07/4 2 Kings 4:18-27
One day when her child was older, he went out to visit his father, who was working with the harvesters. 19 Suddenly he complained, “My head hurts! My head hurts!” His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.” 20 So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died. 21 She carried him up to the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there. 22 She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.” 23 “Why today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.” But she said, “It’s all right.” 24 So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down on my account unless I tell you to.” 25 As she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, “Look, the woman from Shunem is coming. 26 Run out to meet her and ask her, ‘Is everything all right with you, with your husband, and with your child?'” “Yes,” the woman told Gehazi, “everything is fine.” 27 But when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground before him and caught hold of his feet. Gehazi began to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone. Something is troubling her deeply, and the LORD has not told me what it is.”
CONFIDENCE
As I said the woman had received this gift and knew that Elisha wouldn’t trick her. Note her confidence in dealing with the situation-no crying; no emotion- she saddles her donkey and goes to see Elisha. She knew he could do something about this.

07/3 2 Kings 4:14-17
Later Elisha asked Gehazi, “What do you think we can do for her? “He suggested, “She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is an old man.” 15 “Call her back again,” Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, 16 “Next year at about this time you will be holding a son in your arms!” “No, my lord!” she protested. “Please don’t lie to me like that, O man of God.” 17 But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.
GIFT
Elisha gives to her a son. She loves the son and is confident that Elisha didn’t give her the son to cause her heartache. Gifts are things that we receive freely. She receives the child and continues with her life. Most of us lead down to earth lives. We are grateful for what we have and are not seeking to be somebody admired and adored by the masses. We want to be faithful and live the life the Lord has given us. Thank you Lord for gifts that You give us.

07/2 2 Kings 4:8-13
One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she invited him to eat some food. From then on, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there to eat. 9 She said to her husband, “I am sure this man who stops in from time to time is a holy man of God. 10 Let’s make a little room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever he comes by.” 11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to his room to rest. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the woman I want to speak to her.” When she arrived, 13 Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her that we appreciate the kind concern she has shown us. Now ask her what we can do for her. Does she want me to put in a good word for her to the king or to the commander of the army?” “No,” she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”
PLENTY
Here is a woman that is satisfied with her life, she has plenty and is willing to live with it. The Lord gives many things to us. Are we grateful for the plenty we have or are we always seeking more?

07/1 2 Kings 4:1-7
One day the widow of one of Elisha’s fellow prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the LORD. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.” 2 “What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied. 3 And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. 4 Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting the jars aside as they are filled.” 5 So she did as she was told. Her sons brought many jars to her, and she filled one after another. 6 Soon every container was full to the brim!” Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons.” There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing. 7 When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and there will be enough money left over to support you and your sons.”
BELIEVE
The biggest obstacle we face is to believe that the Lord will be affective and effective in our normal daily life. We need to know the Lord. We need to understand that the Lord is more interested in our lives than we are. God loves you and He is seeking for your best good.

6/30 Ephesians 5:20-33
And you will always give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 21 And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything. 25 And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. 29 No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. 30 And we are his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
CHRIST
Christ is all and in all and He wants to help me lead my life. Gratitude is the underlying attitude of a positive life. I am grateful to the Lord, to you, to friends, to family, to work and to play. My life belongs to Jesus and He is everything to me.

6/29 Ephesians 5:18-19
Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill and control you. 19 Then you will sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, making music to the Lord in your hearts.
POSITIVE
We have to choose whether we will be positive or negative. If I choose to be negative my life will be difficult. It will hard to be obedient to the Lord because I will feel sorry for myself and refuse to take responsibility for my life. Sin will always have a lever to get me off track. I won’t lose my salvation but I will lose a lot of times when I could have won. Life will not be a joyous place. On the other hand I can choose to be positive. I know the Lord loves me and would that all things work together for good in my life. I will discover that more often than not things will go my way. I choose to be positive-Lord give me peace and joy today.

6/28 Ephesians 5:15-17
So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days. 17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.
RESPONSIBLE
Sin whispers that I am not responsible- I deserve this, I sacrifice so much, I will change asap. On and on the lies go but the truth is that we are responsible and we must think about how we are living. We serve the Lord and His truth is undeniable. He would that none of us sin and yet I am so quick to sin. Obedience dictates that I change and act responsibly.

6/27 Ephesians 5:12-14
It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. 13 But when the light shines on them, it becomes clear how evil these things are. 14 And where your light shines, it will expose their evil deeds. This is why it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”
LIGHT
I need to keep the light shining on me. I sin and sin and am slow to react to the Lord’s prompting. I have excuses, not valid but they distract me. Lord shine your light on me. Keep me focused on you. Lord change me and make me more like you.

6/26 Ephesians 5:10-11
Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them.
SEEK
Seek the Lord. Seek Him in your quiet time. Seek Him in your Bible Study. Seek Him in your daily life. Walk with the Lord constantly on your mind. Seek the Lord and He will be found. You seek the Lord.

6/25 Ephesians 5:6-9
Don’t be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the terrible anger of God comes upon all those who disobey him. 7 Don’t participate in the things these people do. 8 For though your hearts were once full of darkness, now you are full of light from the Lord, and your behavior should show it! 9 For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
SIN
Sin seeks companions. Run from sin. Refute sin’s call. Turn a deaf ear to sin’s reasoning. Follow Jesus. Let Him deal with your sin. Be filled with the Spirit and do not sin. Jesus is Lord.