This Time I Won't Lose It
Bishop Floyd Nelson Jr.
Part of Second Chances—Succeeding After Failure
November 20, 2022

2 Kings 6:1-7 NLT

One day the group of prophets came to Elisha and told him, “As you can see, this place where we meet with you is too small. 2 Let’s go down to the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs. There we can build a new place for us to meet.”
“All right,” he told them, “go ahead.”
3 “Please come with us,” someone suggested.
“I will,” he said. 4 So he went with them.
When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees. 5 But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried. “It was a borrowed ax!”
6 “Where did it fall?” the man of God asked. When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot. Then the ax head floated to the surface. 7 “Grab it,” Elisha said. And the man reached out and grabbed it.

How do we get back what we’ve lost?

  1. for what you lost.


    2 Kings 6:5a
    But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried.

  2. that you lost it.


    2 Kings 6:5a
    But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried.

  3. what you lost.


    2 Kings 6:5b
    “It was a borrowed ax!”

  4. to where you lost it.


    2 Kings 6:6a
    “Where did it fall?” the man of God asked. When he showed him the place,

  5. yourself to seizing what you lost.


    2 Kings 6:6b-7
    Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot. Then the ax head floated to the surface. 7“Grab it,” Elisha said. And the man reached out and grabbed it.