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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Bible Lesson: Miracles Of The Old Testament: Water Needed-Supplied By The Power Of God

Bible Lesson: Miracles Of The Old Testament: Water Needed Supplied - By The Power Of God

Occasion: Answer To Prayer:

Location: Moab

Bible Text:
II Kings 3:13-20 NLT (Be sure to read the whole chapter.)
13 “Why are you coming to me?” Elisha asked the king of Israel. “Go to the pagan prophets of your father and mother!” But King Joram of Israel said, “No! For it was the Lord who called us three kings here..."
14 Elisha replied, “As surely as The Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I wouldn’t even bother with you except for my respect for King Jehoshaphat of Judah.
15"...the power of The Lord came upon Elisha,
16 and he said, “This is what The Lord says: This dry valley will be filled with pools of water!
17 You will see neither wind nor rain, says The Lord, but this valley will be filled with water. You will have plenty for yourselves and your cattle and other animals.
18 But this is only a simple thing for The Lord, for He will make you victorious over the army of Moab!
19 You will conquer the best of their towns, even the fortified ones. You will cut down all their good trees, stop up all their springs, and ruin all their good land with stones.”
20 The next day at about the time when the morning sacrifice was offered, water suddenly appeared! It was flowing from the direction of Edom, and soon there was water everywhere.

The Moabite King Mesha, decided to stop paying tribute to Israel's King Joram. King Joram enlisted the aid of the King of Judah, King Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom, to conquer the Moabites.

The Edomites, and the people of Judah, no doubt felt that they could be threatened as well by the rebellious Moabites.

They hatched a plan, to surround Moab, and conquer them.
Unfortunately, they had not considered very the cost of such actions.

What was it our Lord said....

Luke 14:28 KJV
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

They had the horses, the men, the military leaders, the perfect plans, but, they had not considered, that much travel through arid terrain, meant the need for, much water!

Water they were without, yet not ideas.

They remembered there was a man of God in Israel, by the name of Elisha. To Elisha they went for a miracle!

I King 3:13 NLT
Why are you coming to me?” Elisha asked the king of Israel. “Go to the pagan prophets of your father and mother!” But King Joram of Israel said, “No! For it was the Lord who called us three kings here..."

King Joram (Jehoram) was not a Godly king. He had destroyed the images of Baal, but kept the worship of golden calves as a national religion.
And so Elisha's question.

Isn't it interesting, when the skeptic, the mocker, the atheist, runs into serious trouble, the first thing they do, is seek out someone who knows how to pray to The Living God.
An old saying that every veteran is well aware of is “There are no atheists in a fox hole.”
Why? Because in a fox hole, in war, death is near, and the most hardened sinner will pray!

No, King Jehoram, knew only too well, his idolatrous golden calves, couldn't help him now! 
(Read I Kings 18:)


II Kings 3:14 NLT
Elisha replied, “As surely as The Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I wouldn’t even bother with you except for my respect for King Jehoshaphat of Judah.

Because Godly King Jehoshapt, Elshia would seek The Lord.

II Kings 3:15-19 NLT
15"...the power of The Lord came upon Elisha,
16 and he said, “This is what The Lord says: This dry valley will be filled with pools of water!
17 You will see neither wind nor rain, says The Lord, but this valley will be filled with water. You will have plenty for yourselves and your cattle and other animals.
18 But this is only a simple thing for The Lord, for He will make you victorious over the army of Moab!
19 You will conquer the best of their towns, even the fortified ones. You will cut down all their good trees, stop up all their springs, and ruin all their good land with stones.”

Three kings received the answer they were hoping for, springs of life saving water.

II Kings 3:20 NLT
The next day at about the time when the morning sacrifice was offered, water suddenly appeared! It was flowing from the direction of Edom, and soon there was water everywhere.
Genesis 18:14 KJV
Is any thing too hard for The Lord?..."

The three kings went on in complete success, because God had provided for them!

Now today, how many a dear soul, faint and weak in battle, thirsts for life giving strength in a dry and lifeless land.

John 4:3-42 NLT
3 So He left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria on the way.
5 Eventually He came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.
7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give Me a drink.”
8 He was alone at the time because His disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”
10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew The Gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask Me, and I would give you living water.”
11 “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water?
12 And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”
13 Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again.
14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.”
16 “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her.
17 “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband—
18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke The Truth!”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet.
20 So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”
21 Jesus replied, “Believe Me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship The Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about Him, for salvation comes through the Jews.
23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship The Father in Spirit and in Truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship Him that way.
24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and in Truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know The Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus told her, “I Am The Messiah!”
27 Just then His disciples came back. They were shocked to find Him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, “What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
28 The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone,
29 “Come and see a Man who told me everything I ever did! Could He possibly be The Messiah?”
30 So the people came streaming from the village to see Him.

31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”
33 “Did someone bring Him food while we were gone?” the disciples asked each other.
34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent Me, and from finishing His work.
35 You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest.
36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!
37 You know the saying, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ And it’s true.
38 I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.”


39 Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!”
40 When they came out to see Him, they begged Him to stay in their village. So He stayed for two days,
41 long enough for many more to hear His message and believe.
42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard Him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”

Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me 
The Fountain Of Living Waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

John 7:37-39 NLT
37 On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, 
“Anyone who is thirsty may come to Me!
38 Anyone who believes in Me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, 
Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’
39 (When He said “living water,” He was speaking of The Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in Him..."

Revelation 21:6 KJV
And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and The End. I will give unto him that is athirst of The Fountain Of The Water Of Life freely.

Revelation 22:1 KJV
And he shewed me a pure river of Water Of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of 
The Throne Of God And Of The Lamb.

Revelation 22:17 KJV
And The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take The Water Of Life freely.