WHAT’S HAVING YOU?
2 Kings 4:8-38

When a man is having any situation such as sickness, or disease, there will be a difference from when a situation is “having” the believer. “Having a situation” should not be able to take control of one’s life, no matter how the situation is. However, if a situation is “having someone”, that situation will be in control of that person’s life. When sudden and untimely death had Lazarus, it took him away and he was terminated. Lazarus was tied up and rolled up in a tomb. Death had Lazarus and nothing could be done until Jesus showed up to release him from sudden and untimely death. As a believer or non-believer, what is it that is having you? “Then it happened, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. 36 And hearing a multitude passing by, he asked what it meant. 37 So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. 38 And he cried out, saying, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Luke 18:35-38) Blindness was having the man by the roadside, and he could go nowhere as desired. Also, he could not see what was going on around him because the blindness had taken him over and he was under the control of blindness. Is there any condition that is dictating or directing the traffic of your life? A Shunammite woman whose husband was at old age, had no children encountered the Prophet Elisha who prayed for her to have a child. The child fell sick, and died a sudden and untimely death. The sudden death that took the child could not have the child because the mother refused to allow the death to take control of her demeanor. The mother did not grieve or sorrow, but she put herself together and set out to go and see Prophet Elisha. The Shunammite woman refused death over her son and did not let it have her by virtue of her positive confession. She refused to confess negatively by claiming it was well, when actuality it was not well in the physical. “…So it was, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, the Shunammite woman! 26 Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’” And she answered, “It is well.” (2 King 4: 26-27) The Shunammite woman disallowed death from taking her son. Whatever keeps a man from moving or from seeing where there is a need to see is evidently having the man’s life.
Prayer for today: O Lord have mercy and let me not be in any situation whereby I could no longer have control over the life that you have given me.