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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God
before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for Women Life
(00:23):
in the Overflow. Today's teaching will explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his kingdom,
an usher in a new heir of glory. But before
we get started, we have a promotion exclusively for you.
Grab your free gift today. Just go to our channel,
the Converged Network and order your free resource, a manifesto
(00:46):
by Bishop Harry Jackson while supplies last. Now for today's
message from Apostle Michelle, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey everybody, so glad you're here. It's Michelle Jackson and
I am grateful that we are in this journey together,
this journey of faith, in this new year of twenty
twenty three. You know, the Lord really was impressing upon
me the necessity to have his perspective and his vision
for this new season that we're in, and so I'm
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grateful that we're to hear together on this spiritual journey. Today,
I'm going to be ministering on the continued theme of vision.
We're going to be looking at Second Kings Chapter five together,
the healing of Naman, and I'm going to be reading
out of the New Living Translation today, and so let's
look at the word of the Lord together. And I'm
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going to begin reading in verse one and we'll wrap
up about verse fourteen, and then we're just going to
unpack this and let the Lord speak to us through
scripture today. The King of Aram had great admiration for Naman,
the commander of his army, because through him, the Lord
had given aarm great victories. But though Naman was a
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mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy. At this time, Arami
and raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among
their captives was a young girl who had been given
to Nayman's wife as a maid. One day, the girl
said to her mistress, I wish my master would go
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to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him
of his leprosy. So Naman told the king what the
young girl from Israel had said, go and visit the prophet.
The King of Aram told him, I will send a
letter of introduction for you to take to the King
of Israel. So Naman started out, carrying as gifts seve
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one hundred and fifty pounds of silver, one hundred and
fifty pounds of gold, and ten sets of clothing. The
letter to the King of Israel said, with this letter,
I present my servant Naman. I want you to heal
him of his leprosy. When the King King of Israel
read the letter, he tore his clothes in dismay and said,
am I God that I can give life and take
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it away? Why is this man asking me to heal
someone with leprosy? I can see he is just trying
to pick a fight with me. But when Elisha, the
Man of God heard that heard that the King of
Israel had torn his clothes in dismay, he sent this
message to him, Why are you so upset? Send Naeman
to me and he will learn that there is a
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true prophet here in Israel. So Namon went with his
horses and chariots and waited at the door of Elisha's house.
But Elisha sends a messenger out to him with this message,
go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan river.
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Then your skin will be restored and you will be
healed of your leprosy. But Namon became very angry and stalked. Ay.
I thought he would certainly come out to meet me,
he said, I expected him to wave his hand over
the leprosy and call the name of the Lord his
God and heal me. Aren't the rivers of Damascus, the Abana,
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and the farpar better than any rivers in Israel? Why
shouldn't I wash in them and be healed. So Naman
turned and went into a rage. But his officers tried
to reason with him and said, Sir, if the prophet
told you to do something very difficult, wouldn't you have
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done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says,
simply go and wash and be cured. So Namon went
down to the Jordan river and dipped himself seven times
as the Man of God had instructed him, and his
skin became as healthy as the skin of a young child.
And he was healed Lord at a blessing to the
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reading of his Holy Word. And so today we're seeing Nayman,
who is a foreigner who is encountering the Lord's favor
and victory over the nation of Israel, God's covenant people,
and in that a pathway for his own personal restoration
comes and for him to know God for himself. You know,
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miracles are a gateway for us to encounter the nature
and character of God without a crisis, without life and
death circumstances, sometimes we would never know the nature of
God personally like we do when we are in the
midst of the midst of a crisis or the midst
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of a need for miracle. And so I love this story.
I love all the miracle stories of Elisia's ministry, but
in this particular story, there are just some dynamics that
are quite interesting to me as a student of the scriptures.
And one of the things that it stands out to
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me is just the perspective of men in authority. You know.
