“What are you believing for?”

That’s the question at the heart of today’s episode. What we believe — especially about healing, provision, and God’s promises — shapes what we experience in life.

We dig into how faith works and why it’s so important to be intentional about what we’re expecting from God. Using the parable of the sower, we look at how the condition of our hearts affects how we receive God’s Word. A receptive heart produces a harvest; a hardened or distracted heart doesn’t.

We also reflect on the Shunammite woman’s story, which powerfully shows what it looks like to stand firm on God’s promises even when circumstances try to shake you.

Ultimately, this episode encourages you to slow down and honestly ask yourself: What am I believing God for? The answer will shape what you receive.

🔑 Takeaways

• The main question of the episode: What are you believing for?
• Your beliefs directly affect what you receive from God.
• The parable of the sower teaches that the heart’s condition determines the harvest.
• The Shunammite woman reminds us to stay anchored in God’s promises despite challenges.

🔗 Links referenced in this episode

• Terradez TV: https://www.youtube.com/TerradezTV
• Contact for prayer: info@terradez.com

Welcome to Power Hour, where we believe it is God's will for you to be.

Well, I'm your host, Kylie Terradez, and this podcast is created from the weekly live streams that I do every Thursday at 1pm Mountain time.

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Let's get started.

Well, today we're talking about.

We're actually going through the A to Z of healing.

We've been doing this since the beginning of the year.

Super exciting.

We're actually all the way through down to Q right now.

And I know you've been wondering, the letter Q.

What on earth is Carly going to do for the letter Q?

Well, the Q is for question.

And the question that we're going to be looking at today is what are you believing for?

What are you believing for?

You know, Jesus actually asked many people this.

Do you believe that I'm able to do this?

You know, he asked people questions when he was ministering to people, and, you know, he learned a lot from their responses.

But I don't believe that Jesus asked people questions because he didn't know the answer.

I think he asked people questions so that they would come to find out the answer themselves.

There was revelation in that thought process.

But let's look at this today.

We're going to look at, you know, how we basically determine what we receive by determining what we believe.

That is why the question what are you believing for?

Is so important, because if we know what we're believing for, we can determine the.

The end of the equation, which is the manifestation that we are.

That we are believing for.

Right.

Let's look in here @mark, chapter four.

Now, this is known as the parable of the Sower.

And Jesus actually says to his disciples, this is the most important parable because if you don't get this one, you're not going to get the other ones.

And he taught his disciples a lot in stories because many times people remember stories more than they remember scripture.

You just think yourself, how many times have you sat in church and you couldn't tell me, you know, two or three scriptures that the preacher was sharing.

But you can remember the story he told you as a sermon illustration.

And that just goes to show the power of teaching in parables.

When Jesus taught in parables, he was teaching a lot of the time uneducated men.

You know, these are.

These are people that, that have been raised on the land.

They're physically astute, but not necessarily educated.

And so stories would be something that they would remember.

Far more than academia.

And they really applied.

They applied the word of God to people's everyday lives.

So parables were super important.

But I want to show you this parable known as the most important parable of all.

Okay?

And I'm just going to jump in down here, into verse 13.

He says, and do you not understand this parable?

How then will you understand all of the parables?

It is the sower that sows the Word.

He's been telling a story, and he's using an example as a farmer that goes out and throws seed on the ground.

And he says, that farmer, that sower, is the one that sows the Word of God.

That the seed that the farmer sows is literally an example of the Word of God.

And he says, these are those beside the path where they hear that the.

Where the Word of God is sown.

So there are people that are beside the path, and they were there when the.

The seed was sown on the.

On the ground.

And it says, when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that is sown in their hearts.

So in other words, there's a group of people, and he's actually going to go through several groups of people here, four groups of people.

And he's saying, one of these groups of people, they're sitting by the path.

You know, they're sitting right there.

They're watching.

They're hearing the Word.

They're seeing the Word of God being sown.

And maybe you could liken this today to people sitting in church.

You can have different groups of people sitting in church, young, old, whatever.

And they're sitting there, and some people, they're all hearing the same word, they're all receiving the same seed of the Word of God.

But some people sitting seem to be able to get revelation from it, and other people don't.

And so it's going through and it's going to describe each one of these different types of people.

And it's going on to explain that the reason that they receive or don't receive has nothing to do with the quality of the Word, of the Word that is spoken.

