FORCES THAT REDUCE

FAITH CAPSULES: What is reducing you that you know or not know?

2 Kings 5

What reduces one not to live life for God denies delays distracts or destroys.
Whatever reduces one is not of God and will not let one live life in the calling of God. 
A force that reduces one does not announce itself or excuse anyone from being reduced.
Are you being reduced consciously or unconsciously?
Sometimes answering names, or diseases can be the catalysts that reduce one not to rise for God.
Many in the Bible got reduced in the journey of life.
The name of Jabez reduced him until he prayed against the meaning of his name.
1 Chronicle 4:9-10 documents Jabez and his challenge against force in his name that reduce him, “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.” 
God answers prayer to visit with salvation.
God is a merciful God that does not order wrong for His creation that seeks Him for intervention. 
Jabez called on God, and God granted him what he requested.
God does not forget. Remind God His word, and He will answer without fail. Isaiah 43:26 record the promise of God to remind Him with a prayer of faith, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”
Jabez rose and not reduced.
The force that reduces Naaman is his mark of disease and the spirit of anger that prompted his furiousness.
2 Kings 5:1 records about Naaman, “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.
Imagine Naaman, a man with victory by Lord but yet reduced by a disease that he could not hide.
For Naaman, the mark of disease of leprosy that reduces him also had the spirit of anger rooted in furiousness against the direction for his healing by Elisha, the prophet of God. 
2 Kings 5:8-11 records the anger of Naaman, “Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 And 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.” 11 But Naaman became furious and went away…”
Just like a disease as the force which reduces Naaman, the spirit of anger also reduced Naaman.
Naaman walked away from the direction to get healed, from the disease that reduced him because of his anger.
With re-direction from a servant Naaman eventually went for his healing not to be reduced, to die life of waste.

Prayer for today: Ask against the “but” in your life that you will rise to the glory of God.

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