June 10, 2025 • 45 mins
Everyone wants to be healed of something. What is the secret to getting healed? Does God really respond when we ask to be healed? The answer might surprise you. Kristi Kennell of Brookville House of Worship talks about the secret behind the healing in 2 Kings 5. It is not the action, but the connection of the action with the Word of God. Listen in to get wisdom and understanding of what lies between you and your healing.
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It's time to get started. I am Christy Kennell of
the Brookville House of Worship, and I am glad that
you are listening in today. Thank you so much for
coming to this podcast and for diving into the Bible
with me. I hope you have yours open. I am
in Second Kings chapter five, God wants you to be healed.
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And I was reading Second Kings five and God gave
me a secret and I'm going to share it with you. Today.
So healing is a process. God moves in mysterious ways.
God moves in different ways. And this is just one
of the stories, and it's an exciting story. It's about
a commander, a captive, and a prophet and what are
they have in common. You're about to find out it's
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a debilitative disease that one of them has. So, starting
in verse one second, Kings five, king of Aram, had
great admiration for Nayman, who was the commander of his army.
And it was the reason there through Nayman, the Lord
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had given King Aram great victories. So Naaman already had
the favor of God on him. He was a successful
commander of an army of a great kingdom. And the
Armenian raiders invaded Israel. They grabbed a young Israelite as
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part of their you know, their group of captives that
they took. She was young, She's an Israelite girl. They
just took her. And then we see her as we
go through this story. She's now serving as a captive
in this commander Naeman's house. She is the servant of
his wife. So here she is. And what I see here,
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what God shows me is the difference between the fruits
of Yahweh's Holy spirit and doing things of the flesh.
And I know that as Christianese, that's that's our lingo.
That's how the Bible speaks about being in the flesh.
And basically that's just moving in our own abilities, thinking
about ourselves in a situation instead of depending on Yahweh God.
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And Yahweh God, he's the Christian of the Israelites, Christian
believers of this world. We worship him as the one
true Living God, and he is. He's real, and the
closer that you get to him, the more you realize that.
The closer I get to him, the more I realize
how he operates in love and justice and healing is
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part of what he does because he loves his creation.
He created us, and he loves us. And we're about
to see that. Because it doesn't make any mention that
Naemen was a child of God at this point, that
he believed in God or worshiped Yahweh God. It just
says that the Lord had given him favor and he
was winning great victories for his king, the King of Arim.
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So he's already got the favor of God on him,
and that is we moved down. He's leading the armies
of Aram, and they go in and they grab captives.
In Israel, they take captives, and one of the captives
is a little girl and a young girl. And now
she's serving in his house, the very person who is
in charge of getting her caught and taken away from
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her family and her home, her homeland Israel, And here
she is. So what is the difference between the fruits
of You always, Holy Spirit and somebody being obedient to
that and doing things in acts of the flesh. Well,
let's look at this captive. Okay, she hears about namin
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Naman contracts leprosy, and leprosy can be debilitating. It works
on your nervous system. You can become paralyzed, you can
be in pain, you get source on your feet, your
body can deform. He is the commander of a great army,
a successful army, and he has leprosy. What's he supposed
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to do with that? And here's this Israelite girl who
could have kept her mouth shut. She could have settle
good for him. Maybe he'll die, maybe I'll get to
go home. But no, no, what we see is what
the scripture says. She reaches out to the lady who
commands her the mistress of the house, this commander's wife.
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She's serving there as captive, and the Bible says that
she says, I wish my master, this is verse three.
I wish my master would go to see the prophet
in Samaria. And this is her faith he would heal
Naeman of his leprosy. So Naming gets word of this
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more than likely from his wife, because that's how the
story is unfolding. He goes to the king and he
tells the king, Hey, there's this prophet in Samaria. It's
a prophet of the Lord God Yahweh, and I need
to go there. He can heal me of leprosy. So
here is kind of a clue to Naeman's worth and
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his value to the king. The king gives him a
letter to present to the King of Israel to let
him in, and also gifts. I mean, they had they
had just taken captives from Israel, and now he's coming
with a letter leprosy and gifts to the King of Israel.
What did Naemon think of himself? He knew his value,
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So he brings seven hundred and fifty pounds of silver,
one hundred and fifty pounds of gold and ten sets
of clothing. And then the letter says, with this letter,
I present my servant Naemen, I want you to heal
him of his leprosy. Period as a quote, that's a
quote from verse six in Second King's Chapter five. So
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now the King of Aram is commanding the King of Israel,
let my head commander in. He's got leprosy. You have
a prophet that serves Yahweh God, who can heal him.
So if he's a prophet of God, then Name is
coming over to get healed. I need this guy. We've
been successful, we've had great victories, and he's he's God
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has given him favor and we're winning, and so I
need I just need him healed. So that's what the
letter says. With this letter, I present my servant Name,
and I want you to heal him of his leprosy.
And the King of Israel kind of freaks out, you know.
He here he is with this letter in his hand
and all this silver and all this gold in these clothes,
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and he's the actual commander of the man who rated
his kingdom, and here he stands with this contagious plague.
He's supposed to be in social isolation. According to Israel's laws,
the priest would have put him in isolation for this.
And he's standing there at the door with a letter
in his hand, walking around freely in the kingdom unclean
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and verse am I God, the King of Israel says
that I can give life and take it away. And
then he accused the King of Arim of picking a fight?
What is he picking a fight with me? So then
Elijah hears, and Elijah's in relationship with God. Some people
pronounce it Alicia. It's the one that spelled e l
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i s ha or. In verse eight, he has a
godly reaction because he has a relationship with Almighty God Yahweh.
And he has seen healings done through his anointing in
his hands. How God moves, how God's spirit moves upon
him and gives him words of knowledge, and he knows
things about people, and he hears the word of God,
and he goes and tells people the word of God.
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King of Israel counts on him. And he sends a
message to Israel's king, why are you so upset? Send
Naem into me? I hear from God. He's saying, you know,
Naemen will learn there is a true prophet in Israel.
So in other words, you know, let's teach Nay. I'm
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in a lesson about truth. Here. He can go king
all he wants, he can command all he wants, but
it's out of his control. Right now. He has leprosy,
and now he's coming and looking for a cure. So
send unto me and he will learn there's a true
prophet in Israel. That's the difference when you're walking in
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relationship with God, of following what God's spirit tells us
to do and walking in truth. So Naman shows up,
shows up with all his fan fairies, guys, horses, his chariots,
guy's officers with them, and now he stands there at
Elijah's house in all of this imagery of high military honor.
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But he's got a disease that's supposedly incurable, and the
only way to cure it is to seek somebody who
can cure it. And I believe he is a commander
of the army. He's he has had his people, he
has researched who Elijah is and what Elijah's can do.
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It's been witnessed, it's been documented. And here he's knocking
at the door, and he's expecting a lot, because that's
what commanders do. I say it, you do it, We win.
This is how it works. So it's interesting to him
that Elijah didn't bother to rise to Naeman's level of showmanship.
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He looks out and sees all the fanfare, and he's like, yeah, okay,
well there's another human being. He's built himself up, and
in a way, he kind of had a right to
He's earned it. He's earned some stuff. He's got some
amazing abilities. But Elijah doesn't. He doesn't idolize Naman. He
idolizes as God and God alone in the tak Commandments, says,
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don't put other guys before me. Elijah didn't do that.