The seed is the same seed in each one of these instances.

Let's look at this.

He says, but when they hear this, this first group of people, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that is sown in their hearts.

So the Word of God, you know, they hear it, they absorb it, but it gets snatched away quickly.

It says another group of people are like those that the seed of the Word is sown on Rocky ground.

And so when they hear the Word of God, immediately they receive it with gladness.

These are people, the attentive ones, maybe in church, right?

Maybe the ones that are amending a lot and cheering a lot, they receive it with gladness, but they have no root in themselves.

And so they endure for a time, but afterwards, when affliction or persecution rises for the.

Arises for the Word's sake, immediately they fall away.

So this is really interesting.

A lot of people talk about persecution as, you know, something that's very personal to them because if you know you're the target of it, it feels very personal.

But actually it's the enemy that's always behind persecution.

And, and it says he, it doesn't arise for your stake, it arises for the Word's sake.

You see, we just happen to get in the way when there's real persecution that comes against us that is truly demonic.

Understand that your flesh is not the actual target of Satan's attack of persecution.

It's the word of God that your flesh contains.

So it says that persecution arises for the Word's sake.

So when these people are under pressure and because that they didn't allow that word to get down on the inside of them and put down roots, when there is some kind of resistance, when there are rocks in the.

And there are obstacles, when there is symptoms, when there's, you know, challenges, when there is doubts, when there is complaints, when there's other people's opinions, persecution, right?

You know, they, they let go of that word really quickly because that word doesn't have any roots.

And so they accept it easily, but then they forget it easily.

And you may know people, I mean, you may have been in this situation yourself, but these are people that we would say are probably a little more on the immature side.

And they can be immature in age emotionally, or they could be, you know, immature just spiritually speaking.

So they receive things gladly, but it's almost like they'll go along with any new idea.

So if that new idea, that new thought of revelation happens to be the Word of God, God, they're going to gobble it up.

But if that, if something else comes along, that's a new idea, there's, oh, go look at this shiny movie over here or this money over here or whatever, they're going to go and gobble that up too.

So there, there's no, there's no stability there.

And then Jesus says, and there are others where the seed is sown among thorns, and these are those who hear the Word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word and it proves unfruitful.

So this is.

These are people that.

That hear the Word and they absorb it for.

For a time.

You know, they're sitting with everyone else.

They're all in the same Sunday service.

They're all hearing the same seed, the same word of God.

And they.

And they receive it into their hearts at different depths.

They receive it into their hearts at different levels.

But this one, it doesn't produce fruit.

Why is that?

Because they're worried about other things.

They're already.

Maybe.

Maybe this is.

And, you know, we've.

We've always been.

We can all testify to this at some point.

We've walked in and we've listened to a message, and on our heart we have the cares of the world.

We're burdened, we're stressed, we're tired, we're exhausted, we're overwhelmed.

We have the care.

It's not necessarily sin.

It's just.

It's just living in the world and all of the pressures that are in the world.

Maybe there's money worries, maybe there's, you know, financial pressure, maybe there's relationship stress, whatever it is.

But it says that they hear the word of God, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, thinking about what other people got, as opposed to what you've got, right?

And then desire for other things, desire to listen or be distracted.

Those things, it says they come in, they choke the word of God, and it makes the word of God unfruitful.

So it's almost like all of these three groups were positioned.

They were perfectly positioned to hear the word of God and to receive a manifestation.

But there was conditions around them, the conditions of their heart that stopped that word bearing fruit, that stopped that word of healing, bearing a manifestation, that stopped that word of prosperity, you know, bearing abundance, whatever it was.

So what is the.

The fourth type of ground?

Because this is the type of ground that we want to be in.

Mark 4, verse 20, it says, still others are seed that is sown on good ground.

And these are those who hear the word and receive it.

So they not only hear it, it doesn't go in one ear and come out the other.

They receive it, they cling to it, they take it, they grasp it, they make it their own.

That word receiving is talking about all of those things.

And it says they hear the word of God and receive it and bear fruit.

30, 60, or 100 times as much.

You Know, all of those other types of ground that didn't bear fruit never allowed the seed to put down.

Roots never allowed the seed to weather their distractions.

And so when there was pressure, when there was a distraction, when there was another thought that came from somewhere else, immediately that seed was.

Was removed from them.

It didn't.

