1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,520 Hi and welcome to the Via Zion Sermon Podcast. 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,040 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,440 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,680 encourage, inspire and instill fresh faith in you. 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,960 We look today at Neyman the Syrian's life and specifically 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,600 his encounter with the Living God. 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,640 His is an example of a once in a lifetime encounter that 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,400 completely transformed him physically and spiritually. 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,640 Would you listen in today and ask God to speak to you 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:44,440 personally? Hi Church, It's such a joy and a 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,520 privilege to be bringing God's Word to you today. 12 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,800 I counted an honor to be standing here and speaking to 13 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,360 you. And even today, as we take some 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,280 time to meditate on God's Word, for those of you who are 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,440 watching and for those who are listening, I pray that God's 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,520 Word will fall on the good portions of your heart so that 17 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,520 it will bear fruit as the Holy Spirit works in and through US. 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,520 I pray for those of us who've been in the seasoned life of 19 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,480 being a Christian. I pray as we hear His Word, 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,240 there will be areas which He corrects, course corrects us, 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,640 where He comes in and He prunes us and teaches us to do things 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,280 well so that we'll bear much fruit in the world that we are 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,400 placed in today. I've taken my passage today from 24 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,400 2 Kings chapter 5 and we'll be looking specifically at the life 25 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:26,400 of Naman. One of the beautiful things we 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,280 see from Naman's life is a lot of you probably have heard the 27 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,080 story in Sunday school. It's usually talked around the 28 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:38,320 lines of obedience. We've also heard of how he came 29 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:40,240 and he did and he got healed from leprosy. 30 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,080 As this is the main storyline to the entire thing. 31 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,080 As I was preparing, I really sensed the Holy Spirit was 32 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:52,320 saying all of us today need to have an experience that of 33 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,360 Naman. One of the beautiful things that 34 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:00,120 we see in our own lives is that we all are holding positions 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,560 today, be it for those of us who are starting our careers or for 36 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,760 those of us who've been in our careers for quite some time, or 37 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,560 for those of us who are heading towards retirement. 38 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,440 We've all established ourselves, but can we make certain choices 39 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,680 like how Neiman did, so that we'll be able to experience God 40 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,120 on a personal level, We'll be able to experience God on a more 41 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,920 intimate level. We'll be able to experience God 42 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,880 for who He is so that He can do something in our lives. 43 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,200 So one of the things that I've done is I've titled my sermon 44 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,280 today called learning to dip, right? 45 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,920 Learning to dip, right? I think we're living today in a 46 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:39,200 country which dipping means a lot of things. 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,000 For those of you who watch ads, a lot of grew up watching ads, 48 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,640 especially for all the ads that ran in between Test cricket and 49 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,280 One Day internationals. You'll notice there'll be a lot 50 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,120 of ads with regard to tea, different key companies be 51 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,440 putting and one of the ingredients is dip. 52 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,080 You know, the the more you dip, the stronger it gets. 53 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,200 Culturally. Also, we see a lot of people 54 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,880 dipping themselves in rivers because they feel that they will 55 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:07,720 attain forgiveness, they will attain eternity when they dip in 56 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,000 those places. And even as I've titled my 57 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,440 cemetery, learning to dip, right? 58 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,480 The whole idea is for us to do it God's way and not our way, 59 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,920 and can we be sensitive enough so that we'll be able to listen 60 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:24,000 to Him and do it God's way? We see during the life of Naman, 61 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,760 Elijah was a prophet, and Elijah had just a couple of chapters 62 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,680 back, had got the impartation from Elijah. 63 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,240 He saw Elijah going into the clouds and he had asked for one 64 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,120 thing, that when you see me go up, if you catch that, you'll 65 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,760 get double portion of what I had. 66 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,760 And we see immediately after that he takes his cloak and he 67 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,320 hits it and the sea splits. We see as he walks through 68 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,760 different chapters after that, we see him perform miracle after 69 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,560 miracle. In Chapter 3 we see that he wins 70 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,240 a battle of how the enemies just see that it's it's water but to 71 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,400 them it looked like blood and then Israel was able to overcome 72 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,160 that. In chapter four, we see how the 73 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,480 widows olive oil, you know, helped her get out of debt and 74 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,960 had more than enough so that they could enjoy as a family. 75 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,200 We see also that same chapter of the supernatural hand of God 76 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,399 where he's visiting and this woman says, because you're 77 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,840 coming through this quite often, I'll build a room, gets shows 78 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:28,720 hospitality and generosity, and in turn she gets blessed with a 79 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,440 baby boy. And then one day in the field, 80 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:36,400 we see that he falls down and he dies and they bring him back to 81 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,200 Elijah's room. And when Elijah comes, he's 82 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,640 brought back to life. So we see time and again the 83 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,560 supernatural hand of God move through Elijah in that season. 84 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,400 And we are in that same season today. 85 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,360 The hand of God is upon us. We are seeing miracles, signs, 86 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,560 wonders happen whether we are close to it or further away from 87 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,080 it. It doesn't discount that God, 88 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,800 whether God is working or not, he is working today. 89 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,760 I don't know where you're at. You're probably in a area of a 90 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,200 life where you're in probably in an unbelieving state because you 91 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,000 are not part able to participate in this healing. 92 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,520 You're not able to participate in the supernatural hand of God. 93 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,120 But that does not discount whether God is there or not. 94 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,680 And so, so the first thing as we look, we see that Neyman is a 95 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,560 general. He is not just an ordinary, he's 96 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,280 a general of the entire army for the King of Haram. 97 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,480 And we see that there at that point, there is a certain level 98 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,280 of peace because there are, they're able to go back and 99 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:39,680 forth between the two countries and things like that. 100 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,200 But Neyman is a person of influence. 101 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,480 He is a person. He's literally the commander. 102 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,440 And so he has so many things happening under him. 103 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,680 So if he's a commander, he's won battle. 104 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,280 He's participated in so many things. 105 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:55,720 He's a person of high standing. He is a man of intelligence. 106 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,920 And this is who God touches. And I believe as we look into 107 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:01,720 his lives, there are four things I want to highlight. 