Naman isn't going to be idolized. Naman likes to be atalyzed.
So Elijah sends a messenger out to Namen with a message.
Elijah doesn't even bother to run out there and say, wow,
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so you're here, you're not attacking us. We have the advantage,
and look at you, Look at all your stuff. You're
an actual commander of armies that win battles. Wow, now
none of that. He sends a messenger out, Hey, go
tell Naem and this guy out here with the one
with a leprosy, here's what you're going to tell him.
Go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. In
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other words, a Naeman, go do it yourself, clean yourself.
This is the word of God. This is what God
is commanding you to do. Commander, go wash yourself seven
times in the Jordan River, and then you'll be clean,
you'll be cured. So here Stan's Naeman staring down at
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this messenger and he's not even talking to the head
hanscho that traveling prophet with all the power. Supposedly that's
what he's heard. So he gets angry, and it says
he stalks away. But let's remember the Jordan River. Some
of the things that we know. Elijah and Elijah both
split it with an anointed mantle. Joshua, the priest of
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the tribes of Israel, stepped into it with the ark
of God and split it. So the Jordan River has
been touched by the spirit of God. They walk through
with the Ark of the Covenant on dry land. God's
presence was there at one point. So Nayman must not
have realized that the Jordan River was so blessed. I
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mean later on Jesus himself, the Messiah, the Christ, you know,
in one the Son of God was baptized there by
John the Baptist in the Jordan river. And yet nay Amen,
and he's angry, and he's stalk away, and we talk
about the battlefield of the mind. We get thoughts, and
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we can choose our thoughts whether we're going to follow
that thought or reject that thought. And what he says
in verse eleven, Naman says, I thought he would certainly
come out to meet me. So he's speaking, I'm certain
that Elijah would come out and meet me. Of course
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I am, Nammon, I'm the commander of successful armies over there,
for the king of Aram. In his mind, he so
built himself up just because he had the abilities to
do such great things. How could Elijah not come out
to meet me. I'm so great, you know. So he's saying,
I thought he would certainly come out to meet me
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and wave his hand and I'll be healed. And besides
that Damascus, which Aram is Siria, and that Damascus was
the capital Syria. Damascus has the best rivers. Why would
I go to the Jordan. That's ridiculous to him, you know,
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and if you step back and you look at it,
he's putting his faith in the man of God and
he wants recognition for the image that he puts forth
as a successful commander of a king's army. He's used
to being in control, nayman. He's used to commanding people
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and having them follow through just as he commands. As
I say it, you will do it. You will do
it right away, you will do what I expect. So,
you know, he has expectations and things need to be
done according to his expectations, and he's used to having
others do the actions for him. He comes up with
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the ideas and they put it into action, and they don't.
They don't say no, they say yes, and they run
and they do it. This is the commander of an army.
You don't say no to him. You do it, and
you do it his way. So he's used to success.
He's used to conquering other people. He's used to taking
what he wants and getting rewarded for it. He has
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high expectations. He's received a lot of awards. He thinks
he's great and he knows what he's capable of. And
now he's saying, I expected this prophet to wave his
hand over the leprosy, and it's interesting to me. The
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next line, I believe this is verse eleven, to call
on the name of the Lord his God and to
heal me. I expected him to wave his hand over
the leprosy, to call on the name of the Lord
his God, and to heal me. And it sounds powerful.
Oh yeah, the New Testament's all about that. Jesus said
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that call on my name, Call the name of Jesus,
and you'll be saved. Call the name of Jesus and
you'll be healed. Jesus the Christ, Simsidah, the anointed One.
But if we really step back again, his faith is
clearly in Elijah's actions, in Elijah's reputation because his commander,
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I'm sure he's looked that up. It doesn't tell us,
But why wouldn't he if he's not gonna waste his
time going to his king, getting the letter, getting the gifts,
making the trip, especially when he's ill, if he doesn't
know who this guy is, and if he's not sure
of how this guy did it, how he healed people,
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and if he indeed healed people, so he knows, but
his faith. His faith is clearly in Elijah's actions, in
Elijah's reputation, not in himself at this point, not in God,
but in what Elijah can do. Because when Elijah didn't
come out himself, when Elijah didn't wave his hand over
it and say, in the name of Yahweh God, le
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me see be healed, name him and be healed, he
got mad. E just sent this messenger, Hey, go dip in,
Go dip in the Jordan seven times and you'll be fine.
It didn't meet his expectations. His faith is in the
wrong place. Are we following this together? He analyzed the
instructions of the prophet. He wasn't relying on the man
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of God to offer for this messenger to relay this message,
and for him to go himself, by his own actions,
walk into this Jordan river in front of all of
his officers, the people of Israel he had just taken
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captives from. He's just gonna wander down to the river,
a sick, very sick man and just dip seven times
in this river. How does that make logical sense? He's
gonna look crazy, and why would he listen to a
messenger he was used to commanding and talking with people
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who were on his level or just beneath him that
he was in charge of. He's doing this because some
messengers said to do it, and the man himself did
not come out, wave his hand all over on a
AaB healed and send him on his way. So what
does he do with this? So he constructs a plan
and others follow through, and he wasn't giving Elijah the
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freedom to do it Elijah's way. He wanted to come
in and control the situation according to his authority and plan,
and Elijah was doing it according to God's authority and plan.
The word of God said give him this message, go
dip in the river and you'll be healed, and do
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it seven times. So he was nahem and was expecting
it to happen the way that he pictured it. He
was in a desperate situation, and I imagine he was
in isolation of sorts and he's covered, you know, with
these got these sores. You can clearly see he has it.
And now he finds himself having to trust not only
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the word of God, but a word of God that
came through a different messenger, and that's coming to him
in a different way. Than what he had researched and
understood what happened. This makes this commander, this successful person,
commander of great armies, who had the favor of God
to win these battles, even though he wasn't trusting God
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at the time. It makes him very vulnerable. He was
not in his own territory. He was going to climb
down into a river and make himself very vulnerable to attack,
to being mocked by this prophet. What if this was
a practical joke. What if the messenger didn't even speak
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to Elijah. What if they came out to make fun
of him and he has to take the step in
and he has to follow through with it, and he
has to take a chance on all of that. He
wanted to go home to his territory and get into
Damascus river. Oh, if this river's going to cure it,
I'll go home where I'm surrounded by people who respect me,
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where I know if they're saying to do it that
is true. And I'm not just gonna take some guy
at his word that I haven't researched or studied yet.
I don't know, I don't know. What do I do?
What do I do? And he's mad and he's stalking.
So in verse twelve, instead of obeying God's word through
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the prophet, Naam in turn and went away in rage.
So he was beyond angry. He wanted his own way.
He wasocused on himself. He couldn't do this himself, and
that's what threw him off. And he couldn't command his officers, hey,
come here and heal this leprosy. They weren't capable. So
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everything he had been doing his whole life, he couldn't
control the situation. There's nothing he could do but submit
to God's way. God will bring us to that place.
