship accident and he went to the very spot
where his daughters drowned and died and penned the words when peace
like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll
whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say it is well, it is well with
my soul.
If the shunammite woman was living today she probably would be claiming
this song as her testimony. Why? Because she told her husband it shall
be well according to Verse 23 and then she told the prophet in verse 26
it is well!!!
I am thankful that it is well in hard times and good times, in times of
peace in times of sorrow in times of happiness and times of sadness why?
Because I have a Savior that helps me through hard times and the same
Savior that helps me through times is the same that helps others. My
question to you is, Is It Well? What is your response this morning? Is
your response it will be well once God does for me what he said he was
going to do or it is well  right now?
We have peace and comfort in these words this morning may God help us to
live a it is well life. Troubles? It is well! Heartaches? It is well!!
When times are good? It is well!!!!
Hope you have a great day in the Lord and remember nothing has caught
God by surprise so trust him.

2 Kings 4:1-44 KJV
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets
unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest
that thy servant did fear the Lord : and the creditor is come to take
unto him my two sons to be bondmen. [2] And Elisha said unto her, What
shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said,
Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. [3]
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even
empty vessels; borrow not a few. [4] And when thou art come in, thou
shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into
all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. [5] So
she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who
brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. [6] And it came to pass,
when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a
vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil
stayed. [7] Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell
the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
[8] And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a
great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that
as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. [9] And she
said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man
of God, which passeth by us continually. [10] Let us make a little
chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed,
and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he
cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. [11] And it fell on a day,
that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
[12] And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when
he had called her, she stood before him. [13] And he said unto him, Say
now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care;
what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or
to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own
people. [14] And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. [15] And he
said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. [16]
And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou
shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not
lie unto thine handmaid. [17] And the woman conceived, and bare a son at
that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of
life. [18] And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went
out to his father to the reapers. [19] And he said unto his father, My
head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. [20] And
when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her
knees till noon, and then died. [21] And she went up, and laid him on
the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
[22] And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee,
one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of
God, and come again. [23] And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to
day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be
well. [24] Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and
go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee. [25] So she
went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass,
when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his
servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: [26] Run now, I pray thee,
to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy
husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. [27]
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the
feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said,
Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid
it from me, and hath not told me. [28] Then she said, Did I desire a son
of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? [29] Then he said to
Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy
way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee,
answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child. [30]
And the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. [31] And
Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the
child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again
to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked. [32] And
when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and
laid upon his bed. [33] He went in therefore, and shut the door upon
them twain, and prayed unto the Lord. [34] And he went up, and lay upon
the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes,
and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child;
and the flesh of the child waxed warm. [35] Then he returned, and walked
in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him:
and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. [36]
And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her.
And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. [37] Then
she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and
took up her son, and went out.