108 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,240 And the first thing I want for us to see is that God helps us 109 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,320 deal with what we cover. God helps us deal with what we 110 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:11,840 cover. So let's look into Two Kings 111 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:14,240 chapter 5. It goes on the same Naman, 112 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,440 commander of the army of the King of Syria, was a great man 113 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,160 with his master and in high favour, because by him the Lord 114 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,720 had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, 115 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,200 but he was a leper. It clearly gives a understanding 116 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,920 of who Naman was. He was a mighty man. 117 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:38,000 He was a mighty man of valor. He, the Lord was with him. 118 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,360 I mean, I, that's the when I was meditating, it was clear that, 119 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,120 you know, the Lord was with him and that's why he granted him 120 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,040 victory. And today we all are in that 121 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,960 same place where the Lord is with us. 122 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,280 And because of that, he is established as we probably in 123 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:55,240 whatever you're doing, everything that we're doing is 124 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:56,680 important. Each and every one of us. 125 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,280 Whatever it might look to another person, it might look 126 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,480 insignificant, but regard it is what he's caused you to do and 127 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,920 you're doing it. Well, it says that at the end, 128 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:09,560 but he was a leper. You know, even as I was reading 129 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,720 up, it probably started showing in his body. 130 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,320 It probably wasn't a full blown extent of leprosy. 131 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,320 It was probably in patches starting to come here and there 132 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,240 and that would have caught his attention. 133 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,880 That caught his attention. And as I mentioned in this first 134 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,480 point, when we see God helps us deal with what we cover. 135 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,400 I believe there are so many areas of our life that we have 136 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,400 seen those patches. I'm not for some of us, it could 137 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,840 be physical patches. Some of us, I have some probably 138 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,800 unspoken prayer requests, unspoken. 139 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,600 Nyquist. We are embarrassed to talk about 140 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,400 what we're going through, ailments which are embarrassing, 141 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:52,440 struggles that are embarrassing, but God knows. 142 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,960 And it goes on to say that when we see that he was a leper, he 143 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,400 probably didn't want many to know. 144 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,160 There were only a probably a select few you knew. 145 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,800 But what he did, he covered himself. 146 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,120 Probably the outside world didn't know his Kingdom, didn't 147 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,000 know his soldiers didn't know he was quietly battling with it. 148 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,680 And I believe God wants us to uncover that what we're 149 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:14,920 covering. Why? 150 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,000 Because he wants to deal with it. 151 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:21,400 So today, I don't know what in your life have you covered up? 152 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,960 It could be one of physical sickness, something that you're 153 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,120 ashamed of. It could be a scar. 154 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:34,320 Probably early on you got into some form of some kind of abuse 155 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:35,760 that happened early on in your life. 156 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:38,960 Probably there's a scar with a deep scar with you're hurt with 157 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,400 family, it's deep scar. You're hurt with friends. 158 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,760 There's a deep scar you're hurt with someone closest to you who 159 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,360 you didn't expect this to happen. 160 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,600 But what we read is that God was with him in all his 161 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,640 accomplishments, but he also wanted to be with him when he 162 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,520 found out that he was a leper. And so today I want us to come 163 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,200 to a place. Can we invite God into this very 164 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,720 own place of what we are struggling with, what we're 165 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,400 trying to the God who knows everything, the God who sees 166 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,760 everything, the God who's present everywhere is not afraid 167 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,280 of what we're covering. God sees it, and he wants us to 168 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,200 ask him to come so that he can have his hand in it, so he'll be 169 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,280 able to what he can do. Do not rely on man or man's 170 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,120 teaching or man's worldview today, as much as we run to the 171 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,280 doctor to get our tooth fixed, the minute it starts hurting or 172 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,440 when we see a scar and you want to, you know, get an ointment, 173 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,720 but we go and see the doctor, we are quick to fix all the things 174 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,640 that are physically showing up. I believe today God wants us to 175 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:48,000 do a deep inner cleaning, a deep inner touch on the things that 176 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,040 we are covering today. Probably you've struggled all 177 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,160 your life with some chronic thing. 178 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:57,200 Probably doctors have diagnosed something, or probably you can 179 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,640 see yourself going through that slump. 180 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,560 I would encourage you, don't cover it up before God. 181 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,520 Don't cover it up before people. You can do whatever you want, 182 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,920 but before God would you go and ask and say, God, I need your 183 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,360 help right now. Without you I cannot do it. 184 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,800 One John chapter 2 verses 2627 says this in the message I've 185 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,840 written to warn you about these who are trying to deceive you, 186 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,080 but they are no match for what is embedded deeply within you. 187 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:30,560 Christ's anointing no less. You don't need any of your 188 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:33,680 so-called teaching. Christ's anointing teaches you 189 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,480 the truth on everything you need to know about yourself and Him 190 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,200 uncontaminated by a single light. 191 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,960 Live deeply in what you are taught. 192 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:47,760 The reason why I moved and took that portion of the scripture is 193 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,480 today we are getting deceived by too many things of what the 194 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,720 world has to offer. The world will counter 195 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,240 everything that we are trying to cover up saying hey, this is how 196 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,120 we have to do it. This is how we we always are 197 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,360 trying to undo some things that have happened in our lives. 198 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,720 I've seen a time and again when you're bringing up our kids, 199 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,760 there were new forms of parenting that started coming, 200 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,760 but then we had to go quickly into what does the word say? 201 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,240 The word says you have to correct when they are doing 202 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,560 something wrong. You have to discipline them. 203 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,840 You are their parent. You're not your buddy. 204 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,840 You when you read this, it says, but they are no match for what 205 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,360 is embedded deeply when the new what is embedded deeply within 206 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,960 you. I would ask you today, is the 207 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:41,200 word of God getting deeply embedded within you or is it the 208 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,800 world that is getting deeply embedded within you? 209 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,520 The world will always find it's way today. 210 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,400 In a world where we are driven by technology and data and the 211 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,680 amount of information that we gather, they all want us to be 212 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,960 exposed to it. And as much as our brains are 213 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,120 awesomely built to process this much data, I pray that we will 214 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,400 embed God's Word in deep into our lives. 