Once you choose him as your god. He will bring
you to a place where it's only you and him,
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and you have to choose his way or you turn
and you walk away. You have to choose or walk away.
You have to choose y'all way. It's the way it works.
He chooses you, you have to choose him. That's called obedience. Obedience.
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Say it one more time, obedience and listen. It's important
who you surround yourself with as you walk your walk.
This guy number one, the young Israelite captive servant, that
young girl that he took from Israel in spite of
what he made her do to be a servant to
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his own wife, took her out of her land, away
from her family. She went through with telling the mistress
she obeyed God rather than man. She put away everything,
put it all aside, and in love and compassion of God,
she went to the mistress and said, hey, I know
a prophet in my homeland that can heal him. That's love,
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that's the love of God. Because she could have been
angry and bitter, and she could have gone around repeating
to everybody, they did this to me, they did this
to me. I shouldn't be here. This isn't my home.
I don't want to serve anybody. I just want to
go home. But she didn't. She acted in the love
of God. She represented God well, and I'm sure God
rewarded her for that in heaven and also on this earth,
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even though the Bible doesn't tell us, that's just how
God operates. And then number two, his own wife relayed
the message to him. And on number three, he's got
this profit on board, and he's half obedient and he's
half opening hoping, he's thinking it over. And number four,
he has surrounded himself with mighty officers directly under him
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who were good officers. That's why he was winning. He
could trust them. They were on his side, they were
obedient to him, They did as he commanded, they obeyed
his expectations, and they followed through with his orders, and
they surrounded and supported him. So he has a great surrounding,
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supportive process here going on. So in verse thirteen, these
officers who were directly under him reasoned with him, and
they were comparing his desire to expect or to respond
to something very difficult over something very simple. So they
were saying, hey, if this prophet would have asked you
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to do something difficult, you would have done it. But
he's asking you to do something simple. Maybe you should
do it. And now he's perking up here. Now he's
starting to reason because he trusts them, and he's trusting
he's starting to trust this process. And they, his commanding
officers that were under him, said go Wash be cured.
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And I looked at that and I thought, you know,
they took out the details. They simplified the command to
their commander. They gave him two commands and a result.
And I'm looking at the new Living Translation version of
the Bible. It says, go wash, be cured. So this
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removed his arguments and his expectations. So now it was
no longer about the Jordan River. It wasn't about anything
but the fact that he was being told to go
and wash. So now it's his actions. He can't command
his officers to go wash so he can be healed.
He had to submit to this, He had to obey
it as it was presented, and his officers graciously put
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it down to the very very basics to him, just
taking out all the details of who said it, what
they said, where he was going. They just said it says,
go wash, be cured, and that spoke to him because
that's how he works, and God will do that too.
You know, he's removing the stuff that doesn't fit. He
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removes the stuff that gets in the way of him
being able to help us along the way into our
path for him into the right way to go to
leviate all this pain and agony and stress and disease
and the things that we've brought ourselves to in our disobedience.
And all he's asking is disobey. I know the best
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way I'm giving you, the best way your action is
to just obey obedience to God brings the correct results.
God needed Naeman to be obedient, to follow his command
and to do it his way, even if it meant
to become vulnerable enough to trust Yahweh God to climb
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into a river in a foreign land, in front of
his officers, in front of people, he invaded and dip
seven times according to a messenger that he had not
researched or met before or heard anything about. He was
counting on Elijah and Elijah waving the hand. Remember, so
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he was fighting off his flesh. At this point. God
was causing him to fight off normal way of doing things.
God is causing him to focus on something else besides himself.
God was causing him to focus on his word, God's word.
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Do you see that shift in focus? That is what
God wants because as he becomes lord of our life
and we turn it everything over to him to do
it his way, nothing stands in his way. So when
he performs, it's powerful and he wants to because he
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loves us so much. He wanted Nayamen healed. But he
can't serve alongside another God, whether it be us trusting
in ourselves as Lord of our lives or trusting in
some foreign God. We can't bring everything like that on
board and say, okay, God, you yoke up with this
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thing and serve me and do what you do. God
works alone, he has to. He cannot. He cannot tolerate sin.
He can't work alongside sin, and sin is everything that's
not him. That's why he wants his way. It is
not because he's God and it's his way or the highway.
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It's because he's God and he works in purity, purity
of love, purity of justice, purity of kindness and compassion.
He wants us to be his sons and daughters. He
wants us healed, he wants us delivered. He wants us
to do the reason why we're here, what we were
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born for. He wants us to have contentment and joy.
But we can't have it when we're trusting in everything
but Him, and He can't work with that. So we
absolutely have to lay it all down, and it's a
process to do that. It's hard to do that. But
as we can see, he brought name and to the
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point where that's all that was left. He led him there.
That's the grace of God. It's God giving us power
to do what he asks us to do. So not
only does he ask us to do it, but then
he gets down on our level and says, oh, by
the way, here's everything. You need to do it because
I love you and I want you. I choose you,
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choose me, and let's do this together. Because if I'm
Lord and I am God, I can do this in
a very pure way and it will happen for you.
But you have to trust me. That's faith is trusting
in what we cannot see, in doing what the Holy
Spirit tells us to do. And to do that, we
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have to get close enough to God to hear him
and to feel his voice, because it's not always out loud.
Sometimes it's just knowing. It's a knowing that we're doing
the right thing and that God has asked us to
do that right thing, even when it looks completely wrong.
We know, we know that, we know inside we can
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see a bigger picture coming about and Okay, this seems
very very wrong to me, but I know that God
has asked me to do it, and so I'm going
to do it. And then I see things unfolding. We
see it unfolding, like things start to happen that are
right and correct and everything start to align its powerful
and it's amazing. So here we see Naeman biting off
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his flesh by walking in faith in spite of himself,
and he's doing what didn't make any sense to him.
It didn't compare to any of his expectations. And he's
about to get healing from another commander, the great commander,
the commander of the Realm of Love, the commander of Heaven,
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the commander of Heaven's armies, is commanding him. And I think,
down deep inside he must be understanding that, because if
he is a common and he's successful at it, he
had to start to begin to understand God is commanding this.
And if I just say immediately yes and I obey
and I do it, this is going to come out successful.
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He goes down to the river and he gets in,
and he dips seven times and he comes out here
a leprosy. And it's interesting to me because being who
he was, he could have looked and said, awesome, let's
get go on, let's go plan our next strategy, let's
get back into that war frame of mind. Let's go
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conquer some more stuff. But I'm looking at verse fifteen.
Nyman and his entire party, so they're all united in this.
They're following him as they're great commander. They went back
to find this man of God, to find Elijah, and
this time they didn't get the messenger. This time they
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stood before Elijah, the great prophet of Yahweh himself, and
Naemon says, now I know, I know that there is
no God in all the world except in Israel. He
came into relationship with Yahweh God that day, the God
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of love and healing, and he laid down his expectations,
and he picked up faith in obedience, and he walked
forth and he did it, and he came out whole
and healed. And the Bible says, the Word says that
his skin was like a young it is like a
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baby skin. He had no and he had no flaws
in his skin. So it didn't just heal him at
the point of the age where he was at. It
went beyond that. God does more abundantly above all we
could ever ask or even imagine. And he did it
in Namen. In Namen goes back and acknowledges Elijah, and
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he acknowledges God, and he says, I know he knew it.
