Sermon Notes: Making Room - Part One                                                                   Luke 2:1-7 NKJV

“Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. 6 So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a [manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

Elisha and the Woman from Shunem

2 Kings 4:8-17 NLT

One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged (constrained) him to come to her home for a meal. After that, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for something to eat.

9 She said to her husband, “I am sure this man who stops in from time to time is a holy man of God. 10 Let’s build a small room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever he comes by.”

11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to this upper room to rest. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the woman from Shunem I want to speak to her.” When she appeared,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 to the commander of the army?’”

“No,” she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”

14 Later Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can we do for her?”

Gehazi replied, “She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is an old man.”

15 “Call her back again,” Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, 16 “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”

“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”

17 But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.

1. She recognized.

Vs 9 – “I perceive”

2. She urged/constrained.

Vs 8 “she urged (constrained) him to come to her home for a meal”

3. She made room at the high place of her home.

Vs 10 – “upper room”

4. She furnished with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp.

Vs 12 “and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp”

5. She received the desire of her heart.

“Her son, the restoration of her son, and her land.”

“When we make room for Him, we make room for the Divine desires of our heart.”

Psalm 37: 4:

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”