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"O for more Elishas"
Elisha's physical miracle is a lesson in spiritual engagement
Andrew Heddle
March 06, 2026
Meditation
Hi there,
The story of the raising of the boy concludes today with Elisha working hard through prayer to bring the boy back to life.
It is the intimate physical detail that makes this passage stand out. Once Elisha enters the room, he lies on the boy, "mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands" and the boy's body begins to warm up before he finally awakes with a highly specific seven sneezes.
In his sermon, titled "Seven Sneezes" Charles Haddon Spurgeon noted.
Spiritual life is the gift of God, but if the dead are to be raised by our means we must enter into hearty sympathy with them; we must create spiritual contact, and become in a great measure identified with those whom we would bless.
The Holy Ghost works by those who feel that they would lay down their own lives for the good of others, and would impart to them not only their goods and their instructions, but themselves also, if by any means they might save some.
O for more Elishas, for then we should see more sinners raised from their death in sin.
Spurgeon's sermon takes us beyond the story and the healing power of a single prophet, calling us to recreate this miracle through our own spiritual engagement with the lost.
For her part, the Shunammite woman receives the miracle with her customary calm and humility.
Today's verses are 2 Kings 4:31-37.
The Shunammite’s Son Restored to Life
31 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
32 When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. 33 He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. 34 Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm.
35 Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” And he did. When she came, he said, “Take your son.” 37 She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.
Encouragement
43 But now, this is what the Lord says—
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.
3 For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I give Egypt for your ransom,
Cush and Seba in your stead
Isaiah 43:1-3
Andy
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The full text of C.H Spurgeon's sermon on this passage can be read here.
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