215 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,280 What does embed mean? It's deeply ingrained. 216 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,000 When we, when something is embedded physically onto it, it 217 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,760 can't be easily taken. If taken, it will destroy the 218 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,880 framework of what is being embedded on. 219 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,960 And so today I would ask you, would you allow God's Word to be 220 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,160 deeply embedded? Because when you're deeply 221 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:32,560 embedded, what will happen? Christ will fill you the minute 222 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:34,440 you allow the world. The world will talk about 223 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,120 something just for these five years, for this, for the seven 224 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,080 years, this, for the 10 years. It won't talk to you for what 225 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,600 will carry you forward into eternity. 226 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,720 Whereas Christ is willing. And so today, as much as I love 227 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,840 doctors, I love what God's allowing mankind to find through 228 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,600 science, all that is good. I, I love what they're able to 229 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,720 bring down into humanity and for the UN unprivileged, for the 230 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,520 places that are really struggling. 231 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,200 But I strongly feel as Christ followers, our dependency has to 232 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,720 be on Jesus than on people. Our dependency has to be on 233 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,120 Jesus than on the procedures that the world has to offer. 234 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,440 It has to be on Jesus than anything else that will take 235 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,760 Jesus place. So if you're a follower of 236 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,400 Christ and are filled with His Holy Spirit, you will listen to 237 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:30,480 him. He will tell you who to go to. 238 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,520 He will tell you what medicine to take. 239 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,160 He will tell you when to stop and for long. 240 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:40,680 We've seen time and again there's this element of where we 241 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:45,720 start acting all of our own in Naaman's life. 242 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,920 What we see is he was embarrassed. 243 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,360 He couldn't go and tell anyone. But that didn't stop him from 244 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,080 being who God had called me. He still was the commander and I 245 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,800 pray today lot of you will rise up to that position that you 246 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:04,040 won't be bogged on by what you are covering yourself with. 247 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,920 Rise up. For some of you could be 248 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,880 infertility. For some of you it could be 249 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:10,920 singleness. You've been trying to find a 250 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,480 spouse. For some of you it could be 251 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,240 walking through a hard marriage and coming out with a divorce. 252 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,120 For some of you, it could be the fact of not having enough all 253 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,440 along. For some of you, it could be 254 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,840 carrying the financial burden of your parents and the debt that 255 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,080 they've been bringing in into your life. 256 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,120 For some of you, it could be even the the heaviness of just 257 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,120 making sure your meeting ends, whatever it is. 258 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,000 For some of you, it could be an unspoken ailment, an 259 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,120 embarrassing ailment. For some of you, it could be 260 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,560 things that have been happening in your childhood and now it's 261 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,040 you're starting to have those recurrences and you're like, why 262 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,280 do I have to deal with it now? Everything would be embedded 263 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,720 alongside with God's Word because God's Word is here to 264 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,560 set you free. You don't need any of the 265 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,160 world's teaching. You need God's Word to be deeply 266 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,360 rooted in you. So today I would ask you, what 267 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:06,240 is deeply rooted in you? Here we see a person who is 268 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,600 outside of the tribe of Israel, outside who? 269 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,880 Of God's chosen people, because God found something in him. 270 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,680 He was with him. And I believe when we look in 271 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,120 the New Testament eyes, we see that we all are recipients of a 272 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,360 salvation. God sees something in US, but he 273 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,440 also wants us to be set free from what we've been carrying 274 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,400 and covering up. I ask that would you be deeply 275 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,960 embedded with your Holies? But for some of us, the covering 276 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,760 up is probably our sexuality. For some of us, it's our gender 277 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,880 identity. For some of us, it's the very 278 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,040 own mistakes that we've been. Probably we've gone through and 279 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,640 we've aborted a pregnancy. Probably we've done things which 280 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:54,160 we are ashamed to talk about, but would you allow God into the 281 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,680 mix because God wants to uncover it and deal with it? 282 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,200 Who can teach you without lying? That's the Holy Spirit alone. 283 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,880 Last week we saw as I was talking, was relentless 284 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,960 endurance. This is what happens when we 285 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,560 allow God's word deeply embed. We will move with an 286 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,600 understanding of relentless endurance in every season, 287 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,280 seeing this is what God's word says. 288 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,400 This is where I'll be. Suddenly you won't be as you 289 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,680 might have friends, you might have everyone on your speed who 290 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,240 can be people who can get you through situations. 291 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:35,240 But your ultimate person who you'll always go to will be God. 292 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,520 You will be led by the Holy Spirit. 293 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:42,240 So today would you love God to open up that which you're 294 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,320 covering up so that he'll be able to deal with it in your 295 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,680 life? The second thing would be when 296 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,400 we learn to dip right? God speaks through his 297 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,240 witnesses. 2 Kings chapter 5 verses two to five. 298 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,920 Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little 299 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,520 girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of 300 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,119 Naaman's wife. She said to a mistress, would 301 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:09,040 that my Lord were with the prophet who's in Samaria, he 302 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:13,319 would cure him of his leprosy. Now Naman went in and told his 303 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,079 laughters, and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel. 304 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:20,160 And the king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to 305 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,280 the king of Israel. So he went, taking with him 10 306 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:30,240 talons of silver, 6000 shekels of gold, and 10 changes of 307 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,440 clothing. Now, Naman was a commander, and 308 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,600 one of the things of being a commander is they always have 309 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,840 their ears to the ground. As much as they're strategically 310 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,360 planning to attack, as much as they're strategically planning 311 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:45,960 to see things, there are certain things that they innately are 312 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,000 keeping their ears to. As they're keeping their ears to 313 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,720 the ground, they want to know what's actually happening in the 314 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,920 ground tactically. How can they move through? 315 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,600 What are these people group about? 