FAITH CAPSULE: The clouding hindrance in Naaman denied his listening ability. 

2 Kings 5  

Leprosy takes a position of cloudiness over the testimony of Naaman, while pride represents the crowd as the agent of hindrance in his life. 
2 Kings 5:1 records, “Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor but a leper.”  
With all the honors over Naaman, there was a “but” that clouded his destiny.
The but which clouded Naaman reduced in all areas of the position. 
What is reducing you and not answering what God has called you to be? 
The hindrance that clouded Naaman is the same over the life of many today.
The hindrance in the life of Naamane was leprosy, the representative of pride over his life. 
When Naaman approached Elisha for his healing, the cloud in his life stood between him and the word of Elisha for healing.
2 Kings 5:10 records, “Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”  
The healing word for Naaman to experience healing states, “wash and clean.”
The power to get healed was not in the Jordan but in the healing word for direction.
The clouding hindrance in Naaman denied his listening ability. 
The word of the prophet provoked the clouding agent in Naaman to manifest. 
2 Kings 5:11-12 states, “But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’ Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.”. 
Is pride a hidden identity that is clouding your destiny?
The pride in clouding Naaman manifested when: 
He became furious (extreme anger)     
He walked away from his ground of healing. 
The spirit of “I” set in. 
Rage caused him to act with fury.
Does any of the above sound like you? 
When pride in the life of Naaman subsided, obedience to the healing word with direction led him to become cleansed from leprosy. 
Can you see, when looked into the mirror, the word? 
When you look into the mirror, the word of God, do you see yourself, or do you only see others? 
Until you begin to see yourself in the mirror of the word of God, the word of God will not become your frame.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled hearing to receive direction and the healing word of God.