Cleansing Leprosy

Tuesday 26 June
READ: Mark 1: 39 – 45
MORE LESSON: 2 Kings 5: 1 - 15

One of the repeated miracles in the ministry of Jesus is the cleansing of lepers. As a matter of fact, when Jesus sent His disciples out in Matt. 10:8, He commissioned them, Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Cleansing lepers is a very important issue to God. Naaman was an example of a leper cleansed by Jehovah in the Old Testament. The striking thing is that Naaman was a Gentile from Syria. There were many lepers in Israel but it was the Syrian that found healing; this was because he was the one that recognised and responded to the grace of God.
Naaman's maidservant preached the good news about the God of Israel to him and he travelled all the way from Syria. When he got to Israel, Elisha didn't come out to see him but rather sent word to him to go and bathe seven times in the muddy River Jordan. A few days before then Naaman was on the throne in Syria, then he was in the territory of an enemy nation begging for help. It seemed like an abomination to the Syrians who had conquered Israel to see their general go to Israel for help. Every abomination that causes shame in your life is over, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Anything that causes shame and makes a man beg his enemy for help is a form of leprosy. Sin, bad habit, sickness and poverty are forms of leprosy. God's desire is that leprosy doesn't stay on any man, Jew or Gentile, believer or unbeliever. However, there is a condition from the Lord for any man who wants to be cleansed of leprosy: he must, of his own volition, come to the Lord. As the Scripture says, ...and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out: John 6:37.
A leper came to Jesus and besought Him, ...If You are willing, You can make me clean. He knew Jesus had the power to heal him but he wasn't sure Jesus was willing to. Jesus was moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and said to him, ...I am willing; be cleansed: Mark 1:41 (NKJV). The Lord is always willing to remove anything that causes shame in your destiny. He is ever willing to cleanse sin, heal sickness and cleanse all forms of leprosy if you will come to Him. Naaman bathed seven times in the river as he was told. Seven is the number of perfection. So he needed complete obedience to have perfect restoration. If any man will come to take a bath in the river of the blood of Jesus, all forms of leprosy in his destiny will be washed away. There is power in the Blood.

Prayer/Action
* Ask for grace to obey God’s instructions even when they don't make sense to you.
* Ask the Lord to help you to be humble enough to accept God’s counsel.
* Ask the Lord to help you recognise your destiny helpers.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER: Oh earth, hear the word of the Lord, I am the face and model of God, God's latest mighty act, in the name of Jesus.