“The Maid Spoke My Miracle”
25 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
On yesterday I preached a message entitled: “The Maid Spoke My Miracle”. 2Kings 5:1-6, 15.
In this message I was talking about a Man by the name of Naaman. He was a commander of an army, a friend, counselor and confidant of the king. Yet, Naaman was powerless over one thing. He had a disease called leprosy. At Naaman’s house there was a young maiden that was captured previously and became his wife’s handmaiden. Now I’m pretty sure that this maid heard many private conversations between Naaman and his wife. One day she took a chance and told her Mistress that there’s a prophet in Samaria that could heal him from leprosy .Therefore convincing her master to go.
They had never heard of anyone who could cure leprosy. It sounded too good to be true! Naaman got ready at once to go and find the prophet. The king of Syria gave him a letter to the king of Israel. He prepared chariots and horses. Servants went with him for he was a very important man. He took many gifts along, gold and silver and some beautiful robes. When they got into the land of Israel, Naaman went at one to the king and presented the letter from his king. The letter simply said, “I am sending Naaman to you so you may heal him of his leprosy.” The king was distraught and thought that the king of Syria was trying to pick a fight.
Word soon reached Elisha and he sent his servant to the king saying, “Send Naaman to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” When Naaman arrived at Elisha’s house he sent his servant out to him with a message, “Go and wash in the Jordan River seven times, and you will be clean.” Naaman became angry, “Why, I thought he would come out himself and put his hand on my sores and pray to his God. There are better rivers on my land than this muddy Jordan. I’ll not do it.”
But his servants gave wise counsel saying, “If the prophet had told you to do something hard, you would have done it. Even though this is a simple thing try it.” So Naaman took off his outer garments and walked out into the water. Then he dipped down whist the servants watched. When he came up the seventh time, the spots were gone.
The Bible says, “His flesh came again like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.” All his servants could see that he was completely healed.
Now In Order for Naaman to accept the miracle that was spoken to him by the maid he had to:
A-He identified that he had a problem, leprosy. Instead of hiding it and ignoring it he decided to do something about it. He talked to his family. He talked to his king. He listened to his servants. He acted on their advice.
B-He was willing to humble himself instead of letting his pride take over. Naaman was willing to sacrifice a little to gain a lot.
In essence,
C- Naaman was willing to do something about his problem. He never gave up. If necessary, he was willing to go to the highest authority in whatever country necessary to be cured. When offered a solution he didn’t waste time. He acted on the information immediately. We need to take a lesson from Naaman. After he identified the problem and acknowledged its existence, he was willing to do something about it rather than wallow in self-pity. It did not bother him to take advice from a lowly servant. It did not bother him to liquidate all his wealth to pay for a cure. It did not bother him to enter enemy territory to seek a cure. He was willing to pay any price, give any gift, Make any sacrifice,
Travel any distance to seek a cure. He pulled out all the stops and thereby laid the groundwork for a miracle.
The young maiden had faith in her God and therefore saw the miracle of Naaman listening to her and acting on the information. Naaman had faith that he would be cured of his disease if he traveled to Israel and saw Elisha and because of that faith God did cure him of his disease. Remember the maid spoke his miracle and thru his obedience and faith he’s healed.
God can use anyone to speak a miracle into your life! Just make sure that you have a heart to receive the miracle.
“A Servant Of His”
Prophet S. Thompson
Pastor of United Global
C.E.O. Tender Hearts Ministry
