Wednesday, July 6, 2011

THE POWER OF RECOGNITION - IF YOU DON’T RECOGNIZE IT, YOU WILL WASTE AND ABUSE IT


If a man does not recognize, he cannot utilize. Awareness is the greatest tool of change. We are so hopeless when we don't know. If we don't know, we are blind and our best efforts will fail. They fail woefully. We lose direction when we do not acknowledge the exact purposes that things are meant for.

Two things led to these recent thoughts of mine. I have been studying the life and story of Naaman in 2kings 5. It has been coming alive and fresh. This man was not an apostle, nor was he an evangelist. His story was only mentioned in this part of the scripture but he deserved a commendation by Jesus in Luke 4:27.

Luk 4:27  And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

He was the only leper healed in pre-Jesus era because of his awareness. On a closer look I could see that there were a lot of laws that governed his miraculous transmission from an adult leper to a man whose flesh became like that of a small baby. This basic law that initiated the other laws, I believe, is the Law of recognition.

2Ki 5:3  One day she said to her mistress, "I wish that my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria! He would cure him of his disease." (GNB)

I declare in the name of Jesus that today will be the beginning of your day of change.

He saw a chance. He saw an opportunity. He recognized it. He used it. He did something with the opportunity and the other laws of favor, divine instruction, compliance took over. However, I will be deliberating on the law of recognition today.

Secondly, I saw how powerful the law of recognition is in the life of a man who killed his wife recently in Lagos. May you wake up from all forms of slumber! May you not be blind internally till it’s too late. May we not be deaf that we cannot hear. If you can’t recognize, you will misbehave. It was a 3-year