Daily Devotional : (Open Heavens - Friday August 7th 2015)

HELP FROM SUBORDINATES
Memorise: And strangers shall stand and feed your
flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plow men
and your vinedressers. Isaiah 61:5
Read: 2nd Kings 5:1-4, 10-14; Bible in one year: Esther
8-10, John 9:35-10:21

God had His agenda already set out before the foundation
of the world. When the right time comes for Him to unfold a
specific plan in His agenda, He looks out for those He can
use to achieve His purpose. For example, when the time
came for God to accomplish an earlier plan to turn a Syrian
army general into a worshipper of Jehovah, God sought the
vessel to use, and He found a young captive girl who was
serving as a maid in the house of Naaman. She cooperated
with God and told Naaman’s wife of a highly anointed
prophet of God in Israel who could cure the incurable
leprosy that was a blemish upon Naaman’s life.
Some other vessels that God used in achieving His purpose
concerning Naaman were Naaman’s personal assistants.
When they arrived at the front of Elisha’s house, Elisha
simply sent his servant to tell Naaman to go and dip seven
times in River Jordan and he would be healed. Naaman took
offence that the prophet could not even honour him by
coming out to talk personally to him. How could the prophet
send a servant to him? Besides, he did not like River Jordan
at all. Why did the prophet not choose any of the prestigious
rivers around? He was angry, and he decided to leave. Had it
not been that some of his servants decided to talk frankly
with him, making him see the folly of his decision to return
home empty-handed, he would have become a victim of his
anger. He listened to them, went and dipped in the river and
came out whole. When he returned to the prophet, he
offered him a gift which he refused. He then requested to
carry some of the soil from Israel to his native land to raise
an altar to Jehovah there, and he promised to serve the
Almighty God going forward. God can use you. Are you a
housemaid or a houseboy? God can use anyone. Are you a
servant? God can use you. God also use Prophet Elisha. Are
you a servant of God? God can use you. One lesson from the
maid and the servant is that if you can deal with the
problems of fear and intimidation, you can be used by God
to help your superiors. Never look down on yourself. Do not
say that because you are uneducated, you cannot speak to
the educated about Jesus. Use the Pidgin English or
vernacular you know to pass across the message of the love
of Jesus to others. The help that will move some superiors
to their next level lies in the hands of their subordinates.
You can be used to assist your superiors. The greatest
assistance you can give to those above you is to link them
up with Jesus.
PRAYER POINT :
Father, let my ears be open to Your voice coming
through my subordinates.