So the king said, Okay, I'm going to make this
possible you. I'm going to write a letter. And so
as they began to engage in the protocol, they had
a certain name and had a certain expectation of how
protocol was going to be received and handled, and even
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the King of Israel receiving the letter, taking responsibility for
something that he wasn't in position to do. But I
love that Elisha knew how to handle it, and God
gave him insight into how to bring the healing to
the warrior. Seven represents the number of completion or the
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ending of a cycle. God created the heavens and the earth,
and the earth that we see everything in it and
man and rested, and it was in seven days. So
a lot can happen in the cycle of seven. A
friend reached out, a sister in Christ reached out and
was like, oh, my goodness, twenty twenty three. All the
numbers add up to seven. And so for her, she's
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believing that the Lord is completing a thing in her
life and bringing things to the expected end. And even
in this story, it was on the seventh dipping in
the water, washing in the Jordan River that he would
be made whole. And so it's powerful to think about
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the process. I don't know if you've ever been to Israel,
if you've ever been on a tour, but I highly
recommend it. It is a bucket list trip, walking in
the places where Jesus walked, having a sense of the
rich history of the scriptures. The scriptures come alive in
a different way having been on that soil, and it's
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just it's a life changing trip. So if you've never
been to Israel, this is my plug and my commercial.
I'm not hosting a trip right now. I plan to
put a tour together in the future, but you should
definitely go to the Holy Land. It is. It's an
incredible spiritually rich, enriching experience. And so I've been twice,
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both on tours hosting people, and on the first one,
the Jordan River baptism was incredible. And so the second
time we went, it was wintertime and the Jordan River
was high, so they had barriers up and so you
could only get in. It's freezing cold, it's dirty, it's murky,
it's green. It's like it's like not a river that
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you think you would want to get in. And so
having been to the Jordan River and seen in it
fled stage and seen it in a time when we
could get in the water, I kind of understand namans
like perspective, it's like you want me to get in
this little nasty water, Like you want me to get
in this river right here, to receive my healing. How
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but the Jordan River carries such significance even in Israel's history.
It was that same river that they crossed over into
the promised land, right that the rivers were parted, and
they created a memorial. They gathered seven big boulder or
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twelve big boulders to begin to tell the story of
each tribe of how to their next generation, of how
they had had the Lord's hand deliver them. So this
is significant. This is significant place in terms of location
of healing. But it's also significant in that the Lord
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is telling him, go get in the river and wash
yourself and be made home. And so Namans expectation, as
Scripture tells us, is that the prophet would wave his hand,
he would speak a word, he would do what was
conventional in his mind of what a man of God
should do in order for him to access his healing.
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But Nayman's healing process, the process of him getting his miracle,
required him to partner in the process and then also
bring a process to completion, meaning his body was restored
after he dipped himself seven times, and so he had
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to do exactly as the Lord instructed him in order
to receive what God had already apportioned to him. And
I just believe in this season that you know, there
are people that are coming into our lives, maybe through
circumstances that are not the most favorable, but they're carrying
a message of healing, a message of restoration, a message
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that will allow us to have God's person affect of
Just like this Hebrew girl. Did you know she was
put in in his in her master's house and namean's
home to serve his wife. She was a captive, she
was a slave to them, She was there as a servant,
as a prisoner of war basically, right, and yet she
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began to serve them and want to see God's best
established for them. And so it was through her recommendation
that nayman Uh went to see Elisha. And that's powerful
because who would do that? Who? Who would who would
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go on the recommendation of you know, you were in
a skirmish, you took a a prisoner of war, you
took a captive young girl to serve you from the
from the enemy's camp, and now you're following up on
the recommendation, right, So this is such a unique type
of situation. And I just believe that we as a
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people have gotten this season have to be open to
the word of the Lord coming through the usual sources
but also the unusual places. In the prophetic movement, national
credible prophets have been releasing the word of the Lord,
and they've been sharing how God is going to anoint
and elevate voices that we haven't heard, that they are
(12:27):
going to be John the Baptist like voices that come
out of nowhere, that don't have pedigrees, that don't have degrees,
that don't have all the things that have been said
to make a quote quote professional minister. But yet they
are carrying the breaker annoying for this time. They're carrying
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the word of the Lord that needs to that is
needed to penetrate hearts and minds in this season to
shift where we are even in the church and to society.
