Sonrise

by Leslie Thomas

Early Prophets 15: Elisha and Resumé

Elisha’s death displays God’s enduring life-giving power. Samuel, Elijah and Elisha model prayerful listening, courageous holiness, merciful service & faithful obedience, pointing beyond themselves to Christ, in whom prophetic witness, divine grace, judgement & resurrection hope find fulfilment for God’s people today.

Early Prophets 14: Elisha Part 5

Elisha’s ministry shows God’s providence & sovereign word: costly obedience brings restoration, hidden ambition is exposed. Believers are to respond with repentance, trust, truth & compassion.

Early Prophets 13: Elisha Part 4

During Samaria’s famine, God fulfils Elisha’s impossible promise through four outcasts, frightening away the Arameans, providing abundance, judging unbelief, and calling believers to trust and share good news freely.

Early Prophets 12: Elisha Part 3

What cannot be bought must never be sold. The best known part of Elisha's ministry tells of Naaman’s healing through humble faith & obedience, revealing God’s freely given grace, contrasting it with Gehazi’s deceitful greed which would corrupt God's grace. It brings Gehazi under judgement.

Early Prophets 11: Elisha Part 2

Elisha’s ministry confronts compromised kings, delivers armies, aids widows, restores life & feeds prophetic communities, showing God’s word bringing judgement, mercy, provision & obedience across public & hidden need.

Early Prophets 10: Elisha Part 1

Elisha’s call reveals wholehearted obedience: leaving the old life, learning under authority, cultivating personal fellowship with God, and pursuing Spirit-given usefulness for humble, courageous, loving prophetic witness.

Early Prophets 9: Elijah Part 5 Passing the Baton

Elijah's ministry moves from public disputation to mentoring Elisha after running from Jezebel to the Mountain of God where the Lord restored him, taking him back to being the man of God's presence.

Early Prophets 8: Elijah Part 4

Elijah’s triumph was followed by fear and collapse, but God restored him through rest, renewed revelation, truth, and recommissioning, showing failure can be met by grace and obedience.

Early Prophets 7: Elijah Part 3

Elijah’s hidden years taught him obedient dependence on God, giving him courage, authority & wisdom before Ahab & the priests of Baal. He exposed false worship, upheld God’s word, recalled Israel’s unity, trusted God’s promises, and showed that true power comes through prayerful reliance on the Lord.

Early Prophets 6: Elijah Part 2

Elijah’s hidden apprenticeship shows public ministry must be learned in God’s presence. God trained him in obedience, dependence & prayer., making him a man of God, Usefulness comes through these three

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