Topic:365 Miracles
Text: II Kings 7:1-9

Our text introduces us to the challenging attitude of the lepers who experienced a turn-around in their situation. No condition is permanent. A leper is usually viewed as an outcast, buy today’s leper may be tomorrow’s instrument of progress. In the olden days, when a person was said to have leprosy, it was another way of saying that such a person was dead alive. As a matter of fact, according to Numbers 5:1-4, God commanded that children of Israel that anyone who was leprous must be taken out of the camp. He must not be allowed to live within the city. Lepers were outcasts and lived in terrible conditions. They were sick in the body, soul and spirit. They were hopeless.

In this particular Bible passage, these lepers were sick in the spirit because they did not even include God in their calculations at all. A leper cannot trade or farm but only lives on charity, and so is always a poor person. These four lepers were bound to die, whether they were fed or not because there was no cure for leprosy. Under normal circumstances, a leper is a desperate person. In the situation described in our text, they were even more desperate living among normal but equally desperate people. Fortunately for them, however, there was a silver lining in their dark clouds.

No matter how terrible your situation may be, there would always be a ray of light. These lepers, though desperate, were not mad so they could still assess their situation correctly. They were able to ask one another why they should sit down in their situation and die. Their brains were functioning well. There is nobody in this world who hasn’t got one reason or the other to thank God.

I once wanted to thank God but did not know what to thank him for. He asked me to start with the 365 miracles. He gave me in the past year. Initially, I could not figure out what the 365 miracles were all about. The Lord told me that He woke me up 365 times in the year. He told me that it was a miracle that I went to bed and woke up on each of those days. Do you know that God has given you more than three hundred miracles this year? Have you ever said, “Thank you, Lord?” Don’t take anything for granted. Be grateful. Give thanks unto the Lord.

Memory Verse - Psalms 57:7 - “My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise.”