It didn't get to bear fruit.

But we want to be like that, that fourth type of ground that bears fruit thirty, sixty, and a hundred times.

You know, it wasn't the seed in all of those different examples.

It wasn't the seed that determined the harvest.

The seed would have produced the same harvest every single time.

The seed was consistent.

That seed is the word of God.

The word of God is consistently and only knows how to produce fruit.

That's all it does.

You know, seed, you think about a packet of seeds.

Seed doesn't need to strive.

I see.

A seed doesn't need to, like, strain, strain.

A seed doesn't need to become something else.

A seed just is itself, and it produces after its own kind.

You know, tomato plants or tomatoes, if you're a American.

Right.

They don't produce watermelons.

Tomato seeds only produce tomato plants, and tomato plants only produce more tomatoes.

They don't.

They can't produce something else.

They're not trying to be something that they're not.

So there wasn't any variable at all in the seed that was sown.

It would have produced exactly the same harvest in every one of those people that listened.

Exactly the same manifestation, exactly the same deposit of power, exactly the same same potential.

Was it placed by that seed in every one of those people that heard it?

Now, that's really.

That's really powerful.

So the seed did not determine the harvest.

The harvest of those seeds, the fruitfulness of those seeds was determined not by the seed itself, but by the.

By the condition of the heart or the ground in which it was sown.

Now, I don't know about you, but.

But I want my heart to be good ground.

I want my heart to be fertile so that when I hear the seed of God's word, it knows it has somewhere fertile to be implanted.

It's almost like my heart is crying out, lou, I'm good ground over here.

I'm.

I'm ready.

I've removed distractions.

I'm.

I'm quick to believe you when I hear you say it.

I'm gonna grasp it, receive it, make it my own.

And I. I mean, I pity any fool that comes against me when I've got the word of God.

In my, in my heart and on my lips, because I will not give it up, man.

Then we become good ground.

We become good ground, you know, so, so this is important, this is an important thought because we can actually limit what we receive with our thinking.

Did you realize that we started this question?

If you're just joining us, we're in the queue of the A to Z of healing right now.

The queue is the question, what are you believing for?

Because what we're believing directly impacts what we're receiving and what we're believing is directly influenced by what we're hearing.

If we want to change the harvest that we are seeing, sometimes we need to change the type of seeds that we allow to be implanted in our heart.

You know, if we are receptive to seeds of doubt, to seeds of fear, to seeds of anxiety, then we're going to see that fruit in our life.

But if we're receptive to the word of God, we're going to see fruits of joy, of peace, of patience, of kindness, of goodness, of self control.

We're going to see those seeds bear fruit in our life.

You know, in Matthew 8:13, Jesus was speaking and he said, go your way as you have believed, so let it be done for you.

Go your way.

And the way in the Wuest translations is in the manner in which you have received, let it be done unto you.

In other words, however you think that you're going to receive it, that's how it will manifest man.

This is, this really makes that question what are we believing for so important, right?

Because however we believe actually carries more weight than the people around us.

Think about that.

No one can change the condition of our hearts for us.

No one can do that, right?

It's not an issue with the, with the seed, it's not an issue with the sower, it's not an issue with the word of God that's going to produce.

But if the conditions that that seed is planted in has other weeds that, you know, rocks that come to choke the word of God and make it be not bear much fruit.

We can garden, we can weed the garden of our heart, right?

We can, we can renew our mind to make it more fruitful.

You know, Jesus said In, in Matthew 9, 28, 29 says, do you believe that I'm able to do this?

According to your faith, let it be done unto you.

These are the words of Jesus.

Now we might find these words challenging, but these are the words of Jesus.

You can't argue with the word of God.

This is the word of Jesus.

He says, do you believe that I'm able to do this?

Do you believe that I am able?

Yes, Lord, I believe you're able.

It might look impossible, it might look unlikely.

It might look like the odds are completely against me.

But I know that you're faithful, I know that you're able.

I know that you've done it.

There's a difference there.

He says, well, according to your faith, let it be done unto you according to the way that we believe, let it, let, let us receive.

That's, that's what he's saying.

And we have to be careful about what we listen to because if, you know, if we listen to, to things, reports that are contrary to the word of God, that also is going to sow seeds in our heart.

Did you know that?

Unbelief and faith come the same way?

They come by hearing.

