Often times we humans have a tendency to look at others and think they have no worries or problems. We think they have no idea what I am going through. The truth of the matter is we are all on the same planet. The color of our skin, the clothes we wear, the house we live in or the car we drive doesn’t matter. Heartache, trouble and the cares of life are no respecter of persons.
In 2 Kings of the Old Testament (in the Holy Bible) you can read about a well-to-do Shunammite woman.
2 Kings 4:8-9 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.”Every time Elisha would come through town he and his servant would stay at the home of this couple. On one of his visits he wanted to do something special for the woman because of all the kindness she had shown him. He learned through his servant that the woman didn’t have a son. This in not something we would ever consider as a ‘thank-you’ gift. However, Elisha prophesied: “About this time next year you will hold a son in your arms.” A year later she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had said.
Verses 18-26 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. 19 “My head! My head!” he said to his father.
His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. 21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.
22 She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”
23 “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon or the Sabbath.”
“It’s all right,” she said.
24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.” 25 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.
When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite! 26 Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’”“Everything is all right,” she said. She has one thing on her mind. And nothing or no one was going to stop her. Pushing pass the servant she didn’t stop till she reached the man of God.’
Verse 27,30 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet...“As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.Elisha follows the Shunammite woman back home. He goes to the boys room and prays for him. God raises the boy back to life and Elisha gives him to his mother.
What an amazing story of a well-to-do woman, who was in a desperate situation and would stop at nothing till she reached God.
Now, I have never seen the dead raised but I believe God can and still preforms miracles today. However, there have been many times in my life when I have found myself in a desperate situation and have hit my knees, taking hold of the feet of Jesus, in prayer, telling Him, “I will not leave You until you help me.” He has always answered!
What about you today? What desperate situation are you facing? Jesus is not only able to help you, He wants to help you!
The friends we made in Jamaica back in 1985 sang a wonderful song that went like this:
It is all right, all right.
It is all right, all right.
As long as I have my Lord beside me
It is all right.
As long as I have His hand to hold
As long as He’s watching over my soul
As long as I’m under His control
It is all right!
I have faced times in my life I don’t know how I would have come through them with out Jesus! He can do the same for you.
I close with this prayer. A prayer the apostle Paul prayed over the church in Ephesus:
Ephesians 3:16-21 (New Testament)
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.God cares about what you are going through.
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Isaiah 55:1,2,4,6 “Come all you who are thirsty...Listen, listen to me and eat what is good...See I have made him a witness to the peoples...Seek the Lord while He may be found.”
Father God in Heaven, there may be some who have tried to come to You in the past and for some reason have not felt Your presence. You have promised that those who seek You will find You, if they seek You with all their heart. Be with each one who reads this blog. Let them feel Your presence in a personal way and find HOPE that can only come from You. In Jesus name I pray, Amen! 
Year after year millions across America celebrate the Fourth of July, a day of Independence for our nation. However, freedom for a nation doesn’t come cheap. Many brave men and women throughout history have given their lives so we can experience the freedom we have today. Sad to say the price for American’s freedom is never paid in full. Payment is still being made as our service men and women continue to fight so we can be free. Having traveled to other countries I am so thankful for the freedom we have in the United States of America. 
Often times we humans have a tendency to look at others and think they have no worries or problems. We think they have no idea what I am going through. The truth of the matter is we are all on the same planet. The color of our skin, the clothes we wear, the house we live in or the car we drive doesn’t matter. Heartache, trouble and the cares of life are no respecter of persons. 
