All Is Well By Sonia Ann

All Is Well By Sonia Ann 9/26/19

While fasting over the weekend I was battling a persistent headache that kept me up at night. I was losing sleep and very uncomfortable. On the fourth night I woke up again with a headache in the middle of the night. I inquired of the Lord why is this headache not moving and why I couldn’t rebuke the pain off of me in Jesus name by taking the authority He gave me. He replied “2 Kings 4:23.”

I opened up the Bible and read the sentence about the Shunamite woman saying “all is well.” I continued to read the story for context. In the story the woman had been childless and the man of God Elisha prophesied a son to her. Her son was born and all was well until one day he had a severe headache in the field and ended up collapsing in her arms and dying. When her husband came in she asked him to get the servants so she could fetch Elisha and his servant Gehazi. When her husband asked her if everything was OK, she responded, “All is well.“

Now at this point All was very much not well because her son was dead in her arms and she was very grieved. When the servant came and took her to Gehazi he asked her if everything was OK with herself her husband and their business… She again replied “All is well.“

The story really started to intrigue me now. First of all a son that was promised to her and given to her as a miracle gift from God through the man of God, was now dead. Second of all, he had an affliction in his head which I was currently fighting, thirdly when her husband asked her how she was she said “all is well,” and she again she said it to Gehazi.

This reminded me to call things that aren’t as though they are the essence of faith. I also thought of the power of life and death in the tongue and how she refused to speak the words that her son was dead even though he laid lifeless in her arms. Lastly I thought of how she wouldn’t speak about it until Elisha the man of God with the spirit of Elijah, told Gehazi to let her come to him because he could see she was in distress and the Lord had hidden it to him until this moment.

She then pleaded with Elisha to come back to her house and he did. He laid on the boy’s lifeless body and breathed life back into the boy, and he was raised from the dead! I believe this last part has to do with keeping quiet in the midst of adversity and bringing our pain and suffering directly to the Lord. Perhaps speaking that the boy was dead to her husband (the boy’s father,) then Gehazi might have opened up the door to fear, grief and unbelief.

Although It appeared that her promise was dead; she wisely refused to speak it until the Lord revealed something was wrong to Elisha. Immediately I understood in my spirit what the Lord was saying, so I said out loud, “All is well. All is well with my soul in Jesus. Thank you Lord for my healing all is well.”

Instantly the pain lifted and I got a good sleep for the first time in four nights.

Let’s watch what we speak and who we speak to about our problems and remember, we have a God who raises the dead to life!

Hallelujah. All is well.