Faith comes by hearing, unbelief comes by hearing.

Also.

We can actually improve the fertility of our heart by being really careful.

What we listen to, what we allow to take up root in our heart.

This is really important.

Let's look at this.

Let me have a look here.

I'm going to show you something.

I want to show you an example.

Let's look here in second Kings four.

We're going to go over into the Old testament here into second kings 4.

Hang on a second.

I've got too many bookmarks going on in here.

Second Kings, chapter four.

Now this is a really interesting story.

It says one day, I'm reading a verse eight.

One day, Elisha, the story of a prophet Elisha.

He passed through Shunam and a nobleman was there who urged him to eat a meal.

And so whenever he passed through, he stopped there to eat a meal.

And she said to an, she said to her husband, I know that this man's a holy man of God, regularly passing through our area.

Let us make a little walled up a room and put for him there a bed and a table and a chair and a lamp.

And so he, when he comes to us, he can stay there.

So you know, there's something about this woman.

She made room in her life for the word of God.

She placed value upon the word of God, the word of the prophet.

And so what is one day he.

He came by here and, and turned aside to the upper room to lay down.

And he says to Gehazi, servant, call this Shunamite woman.

And he called her, and she stood before me.

He said to her, Say, say to her, look, you have gone to all of this trouble for us.

What may be done for you?

What.

What?

Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king?

And so to the captain of the army.

And she answered, I'm living among my people.

And he says, well, what can I do for you?

And Gehazi said, actually, she has no son and her husband is old.

This woman was barren.

And he said to her, well, cool on.

When he called her, she stood in the entrance.

And he said, as this season, when it is time, you will embrace a son.

He spoke over her, the fertility of her womb.

And she said, no, my Lord, man of God, don't lie.

I'm your servant.

This was a hard thing, because this wasn't even something that she necessarily prayed for.

But he says, there is that.

There's a promise for you.

Somebody needs to hear that today.

There is a promise for you.

There's a promise of healing for you today.

There's a promise of breakthrough for you today.

There's a promise of abundance for you today, of forgiveness, of deliverance, of restoration, of freedom.

These are promises, promises that are available to you today.

They're available.

This is what this.

What this prophet was saying to this woman.

You may not have even prayed for this, but it's available to you today.

And it says the woman conceived and bore a son in that season.

At the time that Elisha told her she believed in the promise, you know, we have a better covenant today based on better promises, because we're not looking forward to something that hasn't already been done.

We're looking back on something that has been done.

Jesus completed every promise of God.

And now, because of him, all of the promises of God in Christ are yes and amen.

He was the promise fulfillment.

He was the fulfillment of a promise that they had out in the future.

But we already have today in our past.

This is really, really huge.

It says the child was older.

This is the child of promise.

Right?

When he went out one day to his father with the reapers, he said to his father, my head, my head.

And he said to the servant, carry him to his mother.

So we know that this child's small enough to be carried and big enough to talk.

So maybe, I don't know, four or five, probably.

When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, the boy sat on her knees until noon and died.

She went up and laid him down on the bed of the man of God and shut the door on him and went out.

Now, this is very significant.

He Says she called to her husband, send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God.

And he said, why are you going to him today?

It's not, you know, it's not time.

It's not the new moon or the Sabbath or something.

And she just said, it shall be.

Well.

And in some translations it says, it's going to be all right.

It's going to be all right.

You know, I'm sure in that moment she didn't feel like it was going to be all right.

She probably felt like, I've got to keep all this together.

There were probably a thousand different emotions that were running through her head at that moment.

Maybe anger was one of them.

You know what?

I didn't even pray for this, and yet I got a child.

And now that promise has been snatched away from me.

She may have been angry, right?

She may have been just distraught, but either way, she kept it together.

She was.

I mean, all of those emotions would have been going, you know, spiraling on the inside, but she didn't let them come out.

She didn't let her words be driven by her feelings.

That's a huge lesson right there.

She says.

So all that should say out of her mouth was, it shall be.

Well, you know, she was speaking out of her mouth the desired end result.

She was speaking the end from the beginning.

Why?

Because she wasn't putting faith in her ability to believe something.

She was putting her faith in a promise that was already done.

She was holding on to a promise.

This is a really big statement.

It's time to hold on to the promise.

It's time to hold on to the promise because the promise doesn't return void.

There's a promise for you.

