GOD IS INFINITE

1. “So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and waited at the door of Elisha’s house.
2. But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message: “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.”
3. But Naaman became angry and stalked away. “I thought he would certainly come out to meet me!” he said. “I EXPECTED HIM TO WAVE HIS HAND OVER THE LEPROSY AND CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD HIS GOD AND HEAL ME!”
   2 Kings 5:9-11 (NLT)

• Naaman was the commander of the army of Syrian, but was leprous.
HE was sent to Israel by his Master, the king of Syria, and afterwards to Elisha the PROPHET for healing (2 Kings 5:1-8)

• Meanwhile, Naaman had conceived in his heart how he expected God to move in his matter, even before he got to the prophet—Elisha (2 Kings 5:11).
• When Naaman got to Elisha the prophet, what Elisha told him to do, about receiving his healing, was contrary to what he had in mind.
  HE was angry and did not want to obey the instruction given to him by the prophet (2 Kings 5:11,12) .
• God cannot be boxed in, restricted, confined, or be regimented—He is limitless and infinite in His ways.
• The human brain is too small to fathom or reason out the ways of God (Isaiah 55:8,9).

1. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
2. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS.”
   Isaiah 55:8,9 (NKJV)

• In most cases, when you pray, God may not move the way you have thought or premeditated in your heart—if He did, it would not be a miracle.

• God will move in His own way, not in your own way.

• Naaman had expected Elisha to come out to meet him, wave his hand over the leprosy, and call on the name of the LORD his God, for him to be healed (2 Kings 5:11)
• God might not work, do things, according to your premeditated thoughts.
• Allow God to use the best way: the most suitable or appropriate Way that is pleasing to Him, to solve your problems.

• Do not miss your Blessing or miracle because of pride.

• Humble yourself to do whatever you are instructed to do in His Word or through His anointed servants—for your deliverance to be complete.
• Some people have missed their blessings, miracles, because of pride; they found it difficult to do whatever they are instructed to DO—for the solution to their problems (James 4:10).

“Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.”
2 Kings 5:12 (NKJV)

• For your blessing or miracle to be gotten, you have to obey to the letter, whatever God says.
• God was specific in Naaman’s case, that he should go And wash in the Jordan River for him to get his healing—not just any river.
• Naaman started comparing the rivers in Damascus, his country, with that of Israel, which to him were better than all the rivers in Israel 8 together.

• Naaman had forgotten or did not understand that it is not the river that will heal his leprosy, but obedience to God’s instruction through His servant (2 Kings 5:10).

• What will solve your problem is obedience to God’s instruction, if you have an option or a way that it should be done apart from that of God, then, you may as well put up with it, but remember you might stay long in the problem or predicament.

• Another thought behind Naaman’s statements and actions is: the instruction given to him looked stupid, he thought how could ordinary washing in a river heal his leprosy.
THAT, if it were possible, he should have washed in the rivers of Damascus which are better than the rivers in Israel and the river Jordan which the PROPHET told him to wash in.

• To him, it was ludicrous or absurd to think that washing in a river could heal his leprosy:
  “FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS is FOOLISHNESS TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18).

• Had Naaman refused to heed the counsel of his servants or officers who tried to reason with Him, he could have returned to his country with his problem, LEPROSY, and probably died with it—because there is no medical solution to it, except through the supernatural healing power of God (2 Kings 5:13,14).

1. “And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?"
2. So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; AND HIS FLESH WAS RESTORED LIKE THE FLESH OF A LITTLE CHILD, AND HE WAS CLEAN."
   2 Kings 5:13,14 (NKJV)

• Do not be myopic in your thinking.

• You should know that God works in diverse ways, of various kinds, He has thousands of ways which He could solve any problem or meet any need—with Him all things are possible (Matthew 19:26; Mark 10:27).

“But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; FOR WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.”
Mark 10:27 (NKJV)

• Do not conclude in your heart that it is over because someone or some people have disappointed you (Luke 18:27).
• Be flexible in God’s hands and follow His instructions through, for your blessings or miracles to be made manifest (2 Kings 5:14).
• Endeavour to comply with the instructions given to you by God through the written Word; or through the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, or the instructions given through His prophets.
• Do not be another Naaman who almost or nearly missed his blessing or miracle: be open to God’s instructions in His Word, the Bible, and the ones given through His proven ministers.

“But He said, “THE THINGS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE WITH MEN ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD.” ”
Luke 18:27 (NKJV)

• You will not fail in Jesus’s name.
Peace!