Seeing Is Believing

Sermon Scripture:  2 Kings 6:8-23

1.  Determine to live and work within the foreknowledge of God. Verses 8-13

• God knows and works accordingly!
• Knowledge and determination are not the same thing!
• God reveals to Christians through the Bible the Truth we need to work within His will and foreknowledge. 

2.  Do nothing out of fear! Verses 14-16

• Develop Faith! We have the strongest army!
• Depend upon love! RELY on it!
• Draw strength from God through His Word!

3.  Open your eyes! See the true situation! Verse 17

• More for us than there are with them!
• Pray for God to open the eyes of others around you!
• You are surrounded! But those who have surrounded you are surrounded as well!

4.  Believers live by faith and God intercedes! Verses 18-21

• People of God are blessed with spiritual sight!
• Enemies of God are cursed with physical blindness at the prayer of Elisha!
• Enemies of God have their sight restored after being led captive by Elisha to Samaria! They arrive alive as the hostage of a single prophet in the capital city of their enemy.

5.  Grace ends the battle! Verses 22-23

• He spares their lives
• He feeds them a feast 
• He sends them home
• Life, fellowship, feasting, freedom!

So What?

• Work in God’s plan through a biblical lifestyle.
• Trust God and increase in faith.
• Pray for God to allow you to see Him at work around you.
• Share the grace of Jesus with the enemies of God!