It belongs to you.

It's been given to you.

It's yours.

You have ownership of it and the enemy's contending for it.

And he'll say things like, oh, you know what?

You just don't have enough faith.

You just don't know how to believe.

Right?

No, hang on a minute.

Our faith is not in our faith.

Our faith is not in our ability to believe God.

Our faith is what's in Jesus was already done it.

Our faith is in Jesus here.

Faith is in the promise that he has already obtained.

This is a really big deal.

So it says.

She says she got on the donkey, said to her servant, lead on and do not hold back unless I.

Unless I tell you.

And she went and she went and she went to find the man of God, you know, in her pain, she ran to find the man of God.

She ran towards Lord.

She allowed her pain to her disappointment, her hurt, her confusion, her panic, her anger, all of those emotions.

Rather than to drive her from God, they drove her towards him.

They drove her towards the Word, towards the man of God, the prophet of God.

I would encourage you, brothers, no matter what you're going through today, never allow the enemy to keep you from him.

Never allow the enemy to keep you from the Word, from the.

Because that's where our peace is.

That's where our.

Our protection is.

That's where our purpose is.

That's where our manifestation is.

Don't allow the things that we are going through to, to separate you, to distract you, to pull you, isolate you away from.

From the very source of life.

Let them propel you forward into the arms of the Lord.

Right, so she goes on up.

She says she saw the man of God and he was looking, he saw her far off.

So he sent his servant.

Look, he says, over there's the shunamite woman.

Now run and meet her and say to her, are you all right?

Is it well?

Is it well with you?

Is it well with your husband?

Is it well with the child?

And she said to him, it is well.

It shall be well.

It's all right.

She said she.

Even in that moment, she wouldn't say anything that wasn't positive.

When she came to the man of God, to the mountain, she grabbed onto his feet.

That in right there is actually a very significant moment, you know, when somebody prostrates themselves, lays themselves down on the floor.

There, there is.

That's an act of worship.

Do you remember in the New Testament and lepers came to Jesus and they did the same thing, threw themselves down the floor, grabbed onto the feet, is an act of worship reserved for kings.

It's very significant.

And you know, it's also a huge act of submission to say that your promise, your word is the final authority over my situation.

That's an act of submission in itself.

So she says she grabbed onto his feet.

Gehazi approached to push her away.

But the man of God said, the prophet, this is Elisha says, let her alone.

She's in bitter distress.

And the Lord has hidden it from me.

He's not told me.

Then she said, did I not ask for a son from my Lord?

Did I not say, do not give me false hope?

You know, I think we've all been through times when we can understand that question, where it seems like that promise has been snatched away or something, someone, some symptoms is contending for it.

But she.

But then he said to Hazel the servant, prepare yourself.

Take my staff in your hand and go.

And if, you know, hurry, if you don't greet anyone on the way, right?

But go, go to the house and lay my staff on the.

On the face of the boy.

Now look at something.

This is a.

This is really interesting.

I want you to see this.

The mother's response tells us a lot.

Now this, you know, this is.

This is something that had been, you know, done before, okay?

The.

The prophet would give the staff, the anointing, the rod of God to somebody else and says, you run fast, you run ahead and dispatch the power that I've given you in this stuff.

Okay?

But this was not how this woman was believing.

We started out today with what are we believing for?

Because we understand that what we believe for is very powerful.

We're going to receive according to what we believe and we can actually limit God with our own negative thoughts and understandings.

So she said Here in verse 30, the boy's mother said, as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave without you.

And he got up and followed her.

She was not believing for anything other than that prophet to come to her house and to lay on her child and for that child to be risen up.

That is how she set her heart to believe.

So even though he had dispatched his servant, even though that could have done the job, that was not how she was believing.

It was going to come to pass.

So where did she get this belief system from that it had to be the prophet that came to her house?

Why couldn't Gehazi, under the anointing of the been dispatched by the prophet?

Why couldn't it have been him?

Why couldn't have been that star had been enough?

Because she didn't set her faith like that.

You see, you know, this is all a pretty small area.

People didn't travel that far.

People would have had their expectations usually set by conversations or experiences, words, testimonies that they'd heard from other people.

And you know, there's another story that's very similar to this story in First Kings with the prophet Elijah.

Remember, Elisha was the mentee of the prophet Elijah.

