Kids Corner — Day 173

Three kings marched against Moab and ran out of water in the desert. Elisha said, "Make this valley full of ditches. You will see no wind or rain, yet the valley will fill with water," and in the morning the water came, and God gave them victory too. A poor widow cried to Elisha because a man she owed money wanted to take her two sons as slaves. All she had was one pot of oil. Elisha told her to borrow many empty jars, shut the door, and pour. The oil filled jar after jar until there were no more jars, and she sold the oil, paid her debt, and lived on the rest. A kind woman in Shunem made a little roof room for Elisha, with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. To thank her, Elisha promised her a son, though she had none, and within the year she held her baby boy. In Lystra, Paul told a man who had never walked, "Stand upright on your feet!" and he leaped up and walked. The crowds wrongly thought Paul and Barnabas were gods, but the apostles tore their clothes and said, "We are only men. Turn to the living God, who made the sky and the earth!" Later Paul was stoned and left for dead, yet he got up and kept preaching. Jesus opens a door of faith to all nations, and His servants keep going through every hardship.