We must bear witness to our God anywhere
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: God used the tragedy of a young slave girl who had been taken captive by Syria to bring about a glorious encounter with the Lord and to testify about His power to heal Naaman's leprosy. Instead of renouncing her faith, she remained faithful and bore witness to the Lord. We should also not give up on serving the Lord in times of difficulty and pain, but continue to do good and worship Him, for He will use us for His glory.
Naaman and Elisha (2 Kings 5)
In this series about the king of Syria and the prophet Elisha, Dr. Miranda explains that God not only wants to address your needs, but also work on your personality.
1 A sovereign God who has mysterious purposes
2 God uses tribulations to prepare scenes of great beauty
3 We must bear witness to our God anywhere
4 Let's be diligent in our life
5 We cannot import the patterns of the secular world into the Christian world
6 In the Kingdom of God there is power but that power is unleashed through humility
God had used Naaman's leprosy and was using his plight to bring him to a glorious encounter with the Lord and to bring him into a glorious encounter with the Lord, and to use him as an instrument and as a testimony of His Glory and His restorative Power to the nations including his own nation.
The passage we are discussing tells us that there was another person also with whom God was dealing and that God was using this person to be an instrument of communication of God's plan in Naaman's life. The Word says that: "Armed bands had come out of Syria" that had entered Israel, right? "And they had led captive from the land of Israel a girl, who served Naaman's wife." And this young slave girl who had been taken captive and dragged into the nation of Syria, of Israel said to her mistress: "If my lord asked the prophet who is in Samaria he would heal him of his leprosy."
The passage we are discussing tells us that there was another person also with whom God was dealing and that God was using this person to be an instrument of communication of God's plan in Naaman's life. The Word says that: "Armed bands had come out of Syria" that had entered Israel, right? "And they had led captive from the land of Israel a girl, who served Naaman's wife." And this young slave girl who had been taken captive and dragged into the nation of Syria, of Israel said to her mistress: "If my lord asked the prophet who is in Samaria he would heal him of his leprosy."
