11/02/2019
In our days, we have a good number of prophets giving accurate prophecies and casting away demons with biblical speed and confidence ,yet many are yet to believe in them. More so now that native doctors are dumping the shrines to the church altars, every thing prophetic is seen as magic,and demonic, the prophets of our time are going through what Elisha went through in the hand of the great Syrian Captain, Naaman.
Captain Naaman had a problem that he had no solutions to. Neither the Syrian king nor the king of Israel could help him. Elisha had earlier told the king of Israel to send this general to him,after he came knocking on the kings' doors ."This Elisha said was necessary in order to show to Naaman that their is a prophet in Israel, just as his slave servant told him.
When Naaman finally saw the prophet, he gave to him {Naaman} a solution to his problems.but he refused to obey the prophetic instructions,because he was probably expecting little prophetic utterances or "abracadabra" before heaven replies. But according to the bible, Elisha simply sent a messenger unto him..."And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying go and wash in Jordan seven times and thy flesh shall come again to thee and thou shall be clean " 2Kings 5:10 In simply summary, all that the Syrian army general needed was just to wash him self seven times in Jordan, and he would be made whole but he refused. He forgot that God's ways are not man's ways.
One can agree that pride and the rank he carried on his shoulders as well as the fact that he was proud of his native land Syria and the rivers therein {Rivers Abana and Pharpar} were behind his refusal to obey this prophet of the living God. It nearly robbed him of the miracle in his hands .How could it be said and or heared in Syrian streets that Naaman the army general, the worrior went to Israel and obeyed such instructions.
But God gave him one more chance to be healed through his servants who persuaded him to obey the prophet "And