God speaks today Thursday | October 16, 2025
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
(2 Kings 5:13)And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
(Luke 4:27) God is never in a hurry
The story of Naaman teaches us about how God humbles our reasoning to open us up to the humility and proper disposition needed for Him to work miracles in our lives. We must reject the tendency to judge churches and ministries by their external appearance and instead look at their internal values. Naaman's servants played a determining role in his healing, and God's breaking process is part of His plan for our improvement. God wants to form certain characteristics in us, and He intervenes in our lives to do so. Naaman finally submitted to God's process and became a changed man.
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Cross Reference
And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
(2 Kings 6:21)Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
(2 Kings 5:1)And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
(2 Kings 2:12)Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
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