And so this servant girl to me as representative of
that right an emerging voice that's coming from an unlikely place,
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and it's a and it's a voice of strength, it's
a voice of maturity, it's a voice she is a
voice of healing, she's a voice of direction and wisdom
for Namen. And so I want you to be considering, like,
who's that servant girl in my life in this in
this twenty twenty three year, who's that servant girl that
I would discount? But that is carrying the wisdom for
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my season, and that is that I need to follow
the recommendation of and see what God would do with that.
And so based upon his faith and then his willingness
to obey and do what had been asked of him,
he was restored. He almost missed out on his miracle, though,
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is powerful because it was a very humbling moment that
Elisha did not come out to him. See, because of protocol.
Nayman had brought all the gifts, the silver, the gold,
the clothing, all these things, and the letter from his king,
you know, the ambassadorial letter so that he would have
safe passage in the country. All these things had been
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done to prepare and when he got to the place
of his miracle, he was met with a messenger and
not a senior leadership person, and so he was offended,
he felt disregarded, and it really it was a humbling
moment where the Lord brought humility to him because all
he needed was the word of the Lord. He didn't
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need an audience. He needed to go and wash himself.
He needed to go and submit himself and to do
something that would cause the pride that was within him
as well as a leprosy to be healed and washed away.
And so his response was anger. You know, anger is
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a secondary emotion. Anger is always the product of another emotion.
And so sometimes, you know, when we get angry, when
we get frustrated about things. You know, one thing I've
learned over the years is to ask why that frustrated me?
Or ask why that, why that caused me to be angry,
because there's always something under that. And you know, if
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I use my holy ghost imagination today, I can see
that Naymon felt disregarded. He may have felt disrespected as
a man of a certain stature, even in that they
had been rating and they'd been successful in their military
attacks against Israel and being such a mighty warrior. He's like,
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don't you know who I am? I could like take
you out if I wanted to, But it was a
moment to expose also believe Namans weakness and need for
the miracle, and so he wanted to be healed. He
desperately wanted to be healed. And his officers were able
to reason with him and say, you know, hey, if
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it were difficult, if it were something that required herculean strength,
if it were something that required a great warrior man
to do, you would do it to prove to prove
your reputation, to prove that you were strong enough, big enough,
mighty enough, warlike enough to get it done. So just
go down and do what the guy told you to
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do and get your healing. And so we can be
like that. We can be like that. We can disregard
the people in our life that we wouldn't think have
the wisdom for us. But then also when we get
the answer to our issue, we can say, man, this
is so simple. I mean, could this really be God?
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And I just want to encourage you in this twenty
twenty three seas and not to disregard, but to just
obey the word. When the word comes, when the word,
when the wisdom from above comes, it's first peaceable, that's
first loving, and it's gentle, and it's kind to you
to go with the wisdom of heaven and the wisdom
of God that will bring total restoration and healing to
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his life, to your life. And so Naman walked away
from the Jordan River. You know, he walked away completely whole,
as in the side. As I was sharing with you
about being in Israel the last time at the Jordan River,
when I tell you that it was so cold, oh
my goodness, winter coats and January and Israel, and you know,
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the faith of the people though to be baptized in
like two inches of water was just so great in
the people that were on the trip, And we just
had such a life changing time right there at the
Jordan River or the place where Joshua those crossed over,
and we just were so full of faith about what
God was going to do, even in two endes of water.
