“Word In Your Bedroom"
“Word In Your Bedroom"
Blessings folk!
Do not fear!
Are you walking in faith?
Are you submitting/succumbing to fear?
Saw a comment on social media the other day from an acquaintance.
He was speaking of “preaching to an empty sanctuary” while recording a message for the weekend.
I could not resist.
Had to respond.
So, I said “is it really empty”.
He understood…I believe with a chuckle.
Fear not.
We are not alone.
It is not “empty”.
I want us to look at some interesting things.
We saw the first part of 2 Kings 6 yesterday
Now, more…
2 Kings 6:8-14
Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel;
and he counseled with his servants saying,
“In such and such a place shall be my camp.”
The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying,
“Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there.”
The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him;
thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice.
Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing;
and he called his servants and said to them,
“Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?”
One of his servants said,
“No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel,
tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
So he said,
“Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him.”
And it was told him, saying, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
He sent horses and chariots and a great army there,
and they came by night and surrounded the city.
The King of Aram was furious.
He sent a great army to capture Elisha.
Why?
The King had sought to war against Israel.
Yet, every time he planned with his leaders, word leaked to the King of Israel.
The King of Israel would guard himself based upon this information.
The King of Aram knew something was wrong.
He suspected a spy.
As often happens, a servant knew the truth.
One of the great lines in the Word…
Elisha the prophet tells the King of Aram that the King of Israel knows the words that you speak in your bedroom.
Nothing, however hidden or intimate, is hidden from the Lord.
The room is never empty…
The Lord was revealing to the prophet the truth of the matter.
The prophet spoke to the people of the Lord - in this case the King of Israel.
The Lord does the same today…
Amo 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret counsel
To His servants the prophets.
1Co 14:1, 3
Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
But one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.
1Co 14:24-25
But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters
he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
the secrets of his heart are disclosed;
and so he will fall on his face and worship God,
declaring that God is certainly among you.
Prophesy.
Speak forth the Word of the Lord.
Speak forth the Truth of the Lord.
What might He reveal to/through His Body?
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