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Turning Situations Around by Rev'd John Akinola Adebayo
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Turning Situations Around by Rev'd John Akinola Adebayo
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The sermon is about turning difficult situations around through faith and obedience. It highlights two stories from the Bible, one about Naaman and the other about a man who was an invalid for 38 years. Both stories show how their situations were turned around when they trusted in God and obeyed His commands. The sermon emphasizes the need to seek God's intervention, seek counsel from His servants, trust in His power, and have faith and obedience. It encourages listeners to examine their own lives and trust that God can turn their situations around. The sermon ends with a prayer for grace and trust in God's power to turn any situation around. Open our heart and mind to the lessons from your word and help us to apply them in our lives through the help of the Holy Spirit. This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The theme of this sermon is Turning Situations Around. Turning Situations Around. And our text, the book Second King, chapter 5, verse 14. So he went down and did 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. Life often presents us with situations that challenge our faith, resilience, and perseverance. Whether we face health issues, relationship struggles, or emotional burden, we've all found ourselves in moments where we long for change and turnaround. Today, our focus will be on the two passages from the both Old and New Testaments of the Holy Scriptures. These narratives reveal the divine power of God to turn even the bleakest circumstances into opportunities for healing, growth, spiritual renewal, and mega miracles that God has promised us for this year. Let us examine how we too can turn situations around through our faith and obedience. Let us first of all examine Second King, chapter 5, from verse 1 through 14 verse. We encounter the story of Naaman, a valiant commander of the Syrian army. Despite his great military succeses, Naaman was afflicted with a dilapidating skin disease. He sought healing in every way possible, but found none. No relief until he humbly followed the advice of a young Israelite girl and sought the prophet Elisha. Naaman's obedience to Elisha's simple instruction to watch in the Jordan River not only cured his physical ailment, but also led to a spiritual transformation as he acknowledged the power of the God of Israel. Naaman's situation was turned around because of his faith and obedience. I decree prophetically into your life, as many of you that are in a dilapidating situation, the power of God will turn your situations around in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Let us examine the gospel according to St. John, chapter 5, from verse 1 to 11. It was the story of a man who had been an invalid for 38 good years. He lay by the pool of Bethesda, hoping for a miraculous healing, hoping for turnaround, hoping for a change of situation. When Jesus asked him if he wanted to be healed, the man responded with excuses and doubt. But Jesus, in his boundless compassion and power, simply said to him, Get up, take your mat, and walk instantly. This man was healed and his life was transformed. He had experienced a complete turnaround because he put his faith in the word of Jesus and he quickly obeyed the command by the Prince of Peace, who has the power to heal and to deliver. These two stories serve a powerful reminder that when we find ourselves in difficult situations, we too can experience a turnaround. In Psalm 30, verse 5, we find words of comfort which say, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. These verses remind us that our situations may be tough, but they are temporary. They will last, but only for a moment, because the light will surely shine at the end of the tunnel, like the dawn following a long hour of the night. That is, our joy can follow our weeping. Our faith and obedience can lead to the joy of turning situations around. Our obedience and faith will bring us the expected miracles that we have been waiting for. That situation we have been looking up to God for. It serves as a sign that we surely will be followed by a moment of unending joy. Turning situations around requires us so many things, and let me tell you many of them. To turn situations around, we have to acknowledge our need for God's intervention. Just as Naaman and the man at the pool of Bethesda seeking for God's intervention and waiting for miraculous healing. Number two, we need to humbly seek the counsel of God's servant and the wisdom of his word. We need to move closer to the ministers of God that have the real word of God, who will lead you to the word of God that will deliver you from your situation. Number three, we have to trust in God's power to bring about transformation, even when it seems impossible, because our God is especially in turning situations around, most especially in possible situations to possible situations. Number four, we need to have in faith and obedience, even when the step may seem simple or unconventional. The way of God is different from our own. That is the reason why the step you have to take may seem simple and may even foolish to those people in their world that are very far from the way God works. Let us examine ourselves and our lives and the situation we face. Are there areas in our lives where we need a turnaround? Remember, God's power and grace are limitless. Let us turn to him in faith and obey his commands so that we can witness the mega miracles he has promised us this year. As we live here today, let us carry with us this message of hope and healing. No matter how there are circumstances may appear, we serve a God who can turn situations around. Through faith, obedience, and trust in his timing, we can find joy in the morning. So let us go forth with renewed faith, ready to face life's challenges, confident in the knowledge that our God is a God of turning around. Who is very much ready to answer us when we call on him for turning situations around. Who is very much ready to visit us with his power and turn our situations around. Who is more than able to do impossible in our lives and give us mega miracles. And I pray he will manifest his power in our lives. In the mighty name of Jesus, let us pray. We are grateful for the reminder that with faith and obedience you can turn any situation around. Give us the grace to trust in your power whenever we are in challenging days we have. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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