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And so in thinking about that encounter at the Jordan
River personally and then reading the scripture today, it does
take faith to lay hold of your miracle. And right
now there are many of us who have things situations
and our businesses, our marriages, and in our personal life,
our inward life where we expected for things to get
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wrapped up tightened up in twenty twenty three, and the
Lord left a few things lingering from last year into
this year. And I just want to encourage you to
look for the voices in your life in this season
that are carrying God's wisdom and his direction, because He
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will speak to us through his word. He will speak
to us through our time of prayer and intimacy with him,
but He use other people to speak into our lives.
And we want to be open to the messengers God
is sending so that we don't miss our day of visitation,
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so we don't miss our healing, so that we don't
miss our turnaround. And so I want to pray with
you today that the Lord would continue to give you grace.
He gives grace to the humble, but he resists the proud.
And so I want to pray with you in this
season that as you transition and as you allow the
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Lord to anoint your eyes to see and your ears
to hear his direction and the seizing, that you will
have uncommon humility like never before, that you'll be able
to deal with the lowest of the low and the
highest of the high. That you won't be like naming,
angry and all that, but that you'll be able to
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hear the voices that God's assigned to you and for
you in this time, Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord,
we just we just thank you, Lord, because your wisdom
is peaceable and it brings a right correctness in our life.
It aligns us, it adjusts us. So Lord, we pray
Lord that you would teach us how to be humble
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in this season. Lord, we know that you give grace
to the humble, but you resist the proud. So Lord,
we pray in the name of Jesus, that you would
help us to walk in humility like never before. That
we would not be ones to dismiss someone we would
consider lowly that's carrying the word of healing in our life.
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Nor will we be put off by how people who
we feel like should respect us handle us. But that
will get all that You've purposed for us to receive
and walk in our turnaround and walk in our healing
as you reveal your glory even in this year. Father,
we love you, We bless you, and we thank you
for your word. Today in the name of Jesus, I
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pray and believe came in.
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Today on the Converged Network, Apostle Michelle Jackson will be
sharing God's heart with you through the Word of God
before she ministers to you. Apostle Michelle serves as Senior
Pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. She's the
founder of the Converged Network, which is home to Harry
Jackson Ministry's Hope Connection and her podcast for Women Life
(00:23):
in the Overflow. Today's teaching will explore how the Lord
is using people like you and me to build his kingdom,
an usher in a new heir of glory. But before
we get started, we have a promotion exclusively for you.
Grab your free gift today. Just go to our channel,
the Converged Network and order your free resource, a manifesto
(00:46):
by Bishop Harry Jackson while supplies last. Now for today's
message from Apostle Michelle, here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hey everybody, so glad you're here. It's Michelle Jackson and
I am grateful that we are in this journey together,
this journey of faith, in this new year of twenty
twenty three. You know, the Lord really was impressing upon
me the necessity to have his perspective and his vision
for this new season that we're in, and so I'm
(01:18):
grateful that we're to hear together on this spiritual journey. Today,
I'm going to be ministering on the continued theme of vision.
We're going to be looking at Second Kings Chapter five together,
the healing of Naman, and I'm going to be reading
out of the New Living Translation today, and so let's
look at the word of the Lord together. And I'm
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going to begin reading in verse one and we'll wrap
up about verse fourteen, and then we're just going to
unpack this and let the Lord speak to us through
scripture today. The King of Aram had great admiration for Naman,
the commander of his army, because through him, the Lord
had given aarm great victories. But though Naman was a
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mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy. At this time, Arami
and raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among
their captives was a young girl who had been given
to Nayman's wife as a maid. One day, the girl
said to her mistress, I wish my master would go
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to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him
of his leprosy. So Naman told the king what the
young girl from Israel had said, go and visit the prophet.