He knew it in his heart. He knew it from
head to toe that there's no God in all the
world except in Israel. And then he offered Elijah a gift.
And this is another sign to us. When we get healed,
we offer a gift, that that prophet would turn that
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down and put all glory to God, not in false humility,
but just so that no one could ever say that,
thanks Elijah, here's your gift. Thanks for doing that. Elijah
wanted to stay in the moment. No, no, no, no,
thank you. We're going to keep our focus on God.
God did it. God did it. He worked through me.
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He did. He gave me the word. I gave you
the word. The messenger gave you the word. You went
and did it. It happened. That's God. I want the
world to know that, yeah, we God is a cut
of love. He doesn't want us to hurt each other.
He wants us to have rewards in heaven. He wants
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us to have eternal life. He wants us to walk
in peace. He wants you to be healed. But think
about his word. I mean, this is a story of
a guy who went to a foreign land and dipped
himself in dirty water. Basically, seven times. But what's behind that,
Behind that is faith, obedience, lowering expectations, walking in God's
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word and his spirit, getting a relationship with him, rather
than trusting our own abilities, trusting the abilities of a
prophet or an evangelist or some other human being. It's
not trusting in money. It is not trusting in your
talents and your skills, your career, your title. Is trusting
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in God and what God can do, and he's doing
it because He loves you. Trusting in that and when
he asked you to do something that doesn't it's not
your expectation. Your expectation is too And I'm not speaking
specifically of anybody. These are other stories. People get healed
in conferences, so this has nothing to do with that,
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but I'm just going to use it as an example
because it's a popular example to go to a conference
where you go to somebody who's healed people before and
go to that person and say I need healed, and
they lay hands on and I've seen it myself. People
do get healed that way. They do. Elijah was waving
over people's leprosy and it was getting healed. He healed
that way. God moves in different ways. All the time.
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But if your expectation is to go to a conference
and have somebody wave over your leprosy and call it cured,
and you get cured that day, and that's the only
way you see it, go back to God and lower
your expectations. And I want you to be God, Yahweh,
the Lord of the Israelites and the Lord of the Christians.
I want to be a Christian. I want you to
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be my Lord and my God. And I want to
be healed. And I expect you to heal me. But
I expect you to heal me according to your word.
And whatever that word is, I will obey it. Yes
and amen. No other expectations, nothing thrown in. Just whatever
you ask me to do. Lord, I'll do that because
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I believe in you, and I have faith in you,
and nobody but you. There's no God in all the
world except you, Yahweh. And then Naemen went beyond that.
This is how this relationship with God really took because
he took two mules and he loaded them with earth
from Israel so he could take it back home and
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spread it out and offer burnt offerings and sacrifices to Yahweh.
And he would stand on that sanctified soil from Israel,
where God was God. Yahweh was God in Israel. So
he took a piece of Israel with him so that
he wouldn't defile anything around the altars that he built.
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It was Israel's soil. And then he built the elders
on top of israel soil that honored God. And then
he sacrificed and burned his offerings there. So he took action, Yeah,
I am trusting you, and you healed me, and now
I will serve you, and my offerings go to you.
And this was in a land when they were serving
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a different God. And then he went beyond that and
he talked to the deposit, the prophet Elijah, and he said, Elijah,
the king that I serve as his commander of his armies.
He worships another God, and he leans on me when
he goes into worship the God, like I physically have
to help him in there, and I don't want to
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dishonor Yahweh. And so I'm asking God to just forgive
me in advance because I have to go in there
when this other guy offers offerings to a God that
is not Yeahweh. A false God, a God that's not real.
His king worshiped someone like that instead, and Elijah said,
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go in peace, and Elijah knew that Namon's heart it
turned that day towards the Living God Yahweh. And there
is evidence of it in the healing of his flesh
turning into the skin of a youth walking out of
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that river hole. Because he obeyed the word of the
Lord and not his own commands or his own actions,
or the actions of others, or his expectations. He laid
it all down. Somehow God led him there and he
was he let God lead him, and he did as
he was told and came out a different man. So
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that's the secret in this chapter of healing. And I've
done my best to follow the Lord and to put
it in a very practical place for everyone, including myself,
that we really have to focus on God and God alone,
the Living God God. Yeah, wah. We just have to
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focus on him and love him. Get the Bible out,
Pray for His Holy Spirit to come to you and
to help you to learn and to feel his presence
and to know he's there the Holy Spirit to help
you pray. The Holy Spirit will help you read your
Bible and understand it. Call on him, call on the
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name of the Lord. And when you hear it, when
you feel it, when you feel that you hear it,
when the Lord sends you a word through scripture, or
even a pastor, or even angelists or a Christian coworker
who's really serving God in a hole pure way, you know,
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take it to heart. And even if it sounds like
the very opposite, do it. God has asked me to
do things that looked very scary, that looked like the
opposite of what I needed to do it. It fought
my heart, even as a mom and other things to
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do what he asked me to do. It just seems
so illogical, but he led me to that place of
grace where he gave me the ability and the strength
to do it. And then it led me to a
place of faith where I said, if I don't trust you,
then I become Lord. And if I'm Lord, I'm going
to mess it up even further. And I have to
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trust you and making the journey, making the moves, doing
the actions, and then finding out that I'm in right
in the middle of God's plan and his love just
bores out on me, and I love him so much back,
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and I just want to obey him quicker and quicker
and more and more, and to see his kingdom commonis
will be done on this earth as it is in heaven.
And I want y'all way to win. And I want
everyone else to know his love and his healing and
his deliverance. And that's why I do what I do,
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and many of you out there you're doing it too,
just reaching out in love and seeing people healed and
come out of poverty and come into joy and contentment
and to be delivered from evil influences on their life.
We're seeing it happening in real time, y'allways. Real He's living,
and he's loving, and he's just. And if anybody can
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restore everything, it's him. And if anybody can I reconcile,
it's him. If anyone can unite, it's him. If anybody
can heal what has you in pain, it's your way,
the Living God. Thank you so much for coming on
board today. I just want to pray for you before
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we go that God will bless you so much for
hanging in there on this podcast and for participating with
Brookville House of Worship. We love you. We want to
see you make it. We want to see you grow
in your love for the Lord and in your service
to His kingdom and to Him. It's the only way
to go, It's the best way to go, Father God.
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I just pray for each and everyone Lord, in their
healing process God, and in their relationship with You Lord,
that they become more whole each moment of every day. Father,
I pray that you lead them through your grace, through
your power to do all they need to do, to
become all they need to become, to serve You, and
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to become a whole person. Lord, healed, delivered, loving, kind, compassionate,
doing what you ask them to do, uniting with the
rest of the Kingdom of God and winning, winning the
benefits and rewards of Yeah. Heh God and his love
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relationship has Father and is of God, and just being
healed and whole and helping others to make it out
of their misery and into the arms of a living
God and eternal life forever in His presence. Lord. We
thank you for all of that. We thank you that
you're bringing it down to our level. We thank you
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that you're letting us in on the secrets of heaven. Lord.
We thank you that we can lay down our expectations
and just fall in love with you. And when you
say go, we go, and Lord, we come back in peace.
