INTRODUCTION:

1. GREETINGS
2. GOOD NEWS:
3. LIFT UP SOME PEOPLE

BODY:
1. Kinsay walay giatubang na problema sa ilang kinabuhi diri karon?
2. All people in different walks of life has problems. No one in this group can escape problems.
3. Even the person you love and even the person you hate has problems.
4. The bottomline is that…. Everybody has problems!
5. If you’ll just be honest tonight, kumusta man imong heart? How are you?
6. Are you guilty of something? Trapped in sin? Carrying a burden sa imo heart for so long? Hard to forgive
someone? Are you in an endless cycle of defeat? Ganahan ky ka mushagit para mahuwasan?
7. I don’t know about you but I know for sure, there’s something in your heart.
8. All of us have problems… All of us need help. We need solution. We need HEALING.

9. TITLE: ROAD TO HEALING

10. We all need healing, dba? But the question is: How bad do you want it?
11. Open your Bible in 2 Kings 5: 1-14 (PRAYER)
12. We are going to read the story of Naaman, the great army commander who got healed from his sickness.
Let’s learn from his journey on his own road to healing. I got blown away by it and I hope kamo sad.

1. Now who was NAAMAN?

a. He was the Commander of the army of Aram.
b. He was the pride of the king of Aram. He was a great man in his sight.
c. He was highly regarded. Very honorable. A man of valor.
d. And through him, God gave victory to Aram over Israel.
e. He was a hero, He was a mighty man, he was so famous…
2. BUT HE WAS A LEPER. All of us here has a "but"… nindot na unta kaayo pero naay juy apan… what
can we learn here? How was he able to cure his leprosy?

I – THE COURAGE TO COME OUT INTO THE OPEN

a. The very first step Naama did to solve his problem… why?
b. He was great on the outside but so afflicted on the inside.
c. Naaman was covered with armor. His head dress set him apart from other soldiers. Not only was he
military, he was the Commander of the army. When he said go they move. When he said stop they stop.
When he said sleep they slept. He was large and in charge. Powerful man.
d. But he comes home and deal with things that nobody knew that he dealt with.
e. Can you relate? Nobody knows what’s inside your phone, laptop, your secret box. The people you
work with, the people you worship with, the people you live around has no idea with what you're dealing
with behind closed doors.
f. Nobody knows what's hidden deep in the core of your heart. Not even your own parents. Not even your
closest friend. Not even your Discipler. I’m not really sure about you but…
g. We all have our own leprosy that we’re dealing with. And it’s hard to show it to people.
3. We have a God that is not just a God in the good but also in the bad.
a. I don't need a god who's only with me in public. I don't need a god who shines my armor and makes me
look good before you… but I need a GOD that deals with the cryptic, toxic places that exist behind
closed doors that thing for which I have no power in overcoming.
b. How can I be so great and awesome over here and be so afflicted within?
c. How can I be the best of times and worst of times all of the same time?
d. How can things be going wonderful and horrible all at the same time?
e. How can I be at the pinnacle of my career and go home unbandaging my wounds?
f. That’s not the kind of life we would choose to live, right?

4. Naaman was a leper without any benefit of what we have now…

a. Naaman was a leper without a hospital or any benefit of any medication
b. Naaman was a leper without the benefit of any comfort from the casualties of his own human soul
c. How can I be so mighty that I can save an army? / How could I change the destiny of a nation but
cannot fix myself? / How can I give such good advice to other people and be totally incapable or
unable in fixing my own disease?
d. Bro, how can you be so awesome sa church pero kung ikaw nalang usa lahi napud ang storya?
e. "Shhh... don't tell anybody that I'm a leper because if they knew that I am, I could lose my position."

5. What happens if people knew that he was leper? Do you know what they do to lepers?
a. They send them into leper colonies to live in dens with other diseased people.
b. They excommunicate them not only from the army but from the socialization of their society.
c. If they ever found out that their Commander was a leper, he would lose his status, his power, his
pidegree, his finances, his economic perspectives and the adoration from his community. He had
destroyed the power of Israel over Aram. His sword alone was very famous.
d. That’s how the Arameans adored him? he has liberated them. He was so famous. Naaman was the
Duterte in his generation. He was the Michael Jordan of the Chicago bulls, he was the Manny Pacquiao
of the Philippines. If naa pa siyay Facebook og instagram, millions iyang followers. Naaman was a
mighty man of valor.. but.... he was out there hiding his leprosy…
e. Despite all the fame and the success, he was so afflicted.
f. Can you imagine his pressure? And he wasn’t really out in the open. But he needs to be cured.

