*YOU DON’T NEED TO UNDERSTAND TO OBEY*

2 Kings 13: 14 – 20
14. Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
15. And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
16. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands.
17. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD’S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
18. And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.
19. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
20. And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
KJV

Elisha the prophet gave instructions to King Joash of Israel who came to see him to encourage him because he was ill without explaining why he gave the instructions and what he intended to achieve. He expected the King to trust him as a man of God and just obey what the Spirit is asking him to tell him. The king obeyed the first instruction and shot his arrow with Elijah proclaiming, “The arrow of the LORD’S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them”. The second instruction was not clear to the king why he should continue to strike the ground with his arrow, so after three times, he stopped. This angered the Prophet because he didn’t tell him how many times he should strike the ground, neither did he ask him to stop. At this juncture, he told him why and what he would have gained if he had struck the ground up to five or six times. The key to miracles and breakthroughs is trusting in the integrity of the man of God and whom he represents, and doing what God commands.

Just do what God tells you though you do not understand why and what He intends to achieve. Obedience will pay you at the end of the day, because you will eventually understand why.

Note: Elisha didn’t tell him to stop, he only told him to strike the ground. He was expected to continue until the man of God changes the instruction. Sometimes, we start obeying God, then we stop when He has not changed His instructions to us. As a result, he lost the opportunity of winning over Syria more than three times. Trust the Lord with all your heart when He speaks to you either directly or through a vessel. Never change what God has instructed until He instructs otherwise.

I pray that you will be sensitive enough to know when God is speaking to you and trust Him and obey and never change what He has commanded until He instructs you to do so in Jesus name. Receive grace to resist the temptation to stop obeying God half way for any reason in Jesus name.

Jamil M Marcus
Zion Revival Pakistan Ministry
Lahore Pakistan
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