The-Cure-Is-Not-What-You-Think

You know, it's a funny thing about pride. When your

heart is full of pride, you try.

To write your own prescriptions and you start saying.

Things like, well, if they apologize, or well if they

come to me, well if they this, and if they that.

But what if God isn't going to heal you on

your terms? What if He isn't going to set everything

up to be convenient? What if the command that God

gives you is to do something that to you seems

insignificant and foolish and embarrassing and humiliating. What if God

gives you something to do that seems beneath you. Naymon

said the Jordan river, and he went away angry and said,

here's the two words that get me in trouble verse eleven.

I thought, do you know how many times those two

words have stood between me and p I thought? I thought,

you know how many times those two words have stood

between me and joy?

I thought? How much longer are you gonna worship at

the altar of what? You thought? What if God wants

to do it in a different way? What if God wants

to do it in I'll process?

Not in a moment, look, Namon expected it to go

a certain way.

I thought he would surely come out to me. He

would come to me. He's supposed to come to me.

I'm a great man. People come to me.

And I thought he would stand and call on the

name of the Lord is God. I thought he would

wave hever was supposed to wave his hand over the

spot and cure me of my leprosy. But see that

wasn't the spot that God was aiming for. God wasn't

trying to heal name and skins.

Much as he was trying to create faith in Namon's heart.

That's why I went off, because I misunderstood what God

was trying to do in that moment. I went off

because I got so much more concerned about how I

looked in the situation.

Than what God was trying to do through it.

And the message today is for somebody who is about

to go off. You're sick of it. I don't have

to put up with this. Do they know who I am?

Namon said, do you know my name? Man?

All right, I'll retire the jokes. I'll just stick to

the Bible.

Are not Abana and far par The rivers of Damascus

better than all the waters of Israel.

I got my prejudice.

I got my preference, I got my convenience, I got

my thoughts, I got my plan, I got my script.

Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed? So watch

what Name and did? He turned and went off. Literally,

he went off in a rage. And thank God when

he speaks to you in those moments and interrupts you

from going off and going back home, going home unhealed,

because you were unwilling to be humbled.

And Name and servants came to him. Look what they did.

They went to him and said, my father, sir dude,

if the prophet told you to do some great thing, would.

You not have done it? Well, yes, because I am

a great, many great.

Then how much more when he tells you wash and

be cleansed, can I tell you something. God's not trying

to cure your condition or fix your situation. He's trying

to make you hold on the inside. So this is

how God showed me, Holly. He came for a cure,

but he went home cleansed. And sometimes what we come

for is not what we leave with. And what's what

he did next verse fourteen. So Naman went down.

That's the only way he's going to get healed.

He went down and dipped himself in the Jordan, that

muddy river that meant so much to the nation Israel

of Israel, but meant nothing.

To name it.

And he dipped himself in the Jordan seven times. And

the first time he dipped, let me assure you, nothing

got better. And the second time he dipped, let me

assure you, his spot looked exactly the same. And the

third time he dipped, his skin didn't grow any lighter

or darker. And the fourth time he dipped, nothing happened

to indicate that he was doing the right thing. And

the fifth time he dipped, do you get the.

Point, nothing happened. The sixth time.

That he dipped, he wondered, did this man send me

down here to make a fool of me? Because God

wants to know? Do you trust me enough to stay

in the process when you cannot see the proof? Sometimes

I am going to need you to go in before

you go off, to go into my presence, to go

into my work, to seek me for wisdom, to seek

my will. And when it doesn't seem like it's working,

it's going to take all seven times. But if you

keep going off on the third dip. When you keep

going off, when you don't feel appreciated or confirmed or validated.

If you keep going off, you are gonna go home

with the same condition that you came to church with.

But if you go in and come into my presence

with thanksgiving and enter my courts with praise, if you

will go in and worship me and go through the

emotions when you don't feel like it's working, and trust

me and humble yourself, I'll lift you.

Up, stand to your feet.

And after his seventh dip in the Jordan, as the

Man of God had told him, his flesh was restored.

And watch this, he became clean. It was more than

just his skin, it was his soul. To know, you've

got to embrace God's process to experience his promise. And

the Great Man, the Great Man, Namman, came out of

the Jordan with his skin restored like a young boy.

The Great Man became like a young boy. That's about faith,

my friend, and I admired name him because he went,

and I relate to name him because he almost left.

There's been so many times in my.

Life that God has spoken something to me that it

almost seemed too simple.

It was almost offensive to me.

There's times where he spoke to me to let something

go I was holding on too. There's been times where

he wanted me to go to someone and take responsibility

for my part in a relational conflict. There's been times

in my life where he to me to own a

dysfunction that I kept trying to justify and explain away.

And I can only tell you this from experience, is

that like name, and what I found is that the

cleansing comes in the process. It comes when you get

down in that water that seems muddy to you and

start doing the dirty work of saying this is what

it is, This is what it is. This is me

and the way that I respond and react. I can't

I can't keep blaming it on my environment. I can't

just stay in this position where I'm fighting all the time.

So I'm going down. I'm going in.

In fact, lift your hands in the presence of the

Lord right now. This is the posture of surrender, and

healing only comes through surrender in the presence of God.

You can't receive God's transformation on your terms. So you

got to get your hands up high. You got to

know where your help comes from. Today You got to

know that the healing power of Jesus is available to

you in every moment. It's not something you can achieve

by mine or by power. It must be received by

His spirit.

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