Day 62- Spirit of Cooperation
📖Daily Reading
2 Kings 1-4
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📝 Reflection
2nd Kings 4:13
Elisha said to Gehazi, “‘Tell her, ‘We appreciate the kind concern you have shown us. What can we do for you? Can we put in a good word for you to the king or the command of the army?’”
The spirit of cooperation is alive an well in certain people, situations and circumstances. You can definitely tell that with Elisha. He went all in with God in a spirit of co-operating with him, and he had that spirit with him as he traveled and interacted with other people. They could sense this about him and interacted with him in the same spirit. Just beautiful! Did you know that our hearts have an electromagnetic radius of 3ft, we really can sense this in each other!
One of the hats I wear is as a Realtor. The spirit of cooperation is so essential that it is in our titles, we are called cooperating agents. We are to cooperate with each other as agents and also with our clients in their side of the transaction with a common goal of the house being sold and ownership transferring from seller to buyer. If you have ever bought or sold a home you understand that this is not always an easy thing, a lot can go wrong. If there are agents involved and they forget or lose their spirit of cooperation it can go really wrong really quick! We have to keep our clients bigger goal in mind. Sometimes, the deal needs to fall apart. It is in our clients best interest, if the spirit of cooperating with your client and for your client has left the building and an agent only gets focused on their paycheck that can also get people into lots of trouble really quickly. Cooperating while having common goals and while also having individual goals can be tricky to navigate and really does take discernment, maturity and a spirit of cooperation. Some might refer as a win-win.
There are so many other situations I can think of where a spirit of cooperation is essential, but also can so easily get off track: marriage, parenting, spiritual, work etc… There is not an area or aspect of life that doesn’t require the spirit of cooperation in some form or other. Many of us spend a lot of time resisting and ‘right’ fighting 🙋♀️. When we find our selves in this space it might be a good idea to take a deep breath, step back, and remember the bigger picture. Often the spirit of cooperation gets ‘lost in the weeds’, right?!
We can learn so much from Elisha. There are several examples in the first few chapters, but a couple that I want to focus on are the stories of a ‘poor widow’ and a ‘wealthy woman from Shunem’ found in chapter 4. In the story of ‘the poor widow’, he heard the cry of a poor widow of one of his fellow prophets cry out for help with creditors coming after her and her sons. Elisha cooperating with God and with her to help her. He asked her to participate in the helping of herself, by getting empty jars from neighbors. In order to get the jars, she had to have been a good neighbor, they were willing to cooperate with her and give her their jars. This was no small resource or favor to ask in those times. She filled the jars supernaturally as instructed by Elisha and then was able to sell the jars and make enough money to pay the creditor and then to live on.
In the story of ‘the wealthy woman of Shunem’, Elisha accepted an invitation to have a meal with the wealthy woman, she recognized him as a man of God. They developed a friendship to the extent that she built a room for him on her roof as a place for him to stay as he was passing through. In his gratitude and a spirit of cooperation he wanted to bless her with something. She had no children and her husband was old, so he blessed her with having a child of her own, even though she didn’t ask for anything. In fact, when she was asked if there was anything he could do for her as quoted in the scripture above, she said ‘no, my family takes good care of me’. She was so grateful for her son, but he became ill one day and died, she immediately when to see Elisha. He immediately recognized her approaching from a distance and sends his assistant running to meet her right way, this suggests a special friendship. She reminded him, you blessed me with my son even though I told you don’t do this if it is only going to get my hopes only to end up being a disappointment. She insisted that he personally return with her to bring her son back to life. They cooperated and traveled back together and he was able to bring her son back to life through prayer and spending time cooperating with the Lord and hovering over the boy’s body, literally warming the child’s lifeless body with his own.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
If you are in a struggle right now. Ask yourself and pray to God for discernment in your situation. Is there an area of life, a situation or a person where you could invite the spirit of cooperation into and experience improvement, benefit and alignment? Often there is a common good we can all be working towards that will also benefit us individually.
📖Tomorrows Reading
2 Kings 5-7
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