Just like the title says
As 2 Kings (31) says, it will be as it is said.
(2 Kings 13:14-25)
<The Prophecy of Elisha's Will and Death>
According to 2 Kings 2:9-11, Elisha persistently followed Elijah, who was about to ascend to heaven, and Elijah said to Elisha after crossing the Jordan River. “What would you like me to do for you?” Then Elisha said. “May the work of your Holy Spirit be doubled on me.” Then Elijah said, “You are looking for a difficult job. But if you see me taken away from you, it will be done to you, otherwise it will not be.”
After a while, Elijah was taken to heaven in a whirlwind. Then, as Elijah said, the work of the Holy Spirit on Elisha must be twice that of Elijah, but did it actually happen? Since the work of the Holy Spirit cannot be measured numerically, it is not possible to know precisely. However, in the Bible, Elijah's miracle occurs 7 times, but Elisha's miracle occurs 14 times, so it can be said that the work of the Holy Spirit was doubled. Among the 14 miracles of Elisha, 13 miracles occurred while he was alive, and the 14th miracle performed after Elisha's death is recorded in the text.
One day, when Elisha fell ill, King Joash of Israel came to visit and grieved. Elisha asked the king to bring a bow and arrows. Then he placed his hand on the king's hand and told him to open the eastern spear and shoot the arrow he had brought. Soon after, Elisha said. “This is the arrow of salvation for the LORD, the arrow of salvation against the Syrians, which the king will strike at Aphek to annihilate the Syrians” (verse 17).
And Elisha told him to pick up arrows and strike the ground. So when the king struck the ground with his arrows three times and stopped, Elisha was angry and said, “If the king had struck five or six times, he would have struck the Syrians to an end, but now the king will strike them only three times” (verse 19). Why was Elisha so angry? This is because they missed the great blessing that depended on the future of the nation by not responding positively when the prophetic word was given.
After that, Elisha died and buried him, and at the end of the year, a band of Moabite robbers came to the land (verse 20). Just when the merchants saw the band of thieves, they threw the body of the dead into Elisha's tomb, but when the body touched Elisha's bones, he was revived and stood up (verse 21). After all, after Elisha's death, the saying that the work of the Holy Spirit will be doubled through Elisha than through Elijah is fulfilled in a symbolic sense.
Furthermore, the prophecy of Elisha's will will come true. So Joash king of Israel took the city that his father Jehoahaz had taken from the hand of Ben-hadad king of Syria. Verses 24-25). In the end, Elisha's words to King Joash, "Strike the ground with an arrow!" before she died, were not a magical ritual, but a kind of action prophecy. The text teaches that God's word is fulfilled as it is through the scene where the prophecy is fulfilled as it is.
<You will do as you say>
The most important foundation in the life of faith is the belief that the Word is fulfilled. That faith becomes the faith that moves mountains. Why does the power of faith appear in the saints? Because there is the Word and the Holy Spirit in it. For the saints, the inner strength is greater than the outer strength. That inner strength is revealed through faith. That faith is not only given by grace, but also grows through training. If you continue to eat the Word and increase your faith that the Word will come true, the work of faith that moves mountains will appear.
It is especially important to speak many words of faith. The belief that “it will come true according to the word!” becomes the reality of “it will come true as you say!” It is unconditional and vain positivism to believe that “it will come true!” without the belief that “the word will come true!” and the obedience of “I will live by the word!” Living with obedience and believing that “whatever you say will come true!” is true faith. It will be as you say.
Jesus said: “If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up, and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, believing that what he says will come true, it will be done for him (Mark 11:23).” The word is this. “If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, believing that what he says will come true, it will be done for him.” After all, the word ‘faith’ appears once in this verse, but the word ‘speak’ appears three times. These words of Jesus show the importance of ‘words of faith’ well.
If it is a pity that prayers are not answered, first seriously check your own language. One's possessions, one's reality, and one's existence are often the result of what one has previously said in faith. Say “I can’t!” and the words will whip themselves around you. Therefore, never speak of failure and defeat. Further, be conscious of God, not of defeat and failure. Be conscious of the presence of such a great and powerful person within you, and by making it a habit to always confess your faith, become blessed spirits who prepare ahead of God's great work.