2 Kings 8:1-6

When we give our life to God and follow His direction for our life, He changes things making all things new! 

Whatever you have allowed Satan to steal from you will be restored fully…just believe in His power to take the things that were meant to destroy you and turn them for your good. 

No weapon formed against you will prosper. In Him, and in the salvation that He provided in Jesus the Christ, we are restored and protected by our King.

As had happened in the days of Elijah, God again instituted a famine. Such cases of divinely induced calamities were intended to chastise His people and bring them to repentance. God in His kindness spared the family of the Shunammite woman to whom Elisha had had such a significant ministry. It appears that she may have become a widow by the time of this incident. 

The Shunammite woman had not renounced or sold her property, but merely had left during the previous famine. Moreover, she had returned within seven years. Since the property was still legally hers, she pressed her claim to the king himself.

2 Kings 8:1-6

8 Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the Lord has called for a famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.” ² So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God, and she went with her household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years.

³ It came to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went to make an appeal to the king for her house and for her land. ⁴ Then the king talked with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me, please, all the great things Elisha has done.” ⁵ Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had restored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” ⁶ And when the king asked the woman, she told him.

So the king appointed a certain officer for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now.”