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MGD: Healing for Bitter Waters - 2

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. Shalom, and I bless money to you all, and you're

  2. onely welcome to today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion.

  3. This is Sarahma and rebels jabbing from having shapel international mercy,

  4. and it's our privilege to be facilitating today's edition. Please

  5. let us share a word of prayer. Father, thank you

  6. for the wonderful privilege to gather together at your feet

  7. to listen to your word. Please open our eyes and

  8. let us see wonderful things out of your word in

  9. Jesus my toned. Amen. Now let us take our confession

  10. from Josho chapter one, verse eight. Josho Chapter one, verse eight.

  11. This book of the Law shall not depart out of

  12. my mouth, but I shall meditate in it to day

  13. and night, that I may observe to do according to

  14. all that is written in it. For then I'll make

  15. my way prosperous, and then I'll have good success. Amen.

  16. Today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion has been titled

  17. Healing for Better Waterest Part two Healing for Better Watests

  18. Part two. The subtitle is Divine Instractions and Godly Counsel.

  19. Our Bible reading texts shall be taken from second Kings,

  20. Chapter two, verse nineteen to twenty two. Second Kings, Chapter two,

  21. verse nineteen to twenty two. I read some men from

  22. Jericho went to Elisha and said, as you know, sir,

  23. this is a fine city, but the water is bad

  24. and it causes miscarriages. Put some salt in a new

  25. bowl and bring it to me, he ordered, and they

  26. brought it to him, and he went to the spring

  27. through the salt in the water, and said, this is

  28. what the Lord says. I make this water pure, and

  29. it will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages. And

  30. that water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha

  31. said it would be Amen. Healing for Better Waters, Part two.

  32. Healing for Better Waters, Part two. Divine instractions and Godly Counsel.

  33. Divine Instructions and Godly Counsel. Have you heard the saying

  34. that life is not perfect? I'm sure you have. Maybe

  35. you've had a variant of it, something meant to suggest

  36. that you cannot possibly seek to have all around pleasantness.

  37. We hear words like this so often that we begin

  38. to use them as cushions for our quiet, hard breaks.

  39. We tell ourselves that every good marriage must have a

  40. hidden misery, every good job must break your health, or

  41. every family must carry a secret cross. Over time, we

  42. learn to live with things that were never meant to

  43. be tolerated. We settle for a life that looks good

  44. on the outside, while something vital is dying on the inside.

  45. This was the exact tragedy of Jericho in our Bible

  46. reading today. The leaders of the city came to the

  47. prophet Elisha with a strange confession. They said the city

  48. was pleasant and situated in a fine location, but the

  49. water was bad, causing the ground to be barren and

  50. the women to miscarry. Think about that picture for a moment.

  51. Jericho looked thriving to a visitor passing through. The buildings

  52. were standing and located in prime places, yet beneath the surface,

  53. the very source of life, it's water, was carrying death.

  54. For years, the people had simply managed the problem. They

  55. built a fine city on top of a better spring.

  56. Everything changed the day they decided to stop accommodating the case.

  57. They saw Elisha, a man sent by God, and they

  58. brought their hidden trouble into the light. Alisha did not

  59. give them a political strategy or a temporary He asked

  60. for a new bowl filled with salt, went straight to

  61. the source of the spring and threw it in. God

  62. touched the spring at its root, and the scriptures recorded

  63. that the water was healed from that day forward. Elijah

  64. was clearly a man who knew what to do about

  65. their unique situation. Brothers, sometimes the better water in our

  66. lives ling us simply because we have learned to live

  67. with them. We assume nothing can change, so we stop

  68. asking for help. But God often places in our path

  69. wise counselors, spiritual leaders, trusted mentors, and even skilled professionals

  70. who carried the insight with desperately need. He uses human

  71. instruments to bring his restoration to our sources. And so, beloved,

  72. let us stop making peace with subtle distraction. Do not

  73. let a better spring room what God is trying to

  74. build in your home, your health, your mind, or your

  75. spiritual life. Rich old, seek godly counsel and bring the

  76. root of the problem to the Lord. The God who

  77. healed the waters of Jericho is still in the business

  78. of making booking things or Amen. Now, let us take

  79. our memories from Second Kings chapter two, verse twenty two.

  80. Second Kings, Chapter two, verse twenty two, and that water

  81. has been pure ever since just as Elisha said it

  82. would be, and that water has been pure ever since,

  83. just as Elisha said it would be. Amen. Now let

  84. us pray helps me. Father, forgive us for settling for

  85. places of bitterness and convincing ourselves that pain is our

  86. only option. You see the areas of our lives that

  87. look fine on the outside, that are broken at the source.

  88. Today we bring our headen beddings to you. Grant us

  89. the wisom to seek help and the humility to receive

  90. godly counsel. Go to the very root of our struggles, Lord,

  91. and bring complete healing. Turn our bearing places into grounds

  92. of fruitfulness and peace. We ask this in Jesus Mighty

  93. name aided man be love it. Thank you for being

  94. a part of today's episode of the Morning Gloried Devotion.

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  96. content throughout the day and until we come your way

  97. tomorrow morning. At the same time, please have a blessed day. Amen.