Dr. Johnson. Org
From The Doctor’s
Diary- 30- 4 Lepers
The pastor friend of mine had to find a house on rent
urgently as he and his family had been asked to vacate the rented house that
they were living in as soon as possible. He had been praying fervently about
the matter and searching for a house in different places for the same, but to
no avail.
I too joined in the hunt and for several days searched and
enquired of houses that were to be rented. It had almost been a week and the
pastor had to vacate the house that he stayed in now, the next morning.
Early next morning I had to go to the market to buy
groceries and as I drove my car towards the market, I was telling the Lord how
my master friend needed a miracle that day. It was then that I saw them- 4
lepers walking together and in a moment the Lord spoke to me & reminded me
of the 4 lepers during the great famine of
7 years when Elisha was prophet in Israel.
Now
there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to
each other, "Why stay here until we die? If we say, `We'll go into the
city'--the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die.
So let's go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us,
we live; if they kill us, then we die."
At
dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the
edge of the camp, not a man was there, for the Lord had caused the Arameans to
hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to
one another, "Look, the king of
The
men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp and entered one of the tents.
They ate and drank, and carried away silver, gold and clothes, and went off and
hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things. from it
and hid them also.
Then they said to each other, "We're not doing right. This is a day of good news and we are
keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake
us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace.” (2 Kings 7:3-9)
What the Holy Spirit was impressing me was that ‘this was a day of good news’ (verse 9
above). At once I knew that my pastor friends’ prayer had been answered.
Surely enough later that day one of the patients who came to
consult me in my clinic told me (without me asking him) that his brother’s
house was available for rent should someone whom I knew needed it.
I smiled when he said that and soon my friend had the rented
house that he needed so urgently. This was another occasion that the Lord had
spoken to me clearly and performed a much needed miracle. Praise the Lord.