Speaker 1: Shalom, and I bless money to you all, and you're
Speaker 1: onely welcome to today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion.
Speaker 1: This is Sarahma and rebels jabbing from having shapel international mercy,
Speaker 1: and it's our privilege to be facilitating today's edition. Please
Speaker 1: let us share a word of prayer. Father, thank you
Speaker 1: for the wonderful privilege to gather together at your feet
Speaker 1: to listen to your word. Please open our eyes and
Speaker 1: let us see wonderful things out of your word in
Speaker 1: Jesus my toned. Amen. Now let us take our confession
Speaker 1: from Josho chapter one, verse eight. Josho Chapter one, verse eight.
Speaker 1: This book of the Law shall not depart out of
Speaker 1: my mouth, but I shall meditate in it to day
Speaker 1: and night, that I may observe to do according to
Speaker 1: all that is written in it. For then I'll make
Speaker 1: my way prosperous, and then I'll have good success. Amen.
Speaker 1: Today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion has been titled
Speaker 1: Healing for Better Waterest Part two Healing for Better Watests
Speaker 1: Part two. The subtitle is Divine Instractions and Godly Counsel.
Speaker 1: Our Bible reading texts shall be taken from second Kings,
Speaker 1: Chapter two, verse nineteen to twenty two. Second Kings, Chapter two,
Speaker 1: verse nineteen to twenty two. I read some men from
Speaker 1: Jericho went to Elisha and said, as you know, sir,
Speaker 1: this is a fine city, but the water is bad
Speaker 1: and it causes miscarriages. Put some salt in a new
Speaker 1: bowl and bring it to me, he ordered, and they
Speaker 1: brought it to him, and he went to the spring
Speaker 1: through the salt in the water, and said, this is
Speaker 1: what the Lord says. I make this water pure, and
Speaker 1: it will not cause any more deaths or miscarriages. And
Speaker 1: that water has been pure ever since, just as Elisha
Speaker 1: said it would be Amen. Healing for Better Waters, Part two.
Speaker 1: Healing for Better Waters, Part two. Divine instractions and Godly Counsel.
Speaker 1: Divine Instructions and Godly Counsel. Have you heard the saying
Speaker 1: that life is not perfect? I'm sure you have. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've had a variant of it, something meant to suggest
Speaker 1: that you cannot possibly seek to have all around pleasantness.
Speaker 1: We hear words like this so often that we begin
Speaker 1: to use them as cushions for our quiet, hard breaks.
Speaker 1: We tell ourselves that every good marriage must have a
Speaker 1: hidden misery, every good job must break your health, or
Speaker 1: every family must carry a secret cross. Over time, we
Speaker 1: learn to live with things that were never meant to
Speaker 1: be tolerated. We settle for a life that looks good
Speaker 1: on the outside, while something vital is dying on the inside.
Speaker 1: This was the exact tragedy of Jericho in our Bible
Speaker 1: reading today. The leaders of the city came to the
Speaker 1: prophet Elisha with a strange confession. They said the city
Speaker 1: was pleasant and situated in a fine location, but the
Speaker 1: water was bad, causing the ground to be barren and
Speaker 1: the women to miscarry. Think about that picture for a moment.
Speaker 1: Jericho looked thriving to a visitor passing through. The buildings
Speaker 1: were standing and located in prime places, yet beneath the surface,
Speaker 1: the very source of life, it's water, was carrying death.
Speaker 1: For years, the people had simply managed the problem. They
Speaker 1: built a fine city on top of a better spring.
Speaker 1: Everything changed the day they decided to stop accommodating the case.
Speaker 1: They saw Elisha, a man sent by God, and they
Speaker 1: brought their hidden trouble into the light. Alisha did not
Speaker 1: give them a political strategy or a temporary He asked
Speaker 1: for a new bowl filled with salt, went straight to
Speaker 1: the source of the spring and threw it in. God
Speaker 1: touched the spring at its root, and the scriptures recorded
Speaker 1: that the water was healed from that day forward. Elijah
Speaker 1: was clearly a man who knew what to do about
Speaker 1: their unique situation. Brothers, sometimes the better water in our
Speaker 1: lives ling us simply because we have learned to live
Speaker 1: with them. We assume nothing can change, so we stop
Speaker 1: asking for help. But God often places in our path
Speaker 1: wise counselors, spiritual leaders, trusted mentors, and even skilled professionals
Speaker 1: who carried the insight with desperately need. He uses human
Speaker 1: instruments to bring his restoration to our sources. And so, beloved,
Speaker 1: let us stop making peace with subtle distraction. Do not
Speaker 1: let a better spring room what God is trying to
Speaker 1: build in your home, your health, your mind, or your
Speaker 1: spiritual life. Rich old, seek godly counsel and bring the
Speaker 1: root of the problem to the Lord. The God who
Speaker 1: healed the waters of Jericho is still in the business
Speaker 1: of making booking things or Amen. Now, let us take
Speaker 1: our memories from Second Kings chapter two, verse twenty two.
Speaker 1: Second Kings, Chapter two, verse twenty two, and that water
Speaker 1: has been pure ever since just as Elisha said it
Speaker 1: would be, and that water has been pure ever since,
Speaker 1: just as Elisha said it would be. Amen. Now let
Speaker 1: us pray helps me. Father, forgive us for settling for
Speaker 1: places of bitterness and convincing ourselves that pain is our
Speaker 1: only option. You see the areas of our lives that
Speaker 1: look fine on the outside, that are broken at the source.
Speaker 1: Today we bring our headen beddings to you. Grant us
Speaker 1: the wisom to seek help and the humility to receive
Speaker 1: godly counsel. Go to the very root of our struggles, Lord,
Speaker 1: and bring complete healing. Turn our bearing places into grounds
Speaker 1: of fruitfulness and peace. We ask this in Jesus Mighty
Speaker 1: name aided man be love it. Thank you for being
Speaker 1: a part of today's episode of the Morning Gloried Devotion.
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