1 Kings 17:23-24

The Message

^21-23 Three times he stretched himself out full-length on the boy, praying with all his might, “God, my God, put breath back into this boy’s body!” God listened to Elijah’s prayer and put breath back into his body—he was alive! Elijah picked the boy up, carried him downstairs from the loft, and gave him to his mother. “Here’s your son,” said Elijah, “alive!”

²⁴ The woman said to Elijah, “I see it all now—you are a holy man. When you speak, God speaks—a true word!”