On Believing and Speaking and K's query

"Yes," the woman told Gehazi, "everything is fine."
- 2 Kings 4:26

I've always loved this account in the bible about Elisha and the Shunemite woman. If you read the earlier part of the chapter you'll know that this lady showed kindness and courtesy to Elisha. Elisha spoke over her barren condition and she got pregnant and had a son as Elisha had said. Note, power of believing and speaking.

She must have seen the power of the tongue and what we speak over ourselves and others, for when her son fell ill and died, she went to Elisha and take special note of what she speaks over the tragedy.

The first thing she said to her hubby was- "It will be alright." She didn't even tell him that their child was dead! And when Gehazi asked her if everything was okay with her hubby and her son, she didn't speak the situation. She spoke the result.

She didn't whine and say, "No, nothing is fine. Everything sucks. My husband doesn't understand grace, my kid died. God obviously doesn't care about me. He probably hates me and cursed my life. Why does He hate me? What did I do to deserve this? Why me?"

Instead, I can see her bridle her tongue and quietly say, "Yes. Everything is alright." She remembers what miracle God's done for her before. She understands the principle of speaking the results she wants into the situation.

Even when she is brought to the man of God. She shows her despair but keeps silent about her feelings about the situation. She does not even say her son is dead. All she does is ask a question of reminding, not accusing or grumbling or mumbling, to Elisha so he understands the situation. She doesn't speak over it.

Notice the only time we hear the boy's dead is when Gehazi speaks over it. Prob he saw the situation, and had no faith even as he held the staff, think this represents Christ, over the boy.

Upon Elisha's arrival, the child was as dead as the servant declared him to be. But Elisha did not stand on what the servant said. He stood on God's Word, and laid God's Grace on the boy.

The faith, aka the believing and speaking, of the boy's mother was what raised him from the circumstance he was in.

Today how we speak over our situation, and how we perceive God's power and goodness and love, determines how we rise up from them.

NB. Sharing with K and Ian earlier what I wrote above. K raised a good question- did the woman's earlier remark of disbelief allow the devil an opportunity to rob her of her son's life? Stan, Malcolm, Angie, Jeff, Angela, Kat, Joshen, Maurice, Candace, Mia, Andrea, Aloy, etc. - what are your opinions on this matter? :)