6. The stress in hiding the disease.

a. I think the leprosy can be a distraction from the stress of having it. Imagine the disease that eat through
your muscle tissues and to your muscles that’s rotting in your bones. That’s quite bothering if you think
about it.
b. The feeling of hiding it is far more stressful than the feeling of having it.
c. how can he control the rotten flesh while he was walking? How can he control the uncomfortable feeling
of his disease while he was working? Naaman had survived the nostrils of his comrades. He had
survived the suspicion of his leaders.
d. But only during at night that he rev al… that beneath his shining armor, that beneath his brass
boots, when he take it all off, he was as vulnerable as the people he leads.
e. That’s very stressful. How can we be so awesome on the outside yet so afflicted from within?
f. What is that you’re hiding today, brothers? The stress of hiding it will eat you up like a leprosy and if it
gets worse and worse, you can die.
 g. They say leprosy eats through your nerves that sends the signal of pain to your brain… that’s why
in the long run you won’t feel pain at all. You’ll feel numb. Same goes with sin… don’t let it get
that far…
h. The more you hide it, the stressful it can be. Stop hiding it and have the courage to come out into the
open. Naaman did came out into the open. He was willing to be cured and he took the first step…
i. Challenge: have the courage to open it up. Whatever that is. Talk about it and ask for some help from
people who can help you… Before it’s too late. Amen? (PAUSE)

What was the next thing Naaman did? he was humble to go low enough.

II – BE HUMBLE TO GO LOW ENOUGH

1. Josephus the historian suggests: “That it was the very captivity of this little woman that brought about the
curse. Taking her hostage made God so angry that it afflicted him with leprosy.”
2. Who is this little girl? (blessed girl)
a. After Aram won their battle against Israel, Naaman took this little girl captive from Israel and he made
her served his wife.
b. Aside from his wife, she was the one who saw his leprosy. As Naaman undresses, he didn't mind if the
little maid saw it. who was she anyway? she had no money, no power, no status, she was insignificant.
She was a slave and on top of that, she couldn't be any lower because she was a WOMAN. For in
Naaman's society, you can never be an equal if you're a woman. And to be an Israelite woman? away
from your country? who was she? sure, you can see my leprosy.
c. But never did he understand, that in spite of society's view of who you are, when God has blessed
you with a gift, you are blessed anyhow. This little girl is blessed way beyond Naaman could
imagine.
d. We might not be able to see it right now, it may not show in our status, in our job, in how we see each
other but in her own way, the little maid had more power than Naaman.
e. You see Naaman become great of what he did but the little maid was greater because of who she
knew. God has blessed her anyhow.
f. If God has blessed you with a gift, you are blessed anyhow.

3. Both of them had a test of character and both of them went low? How?
a. Naaman and the woman were in a similar position. They were both in place where they are having a
hard time getting out of. They were both held captive by something.
b. She had every right to be bitter. she was snatched away from her family, culture, friends and demoted to
be a slave. And when she saw his leprosy, he had the right to let him rot.
c. But you see the real test of character is what you do with power… It is not what you do with
weakness because weakness has no options… but the real test of who you are is what you do when
you have the advantage. How’s your heart on that area?
d. Who would have thought that the life of the Commander of the army of Aram will be at the mercy of a
girl? a little maid. She wasn't even the head of the maid. She was away from her country... she was
little... oh she was on the outside but she was big on the inside.
e. God allowed Naaman to take captive of the very cure of his crisis. The answer to the crisis of our life
is somewhere in our arms reach.
 f. She did not struggle to break free from her captivity because she knew her problem served a purpose.
They thought they snatched her against her will but not against God. She made God as God even when
she was captive of her situation.
g. Is God just the God in your good times? or is He your God when you are captive in a situation that
you cannot correct?
h. As she sees him undress, she needs to make a decision. “Will I help the man that holds me captive?”
that is a decision that we all have to make in sometime or sooner. “Will I help the one who holds me
captive or will I simply sit back and keep quiet and let him die?”
i. If the wrong maid had been held captive, Naaman would have died. If an angry, vengeful, evil woman
had been captive, she would have withheld on what she could do.
j. But the problem on withholding back on what you could do is that when you hold back on what
you could do, God holds back on what He can do. because you are no more deserving of the
blessing you seek than the blessing you withhold from the person you hate. and until you learn to
humble yourself, you'll never be mighty. You’ll never be blessed!
k. The greatest test might be how you handle the person you hate. I really appreciate her that despite all the
reason to hate Naaman, she was humble to go low enough and offered the help... "I have something to
help you Naaman! There is a prophet in Israel.”
l. What would Naaman feel when he heard that from her? Dakong sagpa sa nawng!