316 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,600 How do you attack them? And so you see that there's a 317 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,680 slave girl who they have brought into their home. 318 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,280 And mind you, she would have been preview to the whole thing 319 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,680 because Naaman's wife would have been the one who's taking care 320 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,960 there. It would have been a family 321 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,120 matter. And this girl sees it. 322 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,960 And I believe God is causing a lot of us. 323 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,360 I believe today God is calling a lot of us to be witnesses like 324 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,760 this little girl, this nameless little girl. 325 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,360 We don't know what the age looks like. 326 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,760 You can see she's a slave here, so she could have had 327 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,720 resentment. You know what they brought me 328 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,040 from my home. I don't deserve to be here. 329 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:37,920 But that didn't cause her to testify of what she could in the 330 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,000 place where she was. And so today I want us all to 331 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,760 come to that place. Can we take this position of 332 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:48,320 being like this nameless little girl, testifying, witnessing of 333 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,240 what God's done? You know, in the the last couple 334 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,200 of months I've been listening this song that came out right 335 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,440 after Passion conference called I witnessed it. 336 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,800 And the quote is gone, goes on to say this. 337 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,920 I've witnessed your faithfulness. 338 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,000 I've seen you breathe life with him. 339 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,400 So I'll pour out my praise again. 340 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,000 You're worthy God, you're worthy of all of it. 341 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,440 Your promises never fail. I've got stories I live to tell. 342 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,520 So I'll pour out my praise again. 343 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,160 You're worthy God, you're worthy of all of it. 344 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:22,600 And The thing is, this girl had probably heard of what the 345 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,480 prophet was doing. She probably had witnessed, 346 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,920 probably it was a neighbor who had had a deep encounter with 347 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,400 getting something healed or had a touch of God through Elijah. 348 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,200 And she was able to say, if only you can go and see him in 349 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,960 Samaria. So today are we taking that 350 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,320 opportunity in all the God-given places God has placed us in Many 351 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,040 a times today we look at this place that we work at. 352 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:49,440 You know what? I can't spoil my name. 353 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,840 I can't show that I'm a Christian. 354 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,600 I can't. But God has placed you there 355 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:54,360 specifically so you can open your mouth. 356 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,840 So you can open your mouth as much as you want to pursue and 357 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,200 climb the ladder, as much as you want to do the next big, big 358 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,440 thing in your company. Would you trust God that He will 359 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,360 make everything happen? But sometimes would you be 360 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:12,280 obedient to what God is calling you to open your mouth to if 361 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,320 your colleague is telling you, you know what? 362 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,760 I I'm discontent my marriage, I've started looking at someone 363 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,360 else on Tinder. Would you be able to say, you 364 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:21,080 know what? Why are you doing that? 365 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,200 Marriages are meant for you to be together. 366 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,600 Why don't you honor your marriage? 367 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,520 But what's wrong? How can I help you? 368 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,160 How can I pray for you? Let's pray so that your marriage 369 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,920 gets better. Why don't we start witnessing of 370 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,080 His? Because we are ashamed most of 371 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,320 the time of who we follow. But if we've been recipients of 372 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,560 the miracle, if we've been participants of the promises of 373 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,520 we've been people who've invited God and allowed his word to 374 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,240 embed within us, we will be people who speak of it. 375 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,040 Even right when the opportunity comes. 376 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,720 We will know when to insert because we've already been 377 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,400 sensitive to the Holy Spirit. A lot of us today are speaking 378 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,560 out of line because we're not sensitive to the Holy Spirit. 379 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,320 We are sensitive to our image, to our to our image that we 380 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:07,480 think you know what we know at all. 381 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,840 This is how we should speak. Are we sensitive to the Holy 382 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,240 Spirit? Are we sensitive to the Holy 383 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,640 Spirit to speak? And when we speak, I believe he 384 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,600 will give us the time to say if this could happen for them, 385 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,240 people will turn around. OK, I'll follow up on that. 386 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,640 So today, are we willing to be nameless to testify? 387 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,400 Even if I don't get referent in the story, even if I get left 388 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,040 out of that of the arid miracle story, will I be OK to be a 389 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,080 nameless person who will be able to testify? 390 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,280 I'm I ready to testify even when it's not an ideal circumstance, 391 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,960 when I might have a dislike, when I might have a hater and 392 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:53,200 God always allows situations for us to respond his way. 393 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,280 It again comes down to us whether we want to respond. 394 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,240 We are not here created to do it. 395 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,400 He doesn't always OK get from this is the situation. 396 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,680 I know you hate that person, but you have to respond. 397 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,280 You know, we get to choose and that's a beautiful thing about 398 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,120 free will. We get to respond in this. 399 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,840 And so today, outside of our caste biases, outside of our 400 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,480 colour biases, outside of our race biases, outside of our 401 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,080 appearances biases, because I'm seeing a lot of people today, 402 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,160 they only want to talk to other people who dress well, who put 403 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,360 themselves together. But God's going to take you into 404 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:27,040 places to speak to everyone. If God created everyone, he's 405 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,720 going to take you to speak to everyone. 406 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:36,440 Would we do that Maybe also be people who will be seeking to 407 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,680 hear a testimony of God's doing? There are two. 408 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,240 It's a two prong approach. From this particular story, from 409 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,880 the girl's point, will we be willing to be a nameless person 410 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,720 so we can testify? From Naman's point will be we 411 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,000 will we be in a position to listen to someone's testimony 412 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,800 and take it and respond to it. That's why testimonies are so 413 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,720 important. That's why stories of people are 414 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,920 very important. That's why what God's done 415 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,520 through something, we don't take it lightly. 416 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,600 We don't take it lightly. And often times when God is 417 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,560 doing something, he's not doing it on a stage for the world to 418 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,760 watch. He's doing it in seclusion. 419 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,520 So today, if your testimony is one where you wanted to take it 420 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,600 to a stage, it won't even go past a few people. 421 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,360 But if you have allowed God to work on you in seclusion, it 422 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:29,600 will build up so that many will be many who hear it, many who 423 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,960 see it, many who listen to it will want what has happened in 424 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,600 your life. One Timothy chapter 4, verses 11 425 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,480 to 14 goes on to say command and teach these things. 