Quotes About Blessing

And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”

and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ëI have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.í”

And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.

and he said, “This is what the LORD says: ëDig this valley full of ditches.í

For the LORD says, ëYou will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.í

The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.

“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”

Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”

So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.

When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”

One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.

Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.

and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ëLook, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?í” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.

So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”

And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”

But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ëThey will eat and have some left over.í”

So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”