FRIDAY - 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
DIP AND BE CLEAN! - Beyond The Common Series 009
"And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?"
What's complicated in a simple instruction, "go and bathe in River Jordan and you shall be clean." I thought Naaman would glorify God for that but that's not how many proud or big people see things. They rather wanted to be billed. They want to pay. They would want the man of God to make demands on them. This effort is to prove themselves and it shows how carnal and fleshly they are.
Only God knows how many days the instruction of Elisha tarried before Naaman went to carry it out. He was expecting something out of this world. He was expecting to hear a request that'll correspond with the seriousness of the healing he was looking for. If the prophets had said, give a hundred camels, goats, sheep, horses, yards of cloth, he would have had immediate regard for Elisha.
This is the corruption in the human soul that false prophets who preach another gospel - of prosperity leveraged on to cheat people out of their resources.. They'll tell them to sow a seed that corresponds with their problems. So, the people have been accustomed to paying for something, buying something, giving something and yielding something up. It has come to be etched in their memory that something isn't for nothing. So, when it concerns salvation and the gospel of Christ, people generally do have the same perspective of it.
There are people that the gospel of Christ has been preached to - poor and wealthy who said it was too simple. They were themselves asking what else they should do even after receiving Christ. They were willing to pay even with their possessions. That's not what the gospel demands of anyone. It is rather, "believe and be saved." The instruction of Elisha to Naaman is summarized in the words that his servants speak to him, "how much more when he says, wash and be clean."
The Bible says in Romans 10:9-10, "9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
Did you see? With the heart you're to believe unto righteousness (or justification) and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation (being born again)! Jesus died for you as I've overemphasized in the course of this series. Confess your belief now!
Say, "I believe you died for me Jesus and rose again also! I believe! I believe! Come and live in my heart and cause everything to be new."
PRAYER: Thank God for your salvation and the rights of sons given to you.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
I Thess. 3, Isaiah 1-3
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