4. Naaman accepts the help from the little maid.

a. The girl said, “If you go to him, he would set you free… but you got to be willing to go to a country you
just conquered. You got to be willing to deal with people you've been killing. The prophet will lead you
to my God who can heal you. and yes, my God is real.”
b. Naaman probably had a hard time on this but It’s the test for you and me, "How bad do you want it?"
c. do you want it bad enough to leave your own comfort? to leave the comfort of your own palace? to leave
the recognition of your people? and leave where you are loved and work where you are hated? would
you go to your Israel to get well?
d. You see this is the hardest part for us, when we’re so used to it to the point that we’re too attached with
the things that we have now. (We’re afraid that we might lose our leadership, our good image, our
reputation, our comfort, our benefits, our authority and whatever else) But the thing is, that only makes
our leprosy worse… How bad do we really want it?
e. Naaman said, "Hmm Okay! I'll go talk to my boss King first.” Then the king of Aram writes a letter to
the king of Israel. These two countries had been in conflict and they’re now in a fragile state of peace.
f. And he writes a letter and gives it to Naaman. And says “Naaman, Go to the king of Israel and hand him
this letter.” And the letter almost cost a national revolt because the letter asked the king of Israel to
handle something beyond his scope.
g. So when the king of Israel received the letter, he got furious. He said, “This guy always wants to pick a
fight with me. We barely got peace, who am I, God? that I should heal this man of his disease?”
The king of Israel ripped his clothes because he was frustrated.
h. And then Elisha heard about it and said to the king, “Don’t worry I got this.”
i. What Naaman went through was not easy. And reality is… There’s no easy way in our healing.

5. Asa man jud diay makit.an ang iyang healing?

a. What Naaman seeks is not found in the prestige of palatial borders. There is a constant message that God
keeps trying to teach Naaman. That your healing is found in your humility.
 b. God said, “I’ll do it for you if you humble yourself. I’ll do it for you If you take the advice of the maid
you captured. I’ll do it for you If you go down to a country that you think is beneath you.”
c. Here Naaman keeps trying to go up while God is trying to take him down. Naaman keeps trying to
go see kings and princes and God has put healings amongst prophets and maids.
d. The way out may not be in the direction you thought. There you are in a place that cannot heal you.
Wearing clothes that cannot fix you. Driving cars that will not solve the problem. Having all the money
that only offers momentary pleasures but only hides your disease.
e. And the truth of the matter is… God put you in a place that you would have to humble yourself… so
be willing to come. God did not promise to heal you in your career, in relationships, or set you free by
people who share the same interests as you. Not even just attending church and the meetings of the body.
You may have to be willing to cross some lines to get what you need… and again the question
remains… How bad do you want it?

6. The mighty stoops on humility.

a. When I look at it like this I begin to realize that leprosy is not an attack of Satan. It is a sovereign
maneuver of God to bring the soldier into a sovereign place of destiny. Sometimes our problems is
not an attack, but a direction to our healing.
b. It was good that Naaman was afflicted! for had he not been afflicted; he would have never found the
door to what God had wanted to do to his life. And the door was humility. And humility only works
when the mighty stoop to it.
c. The woman who was caught on the act of adultery, Jesus only heals her when she stoops.
d. Jesus himself is God stooping… that when God was ready to redeem the world, he could not do it
as the king of kings nor the lion of the tribe of Judah, but he stoops and took on human flesh
because whenever the mighty humble himself, something great is about to happen.
e. Maybe God used this problem to humble Naaman into a place of submission. And how do you teach a
soldier to submit? the mighty commander is used to giving orders not taking orders… but now because
of this disease, he needs to listen not just to the king of Aram but to a little maid.
f. Good thing Naaman sucked it all up and went down. God said go down.
g. If you go down low enough. If you’re willing to go down low enough, God will heal that issue in
your life. Because humility is always the way to exaltation. Because God said, “If you exalt
yourself, I’ll humble you. But if you humble yourself, I’ll exalt you.”
h. You’ve been trying to go up by going up but the quickest way to go up is go down. Because
whenever you go down you will come up. When the seed goes down it will come up. Because
whatever goes down, it will come up.
i. So stop trying to go up because nothing’s out there.
j. Brothers, your healing is found in your humility. You’ve got to be willing to go down low enough in
order for you to find your healing. Are you willing?
k. Challenge: Be humble, brothers. Humility is the key. (PAUSE)

And the last thing we can learn here is this… after Naaman humbled himself, we realize that humility is not
enough to heal if we don’t have this last step…

