Use Your Faith to Bless Others The four lepers then went into the Syrians’ tents. And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it (II Kings 7:8). They took the silver and gold and buried them; but then they decided, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household (II Kings 7:9). That’s an example of revivalism and evangelism. The four lepers headed back to Samaria with their stomachs full and cried out to the guard on the wall, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were (II Kings 7:10). When the king heard that, he said to his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city (II Kings 7:12). After all that the people in the city had been through, the king no longer had much energy or faith left; but one man who was ready to use reckless faith said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see (II Kings 7:13). The king knew that there wasn’t much left in the city; but he agreed saying, Go and see (II Kings 7:14). The people the king sent out returned with a great report. And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king. And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD (II Kings 7:15,16).
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