Stories of God's Faithfulness: The Shunammite Woman

SERMON TITLE: The Shunammite Woman
SPEAKER: Tina Min
SCRIPTURE: 2 Kings 4:8-17

8 One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman
was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came
by, he stopped there to eat. 9 She said to her husband, “I
know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
10 Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed
and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there
whenever he comes to us.”


11 One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and
lay down there. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call
the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him.
13 Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all
this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak
on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’”


She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”


14 “What can be done for her?” Elisha asked.


Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”


15 Then Elisha said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she
stood in the doorway. 16 “About this time next year,”
Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.”


“No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don’t mislead
your servant!”


17 But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about
that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told
her.