Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from 2 Kings 8:1-6.

“Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go with your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn;  for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will even come on the land for seven years.”  So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.  At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines;  and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field.  Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”  As he was relating to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and for her field.  And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”  When the king asked the woman, she related it to him.  So the king appointed for her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now.”  2 Kings 8:1-6.

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“Ask, and it will be given to you;  seek, and you will find;  knock, and it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!”  Matthew 7:7-11.

“Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.”  John 14:13-14.

“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”  John 15:7. 

“You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.”  John 15:16.

We also see that the LORD totally and tightly controlled every detail, causing everything to work together for the woman’s favor and for her good so that her request would be granted.  The LORD caused the king to talk to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done.”  And, the LORD caused the woman to appear before the king at the exact time that Gehazi was relating to the king how he had restored to life the one who was dead.

“For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD,
You surround him with favor as with a shield.” Psalm 5:12.

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.  For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;  and these whom He predestined, He also called;  and these whom He called, He also justified;  and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

What then shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who is against us?  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”  Romans 8:28-32.