HERO | A Children's Book Connecting Jesus' Ministry To ElishaSample

A few days later I go with Saba into the market place to get some supplies for his sheep. Along the way, I hold his hand and say, “Saba, tell me another story about Elisha?”  
 
“Well, son,” he replies, “Do you remember when Elisha healed the Shunammite boy?” 

I look at him a bit puzzled, “Tuna what?” 
 
“No, No,” he laughs, “Shuna ... Shunammite.” 

“Oh, oh yes ... ” I answer, “Elisha blesses a woman so she can have a child and then when that child grows older he dies. Right?” 
 
“You are correct, Eli. The Shunammite woman had been very generous to Elisha, letting him stay with her to rest. When Elisha considered what he could do to repay her, he knew that she was without child so he blessed her. She birthed a boy. But when the boy grew older, something terrible happened out in the fields while he helped his father. They brought him to his mother, and he died in her lap. The woman was so sad that she ran to the house of Elisha as fast as she could with tears streaming down her cheeks, and she was met by Gehazi, the servant of Elisha. The woman called out to Elisha, ‘Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say do not deceive me?’ Elisha, seeing her pain, sent Gehazi with her with his staff and said to him, ‘Lay this staff on the face of the child, and he will be healed.’”

With his hand resting on my head, Saba continues, “He was not healed right away, but what happened next is even more amazing. Elisha heard that the boy had not been raised, and so he went to the boy’s home. Praying to the Lord, Elisha laid on the boy, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the child warmed up and came back to life, and then … ”