And so, you know, there was another time that Elijah went and ministered to in a similar situation.

You know, this, this whole incident in Second Kings, chapter four, the.

The raising of the Shunammite son was follows immediately after the widow that Elisha went to visit, which he performed the miracle of the oil multiplying.

Remember that?

Well, if we go back in Second Kings, you think, well, where did they get these ideas from?

How are these people, how are these prophets led where they're mentored?

What did, what happened with their mentor?

And we see, if we read in, in First Kings chapter 17, they're very, very similar.

There's another widow and another prophet.

And you know, this is the widow this time, it's the widow of Zarephath.

And the, and you know, the brook had dried up.

And so the, the word of the Lord came to him saying, go and Zarephath to this, to this widow.

And you know, she's gathering sticks to make a.

The last meal.

And you know she's going to minister to you.

And so he goes to this woman, and she has the last amount of meal and the last amount of oil, and he performs this miracle for her.

And there's a miracle of multiplication.

And the barrel of milk doesn't run out, and the oil doesn't run dry.

There's supernatural multiplication, just like there was supernatural multiplication of oil in Second Kings, chapter four with Elisha.

This very similar circumstance happened with Elijah, his mentor.

Well, later on, right after that, in verse 17, I mean, 2nd Kings 17, verse 17.

Later on, the son of the woman of the mistress of the house.

Does this sound familiar?

Became terribly sick, so much so that he had no breath left in him.

And she said to Elijah, what do I have to do with you, O man of God?

Have you come to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?

This, you know, this promise that you gave me, this promise that I'd seen, you know, it looks like it's been taken away from me.

Am I going to go and be disappointed?

Very similar conversation, very similar circumstance.

And he said to her, give me your son.

And so he.

He took him out of her arms again, Similar age, child.

He took him out of her arms, carried him to a loft where he slept, laid him on his own bed, cried to the Lord and, and, and stretched himself upon the child three times and said, oh, Lord, my God, I pray that you let this child's soul come back into him again.

And the voice, the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again.

And he was revived.

Elijah took the child, brought him down out of the chamber of the house and returned him to his mother.

And Elijah said, see your son lives.

So that woman saw that prophet take the child lame on the bed, lay on top of him, pray, and life came back in, saw him handing back that child to her.

And this Woman said to Elijah, now, because of this, because of all this went on, I know that you are a man of God and the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.

Can you imagine how that tale went around?

Can you imagine how those.

Those stories were passed on from Elijah to Elisha?

You know, one time there was this woman, and she was a widow.

And the Lord sent me there, and there was a miracle that happened, a multiplication.

But then she had a son that was sick and he died.

And so.

Yes, what did you do?

Well, I laid on him and I spoke, you know, and I prayed over him, and his soul came back into his body and I handed him back to the mother.

Can you imagine Elisha hearing this?

Well, I wonder, you know, in this time, remember, if this might have been one of the stories.

Remember, Elisha passed through this woman's house, the Shunammites woman's house, many times.

So many times that they made a little guest room for him.

I wonder how many times he told her the stories of the prophet of old, of the prophet of Elijah.

And then one day, she finds herself to be that woman.

She finds herself to be that woman where this time is her son that was sick.

It's her son that was promised.

It's her.

Her promise that was ripped away.

And she remembers that widow of old.

She remembers the story of the widow of Zarephath.

And she thinks to herself, well, you know what, Elisha, he just multiplied that.

That woman's oil.

This is the same kind of thing.

So in her heart she sets an expectation.

And her expectation is, if that prophet comes to my house and he like.

And, you know, and he lays on.

And he lays on my child, that's when my child is going to come back to life.

That's why she could so confidently say it is.

Well, if it happened for her, it's going to happen for me.

If it happened for her son, it's going to happen for my son.

There was a.

There was something on the inside of her that said, this promise was given to me by the Lord and by.

And no one is going to take this from me.

No sickness is going to take my child.

This is not how this story ends.

And she would not get.

She's not going to settle for Gehazi, the servant being dispatched with a stone staff to lay it on the face of her son.

No, her faith was already set.

Prophet, you're coming to my house.

You're coming to me, right?

She'd already decided how she was believing.

So Gehazi passed ahead Laid the staff on the face of the boy.

I'm back in Second Kings, by the way.

I thought you might like that backstory, he says.

And he, he.

He laid the face.

The staff on the face of the boy.