The King of Aram told him, I will send a
letter of introduction for you to take to the King
of Israel. So Naman started out, carrying as gifts seve
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one hundred and fifty pounds of silver, one hundred and
fifty pounds of gold, and ten sets of clothing. The
letter to the King of Israel said, with this letter,
I present my servant Naman. I want you to heal
him of his leprosy. When the King King of Israel
read the letter, he tore his clothes in dismay and said,
am I God that I can give life and take
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it away? Why is this man asking me to heal
someone with leprosy? I can see he is just trying
to pick a fight with me. But when Elisha, the
Man of God heard that heard that the King of
Israel had torn his clothes in dismay, he sent this
message to him, Why are you so upset? Send Naeman
to me and he will learn that there is a
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true prophet here in Israel. So Namon went with his
horses and chariots and waited at the door of Elisha's house.
But Elisha sends a messenger out to him with this message,
go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan river.
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Then your skin will be restored and you will be
healed of your leprosy. But Namon became very angry and stalked. Ay.
I thought he would certainly come out to meet me,
he said, I expected him to wave his hand over
the leprosy and call the name of the Lord his
God and heal me. Aren't the rivers of Damascus, the Abana,
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and the farpar better than any rivers in Israel? Why
shouldn't I wash in them and be healed. So Naman
turned and went into a rage. But his officers tried
to reason with him and said, Sir, if the prophet
told you to do something very difficult, wouldn't you have
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done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says,
simply go and wash and be cured. So Namon went
down to the Jordan river and dipped himself seven times
as the Man of God had instructed him, and his
skin became as healthy as the skin of a young child.
And he was healed Lord at a blessing to the
(05:02):
reading of his Holy Word. And so today we're seeing Nayman,
who is a foreigner who is encountering the Lord's favor
and victory over the nation of Israel, God's covenant people,
and in that a pathway for his own personal restoration
comes and for him to know God for himself. You know,
(05:25):
miracles are a gateway for us to encounter the nature
and character of God without a crisis, without life and
death circumstances, sometimes we would never know the nature of
God personally like we do when we are in the
midst of the midst of a crisis or the midst
(05:46):
of a need for miracle. And so I love this story.
I love all the miracle stories of Elisia's ministry, but
in this particular story, there are just some dynamics that
are quite interesting to me as a student of the scriptures.
And one of the things that it stands out to
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me is just the perspective of men in authority. You know.
So the king said, Okay, I'm going to make this
possible you. I'm going to write a letter. And so
as they began to engage in the protocol, they had
a certain name and had a certain expectation of how
protocol was going to be received and handled, and even
(06:28):
the King of Israel receiving the letter, taking responsibility for
something that he wasn't in position to do. But I
love that Elisha knew how to handle it, and God
gave him insight into how to bring the healing to
the warrior. Seven represents the number of completion or the
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ending of a cycle. God created the heavens and the earth,
and the earth that we see everything in it and
man and rested, and it was in seven days. So
a lot can happen in the cycle of seven. A
friend reached out, a sister in Christ reached out and
was like, oh, my goodness, twenty twenty three. All the
numbers add up to seven. And so for her, she's
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believing that the Lord is completing a thing in her
life and bringing things to the expected end. And even
in this story, it was on the seventh dipping in
the water, washing in the Jordan River that he would
be made whole. And so it's powerful to think about
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the process. I don't know if you've ever been to Israel,
if you've ever been on a tour, but I highly
recommend it. It is a bucket list trip, walking in
the places where Jesus walked, having a sense of the
rich history of the scriptures. The scriptures come alive in
a different way having been on that soil, and it's
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just it's a life changing trip. So if you've never
been to Israel, this is my plug and my commercial.
I'm not hosting a trip right now. I plan to
put a tour together in the future, but you should
definitely go to the Holy Land. It is. It's an
incredible spiritually rich, enriching experience. And so I've been twice,
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both on tours hosting people, and on the first one,
the Jordan River baptism was incredible. And so the second
time we went, it was wintertime and the Jordan River
was high, so they had barriers up and so you
could only get in. It's freezing cold, it's dirty, it's murky,
it's green. It's like it's like not a river that
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you think you would want to get in. And so
having been to the Jordan River and seen in it
fled stage and seen it in a time when we
could get in the water, I kind of understand namans
like perspective, it's like you want me to get in
this little nasty water, Like you want me to get
in this river right here, to receive my healing. How
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but the Jordan River carries such significance even in Israel's history.
