2 Kings 8:1-6 (ESV)
1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”
2 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3 And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”
5 And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”
6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”

You know the feeling you get when you’ve been through a lengthy battle that has no end in sight, you keep hoping and waiting for it to be over, but it drags on and, in the meantime, you look for people to speak on your behalf with those who you think or expect to help you, but nothing seems to work.
Psalm 118:89 says God’s word about you is already settled, including every case that is yet to arise. Imagine running around looking for someone to help you when an issue comes up, only to find out that the Lord has set it up that not only were you in the right place at the right time but that you had the highest authority in the land already aware of your case and willing help you.
There are people we expect to come to our help when we call them but for their own reasons they choose not to answer, for those who do, may not really have much to offer us, or they choose not to help us, but God promises to answer us even before we call Him and to hear us before we speak in Isaiah 65:24, that means all we need to do is to call on Him.
Amid life’s storms, God’s plans twins with His will to make life Somersworth smooth and easy for us. God brought famine to punish Israel’s sin but made plans to spare the Shunamite woman who had shown Elisha kindness in 4:3-37 by asking him to warn the woman of the impending seven years of lack.
The Lord sent Joseph ahead to Egypt to settle and save the Israelites when the time came in Psalm 105:16-25 for the plan of God that was settled from long ago.
The Shunammite woman’s case had been settled by the Lord from the beginning of her journey!
How many times have you walked into a room, and felt like they were talking about you, the look on their faces says you’re the topic of discussion, that feeling still wouldn’t come close to how the Shunammite woman felt when she walked into King Joram’s palace to appeal her case, only to discover that her case had already been presented to the king.
Our advocate, Jesus is always presenting our cases to the Lord, so, when we take the case to the Lord, it’s to find out it was already settled.
When she dwelt securely among her people in 4:13, she had no reason to be spoken for to the king; but there is nothing as certainty in life.
Things and people will fail us when we most depend on them, and those who we think we shall never need, become essential to our progress and settle the case.
Sometimes events, small in themselves, prove to be a puzzle piece to complete the whole picture, as in this woman’s case; for they made the king ready to believe Gehazi’s narrative when confirmed. It made him ready to settle her case speedily and completely.
Whatever case you have right now, be confident that the Lord has that “case settled” even before you get to present it to Him. Case settled!
Shalom