Word for the Week

Obedience in the ordinary everyday

Week beginning: 27th August, 2023 | By Mhairi Hamilton | LCF Director of International Ministries

"Are not Abana and 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. But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?" So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."

2 Kings 5:12-14 (ESV)

Naaman, a great commander in the Syrian army, was well-respected, powerful, and influential. Yet he suffered from an incurable skin disease. His condition leads him to seek out the Lord, through Elisha.

Elisha, a prophet, sends his servant out to me