426 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,600 Don't let anyone look down on you because you're young, but 427 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,560 set an example for the believers in speech and conduct and love 428 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,680 and faith and impurity Until I come, devote yourself to the 429 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,000 public reading of Scripture and to preaching and teaching. 430 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,120 Do not neglect your gift, which was given to you through 431 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,760 prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you. 432 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,720 This is Paul encouraging Timothy to not take a step back, rather 433 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,160 to take a step forward. It's what taking a step forward 434 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,480 even more responsibility. Yes, you are young, but you are 435 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,880 called to be an example to believers in speech, in conduct, 436 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:19,680 in love, in faith and impurity. Which means the more as Gen. 437 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,360 Z's and people are coming forward saying I'm wanting to be 438 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,760 in, there is a certain call that and a certain price that is 439 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,720 attached to this. You are called to live with in 440 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,520 our speech, in our conduct, in our love, in our faith and our 441 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,560 purity. And it goes on to say that don't 442 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,840 discount yourself. And so today a lot of us are 443 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,080 discounting saying probably someone else will come and tell 444 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,120 no God has placed you with what's happened in your life. 445 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,720 That's why it's always important to recount his faithfulness in 446 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,520 your life. It's always important. 447 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,280 That's why we give a lot of importance to Thanksgiving 448 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,680 because what has happened, what happens with Thanksgiving? 449 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,720 We say, God, I was like this, but you've brought me out and 450 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,680 you've made me like this. God, I would have ended up 451 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,560 differently. But today if I'm here, it's 452 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,040 purely by your grace and mercy. Let Thanksgiving be on our lips. 453 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,640 His testimony will already be going out of your mouth in 454 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,320 different ways. You will start telling people 455 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,880 this is not me. This was the God who was in me. 456 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,680 He course corrected it. He aligned me differently and 457 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,560 the trajectory now looks different. 458 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,240 So today can we respond in these two different ways? 459 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,800 The way of how the girl was, where she was a nameless girl 460 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,680 was ready to testify of what God did, of what she witnessed. 461 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,160 The 2nd is through name and where He was like ready to 462 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,640 receive the testimony of what this person did. 463 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:43,520 A lot of times we are having doubt and we read in James also 464 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,160 we read that if anyone asks God for wisdom, the same thing was 465 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,800 if anyone doubts and I feel like a lot of times we are 466 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,840 ridiculing. We have a preconceived cultural 467 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,480 idea of all of this, but if a God is responding to faith, if 468 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,200 God is responding to a heart's cry of a child who's deeply 469 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,760 asking for a miracle, and if it comes through, we should be 470 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,600 encouraged by what God is doing in and through their lives. 471 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,760 The third thing we see is when we learn to dip right, God 472 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:18,000 strips our pride to heal. 2 Kings chapter 5 verses 8:00 to 473 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,200 11:00. But when Elijah the man of God, 474 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,320 heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to 475 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,280 the king saying, Why have you torn your clothes? 476 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,240 Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet 477 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,520 in Israel. So Naman came and his horses and 478 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,320 Chariots and stood at the door of Elijah's house, and Elijah 479 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,680 sent a messenger to him saying, Go and wash in the Jordan 7 480 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,160 times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean. 481 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,040 But Naman was angry and went away saying, behold, I thought 482 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,800 that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the 483 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,120 name of the Lord is God, and wave his hand over the place and 484 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:58,880 cure the leper. Today how many of us are having 485 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,600 an ideal understanding of saying this is how God should respond 486 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,880 to my problem? All of us? 487 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,160 I bet a lot of you are probably sitting on a couch thinking, you 488 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,600 know what, until God does it my way, I'm not. 489 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,400 Some of us are like, it's either my way or the highway. 490 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,320 And I believe God wants us to come to a place where he can 491 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,520 strip off upright. God won't repeat a miracle the 492 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,440 same way He did the first time. So if you're looking for a 493 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,080 repeat, the process can be the same, but the outcome will be 494 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,400 different. The way he does it will be 495 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,920 different. The way he chooses to step up 496 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,760 faith will be different. For those of us who've been 497 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,120 seasoned Christians, our maturity will come into play 498 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:51,720 here where we see God diligently, where we say God, 499 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,680 God, even if it doesn't happen, give me the grace to walk 500 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,800 through this. He will take us through this 501 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:04,000 path where we'll be able to see our pride actually be broken. 502 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:10,480 And I and even as Naaman is here, I can put myself in his 503 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,760 shoes and think, you know what, I'm a man of influence. 504 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,520 The like all our Bollywood and Tollywood and Hollywood movies 505 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,440 have the entry of the hero. He would have had an entry into 506 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,920 the place where Elijah was saying that street like that 507 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,440 came in his valiant horses, Ness and Chariots and come there and 508 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,360 stand. And probably if it was a movie 509 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:32,760 making, it'll just go from, down, up and give that reveal of 510 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:40,440 the hero Naman. And there is Naaman, who's angry 511 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,720 because he thought, you know what, the prophet will come out. 512 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,120 He thought he was big enough that the prophet has to come and 513 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,680 ask. He thought his influence was far 514 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,800 bigger. But what he didn't understand 515 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,560 was God wanted to deal with his pride and God dealt with his 516 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,800 pride. Why did God deal with his pride? 517 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,520 He wanted to deal with his pride so that he can receive his 518 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,400 healing. Because if he had allowed his 519 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,640 pride and healing to happen, the glory would still rest upon his 520 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,320 pride. It wouldn't rest upon the fact 521 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,960 that God healed. Somewhere down the line, Naman 522 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,480 would have made it all about himself. 523 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,080 And I wonder if that's the reason why a lot of us are 524 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,120 struggling in our healing. Are we already having a 525 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,480 preconceived answer to say, this is how I will tell people God 526 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,800 healed? Or are we saying, God, do it 527 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,000 your way and I'll testify about it. 528 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,120 You know, a lot of us make these prayers. 529 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,600 And I think it's a very cultural thing, Indian cultural thing. 