The Needs God Facts 2 Kings 5: 1-15

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1. Needs that restrain man's freedom.  V.1

        (he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper) 

2. Needs that lead to rejection.   V.1

(he was a leper) 

3. Needs that surpass the power of man. V.5,7

(king of Syria •.. send a letter unto the King of Israel.)  (Am I God, to kill and to make

        alive, .…) 

4. Needs that when met, reveal God's presence--to turn the hearts of God's people to

God. V.8

(Let him come ... and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.) 

5. Needs that are held by human pride. V.11,12

        (But Naaman was angry,  …I thought ... ) 

6. Needs that are no match for the master's hand. V.13,14

        (Wash, and be clean ... ) 

7. Needs that have the potential of Godly honor.     V.15

(now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel;) 

How to Know your Answers are Right Proverbs 22: 19-21

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V 19 1) Base your knowledge on what God reveals. 

( I have made known to thee ) 

V 19 2) Seek God's daily fellowship and instruction. 

( this day) 

Keep a fresh message 

V 20 3) Be attentive to all God reveals .

( Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge) 

v 20 4) Relate what God is saying to your specific challenges and trials. 

( Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, ) 

V 21 5) Allow your heart to be convinced of God's message. 

( That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, ) 

V 21 6) Be attentive to the needs of those sent to you.

( to those who send unto thee?) 

V 21 7) Answer others with the affirmed truth in your heart. 

( that thou mightest answer the words of truth ) 

Pure Hearted Companionship 2 Kings 5: 18

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As seen in Naaman's life after healing took place.

(In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, ... ) 

1) You can keep your heart pure around evil. 

2) You can serve Christ even though your earthly authority is lost. 

3) You can be loyal to Christ, even though those around you are resistant. 

4) You can live separated in Christ, even though you have responsibilities in the world. 

5) A servant of Christ is to be a light in a lost world. 

 6) God will protect your witness--His presence. 

7) God's standards are not to be compromised. They are the light for others to follow. 

The Believer's Security Psalms 34: 7

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v.4 1. God makes Himself available to His child.

(I sought the Lord, and)

v.4 2. God responds to the voice of His child.

(and He heard me,)

v.4 3. God removes fear from His child.

(and delivered me from all my fears.)

v.5 4. God gives assurance to His child.

(They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and)

v.6 5. God deals with the cause of fear to His child.

(This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and save him out of all his 

troubles.)

v.7 6. God surrounds His child with His protective grace.

(The angel of the Lord emcampeth round about them that fear Him, and)

v.7 7. God is willing to rescue His child again and again.

(and delivereth them.)

The Pathway to Understanding 2 Kings 5: 15

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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.

A Believer is Fully Protected 1 Peter 5: 8, 9

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v.8 1. A believer is totally secure in Christ.

(your adversary the devil,)

v.8 2. A believer who fears God will not fear the devil.

(as a roaring lion,)

v.8 3. A believer who walks with God will not be a victim of the enemy's entrapment

 of deception.

(walketh about...)

v.8 4. A believer whose focus is upon Christ will continuously have his life 

strengthened and protected.

(seeking whom he may devour:)

v.9 5. A believer who entrusts his life to truth will have a covering of God's promises.

(Whom resist steadfast in the faith,)

v.9 6. A believer who exercises his faith in Christ will be shielded from the enemy.

(Whom resist steadfast in the faith,)    Eph.. 6:  16

v.9 7. A believer is fully protected by the truth in ministry, on God's mission.

(knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in

 the world.)

Christ's Teachings-Prepared for His Return-2 Luke 12: 37, 38

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v.37 1. God will reward those servants watching for His return, with His return.

    (Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find

watching:)

v.37 2. Those servants will be invited to sit down with Jesus at the marriage supper

of the Lamb.

(verily I say unto you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down

to meat, and will come forth and serve them.)

Rev 19: 7

v.37 3. Jesus will remain the faithful servant so clearly depicted throughout the

believer’s earthly life.

(that He shall gird Himself, …and will come forth and serve them.)

v.38 4. The blessings granted to those servants have no likeness of comparison on

earth.

(And if He shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and

find them so, blessed are those servants.)

v.39 5. Know that this watching must be with faithful living.

(And this know, that if the goodman of the house had knows what hour the

thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house

to be broken through.)

v.39 6. Know that Jesus will not give a prior announcement at the time of His 

coming.

v.40 7. Know that Jesus is not bound to man’s prediction or expectation, but to His

Father in heaven.

(Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye

think not.)

Acts 1: 7