But there was no sound or no response.

So he returned to meet him and told him, you know what, the boy is not awake.

He ran all the way back.

This servant's doing a lot of running.

When Elisha came into the house, he saw that the boy was dead, lying on his bed.

But look, something happened here, he says.

He went in and he shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord.

This is so significant.

I don't have time to unpack this.

But, you know, this is the same.

This is the same piece of information.

This is the same action that he performed when he multiplied the oil in the oil jars right before he met this woman and, and, and.

And spoke her son into being.

He went, he said to the woman, go into your house.

Gather vessels.

Don't gather a few, gather a lot of you and start pouring out the oil.

And she shut the door.

Shut the door.

Something very significant happens when we shut the door to the things of this world.

So many times we're so influenced, we're so connected, right?

We live in a.

We look in the artificial intelligence age now, where everything is instantaneous and connected.

But, you know, we.

Sometimes we're so connected with the things that are going on around us, we're not connected to the one that can really help us.

We need to be connected to our life source.

And in order to do that, sometimes we got to shut the door.

We've got to turn off the tv, we've got to stop the noise.

We got.

We got to put the cell phone down, right?

We've got to be careful about what we hear, because otherwise the word gets stolen by the cares of this world.

The deceitfulness of riches, the lust of other things.

You know, we receive the word with gladness, but Satan comes quickly to steal it from us.

We got to shut the door on some things.

We got to sometimes limit the influences, the things, the voices that we listen to and the reports that we put value on.

Sometimes we just got to get more selective with what we're hearing, right?

And shut the door.

This was significant.

He shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord and he went up and he laid on the child and put his face on his face and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands.

And then he bent over the Child.

And the child's flesh warmed, and he got down, walked once back and forth in the house, went up, bent over him.

The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

Then Elisha called Gehazi and said, call the Shunammite woman.

So he called her, and she came to him and he says, pick up your son.

And she came and fell at his feet, bowed down to the ground, and she picked up her son and went out.

She came and collected her living son.

Exactly how she believed was how she received.

And that's why I'm asking you the question today.

What are you believing for?

What are you believing for?

There's a few things in this story that the woman did, and I believe this.

These are here as almost like breadcrumbs for us to follow the trail, right?

First of all, you know, she says she shut.

When she heard that.

When she heard that report and she received that, that child in her arms that had passed away, she shut the door.

She placed her son on the bed and she shut the door on him.

She.

She cocooned him in that little bubble.

She left him to rest.

She shut the door.

But then another thing she does is she runs.

She runs to the Lord, the prophet.

She let the pain, the disappointment, the confusion drive her to the man of God, the Word of God, the life source, rather than away from it.

And then she said, you know, so she shuts, she runs and she says.

She says something very significant.

She says, it shall be.

Well, that's all that she would say.

She would only speak the desired end result.

She wouldn't confess the situation.

You know, it would have been really easy when that servant Gehazi came up to her to say, you know what?

It's not well.

It's flipping not well.

I've had a terrible day.

My son died, you know, I've had to.

To come all this way.

I'm so angry right now.

She could have confessed every emotion.

She would have been justified.

You know, this is a grieving woman.

She could have.

She could have been overcome in that moment with the circumstances, but she said, no, these.

These circumstances, they're temporary.

They're temporary.

That's what that was not what she was believing for.

A dead son was not what she was believing for, and it was not what she was going to settle for.

She ran to the word of God.

She held onto the promise, and out of her mouth would only come the desired end result.

Man, I wanna.

I. I really hope that inspires you today because we can receive today whatever we are believing for.

You know, we can, we can, we can make our hearts fertile to the word of God, make our hearts fertile ground so that when the word of God hits our hearts, it does nothing else but produce 30, 60, 100 times results.

We can, we can change out the way that we, that we hear, the way that we receive information to where we are very selective and we were only, we were only determined to receive the report of the Lord and nothing else.

You know, we had to do this when our, when our kids went through challenges, when they went through difficult things where we've had physical challenges and stuff ourselves.

There's been times where we've had to come back to what does the word say?

What is the report of the Lord?

You know, I remember one time when, you know, our kids were really, really small and we just moved new area and so we had to go for a checkup at the doctors and, you know, register with the healthcare in our town.