530 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,000 You know what, OK, if I get this, I'll do this lot for you. 531 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,840 Or if I do this, if you do this for me, I'll do this for you. 532 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,920 God doesn't want that kind of negotiation. 533 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,280 He's not here on a negotiating table to negotiate the best 534 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,000 deal. You know when you're negotiating 535 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,200 a deal, when you're in the street buying something from a 536 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,640 street vendor, he'll say 100, you'll say 70, and then he'll 537 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,120 say you know 90. You'll say 80, then you'll come 538 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,840 down OK, let's both settle on 85. 539 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,560 You feel 85. He feels happy because he's 540 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,480 still got a 20% profit. You feel happy that you've got a 541 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,360 15% reduction on the price. He's not here to negotiate your 542 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,200 healing here. He's wanting to give your 543 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,720 healing, which means he wants you to let go of your pride. 544 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,440 Healing cannot flow when pride is there. 545 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,960 His presence cannot flow when pride is there. 546 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:34,480 You can't have any of his nature flow through you is your pride 547 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,040 is there. And So what Elisha tells him is 548 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,840 simple. Go to this river and dip 549 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:48,080 yourself seven times. What if all of us have been 550 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,080 unable to participate in our miracle because our pride was 551 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,600 the one which was causing us to go to do what God's calling us 552 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,680 to do? We probably felt, you know what? 553 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,920 Hey, I've been in this church for so many years. 554 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,680 I've been a Christ follower. I know things I know. 555 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,360 But what if God's saying, would you just abide with me? 556 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,080 I want to know you. I want to talk to you. 557 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,680 I want to take you through this journey. 558 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,400 What if repentance is the one thing that's causing us to 559 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:22,680 receive this healing? God wants to strip our pride 560 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,840 'cause as we see through the life of Naaman, we see our 561 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,040 identity is what comes ahead before what God wants to do. 562 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,680 Our position in society, the image that we've built in our 563 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,520 families, the way that we carry ourselves is what comes ahead 564 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,640 before God. Somehow in our head we have 565 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,400 logic. Well, we know if this happens, 566 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,880 this should happen. This should happen. 567 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,520 That's what medicine will tell you, but God will tell you 568 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,080 otherwise. That is the supernatural hand of 569 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,040 God. What caused Naaman to actually 570 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,640 experience healing by just dipping himself seven times in a 571 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,120 river? It had nothing. 572 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,960 It all was about God. It all was about God. 573 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,480 When God wants to deal with the pride, the reason why he wants 574 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,600 to deal with the pride is one, He wants us to be removed out of 575 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,880 the equation. His healing will happen and will 576 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,840 only happen through him and not through anything that we've 577 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,600 done. The second thing is he removes a 578 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,400 pride because it's not going to happen through a person through 579 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,760 any other human. It only has to happen through 580 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:26,840 him. There will be people who are 581 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,880 probably standing alongside with you and interceding and 582 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,080 everything. They will witness it, but they 583 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,440 won't be the real reason why you receive the healing. 584 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,160 So if some, because I've seen time and again, lot of people be 585 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,520 like, you know what? I prayed him through that 586 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,360 healing, yes, but at the end of the day, God is the one who 587 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:44,920 healed. You prayed with them. 588 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,680 The church stood and prayed with them. 589 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,000 The church came alongside with them. 590 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,240 The people of God came alongside. 591 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,160 But God is the one. So let pride start taking. 592 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,200 Let's remove pride from the equation one Peter chapter 5 593 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,280 verses 6 to 9 goes on to say so be content with who you are and 594 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,880 don't put on as God's strong hand is on you. 595 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,080 He'll promise you at the right time. 596 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:15,280 Live carefully before God. He is most careful with you and 597 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,040 then it goes on to say keep a cool head. 598 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,040 Stay alert, that devil is poised to pounce and would like nothing 599 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,080 better than to catch you napping. 600 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,240 Keep your guard up. You're not the only one plunged 601 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,720 into these hard times. It's the same with Christians 602 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,160 all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the 603 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,160 faith. The suffering won't last 604 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,920 forever. It won't be long before this 605 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,520 generous God who has great plans for us in Christ, eternal and 606 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,280 glorious plans they are, will have you put together and on 607 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,760 your feet for good. He gets the last word. 608 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,120 Yes He does be content with who you are. 609 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,240 A lot of times I come up on people where you they create an 610 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,560 air around them and I believe God wants us to come to a place 611 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:04,280 where we are carefree before God, which means with God, I 612 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,360 myself, with God, I myself and I can allow God to work in and 613 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,960 through me. So we see here because his pride 614 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,360 acted up. We see and a person around him 615 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,719 speaks and then immediately that changes to humility and 616 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,440 everything changes immediately who we surround ourselves with 617 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,600 matters the people who are around. 618 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,159 And so his foot soldiers are the ones who actually knock sense 619 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,840 into name and this is what they say. 2 Kings chapter 5, verses 620 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,280 12 to 14. Are not Abna and Farfat the 621 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,920 rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? 622 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,360 Could I not wash in them and be clean? 623 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,159 So he turned and went away in a rage, but his servants came near 624 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,639 and said to him, My father, it is a great word the prophet has 625 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:51,560 spoken to you, will you not do it? 626 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,600 Has he actually said to you, Wash and be clean? 627 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,280 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the 628 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,960 Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh 629 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,200 was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 630 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,040 In fact, when you're reading it in the NIV, it says, wouldn't 631 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,840 you, if he had asked you to do something more significant, 632 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:17,720 wouldn't you have gone and done? And our response when we 633 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:21,280 actually allow God to deal with the pride is to come to a place 634 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,480 of one of surrender. Pride doesn't cause me to be in 635 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,480 a position of surrender. Humility causes me to be in a 636 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,760 position of surrender. Who we surround ourselves with 637 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,000 matters. And so today I would ask, who's 638 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,960 around you? Are they telling you and just 639 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,240 speaking to your pride? Are they walking, making you 640 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:44,000 walk towards your healing? Because if they are making you 641 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,600 walk towards your pride, they don't have the good intentions 642 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,920 for you. But if they are, if they have 643 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,560 the space to talk and say, you know what, let's move, Take some 644 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,160 step towards your healing. You are in the right place. 