Read the passage: 2 Kings 3
The man full of faith:
v.16 1. Hears and recognizes God’s instruction by its uniqueness.
(And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.)
v.16 2. Identifies with and responds to God’s unique instruction.
dug ditches
v.17 3. Does not require physical manifestations to have faith.
(For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that
valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye and your cattle, and
your beasts.)
v.17 4. Sees spiritually very clearly that which God promised.
(valley shall be filled with water)
v.17 5. Recognizes God’s work because of the impossibility of the work.
v.18 6. Aware that God may have more glory planned than just meeting his needs.
(And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord: He will deliver the Moabites
also into your hand.)
God’s meeting our needs often is a preparatory step to his gaining greater glory through our obedience and ministry.
v.25 7. Gloriously receives the manifestation of His divine presence.
(And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man
his stone, and filled it: and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the
good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof: howbeit the
singers went about it, and smote it.)
God was with them. They delighted in His presence and cooperated usefully in
His presentation of the message, “God is God”.
both to the Israelites and the Moabites.
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