#wepreach

Why the #wepreach hashtag?  It was not my idea.  My pastor preached a sermon about Naaman.  Naaman was a commander of the army of the king of Syria.  He was very successful, but he had leprosy.  And he wanted to be healed.

A servant girl told him about a prophet in Israel who was performing great miracles.  People were getting healed from their diseases.  Naaman wanted in.  He traveled to Israel to meet the prophet.  Elisha, the prophet, didn’t come out of his house but sent a messenger to Naaman and told him to go wash in the Jordan River seven times to be healed.

Naaman was furious.  First of all, Elisha didn’t even have decency to come out of the house to meet him.  Naaman was a man of great importance.  How rude!  Secondly, Elisha didn’t do any fancy tricks or gimmicks.  Isn’t that how everybody gets delivered?  Isn’t that how miracles are performed?  And lastly, who wanted to wash in the Jordan River?  It’s gross!  He was just going to keep getting nasty.  It made no sense.

Fortunately, Naaman had some servants with sense.  They challenged him.  They pointed out to him that the prophet hadn’t asked him to do something hard.  As a matter of fact, if the prophet had asked him to do something extraordinary, he would have been jumping at the chance to do it.

My pastor emphasized the fact that the people around Naaman encouraged him to get his breakthrough.  We don’t know the names of the servant girl or the servants that traveled with him.  But they changed Naaman’s life for the better.  My pastor challenged us to share the good news of Jesus with people throughout the week.  Not just for one week but as a lifestyle. 

That’s how this blog was born. It doesn’t take long for me to sit down and share what I’m going through and how God is moving in my life.  But it does take faithfulness and trust.  God has given me a simple task, and I know that it’s going to turn my life around just like it did for Naaman.  #wepreach