Monday 6 July 2015

Wickedness has its reward

After all this the LORD struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease. Then it happened in the course of time, after the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in severe pain. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning for his fathers. (‭II Chronicles‬ ‭21‬:‭18-19‬ NKJV).

What could have caused such a painful punishment? Let's see...despite being chosen as successor to the throne, he got there and killed all his brothers and he led the people to Idolatory worship.

His cv reads;  husband of the wicked queen Athaliah - daughter of the wicked Jezebel and wicked Ahab. With in-laws like that, it was easy for sin to reign.

Why in the world did his godly father Jehoshaphat made him marry into that family! Was the alliance with the northern kingdom worth it? His intestine came out because of his sickness. Ugh...I wonder how it exited. Don't wanna know thank you.

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Sunday 5 July 2015

It takes a simple obedience to a foolish instruction...

Sometimes, obedience to a seemingly foolish instruction is all you need to obtain your healing, blessing, miracle, open doors, new beginnings, restoration or other forms of joy. Check the story of Naaman;

And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’

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’?” 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. (‭II Kings‬ ‭5‬:‭10-11, 13-14‬ NKJV)