It was that same river that they crossed over into
the promised land, right that the rivers were parted, and
they created a memorial. They gathered seven big boulder or
(09:31):
twelve big boulders to begin to tell the story of
each tribe of how to their next generation, of how
they had had the Lord's hand deliver them. So this
is significant. This is significant place in terms of location
of healing. But it's also significant in that the Lord
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is telling him, go get in the river and wash
yourself and be made home. And so Namans expectation, as
Scripture tells us, is that the prophet would wave his hand,
he would speak a word, he would do what was
conventional in his mind of what a man of God
should do in order for him to access his healing.
(10:13):
But Nayman's healing process, the process of him getting his miracle,
required him to partner in the process and then also
bring a process to completion, meaning his body was restored
after he dipped himself seven times, and so he had
(10:35):
to do exactly as the Lord instructed him in order
to receive what God had already apportioned to him. And
I just believe in this season that you know, there
are people that are coming into our lives, maybe through
circumstances that are not the most favorable, but they're carrying
a message of healing, a message of restoration, a message
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that will allow us to have God's person affect of
Just like this Hebrew girl. Did you know she was
put in in his in her master's house and namean's
home to serve his wife. She was a captive, she
was a slave to them, She was there as a servant,
as a prisoner of war basically, right, and yet she
(11:20):
began to serve them and want to see God's best
established for them. And so it was through her recommendation
that nayman Uh went to see Elisha. And that's powerful
because who would do that? Who? Who would who would
(11:41):
go on the recommendation of you know, you were in
a skirmish, you took a a prisoner of war, you
took a captive young girl to serve you from the
from the enemy's camp, and now you're following up on
the recommendation, right, So this is such a unique type
of situation. And I just believe that we as a
(12:04):
people have gotten this season have to be open to
the word of the Lord coming through the usual sources
but also the unusual places. In the prophetic movement, national
credible prophets have been releasing the word of the Lord,
and they've been sharing how God is going to anoint
and elevate voices that we haven't heard, that they are
(12:27):
going to be John the Baptist like voices that come
out of nowhere, that don't have pedigrees, that don't have degrees,
that don't have all the things that have been said
to make a quote quote professional minister. But yet they
are carrying the breaker annoying for this time. They're carrying
(12:50):
the word of the Lord that needs to that is
needed to penetrate hearts and minds in this season to
shift where we are even in the church and to society.
And so this servant girl to me as representative of
that right an emerging voice that's coming from an unlikely place,
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and it's a and it's a voice of strength, it's
a voice of maturity, it's a voice she is a
voice of healing, she's a voice of direction and wisdom
for Namen. And so I want you to be considering, like,
who's that servant girl in my life in this in
this twenty twenty three year, who's that servant girl that
I would discount? But that is carrying the wisdom for
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my season, and that is that I need to follow
the recommendation of and see what God would do with that.
And so based upon his faith and then his willingness
to obey and do what had been asked of him,
he was restored. He almost missed out on his miracle, though,
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is powerful because it was a very humbling moment that
Elisha did not come out to him. See, because of protocol.
Nayman had brought all the gifts, the silver, the gold,
the clothing, all these things, and the letter from his king,
you know, the ambassadorial letter so that he would have
safe passage in the country. All these things had been
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done to prepare and when he got to the place
of his miracle, he was met with a messenger and
not a senior leadership person, and so he was offended,
he felt disregarded, and it really it was a humbling
moment where the Lord brought humility to him because all
he needed was the word of the Lord. He didn't
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need an audience. He needed to go and wash himself.
He needed to go and submit himself and to do
something that would cause the pride that was within him
as well as a leprosy to be healed and washed away.
And so his response was anger. You know, anger is
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a secondary emotion. Anger is always the product of another emotion.