Thank you for that. You're loving God, and you deserve
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It's time to get started. I am Christy Kennell of
the Brookville House of Worship, and I am glad that
you are listening in today. Thank you so much for
coming to this podcast and for diving into the Bible
with me. I hope you have yours open. I am
in Second Kings chapter five, God wants you to be healed.
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And I was reading Second Kings five and God gave
me a secret and I'm going to share it with you. Today.
So healing is a process. God moves in mysterious ways.
God moves in different ways. And this is just one
of the stories, and it's an exciting story. It's about
a commander, a captive, and a prophet and what are
they have in common. You're about to find out it's
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a debilitative disease that one of them has. So, starting
in verse one second, Kings five, king of Aram, had
great admiration for Nayman, who was the commander of his army.
And it was the reason there through Nayman, the Lord
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had given King Aram great victories. So Naaman already had
the favor of God on him. He was a successful
commander of an army of a great kingdom. And the
Armenian raiders invaded Israel. They grabbed a young Israelite as
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part of their you know, their group of captives that
they took. She was young, She's an Israelite girl. They
just took her. And then we see her as we
go through this story. She's now serving as a captive
in this commander Naeman's house. She is the servant of
his wife. So here she is. And what I see here,
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what God shows me is the difference between the fruits
of Yahweh's Holy spirit and doing things of the flesh.
And I know that as Christianese, that's that's our lingo.
That's how the Bible speaks about being in the flesh.
And basically that's just moving in our own abilities, thinking
about ourselves in a situation instead of depending on Yahweh God.
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And Yahweh God, he's the Christian of the Israelites, Christian
believers of this world. We worship him as the one
true Living God, and he is. He's real, and the
closer that you get to him, the more you realize that.
The closer I get to him, the more I realize
how he operates in love and justice and healing is
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part of what he does because he loves his creation.
He created us, and he loves us. And we're about
to see that. Because it doesn't make any mention that
Naemen was a child of God at this point, that
he believed in God or worshiped Yahweh God. It just
says that the Lord had given him favor and he
was winning great victories for his king, the King of Arim.
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So he's already got the favor of God on him,
and that is we moved down. He's leading the armies
of Aram, and they go in and they grab captives.
In Israel, they take captives, and one of the captives
is a little girl and a young girl. And now
she's serving in his house, the very person who is
in charge of getting her caught and taken away from
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her family and her home, her homeland Israel, And here
she is. So what is the difference between the fruits
of You always, Holy Spirit and somebody being obedient to
that and doing things in acts of the flesh. Well,
let's look at this captive. Okay, she hears about namin
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Naman contracts leprosy, and leprosy can be debilitating. It works
on your nervous system. You can become paralyzed, you can
be in pain, you get source on your feet, your
body can deform. He is the commander of a great army,
a successful army, and he has leprosy. What's he supposed
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to do with that? And here's this Israelite girl who
could have kept her mouth shut. She could have settle
good for him. Maybe he'll die, maybe I'll get to
go home. But no, no, what we see is what
the scripture says. She reaches out to the lady who
commands her the mistress of the house, this commander's wife.
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She's serving there as captive, and the Bible says that
she says, I wish my master, this is verse three.
I wish my master would go to see the prophet
in Samaria. And this is her faith he would heal
Naeman of his leprosy. So Naming gets word of this
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more than likely from his wife, because that's how the
story is unfolding. He goes to the king and he
tells the king, Hey, there's this prophet in Samaria. It's
a prophet of the Lord God Yahweh, and I need
to go there. He can heal me of leprosy. So
here is kind of a clue to Naeman's worth and
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his value to the king. The king gives him a
letter to present to the King of Israel to let
him in, and also gifts. I mean, they had they
had just taken captives from Israel, and now he's coming
with a letter leprosy and gifts to the King of Israel.
What did Naemon think of himself? He knew his value,
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So he brings seven hundred and fifty pounds of silver,
one hundred and fifty pounds of gold and ten sets
of clothing. And then the letter says, with this letter,
I present my servant Naemen, I want you to heal
him of his leprosy. Period as a quote, that's a
quote from verse six in Second King's Chapter five. So
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now the King of Aram is commanding the King of Israel,
let my head commander in. He's got leprosy. You have
a prophet that serves Yahweh God, who can heal him.
So if he's a prophet of God, then Name is
coming over to get healed. I need this guy. We've
been successful, we've had great victories, and he's he's God
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has given him favor and we're winning, and so I
need I just need him healed. So that's what the
letter says. With this letter, I present my servant Name,
and I want you to heal him of his leprosy.
And the King of Israel kind of freaks out, you know.
He here he is with this letter in his hand
and all this silver and all this gold in these clothes,
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and he's the actual commander of the man who rated
his kingdom, and here he stands with this contagious plague.
He's supposed to be in social isolation. According to Israel's laws,
the priest would have put him in isolation for this.
And he's standing there at the door with a letter
in his hand, walking around freely in the kingdom unclean
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and verse am I God, the King of Israel says
that I can give life and take it away. And
then he accused the King of Arim of picking a fight?
What is he picking a fight with me? So then
Elijah hears, and Elijah's in relationship with God. Some people
pronounce it Alicia. It's the one that spelled e l
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i s ha or. In verse eight, he has a
godly reaction because he has a relationship with Almighty God Yahweh.
And he has seen healings done through his anointing in
his hands. How God moves, how God's spirit moves upon
him and gives him words of knowledge, and he knows
things about people, and he hears the word of God,
and he goes and tells people the word of God.
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King of Israel counts on him. And he sends a
message to Israel's king, why are you so upset? Send
Naem into me? I hear from God. He's saying, you know,
Naemen will learn there is a true prophet in Israel.
So in other words, you know, let's teach Nay. I'm
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in a lesson about truth. Here. He can go king
all he wants, he can command all he wants, but
it's out of his control. Right now. He has leprosy,
and now he's coming and looking for a cure. So
send unto me and he will learn there's a true
prophet in Israel. That's the difference when you're walking in
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relationship with God, of following what God's spirit tells us
to do and walking in truth. So Naman shows up,
shows up with all his fan fairies, guys, horses, his chariots,
guy's officers with them, and now he stands there at
Elijah's house in all of this imagery of high military honor.
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But he's got a disease that's supposedly incurable, and the
only way to cure it is to seek somebody who
can cure it. And I believe he is a commander
of the army. He's he has had his people, he
has researched who Elijah is and what Elijah's can do.
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It's been witnessed, it's been documented. And here he's knocking
at the door, and he's expecting a lot, because that's
what commanders do. I say it, you do it, We win.
This is how it works. So it's interesting to him
that Elijah didn't bother to rise to Naeman's level of showmanship.
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He looks out and sees all the fanfare, and he's like, yeah, okay,
well there's another human being. He's built himself up, and
in a way, he kind of had a right to
He's earned it. He's earned some stuff. He's got some
amazing abilities. But Elijah doesn't. He doesn't idolize Naman. He
idolizes as God and God alone in the tak Commandments, says,
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don't put other guys before me. Elijah didn't do that.
Naman isn't going to be idolized. Naman likes to be atalyzed.
So Elijah sends a messenger out to Namen with a message.