645 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,880 You've surrounded yourself, the right people. 646 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,960 And so today I want us to ask that question, who have I 647 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,880 surrounded myself with? I want people around me who'll 648 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,160 be able to call me out, not who'll be able to build me up, 649 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:10,920 call me up. Guess room. 650 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,080 This is not the way you react. This is not the way you should 651 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,560 do it. Hey, I think this could have 652 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,240 been handled differently. There has to be a willingness to 653 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:22,200 obey. A simple act of obedience is 654 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:27,080 what was required in humility. Wherever we are, we are called 655 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,800 to obedience. God can work in any place in any 656 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,280 time. And even as we see name in his 657 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,840 trying to point out the significance of the river, the 658 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:41,280 river had nothing to do with it. So today, even as much as you 659 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,040 are probably looking, you know what, if I go to this doctor, he 660 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,280 is like the second best person in the country or in the state 661 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,400 or in the city. You can go to everyone, you can 662 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:57,320 dip yourselves in every known, well known river of trying of 663 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,440 influence, a river of, you know, connections, a river of, you 664 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,880 know, finding the right person to get your healing. 665 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,520 And if you're unable to do what God's calling you to do, simple 666 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,280 act of obedience, that's where the problem will happen. 667 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:15,480 So today I would urge you, would you have people who are close to 668 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,200 you, who will propel you towards your healing rather than propel 669 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:25,200 you towards our feed your pride. Can we obey in all humility? 670 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,480 Maybe not obey only when it picks all my check boxes or not. 671 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,200 Maybe not obey only when things work out in my favour. 672 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,360 Maybe not obey only when it's worth posting about it. 673 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,840 Every time we obey, it's a from a place of humility, fully 674 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:46,600 committed to God with the outcome because it's God's 675 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,880 story. It's God's story. 676 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:54,360 God is wanting us to give up so we can give in to His story. 677 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:59,280 Holy pride causes me to give up. Humility causes me to give in. 678 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,600 So today at church, I would ask you if you will be able to give 679 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:07,480 in to God's story because pride will cause you to stay out of 680 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,280 it. Because no glory would want to 681 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,920 go to God but yourself. The last thing we see is when we 682 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,400 dip, right? God strengthens us to follow Him 683 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,960 wholeheartedly. I love Naaman's response. 684 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,480 You know 2 Kings chapter 5 verses 15 to 18 goes on to say. 685 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,160 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man 686 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,480 of God. He stood before him and said, 687 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,600 now I know that there is no God in all the world except in 688 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,360 Israel, so please accept a gift from your servant. 689 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,760 The prophet answered, as surely as the Lord lives whom I serve, 690 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,160 I will not accept a thing. And even though Naaman urged 691 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,320 him, he refused. If you will not, Naaman said, 692 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:48,360 Please let me a servant be given as much as earth as of mules can 693 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,960 carry. For your servant will never 694 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,080 again make burnt offering sacrifices to any other God but 695 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,440 the Lord. But may the Lord give your 696 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,600 servant for this one thing. When my master enters the temple 697 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:03,040 of Ramon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to 698 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,320 bow there also when I bow down in the temple of Ramon. 699 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,040 May the Lord forgive your servant for this. 700 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,320 What a beautiful way you know of Neyman to immediately 701 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,120 understand. That's why the position of what 702 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,240 he held caused him to immediately realize what 703 00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:23,040 situation happened where the power shift happened. 704 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:24,920 The power shift for him happened. 705 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,200 He immediately knew who the real God was as a commander. 706 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:33,000 He knew who he had to bow down to, who his ultimate authority 707 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,520 is. And so today I want all of us to 708 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,520 come to that place. Yes, God placed a seat of power. 709 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,720 He was under the King. But he came here to say I'm 710 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:45,640 grateful, gratefulness. He came back. 711 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,320 He just didn't be one who received his miracle and went 712 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,760 about his way. No, he came back, He said thank 713 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,560 you, and then he was ready to give. 714 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,920 More generosity started coming. This is the thing with people 715 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,520 are asking, why are Christians generous? 716 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,000 Because we've tasted His faithfulness. 717 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,440 We've participated in His promises. 718 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,560 We give and we are not concerned of where we give. 719 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,320 We just give because when we give, the outcome is God's. 720 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,040 And today I want you, church to come to that place. 721 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,440 A lot of you have been unable to receive your healing because 722 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,840 you're unable to give to God what belongs to God. 723 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,280 A lot of you have made promises and you're not stuck to your end 724 00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,400 of the deal and that's why you're struggling in that debt 725 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,120 today. Today a lot of you are unable to 726 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,320 see God come through because you made those claims. 727 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,440 Lord, if you do this, I'll do this for you. 728 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:35,720 Stick to it. He will flourish the work of 729 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,480 your hands. Today they're talking to a 730 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,040 generation where they're like, you know what? 731 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,200 We don't need to give to God because these people don't know. 732 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,160 You're giving to God. You're not giving to people. 733 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:50,160 You're giving to God, who gives, who fulfills his promises for 734 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,400 you. You're not giving to man. 735 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,800 So today don't make your giving about people, make your giving 736 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,760 about God. The second thing that we see 737 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,800 here is Naaman goes on to say you're not accepting anything 738 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,160 because Elijah didn't want anything because he knew God was 739 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,240 the one who did everything. I'm not here to receive 740 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:09,160 anything. Elijah said I don't need 741 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,000 anything. What did Naaman say next? 742 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,200 Can I take earth from you so I can build an altar and offer 743 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,280 sacrifices only to the true God? Only to the true God. 744 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,280 His altar changed. So today if you want to enjoy 745 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,760 this life, I would encourage you let your altar change. 