And so sometimes, you know, when we get angry, when
we get frustrated about things. You know, one thing I've
learned over the years is to ask why that frustrated me?
Or ask why that, why that caused me to be angry,
because there's always something under that. And you know, if
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I use my holy ghost imagination today, I can see
that Naymon felt disregarded. He may have felt disrespected as
a man of a certain stature, even in that they
had been rating and they'd been successful in their military
attacks against Israel and being such a mighty warrior. He's like,
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don't you know who I am? I could like take
you out if I wanted to, But it was a
moment to expose also believe Namans weakness and need for
the miracle, and so he wanted to be healed. He
desperately wanted to be healed. And his officers were able
to reason with him and say, you know, hey, if
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it were difficult, if it were something that required herculean strength,
if it were something that required a great warrior man
to do, you would do it to prove to prove
your reputation, to prove that you were strong enough, big enough,
mighty enough, warlike enough to get it done. So just
go down and do what the guy told you to
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do and get your healing. And so we can be
like that. We can be like that. We can disregard
the people in our life that we wouldn't think have
the wisdom for us. But then also when we get
the answer to our issue, we can say, man, this
is so simple. I mean, could this really be God?
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And I just want to encourage you in this twenty
twenty three seas and not to disregard, but to just
obey the word. When the word comes, when the word,
when the wisdom from above comes, it's first peaceable, that's
first loving, and it's gentle, and it's kind to you
to go with the wisdom of heaven and the wisdom
of God that will bring total restoration and healing to
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his life, to your life. And so Naman walked away
from the Jordan River. You know, he walked away completely whole,
as in the side. As I was sharing with you
about being in Israel the last time at the Jordan River,
when I tell you that it was so cold, oh
my goodness, winter coats and January and Israel, and you know,
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the faith of the people though to be baptized in
like two inches of water was just so great in
the people that were on the trip, And we just
had such a life changing time right there at the
Jordan River or the place where Joshua those crossed over,
and we just were so full of faith about what
God was going to do, even in two endes of water.
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And so in thinking about that encounter at the Jordan
River personally and then reading the scripture today, it does
take faith to lay hold of your miracle. And right
now there are many of us who have things situations
and our businesses, our marriages, and in our personal life,
our inward life where we expected for things to get
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wrapped up tightened up in twenty twenty three, and the
Lord left a few things lingering from last year into
this year. And I just want to encourage you to
look for the voices in your life in this season
that are carrying God's wisdom and his direction, because He
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will speak to us through his word. He will speak
to us through our time of prayer and intimacy with him,
but He use other people to speak into our lives.
And we want to be open to the messengers God
is sending so that we don't miss our day of visitation,
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so we don't miss our healing, so that we don't
miss our turnaround. And so I want to pray with
you today that the Lord would continue to give you grace.
He gives grace to the humble, but he resists the proud.
And so I want to pray with you in this
season that as you transition and as you allow the
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Lord to anoint your eyes to see and your ears
to hear his direction and the seizing, that you will
have uncommon humility like never before, that you'll be able
to deal with the lowest of the low and the
highest of the high. That you won't be like naming,
angry and all that, but that you'll be able to
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hear the voices that God's assigned to you and for
you in this time, Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord,
we just we just thank you, Lord, because your wisdom
is peaceable and it brings a right correctness in our life.
It aligns us, it adjusts us. So Lord, we pray
Lord that you would teach us how to be humble
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in this season. Lord, we know that you give grace
to the humble, but you resist the proud. So Lord,
we pray in the name of Jesus, that you would
help us to walk in humility like never before. That
we would not be ones to dismiss someone we would
consider lowly that's carrying the word of healing in our life.
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Nor will we be put off by how people who
we feel like should respect us handle us. But that
will get all that You've purposed for us to receive
and walk in our turnaround and walk in our healing
as you reveal your glory even in this year. Father,
we love you, We bless you, and we thank you
for your word. Today in the name of Jesus, I
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pray and believe came in.
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