O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance. Psalm 16:5-6 REFERENCE Psalm 16:1-6   The Prophet Habakkuk said: “The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills,” (Habakkuk 3:19). It is God’s plan for us to be high fliers in life; to rise to the top and stay there; He wants us to be the head and not the tail. Hallelujah! The lines have enclosed places of elevation for us, as part of our inheritance! High places represent promotion,...

O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance. Psalm 16:5-6 REFERENCE Psalm 16:1-6   Another portion that the lines ‘enclosed’ as part of our pleasant places (our inheritance) as believers is security and rest. We have a covenant of protection from God. Psalm 91 reveals this truth; it says, because we dwell in the secret place of God, He will hide us under His shadow, give us His refuge and be our fortress; He also will cover us with His feathers, and not permit any...

O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance. Psalm 16:5-6 REFERENCE Psalm 16:1-6 According to our text, the Lord is the portion of our inheritance, and He has made the lines to fall for us in pleasant places; i.e. He has allotted to each of us all that we need to live well on earth. ‘Wealth and riches’ are part of the blessings that fell into our portion, as allotted to us by the Master Planners’ pen. Psalm 112:2-3 says, “…The generation of the upright...

O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You maintain my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance. Psalm 16:5-6 REFERENCE Psalm 16:1-6 The picture I see here is God, like a Town Planner, working on the master-plan of a city and using His instruments to draw out 'lines' on paper, representing portions of land to be allotted to different people...myself inclusive. On getting to site to see the portion of land allotted to me by the 'Town Planner's' pen, I realize that my portion of land has enclosed in it, streams of water,...

So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.  II Kings 5:14   REFERENCE II Kings 5:1-15   After all he must have tried to get a solution for his ailment, Naaman was still told to go dip seven times in River Jordan. Quite embarrassing you would agree, for a top military brass to strip by the river side and dip in the river. Imagine that as he kept dipping and coming out,...

But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’ - II Kings 5:11   REFERENCE II Kings 5:1-15.   Up until the point when Prophet Elisha sent a message to Naaman to go wash in the Jordan seven times for him to be cleansed of leprosy, Naaman did everything right in anticipation of getting his miracle. However his outburst at Elisha’s message put a little...

Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. II Kings 5:5   REFERENCE II Kings 5:1-15.   Someone once said that salvation is free but you still need to buy a bible. In other words, there are sacrifices one needs to make to see that anticipated or expected change in their situations. To get something better, we must be willing to let go of what is in our...

Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.” And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel.” ~ II Kings 5:3-4   REFERENCE II Kings 5:1-5   Expectation is a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on” This quote by Abraham Lincoln speaks of the need to always keep hope alive. God may yet have a surprise for you. Expectation begets...

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. - II Kings 5:1   REFERENCE II Kings 5:1-15.   Many of us are becoming tired of trying, praying and waiting for God to show up. It gets so bad you often contemplate quitting. However, I have come to let you know that, “There is no greater failure in life than the man who has stopped...

“Moreover. those who were near to them…were bringing food on donkeys and camels, on mules and oxen—provisions of flour and cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly, for there was joy in Israel.” ~ I Chronicles 12:40   REFERENCE I Chronicles 12:38-40   Every vision needs provision to execute it. When a vision is starved of provision, it suffers malnutrition and in some cases, it is altogether abandoned. Many dreamers have remained just that, dreamers, because they lacked the resources to execute their dreams. It will shock you to know the number...