746 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,960 The altar for lot of us today are our paymasters. 747 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,920 We are unable to be people of conviction because we are bowing 748 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,880 down to our paymaster. We are here. 749 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,240 OK. You know I don't want to ruffle 750 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,560 the feathers. No, you have to come to a place 751 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,480 of saying God. You are my paymaster. 752 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,280 You are my paymaster. And today I want you to come to 753 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,080 that place. Would you come to the place that 754 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,920 you'll be able to say God? I will only worship you alone. 755 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,400 And he says this beautiful, he's going back to a king where he 756 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,480 knows he has to go to the temple where the king worships. 757 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,840 And he knows he can't convince the king, but he's asking for 758 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,080 forgiveness in advance. This is how God wants us to 759 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,680 operate. This is the wisdom that comes 760 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,440 knowing God holy. This is the wisdom which comes 761 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,280 when we allow pride to be stripped out by God and when we 762 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,520 respond in humility. So today when we come to that 763 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:22,480 place of coming to him and saying God, I want to build the 764 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:27,080 right altar for far too long he says here the king will hold my 765 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,760 hand and he will bend down and I have to bend down. 766 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,440 Will the Lord forgive me? Today you will go into places 767 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,920 where your where your convictions will be challenged, 768 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,840 your things will be challenged, but you will have to have a hard 769 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,560 conviction of what you believe in, of what you believe in. 770 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,440 God has placed lot of people in high positions and there will 771 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,640 come situations where you will take the hard call. 772 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,440 Some of us are in positions 5-6 years from later, you'll be 773 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,560 seated in a position of power. You can take bigger decisions 774 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,080 which can shift things magnificently if you're 775 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:04,840 listening to God. He says that now I know that 776 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,720 there is no God in all the world except in Israel. 777 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:14,720 So today you and I are called to strip off our pride so that we 778 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:16,440 can live these wholehearted life. 779 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,320 Not just what He wants to strengthen us wholeheartedly. 780 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,360 He will strengthen us in every step. 781 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,960 He will strengthen us. I believe Naaman's life turned 782 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,920 around immediately. His household turned. 783 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:33,240 It all so started because of someone who decided to witness 784 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,480 it. That nameless girl decided to 785 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:40,080 witness. I pray that even as we hear 786 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,920 these things, God will strengthen our faith. 787 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,720 There are these four things I talked. 788 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,480 God wants to help us deal with what we cover. 789 00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,000 I believe some of us have been covering up too long. 790 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,520 God saying I want to deal with it. 791 00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,680 Will you surrender? God wants to speak through his 792 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,080 witnesses. God has probably placed you in a 793 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,440 place where you're embarrassed to talk about him. 794 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,320 God saying, talk about me, share about what I've done in your 795 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,640 life. That appointed time, He will 796 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,280 give share about it. God's asking also today for 797 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,200 those of us who heard about a testimony, if he will respond 798 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:12,760 right. If you'll say God, if you're 799 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,040 able to do it for this, can you also do it in my life? 800 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,960 The third thing is God wants to strip upright so he can heal us. 801 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,480 I pray today that we won't be people who are away. 802 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,080 I mean, not pride. Keep us away from God's story, 803 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,560 but maybe give in to God's story. 804 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:32,680 Pride will cause us to give up on God's story. 805 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:33,880 We'll make it all about ourselves. 806 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,880 But would you give in to God's story in all humility and say, 807 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,680 God, I want to do what you're calling me to do? 808 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,000 And the last thing is, God will strengthen us to follow him full 809 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,640 heartedly. May the altar that we want to 810 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:49,240 build be one to the true living God always, all day long. 811 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,160 And maybe be clear as to where God's placing us so that we'll 812 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,680 be people of discernment, that we won't be swayed away, that 813 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,440 we'll follow him all the days of our life. 814 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,120 So church can I pray and can be close. 815 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,520 Lord, I just thank you, Lord, for your word. 816 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,640 Thank you for all that you're doing, Lord, right now in our 817 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,960 lives, even as we heard from you word, I pray we won't just 818 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,120 receive it, but we'll apply it. We will live it out. 819 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,080 I pray we would go in strength, Lord Jesus, and that we'll be 820 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,760 able to live this Christian life in wholeness, Lord, not in part. 821 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,200 So that when we meet with you in eternity, we have been people 822 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,120 who've been completely transformed here on this earth, 823 00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:29,880 living it out here on this earth. 824 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,480 Lord, we thank you, go before us blessed. 825 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,720 I pray that you'll strengthen each and everyone this week. 826 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,800 Be with us, take charge. We pray that you'll be glorified 827 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:42,160 and honoured, that in everything we want to give you the praise. 828 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,200 We thank you, Lord. Take charge. 829 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,960 Lord Jesus, I pray especially that you'll be with your 830 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,480 children, that this word, Lord Jesus, especially for those Lord 831 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,120 who've been covering it, will receive healing. 832 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,800 I pray that the supernatural hand of God will start working. 833 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,880 Lord, we pray we'll hear stories as they allow you to work. 834 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,000 Healing signs, wonders and miracles will be occurrences in 835 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,240 our life. We'll be participants and we'll 836 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:08,880 witness about it for be with us and bless us. 837 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,000 We are mostly in any pray, Amen. Amen. 838 00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:14,840 Pray that God will bless you and have a blessed week ahead. 839 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,400 I pray that you'll be able to live this out, that you'll be 840 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,480 able to dip right, and that God will enable you to have a 841 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:21,920 blessed week. God bless you all. 842 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,400 Thanks for listening to this message. 843 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,240 We hope you were blessed to hear more messages like this. 844 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,600 Make sure to subscribe and check out our podcast channel for past 845 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,920 episodes. If you like what you are 846 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,520 hearing, consider rating us, subscribing and even sharing it 847 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,040 with friends. That would really help us. 848 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:47,360 For more content from Via Zion and to connect with us, go to 849 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:52,560 Via Zion dot in. Remember, whoever finds Jesus 850 00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:53,600 finds life.