Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD: ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.'”
2 Kings 7:1
When Elisha prophesied, ‘tomorrow about this time’, he was addressing a national crisis in Samaria. As a result of their enemy’s siege against their city, Samaria’s economy had totally collapsed resulting in a complete breakdown of social order. The situation had degenerated to unimaginable desperation and grossness as mothers ate the flesh of their infant children.2 Kings 7:1
Within the context of such desperation, Elisha prophesied a complete reversal of fortunes for the city and an unbelievable supply and overflow of commodities. This turnabout was not going to take place based on a new, ‘economic readjustment programme’ but on ‘thus says the Lord’. It was not going to happen through a ‘five-year development plan’ but ‘tomorrow about this time’ – in the next twenty four hours. Generally, God works with the natural laws of life which require periods of gestation before birth. Other times, He makes a radical intervention in the natural sequence of events and completely overturns the system.
True to the words of the prophet, the national economy was transformed overnight and the price structure he had spoken about became a reality. Elisha showed us that, ‘thus says the Lord’ overrides what every other person says and predicts about us.
The God of Elisha is also our God today and He does still work miracles. God will work a miracle in your life today!
