2 Kings 7:6-7 God Did It!

 “For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives.” ‭‭II Kings‬ ‭7‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

a. For the LORD had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots… the noise of a great army: Israel was powerless against this besieging army, but God wasn’t powerless. He attacked the Syrian army simply by causing them to hear the noise of an army.

i. Perhaps God did this by putting the noise into the air; perhaps He simply created the perception of the noise in the minds of the Syrian soldiers. However God did it, it happened.

ii. The same God who struck one Syrian army so they could not see what was there now struck another Syrian army so that they heard things that were not there.

b. And left the camp intact: Everything was left behind, leaving the unlikely lepers to spoil the camp. As a result, the siege for Samaria was over – even though no one in the city knew it or enjoyed it.

i. “Everybody who went to bed that night felt that he was still in that horrible den where grim death seemed actually present in the skeleton forms of the hunger-bitten. They were as free as the harts of the wilderness had they known it: but their ignorance held them in vile durance [imprisonment].” (Spurgeon) (Guzik)

God Did It!

After retiring we decided to move and I had travelled back to my birth state to look at homes for sale. The trip was a bust after making an offer on a home and the seller and I couldn’t come to terms, so I walked away and drove back home. About a week later I received a phone call from my realtor telling me that the seller was willing to negotiate. We came to terms and purchased the property. We had planned on listing our home for sale and moving the following spring. It sold in 56 hours! God did it! He said move now! Friends from church purchased it, we didn’t know that they were looking and they didn’t know we were selling. It’s amazing how God works!

Has God done something in your life that you can say, God did it?

Blessings