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1) Realizing there is a spiritual need in my life. (Naaman--leprosy)
First step is realizing I have a need--a spiritual need.
Spiritual discipline comes from need, provision, relationship and experience.
It quickens spiritual discernment and identification of need.
I understand God through his divine response to my need.
Over and over again I encounter God as the supplier of my need.
2) Having an awareness of God--the need brought him to. (vs.10-14)
When a need arises, an awareness of God as provider should spring up.
It did not in Naaman's life, but he was brought to a point of awareness that God was
the answer.
The discipline of the believer is to immediately recognize God to be the answer.
An awareness of God leads the believer further down the pathway to understanding.
3) Being enlightened by counsel--awareness opened up his sensitivity to that counsel.
(vs.l3)
Increase in understanding comes often through counsel.
A believer should avail himself of this opportunity to gain understanding.
There are times when light has cone to another who can help lighten our path.
4) Receiving God's promise--an awareness opened up his soul to.
(then went he down--vs.14)
He acted upon God's promise.
God's promises of instruction are not fruitful in our lives until we receive them.
Our conduct then will demonstrate our having received God's promises.
We will have purposed to respond in accordance with God' s divine instruction.
We become doers of the word (receivers) not hearers only.
5) Responding obediently to God's instruction--counsel encouraged him to. (vs.14)
Obedience brings assurance, peace, joy, delight, and further revelation and
opportunities for service.
Obedience is a walking in relationship to light received from scripture.
Disobedience is continuing in its own darkness.
Obedience is a pathway of light and enlightenment, thus a path to understanding.
6) Experiencing God's provision--obedience led him to. (was clean--vs.14)
To experience God is to experience a divine power.
The realm of faith takes a believer beyond the reaches of the earthly realm.
It is in this realm in which divine understanding occurs.
We experience divine understanding as we experience the divine source, Jesus.
As we experience his provision, we increase in understanding of Him.
7) Knowing God--experiencing God's provision brought him to.
(now I know that there is no God in all the earth …)
full point of understanding.
To know God fully is to understand things fully.
Understanding comes from knowing God.
Know how to work with God's word. Deut. 28: 2, 8, 45
Applying wisdom.
There is no lack of understanding with God.
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