DO IT AGAIN!

 So he went down and plunged himself into the Jordan seven times, just as the man of God had said; and his flesh was restored like that of a little child and he was clean. 2 Kings 5:14

And at the seventh time the servant said, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And Elijah said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the rain shower does not stop you.’” 1 Kings 18:44

 Jesus answered him, “I say to you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven. Matt 18:22

As I was driving in my car a couple weeks ago, the story of Naaman sprang up in my spirit.  Most of us look at that story in reference to healing, humility, and hope.  Yet, I heard DO IT AGAIN!

Then I began type the title, these other passages began to spring up.  In 2 Kings 5, Elijah had the servant go look to see if what he said was yet visible.  Do you wonder if Naaman was looking at himself as he dipped each time, was there any change at all after the first, second time, fifth time, or did it all transform after the seventh time?  When the children of Israel walked around the walls of Jericho not on the seventh time but after the seventh time did God do it.  I believe the story of the king who only struck three times angered the prophet.  When we knock on Heaven’s door for anything we are not only eliminating the past, illuminating the present, but creating the future.  So repetition is required in the same spot until it manifest!  What is what God told you is not instantaneous but years or decades?

 

Do you believe from what is said in 1 Kings 18:44, if the servant had went back to look the eighth time he would have seen the full cloud?  I do. 

Then in Matthew 18 when asked about forgiveness Jesus said seven times seventy. Of course, Jesus didn’t mean four hundred and ninety, no!  He meant as long as it’s presented and needed it should be done.

I believe there are multiple things God is saying this year, but I believe God is saying DO IT AGAIN!  GO Look again!  Our faith gets weary, but God says write another book, paint another picture, be intimate to birth a child again, go back to school again.  You’re ready to throw in the towel and let go of the vision, promise, but God says AGAIN.  If we look at the word aGAIN, there is a lot to GAIN when we do it again!

What would have happened if Sarah and Abraham had not tried again?  Noah just stayed in the Ark after the flood, but he didn’t send the dove out again….what if Jesus had not prayed for the man who only saw people that looked like trees once, He prayed AGAIN!  What if Moses went back up the mountain a second time for ten commandments?  What will happen if you don’t try again! 

 

Faith is substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb 11:1) What is that substance?  The word of God or the word of the Lord.  We must say it over and over again until what God said materializes in the natural.  Still fighting cancer, keep speaking healing, still fighting financial issues keep speaking prosperity, still fighting relationship issues keep speaking love….in the midst of your speaking God will shape you and the environment around you until it reflects His word.

The bible says ask and it will be given to you; seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be open. Matt 7:7

If God has told you something, then continue until HE says, “stop or no!”  We sometimes get discouraged when we don’t see it the first or fourth time, year, but it was four hundred years later until Abraham’s seed multiplied and still continuing today!  Continue in His word and you will see so….

 Say it again, believe again, DO IT AGAIN, and watch it manifest this year in Jesus name!