And when I went to the doctors, they did the blood sample and the urine sample and that kind of stuff and the test came back and they said, oh, the doctor called me and he says, you know, we're really concerned about your test results.

We think you've tested positive for type 1 diabetes.

I was in my, you know, mid-20s at this time with, you know, three year old toddlers and I'm like, I don't have time for that, I don't have time for that report, you know, but by this point I'd been, I'd just been healed of a lot of different things.

And I was like, I don't know.

No, that's just not on my radar.

I'm not doing that.

You said I already had received a promise of healing.

I'd already received a promise.

I'm like, I'm not having that.

There was something on the inside of me that was just indignant.

I don't identify with that.

That is not, you're not going to steal my promise from me.

And so I said to the doctor, you know, well, I don't believe that report.

I don't believe it.

He said, what do you mean you don't believe it?

She's like, I don't believe it, I doubt it.

He says, well, I've got the paper here, I've got, I mean, I can prove to you you've got type 1 diabetes and you need to take, you need to take insulin, says, nope, I don't believe it.

So.

And we're a bit of a stalemate.

So I said, I think you should do the test Again, the test is this line test.

That test is bearing false witness.

This is.

All right, I'll do the test again.

So this time, he makes me go home and do a fasting glucose test where you have to starve yourself for 24 hours, whatever it is, and then not have anything.

And then first thing in the morning, you go in and you get your blood drawn and everything.

And I'm not an easy bleeder.

I mean, I don't.

My body does not want to give up my blood very easily, right?

So they're, like, trying to squeeze out, like, all these.

These tiny little drops of blood into all these, like, six different vials.

And at the end of that, I went home.

I'm like, man, I'm.

I'm done with this.

That was.

That was a trial in itself.

Well, the next day, they call me back into the doctor's surgery, and I go back in.

He says, look, the tests come back the same.

You've got type 1 diabetes.

You need to be on these.

These are all the insulin shots you need to take four times a day.

This is how your life's going to be.

You know, you can't do this.

You can't do that.

You can't eat this.

You can't do that.

I'm like, no, that test is lying.

I didn't have any symptoms in my body.

There was no symptoms in my body.

I mean, I'm tired.

Yeah, well, I've got three toddlers.

That's why I'm tired.

You know, I mean, it was just like, no, I don't believe that.

Sometimes we have to move away from some of the.

Some of the reports that we hear and measure them up to the word of God.

I had a promise of the Lord to stand on, and I wasn't about to receive something I did not put faith in.

So in the end, he repeated the test three times.

And then I remember he got really serious with me.

I sat down in his office, and this time he got up and he shut the door, and he pointed in my face, and he said to me, listen, young.

Young lady, if you were my daughter, I'd be very concerned about you.

If you were my.

My sister, I'd be very concerned about you right now.

If you were my wife, I'd be very concerned about you right now.

See, he was trying to hammer home all of the responsibilities that I had that.

That I would be negligent of if I didn't follow his report.

But I knew.

I knew on the inside of me that this was a report straight from the pit of hell.

This was not the report of the Lord.

This was not who I was.

This was not the future that God had for me.

Something on the inside of me rose up.

He might have shut the door, but he couldn't shut my mouth.

And out of my mouth came.

Came something very polite, but very firm.

Then we have a very much a difference of opinion.

And so I got up and I walked out and I. I didn't see that doctor ever again.

He wouldn't actually have me as one of his patients anymore.

But you know what?

I never had any symptoms of diabetes.

I never had any symptoms of type 1 diabetes.

But that wasn't what the report of the doctor came to say, that none of those tests ever came back and said anything other than I was diabetic and I needed to take insulin four times a day.

But, you know, there's something, you know, you have the Holy Spirit, you have an inner witness that either bears witness with something as truth or, or it says that's a lie.

You know, we can trust that inner witness of the Holy Spirit that rises up at times like that and says, no, there is no evidence for this.

I have another report and I believe that I received in that moment exactly what I was believing for.

And that was a bill of.

That was a clean bill of health.

And, you know, that was over 20 years ago today.

And I've never needed to take insulin.

I've never.

I've never walked in that type 1 diabetic.

Diagnosis.

It didn't belong to me.

You know, we can.

We can stand on the word of God.

His word will not return.

Void.

You have a promise today.

You have a promise today that if you want, just don't let go of it.

Don't let go of it.

It belongs to you.

Amen.

It's yours.

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