Elijah doesn't even bother to run out there and say, wow,
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so you're here, you're not attacking us. We have the advantage,
and look at you, Look at all your stuff. You're
an actual commander of armies that win battles. Wow, now
none of that. He sends a messenger out, Hey, go
tell Naem and this guy out here with the one
with a leprosy, here's what you're going to tell him.
Go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. In
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other words, a Naeman, go do it yourself, clean yourself.
This is the word of God. This is what God
is commanding you to do. Commander, go wash yourself seven
times in the Jordan River, and then you'll be clean,
you'll be cured. So here Stan's Naeman staring down at
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this messenger and he's not even talking to the head
hanscho that traveling prophet with all the power. Supposedly that's
what he's heard. So he gets angry, and it says
he stalks away. But let's remember the Jordan River. Some
of the things that we know. Elijah and Elijah both
split it with an anointed mantle. Joshua, the priest of
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the tribes of Israel, stepped into it with the ark
of God and split it. So the Jordan River has
been touched by the spirit of God. They walk through
with the Ark of the Covenant on dry land. God's
presence was there at one point. So Nayman must not
have realized that the Jordan River was so blessed. I
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mean later on Jesus himself, the Messiah, the Christ, you know,
in one the Son of God was baptized there by
John the Baptist in the Jordan river. And yet nay Amen,
and he's angry, and he's stalk away, and we talk
about the battlefield of the mind. We get thoughts, and
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we can choose our thoughts whether we're going to follow
that thought or reject that thought. And what he says
in verse eleven, Naman says, I thought he would certainly
come out to meet me. So he's speaking, I'm certain
that Elijah would come out and meet me. Of course
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I am, Nammon, I'm the commander of successful armies over there,
for the king of Aram. In his mind, he so
built himself up just because he had the abilities to
do such great things. How could Elijah not come out
to meet me. I'm so great, you know. So he's saying,
I thought he would certainly come out to meet me
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and wave his hand and I'll be healed. And besides
that Damascus, which Aram is Siria, and that Damascus was
the capital Syria. Damascus has the best rivers. Why would
I go to the Jordan. That's ridiculous to him, you know,
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and if you step back and you look at it,
he's putting his faith in the man of God and
he wants recognition for the image that he puts forth
as a successful commander of a king's army. He's used
to being in control, nayman. He's used to commanding people
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and having them follow through just as he commands. As
I say it, you will do it. You will do
it right away, you will do what I expect. So,
you know, he has expectations and things need to be
done according to his expectations, and he's used to having
others do the actions for him. He comes up with
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the ideas and they put it into action, and they don't.
They don't say no, they say yes, and they run
and they do it. This is the commander of an army.
You don't say no to him. You do it, and
you do it his way. So he's used to success.
He's used to conquering other people. He's used to taking
what he wants and getting rewarded for it. He has
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high expectations. He's received a lot of awards. He thinks
he's great and he knows what he's capable of. And
now he's saying, I expected this prophet to wave his
hand over the leprosy, and it's interesting to me. The
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next line, I believe this is verse eleven, to call
on the name of the Lord his God and to
heal me. I expected him to wave his hand over
the leprosy, to call on the name of the Lord
his God, and to heal me. And it sounds powerful.
Oh yeah, the New Testament's all about that. Jesus said
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that call on my name, Call the name of Jesus,
and you'll be saved. Call the name of Jesus and
you'll be healed. Jesus the Christ, Simsidah, the anointed One.
But if we really step back again, his faith is
clearly in Elijah's actions, in Elijah's reputation because his commander,
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I'm sure he's looked that up. It doesn't tell us,
But why wouldn't he if he's not gonna waste his
time going to his king, getting the letter, getting the gifts,
making the trip, especially when he's ill, if he doesn't
know who this guy is, and if he's not sure
of how this guy did it, how he healed people,
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and if he indeed healed people, so he knows, but
his faith. His faith is clearly in Elijah's actions, in
Elijah's reputation, not in himself at this point, not in God,
but in what Elijah can do. Because when Elijah didn't
come out himself, when Elijah didn't wave his hand over
it and say, in the name of Yahweh God, le
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me see be healed, name him and be healed, he
got mad. E just sent this messenger, Hey, go dip in,
Go dip in the Jordan seven times and you'll be fine.
It didn't meet his expectations. His faith is in the
wrong place. Are we following this together? He analyzed the
instructions of the prophet. He wasn't relying on the man
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of God to offer for this messenger to relay this message,
and for him to go himself, by his own actions,
walk into this Jordan river in front of all of
his officers, the people of Israel he had just taken
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captives from. He's just gonna wander down to the river,
a sick, very sick man and just dip seven times
in this river. How does that make logical sense? He's
gonna look crazy, and why would he listen to a
messenger he was used to commanding and talking with people
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who were on his level or just beneath him that
he was in charge of. He's doing this because some
messengers said to do it, and the man himself did
not come out, wave his hand all over on a
AaB healed and send him on his way. So what
does he do with this? So he constructs a plan
and others follow through, and he wasn't giving Elijah the
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freedom to do it Elijah's way. He wanted to come
in and control the situation according to his authority and plan,
and Elijah was doing it according to God's authority and plan.
The word of God said give him this message, go
dip in the river and you'll be healed, and do
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it seven times. So he was nahem and was expecting
it to happen the way that he pictured it. He
was in a desperate situation, and I imagine he was
in isolation of sorts and he's covered, you know, with
these got these sores. You can clearly see he has it.
And now he finds himself having to trust not only
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the word of God, but a word of God that
came through a different messenger, and that's coming to him
in a different way. Than what he had researched and
understood what happened. This makes this commander, this successful person,
commander of great armies, who had the favor of God
to win these battles, even though he wasn't trusting God
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at the time. It makes him very vulnerable. He was
not in his own territory. He was going to climb
down into a river and make himself very vulnerable to attack,
to being mocked by this prophet. What if this was
a practical joke. What if the messenger didn't even speak
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to Elijah. What if they came out to make fun
of him and he has to take the step in
and he has to follow through with it, and he
has to take a chance on all of that. He
wanted to go home to his territory and get into
Damascus river. Oh, if this river's going to cure it,
I'll go home where I'm surrounded by people who respect me,
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where I know if they're saying to do it that
is true. And I'm not just gonna take some guy
at his word that I haven't researched or studied yet.
I don't know, I don't know. What do I do?
What do I do? And he's mad and he's stalking.
So in verse twelve, instead of obeying God's word through
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the prophet, Naam in turn and went away in rage.
So he was beyond angry. He wanted his own way.
He wasocused on himself. He couldn't do this himself, and
that's what threw him off. And he couldn't command his officers, hey,
come here and heal this leprosy. They weren't capable. So
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everything he had been doing his whole life, he couldn't
control the situation. There's nothing he could do but submit
to God's way. God will bring us to that place.
Once you choose him as your god. He will bring
you to a place where it's only you and him,
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and you have to choose his way or you turn
and you walk away. You have to choose or walk away.
You have to choose y'all way. It's the way it works.
He chooses you, you have to choose him. That's called obedience. Obedience.
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Say it one more time, obedience and listen. It's important
who you surround yourself with as you walk your walk.
