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25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.

26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

27 The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”

28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’

29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

30 When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and there, underneath, he had sackcloth on his body.

31 He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”

32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

33 While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

(Bishop Read This)

2 Kings 7:1–9 NIV84

1 Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.” 2 The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!” 3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.” 5 At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, not a man was there, 6 for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!” 7 So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives. 8 The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp and entered one of the tents. They ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also. 9 Then they said to each other, “We’re not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

With All We Read I want us to pay attention to this last verse.

2 Kings 7:9 (NIV84)

9 Then they said to each other, “We’re not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

I was Born For This!!

The Scripture Tell’s Us: 2 Kings 6:24

The New International Version (1984) Famine in Besieged Samaria

24 Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. 25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekelsa of silver, and a quarter of a cabb of seed podsc for five shekels.

The Plan of the Enemy:

Lay Siege:

Battle tactic in which an army surrounds a city and cuts off all supplies so that the enemy army is forced to surrender for lack of food and water.

To remain under siege was to “give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst”

Can You imagine how many States, City’s, & Families that are under siege?

No Word Of God

No Holy Spirit..

They’re forced to Surrender to satanic influence..

Matthew 12:43 TPT

43 “When a demon is cast out of a person, it roams around a dry region, looking for a place to rest, but never finds it.

As a Christian can i ask you, have you ever felt surrounded by negative influences. Which caused you to surrender and do something God wasn’t pleased with?

During that time, most likely it was when you stopped listening to the Word of God and Stopped Listening to the Holy Spirit.

So Imagine someone who’s never had a relationship with God and his Spirit. (thats a dry place)

First Point: When things go bad we need someone to Blame:

2nd Point: The King Of Isreal put a hit out on the man of God.

Can you discern when its a spiritual attack?

3rd Point: The Prophet didn’t take it personal..

He dropped a prophetic word..

2 Kings 7:1–3 NIV84

4th Point

The Siege Stop when the word Dropped

Closing Point:

The Lepers had access to areas no one else could walk in.

In Other Words they where born for this!!

Sometimes You may feel ignored, or like you don’t matter to the Mass.

It Might feel like God has forgotten You

It might seem like you wish you where someone else or wish you where born in another family.

But God can get glory out of dysfunction

God can get glory out of broken people.

God can get glory out of abusive relationship

God got glory out of these 4 lepers.

2 Kings 7:8–9 (NIV84)

8 The men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp and entered one of the tents. They ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also.