God’s Servants Are Greatly Blessed

One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.

2 Kings 4:8

The first thing we are told about this woman is that she had been blessed financially. God had blessed her, and she wanted to bring blessing to others.

One way she could do this was to give hospitality to the prophet Elijah. Now she took it a step further. She told her husband, “I know that this is a...