Topic: Divine Surprises
Text: II Kings 1:1-9

God specializes in springing surprises. He is pleasantly unpredictable in His method. He does wondrous things and surprises His enemies in such a baffling manner that gets everyone confused.

A cursory study of the Scriptures reveals that one of the weapons of the Almighty is divine surprise. He does the unexpected in order to confuse the devil and his agents. Today’s devotional study centers on Elisha, the man who received the double portion of Elijah’s anointing. Elisha removed the curse of Jericho and decided to move on in his journey. All of a sudden, some children emerged from nowhere out of the city and began to deride him. Elisha cursed them in the name of the Lord and, before he finished speaking, two bears came out of the bush and killed forty-two of them. He was so highly anointed that it was dangerous to offend him. There was something special about Elisha’s baldhead.

The Almighty God played a trick on the devil in this regard. Samson lost his power when he lost his hair. This led Satan into thinking that a bald-headed man could not be powerful, particularly as Elijah was a very hairy man. II Kings 1:7-8 confirms this about Elijah; “And he said unto them, what manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, it is Elijah the Tishbite.” Elijah was such a hairy man that he was instantly recognized wherever he went. But Elisha was bald-headed.

This made Satan think that anyone who must have the power of God in him must be hairy, forgetting that the Lord that we serve does as He pleases in heaven. Psalms 115:3 says: “But our God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” The devil needs to think twice to be able to understand the way of the Lord.

The Lord can come in any form, and this means trouble for the enemy as he will always get confused, in Jesus name.

Memory Verse: Psalms 115:3 - “But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”