God wants a people to rise up who have nothing to lose

The prince of Samaria reacts with incredulity and almost blasphemes against God by questioning in a very radical way this promise from the prophet Elisha that tomorrow at that same time there would be abundant food for all the people.

And he uses a blasphemous image saying: well if God made it rain, if he opened the window of heaven it would still not be enough. And we spoke in the last meditation about this man representing that incredulous portion of the Church that will be abandoned by the power of God and that it will even be judged for its unbelief.

Then from there the scene changes again and we are presented in the next verses beginning with verse 3 of chapter 7 of the second book of Kings a group of lepers who are sharing this same terrible situation of hunger and that because they are lepers and because they are Absolutely also, almost starving, they feel that they have nothing to lose and that therefore they can go to the Syrian camp and they say: Well the worst that can happen to us is that they kill us but we are going to die here anyway and they may give us something to eat and we survive that way.

Then these four men who have nothing to lose approach the Syrian camp and find there a scene that leaves them completely speechless. And it is that that camp that they thought was going to be full of a powerful army was completely abandoned and it says here "that there was no one there."

And in verse 6 it says that it was because: "Jehovah had caused in the camp of the Syrians to be heard the roar of chariots, the noise of horses and the roar of a great army. And as a consequence they said to one another: Behold the King of Israel has hired the Kings of the Etheans and the Kings of the Egyptians against us to come against us and so they got up and fled at nightfall leaving their tents, their horses, their donkeys and the camp as it was and had fled to save their lives. "

When these lepers enter the camp they find that it is completely deserted because God miraculously, sovereignly had produced a sound like a great army that was approaching and these men, believing that it is an army hired by the King of Israel, flee to escape this assumption. enemy that comes against them and in this way they flee, abandoning everything they have, their tents, their horses and all their food and clothing. And these lepers are the ones who stumble upon that incredibly miraculous scenario.

And we see here that when Elisha gave that Word God began to work immediately. That's what the prophetic Word does. When that Word is declared in the power of the Holy Spirit and in the divine authority that power begins to run through the air and change situations even when the human beings who are participating in those situations do not realize it but God has already begun to move. below the surface and it is only a matter of time before what God has declared comes to the surface.

These four lepers for me exemplify that completely abandoned segment of society that has nothing to lose and also that poor segment of the Church that is completely lost, that no one takes them into account; They are on the margins of the important Church and taken into account and on the margins of the powerful and sometimes they laugh at it, they consider it ridiculous, but it is that poor, small and in an ignorant sense that God is going to use because it is the Church that believe God, believe His Word, seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit, cry out to God, fast, pray, believe the Holy Spirit and that is the Church that God is now going to use.

It is a Church that has nothing to lose like the lepers. It is a worn-out Church, rejected by the powerful, abandoned by the nations but that God wants to use to discover what God is truly doing below the surface. And God needs a people to rise up who have nothing to lose; a people that has died to the world, a people that says as Queen Esther said: If I perish, let me perish but I am going to do the Will of God.

A people desperately eager for the power of God to move in the midst of Him. And God wants to visit that people to do great things, that people God wants to be a witness in the midst of the nations. I want to belong to that town. That means that we have to be seeking in sanctification, in praise, in spiritual warfare, in stripping ourselves of the love of the world and the vanity of the world, living a priestly life, a life given to the Lord, a life that has said not flatly to all the appetites, all the pleasures, all the attractions, the temptations, vanities of this world and that having nothing to lose God can then use us to be witnesses in the nations of His Power and spokesmen for His good news.

When these lepers arrive at this place they find that God has already done the work, God has left the provision and now it is a matter of taking it. Note that there was no planting, no work, the food, the provision was already there and it will be. In these times God wants to put provision in the hands of His servants. God wants to put blessing and food and food for His Church to do what it has to do but that will only happen in the power of the Holy Spirit, with the power that God wants to pour out on us.

Then the Church will receive all the resources it needs to proclaim the Word, to spread the Gospel, to evangelize the nations. But there is a price to pay; it is the price of consecration, it is the price of losing everything and surrendering everything so that God can use us as God wants to use us. We have to be like the lepers who had nothing to lose. May God bless you and until our next study.