Credit where credit is due. “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” - 2 Kings 5:10 (NKJV)
A testimony requires a test. “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” - 2 Kings 5:8 (NKJV)
You’ll see God work. “They brought Him to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord.” - Luke 2:22 (KJV)
The king had no faith. “And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, ‘Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy?’” - 2 Kings 5:7 (NKJV)
That was a pile of money. “The king of Syria said, ‘Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel.’ And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.” - 2 Kings 5:5 (KJV)
It’s all great. “She said unto her mistress, ‘Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! For he would recover him of his leprosy.’” - 2 Kings 5:3 (KJV)
Let it bring out the best in you. “And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.” - 2 Kings 5:2 (KJV)
This was a fight he couldn’t win. “Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.” - 2 Kings 5:1 (KJV)
You’ll have all you need—and then some. “Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath.” - Zephaniah 1:18 (KJV)
Some things can’t be outsourced. “Bear one another’s burdens.” - Galatians 6:2 (NKJV)
Get over it! “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” - Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)
He gave her his house! “We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” - 1 Timothy 6:7 (KJV)
Don’t let your limitations limit God. “The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.” - 1 Kings 17:16 (NKJV)
She was going to die. “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin.” - 1 Kings 17:12 (NKJV)
You’re going to be okay. “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” - 1 Kings 17:9 (NKJV)
They might be the beginning. “It came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.” - 1 Kings 17:7 (KJV)
Obeying God can be less than glamorous. “It will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” - 1 Kings 17:4 (NKJV)
You’ll never regret it. “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” - 1 Kings 17:1 (NKJV)
You’ve got to be bold to pull that off. “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” - 1 Kings 17:1 (NKJV)
Without that, it’s a different proposition. “And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.” - Genesis 42:8 (KJV)