This guy number one, the young Israelite captive servant, that
young girl that he took from Israel in spite of
what he made her do to be a servant to
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his own wife, took her out of her land, away
from her family. She went through with telling the mistress
she obeyed God rather than man. She put away everything,
put it all aside, and in love and compassion of God,
she went to the mistress and said, hey, I know
a prophet in my homeland that can heal him. That's love,
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that's the love of God. Because she could have been
angry and bitter, and she could have gone around repeating
to everybody, they did this to me, they did this
to me. I shouldn't be here. This isn't my home.
I don't want to serve anybody. I just want to
go home. But she didn't. She acted in the love
of God. She represented God well, and I'm sure God
rewarded her for that in heaven and also on this earth,
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even though the Bible doesn't tell us, that's just how
God operates. And then number two, his own wife relayed
the message to him. And on number three, he's got
this profit on board, and he's half obedient and he's
half opening hoping, he's thinking it over. And number four,
he has surrounded himself with mighty officers directly under him
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who were good officers. That's why he was winning. He
could trust them. They were on his side, they were
obedient to him, They did as he commanded, they obeyed
his expectations, and they followed through with his orders, and
they surrounded and supported him. So he has a great surrounding,
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supportive process here going on. So in verse thirteen, these
officers who were directly under him reasoned with him, and
they were comparing his desire to expect or to respond
to something very difficult over something very simple. So they
were saying, hey, if this prophet would have asked you
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to do something difficult, you would have done it. But
he's asking you to do something simple. Maybe you should
do it. And now he's perking up here. Now he's
starting to reason because he trusts them, and he's trusting
he's starting to trust this process. And they, his commanding
officers that were under him, said go Wash be cured.
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And I looked at that and I thought, you know,
they took out the details. They simplified the command to
their commander. They gave him two commands and a result.
And I'm looking at the new Living Translation version of
the Bible. It says, go wash, be cured. So this
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removed his arguments and his expectations. So now it was
no longer about the Jordan River. It wasn't about anything
but the fact that he was being told to go
and wash. So now it's his actions. He can't command
his officers to go wash so he can be healed.
He had to submit to this, He had to obey
it as it was presented, and his officers graciously put
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it down to the very very basics to him, just
taking out all the details of who said it, what
they said, where he was going. They just said it says,
go wash, be cured, and that spoke to him because
that's how he works, and God will do that too.
You know, he's removing the stuff that doesn't fit. He
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removes the stuff that gets in the way of him
being able to help us along the way into our
path for him into the right way to go to
leviate all this pain and agony and stress and disease
and the things that we've brought ourselves to in our disobedience.
And all he's asking is disobey. I know the best
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way I'm giving you, the best way your action is
to just obey obedience to God brings the correct results.
God needed Naeman to be obedient, to follow his command
and to do it his way, even if it meant
to become vulnerable enough to trust Yahweh God to climb
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into a river in a foreign land, in front of
his officers, in front of people, he invaded and dip
seven times according to a messenger that he had not
researched or met before or heard anything about. He was
counting on Elijah and Elijah waving the hand. Remember, so
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he was fighting off his flesh. At this point. God
was causing him to fight off normal way of doing things.
God is causing him to focus on something else besides himself.
God was causing him to focus on his word, God's word.
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Do you see that shift in focus? That is what
God wants because as he becomes lord of our life
and we turn it everything over to him to do
it his way, nothing stands in his way. So when
he performs, it's powerful and he wants to because he
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loves us so much. He wanted Nayamen healed. But he
can't serve alongside another God, whether it be us trusting
in ourselves as Lord of our lives or trusting in
some foreign God. We can't bring everything like that on
board and say, okay, God, you yoke up with this
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thing and serve me and do what you do. God
works alone, he has to. He cannot. He cannot tolerate sin.
He can't work alongside sin, and sin is everything that's
not him. That's why he wants his way. It is
not because he's God and it's his way or the highway.
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It's because he's God and he works in purity, purity
of love, purity of justice, purity of kindness and compassion.
He wants us to be his sons and daughters. He
wants us healed, he wants us delivered. He wants us
to do the reason why we're here, what we were
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born for. He wants us to have contentment and joy.
But we can't have it when we're trusting in everything
but Him, and He can't work with that. So we
absolutely have to lay it all down, and it's a
process to do that. It's hard to do that. But
as we can see, he brought name and to the
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point where that's all that was left. He led him there.
That's the grace of God. It's God giving us power
to do what he asks us to do. So not
only does he ask us to do it, but then
he gets down on our level and says, oh, by
the way, here's everything. You need to do it because
I love you and I want you. I choose you,
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choose me, and let's do this together. Because if I'm
Lord and I am God, I can do this in
a very pure way and it will happen for you.
But you have to trust me. That's faith is trusting
in what we cannot see, in doing what the Holy
Spirit tells us to do. And to do that, we
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have to get close enough to God to hear him
and to feel his voice, because it's not always out loud.
Sometimes it's just knowing. It's a knowing that we're doing
the right thing and that God has asked us to
do that right thing, even when it looks completely wrong.
We know, we know that, we know inside we can
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see a bigger picture coming about and Okay, this seems
very very wrong to me, but I know that God
has asked me to do it, and so I'm going
to do it. And then I see things unfolding. We
see it unfolding, like things start to happen that are
right and correct and everything start to align its powerful
and it's amazing. So here we see Naeman biting off
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his flesh by walking in faith in spite of himself,
and he's doing what didn't make any sense to him.
It didn't compare to any of his expectations. And he's
about to get healing from another commander, the great commander,
the commander of the Realm of Love, the commander of Heaven,
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the commander of Heaven's armies, is commanding him. And I think,
down deep inside he must be understanding that, because if
he is a common and he's successful at it, he
had to start to begin to understand God is commanding this.
And if I just say immediately yes and I obey
and I do it, this is going to come out successful.
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He goes down to the river and he gets in,
and he dips seven times and he comes out here
a leprosy. And it's interesting to me because being who
he was, he could have looked and said, awesome, let's
get go on, let's go plan our next strategy, let's
get back into that war frame of mind. Let's go
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conquer some more stuff. But I'm looking at verse fifteen.
Nyman and his entire party, so they're all united in this.
They're following him as they're great commander. They went back
to find this man of God, to find Elijah, and
this time they didn't get the messenger. This time they
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stood before Elijah, the great prophet of Yahweh himself, and
Naemon says, now I know, I know that there is
no God in all the world except in Israel. He
came into relationship with Yahweh God that day, the God
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of love and healing, and he laid down his expectations,
and he picked up faith in obedience, and he walked
forth and he did it, and he came out whole
and healed. And the Bible says, the Word says that
his skin was like a young it is like a
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baby skin. He had no and he had no flaws
in his skin. So it didn't just heal him at
the point of the age where he was at. It
went beyond that. God does more abundantly above all we
could ever ask or even imagine. And he did it
in Namen. In Namen goes back and acknowledges Elijah, and
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he acknowledges God, and he says, I know he knew it.
He knew it in his heart. He knew it from
head to toe that there's no God in all the
world except in Israel. And then he offered Elijah a gift.
