Read 2 Kings 2: 19-22
I believe a divine reversal is coming your way! However, before the reversal, we must get first things first.
In this text the men of the city came to Elisha the prophet and they say “We have a problem, from the outside everything looks pretty but we have a problem.
Next, they took their problem to the right place.The first major step to a reversal for you and I and for these men was: they recognized and admitted they had a problem.The only problem that is unsolvable, unfixable, and incurable, is the one you will not admit to having.They said to the prophet: This place is pretty, we like the neighborhood, it sets in a nice place, we like the view. From all outward appearances it’s all good.You better go to someone who has that under their feet, someone who is not wallowing in the same mess. You need someone who can show you what it looks like to be free.You have to know where to go when you have a problem. You don’t take your car to the dentist to get it fixed, and you don’t ask a plumber to fix your teeth, and you don’t want a janitor operating on your brain.How long are we going to put up with attitudes, addictions, hang-ups, and lusts of the flesh that are self destructive, and in absolute disagreement with the word of God, before we cry out “Help Lord, I have a problem?”.If you can’t get on the computer without logging onto a porno site, you have a problem.If your car can’t drive past the casino without turning into the parking lot, you have a problem.If you still get angry and resentful and hold a grudge every time somebody says something about you or disagrees with you, you’ve got a problem.If every time things don’t go your way you run to the fridge and gorge yourself, you have a problem.If you can’t see somebody else blessed with something nicer than what you have without becoming jealous and critical and envious, then you have a problem.If you can’t look at a pretty woman without lusts rising up in your heart you have a problem.How long are we going to keep going around the same mountain, fighting the same battles, struggling with the same addictions, wrestling with the same fleshly lusts and desires, falling down at the same place over and over again, giving into the same temptations again and again before we are willing to admit we have a problem?We can’t just skip over this saints: We have a problem!They may all be nice people, but there’s a right person for the job, and you got to go to the right person.
But the water is cursed, it carries some kind of poison in it and it is making the ground barren.
Thank God for some men in the city who wanted more than pretty, they wanted purity and power. They were more concerned about being good, than just looking good.
Some of Gods people have let something into your heart and it has poisoned you. You’ve become unproductive, your life has become barren, you have no joy, no peace, you have no passion for life, you’re full of bitterness and anger and resentment and unforgiveness. You’ve let envy and jealousy and strife creep into your heart, and now even when something good does happen or something good is initiated, it ends up drying up and dying because your life is poisoned. (Guard) your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues, (or streams) of life.
As long as you are willing to put up with it, you will have it.
God wants you to know, this is your day for divine reversal.
The curse is being turned into a blessing.And out of the same place from where death emanated, life began to flow, and the bible says the waters were healed from that day forward.
When that salt came into contact with those cursed waters, the curse had to go. (The salt is symbolic of the Christ life) the spirit and the power of God.
There is a blessing and his name is Jesus. Jesus is not just the blesser, he is the blessing. And the blessing is greater than any curse.
There is a divine reversal coming your way. Curses are being broken, decisions are being overturned. God is reversing the trial.There is only one cure. It’s the universal cure! It cures every curse big or small. It’s the blessing. The blessing is greater than the curse.