And this is another sign to us. When we get healed,
we offer a gift, that that prophet would turn that
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down and put all glory to God, not in false humility,
but just so that no one could ever say that,
thanks Elijah, here's your gift. Thanks for doing that. Elijah
wanted to stay in the moment. No, no, no, no,
thank you. We're going to keep our focus on God.
God did it. God did it. He worked through me.
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He did. He gave me the word. I gave you
the word. The messenger gave you the word. You went
and did it. It happened. That's God. I want the
world to know that, yeah, we God is a cut
of love. He doesn't want us to hurt each other.
He wants us to have rewards in heaven. He wants
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us to have eternal life. He wants us to walk
in peace. He wants you to be healed. But think
about his word. I mean, this is a story of
a guy who went to a foreign land and dipped
himself in dirty water. Basically, seven times. But what's behind that,
Behind that is faith, obedience, lowering expectations, walking in God's
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word and his spirit, getting a relationship with him, rather
than trusting our own abilities, trusting the abilities of a
prophet or an evangelist or some other human being. It's
not trusting in money. It is not trusting in your
talents and your skills, your career, your title. Is trusting
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in God and what God can do, and he's doing
it because He loves you. Trusting in that and when
he asked you to do something that doesn't it's not
your expectation. Your expectation is too And I'm not speaking
specifically of anybody. These are other stories. People get healed
in conferences, so this has nothing to do with that,
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but I'm just going to use it as an example
because it's a popular example to go to a conference
where you go to somebody who's healed people before and
go to that person and say I need healed, and
they lay hands on and I've seen it myself. People
do get healed that way. They do. Elijah was waving
over people's leprosy and it was getting healed. He healed
that way. God moves in different ways. All the time.
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But if your expectation is to go to a conference
and have somebody wave over your leprosy and call it cured,
and you get cured that day, and that's the only
way you see it, go back to God and lower
your expectations. And I want you to be God, Yahweh,
the Lord of the Israelites and the Lord of the Christians.
I want to be a Christian. I want you to
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be my Lord and my God. And I want to
be healed. And I expect you to heal me. But
I expect you to heal me according to your word.
And whatever that word is, I will obey it. Yes
and amen. No other expectations, nothing thrown in. Just whatever
you ask me to do. Lord, I'll do that because
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I believe in you, and I have faith in you,
and nobody but you. There's no God in all the
world except you, Yahweh. And then Naemen went beyond that.
This is how this relationship with God really took because
he took two mules and he loaded them with earth
from Israel so he could take it back home and
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spread it out and offer burnt offerings and sacrifices to Yahweh.
And he would stand on that sanctified soil from Israel,
where God was God. Yahweh was God in Israel. So
he took a piece of Israel with him so that
he wouldn't defile anything around the altars that he built.
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It was Israel's soil. And then he built the elders
on top of israel soil that honored God. And then
he sacrificed and burned his offerings there. So he took action, Yeah,
I am trusting you, and you healed me, and now
I will serve you, and my offerings go to you.
And this was in a land when they were serving
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a different God. And then he went beyond that and
he talked to the deposit, the prophet Elijah, and he said, Elijah,
the king that I serve as his commander of his armies.
He worships another God, and he leans on me when
he goes into worship the God, like I physically have
to help him in there, and I don't want to
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dishonor Yahweh. And so I'm asking God to just forgive
me in advance because I have to go in there
when this other guy offers offerings to a God that
is not Yeahweh. A false God, a God that's not real.
His king worshiped someone like that instead, and Elijah said,
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go in peace, and Elijah knew that Namon's heart it
turned that day towards the Living God Yahweh. And there
is evidence of it in the healing of his flesh
turning into the skin of a youth walking out of
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that river hole. Because he obeyed the word of the
Lord and not his own commands or his own actions,
or the actions of others, or his expectations. He laid
it all down. Somehow God led him there and he
was he let God lead him, and he did as
he was told and came out a different man. So
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that's the secret in this chapter of healing. And I've
done my best to follow the Lord and to put
it in a very practical place for everyone, including myself,
that we really have to focus on God and God alone,
the Living God God. Yeah, wah. We just have to
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focus on him and love him. Get the Bible out,
Pray for His Holy Spirit to come to you and
to help you to learn and to feel his presence
and to know he's there the Holy Spirit to help
you pray. The Holy Spirit will help you read your
Bible and understand it. Call on him, call on the
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name of the Lord. And when you hear it, when
you feel it, when you feel that you hear it,
when the Lord sends you a word through scripture, or
even a pastor, or even angelists or a Christian coworker
who's really serving God in a hole pure way, you know,
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take it to heart. And even if it sounds like
the very opposite, do it. God has asked me to
do things that looked very scary, that looked like the
opposite of what I needed to do it. It fought
my heart, even as a mom and other things to
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do what he asked me to do. It just seems
so illogical, but he led me to that place of
grace where he gave me the ability and the strength
to do it. And then it led me to a
place of faith where I said, if I don't trust you,
then I become Lord. And if I'm Lord, I'm going
to mess it up even further. And I have to
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trust you and making the journey, making the moves, doing
the actions, and then finding out that I'm in right
in the middle of God's plan and his love just
bores out on me, and I love him so much back,
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and I just want to obey him quicker and quicker
and more and more, and to see his kingdom commonis
will be done on this earth as it is in heaven.
And I want y'all way to win. And I want
everyone else to know his love and his healing and
his deliverance. And that's why I do what I do,
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and many of you out there you're doing it too,
just reaching out in love and seeing people healed and
come out of poverty and come into joy and contentment
and to be delivered from evil influences on their life.
We're seeing it happening in real time, y'allways. Real He's living,
and he's loving, and he's just. And if anybody can
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restore everything, it's him. And if anybody can I reconcile,
it's him. If anyone can unite, it's him. If anybody
can heal what has you in pain, it's your way,
the Living God. Thank you so much for coming on
board today. I just want to pray for you before
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we go that God will bless you so much for
hanging in there on this podcast and for participating with
Brookville House of Worship. We love you. We want to
see you make it. We want to see you grow
in your love for the Lord and in your service
to His kingdom and to Him. It's the only way
to go, It's the best way to go, Father God.
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I just pray for each and everyone Lord, in their
healing process God, and in their relationship with You Lord,
that they become more whole each moment of every day. Father,
I pray that you lead them through your grace, through
your power to do all they need to do, to
become all they need to become, to serve You, and
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to become a whole person. Lord, healed, delivered, loving, kind, compassionate,
doing what you ask them to do, uniting with the
rest of the Kingdom of God and winning, winning the
benefits and rewards of Yeah. Heh God and his love
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relationship has Father and is of God, and just being
healed and whole and helping others to make it out
of their misery and into the arms of a living
God and eternal life forever in His presence. Lord. We
thank you for all of that. We thank you that
you're bringing it down to our level. We thank you
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that you're letting us in on the secrets of heaven. Lord.
We thank you that we can lay down our expectations
and just fall in love with you. And when you
say go, we go, and Lord, we come back in peace.
Thank you for that. You're loving God, and you deserve
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all the worship and all the glory and all the praise. Amen.
Thank you for joining in with us today. I hope
you felt right at home as you enjoy this. Please
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day and get out there and worship the Lord with
everything you've got. Amen. Looking forward to our next conversation.
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Be blessed. Bye for now.
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