III – OBEY EVEN IF IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE

1. What did Naaman do?
 a. So Naaman goes to the king of Israel and the king turns to the prophet and then Naaman Goes down
from Aram to Israel and down from the palace of Israel down to the prophet’s house and the prophet
won’t even come to the door. Ouch!
b. He was like, “Does he not know who I am? People wait for years just to see me. And I’m at the
door? Do you know I just left your President. Pag sure uy!
c. At that point, Elisha just sent his servant. And Namaan goes “You mean I gotta go down from Syria to
Israel, and down from the king of Israel to the prophet, and down from the prophet to the
servant? Ahhhh! This is just a waste of my time.
d. So the servant met Naaman at the door and said, “Go down to the rivers of Jordan and dip yourself 7x”
Naaman got so angry and frustrated.
2. What is God trying to wash out of Naaman?
a. The leprosy on the outside is just a reflection of what’s in him on the inside. Whatever God is trying to
get out of Naaman, he hadn’t gone quite low enough to get it.
b. I know he hadn’t gone quite low enough because when he was told to go dip in the dirty waters of Israel,
he said, “Pagsure mo uy! Kahugaw anang tubing diha. Ma infected palang nuon ni akong mga
samad”… he had a hard time obeying that command.
c. Naaman would have walked away because he was so angry and frustrated. But because one of his
servant approached him and said, “If the man would have asked you a hard thing would you have
not done it? How much more when he said, go wash and be clean?”
d. Brothers, God is asking you to humble yourself and just obey what he’s telling you. Simple
principle: stop, look, and listen, then obey…
e. Or else, your pride is standing in the way of your destiny. You care more about your image than
you do your deliverance. God is determined to wash every last little bit of it out of your life.
f. Then here goes Naaman going down into the muddy waters of Israel.
g. He went into dirt to be clean. He went into filth to be righteous. He went into degradation to elevation.
God washed Naaman’s Pride.

3. He humbled himself and became obedient.

a. Jesus humbled himself and became obedient. Saul humbled himself on the way to Ananias in the
road to Damascus. If all of them humbled themselves and then why are you still there sitting on
your horse?
b. Brothers, how can we be so blessed and have such a private problem?
c. God said, “Your problem serves a purpose. And if you can just trust me, if you can just humble yourself
and obey what I’m telling, if you can just hold your peace, if you can just stop doing things your way. If
you can just stop being conditional. You will be healed.
d. I’m not going to heal you in your way. It’s not gonna make sense to you. You’re gonna have to shut your
mouth. You’re gonna have to look weak in order to win. You’re going to have to dip into dirty waters…
but I swear I’m gonna make sure I’ll bring you out.
e. God will use a situation that you dread the most in your life to move you into place that he has
prepared for you and let it overtime work.
f. Sometimes he didn’t let the people who normally help you, help you… go dip because pride is
screaming inside you.
g. Just shut your mouth, stop being reasonable, stop being logical… because in God’s way, it’s beyond
human wisdom. It’s more than we ever think or imagine.
h. If you want to be healed, God said, “go dip…. And stop trying to fix it your way.”
 i. GO DIP…. I swear I’m gonna bless you.
j. Dip again, I swear I’m gonna make you a testimony,
k. Dip again, I swear your latter days will be greater than your former days.
l. Dip again, I’m gonna make you beauty for ashes,
m. Dip again, I’m training through you / teaching through you / I’m breaking generational curse through
you / I’m gonna change your whole family through you / I’m gonna use you in a mighty way / Dip
again, I’m gonna exalt you…
n. Brothers, God is just waiting for your response. Just shut your mouth and obey. Amen?

CLOSING:
1. Story of Ranjit John, our brother in India:
a. He was a fulltime minister in Mumbai Church. He was an alcoholic. It was like his leprosy. There was a
time when his friends started inviting him to hang out with them occasionally and grab some drinks. He
thought he was “I’m okay, I’m not getting drunk, I’m just relieving old memories with his old peers.”
But there he started drinking again.
b. When the leadership found out about it, he denied it... but he got reprimanded. And later on, same thing
happened, his wife found out about it again that time and reported it to the leadership group. Eventually,
he was asked to quit the staff so he resigned in 2005 and went to NAVI Mumbai.
c. He was full bitterness at the consequence for justification for his actions. He distanced himself from the
church and cut-off some relations from people. Then after almost a year, he got counted out from the
membership. Now he found himself in a new situation where he was not a member of the church and
he's in a new place. He can do all the things he wanted to... but he didn't realize he was drifting away
from God more.
d. He found a new job, but his drinking habit got worse. He's got a bad a reputation at work and eventually
quit the job. All his money was going towards drinking and towards his friends. He was not even
contributing to their home expenses. He always had quarrels with his wife. There were few occasions
that his wife would be shocked when she opens their door seeing him with blood on his clothes. He's
either beaten up people or he was the one who got beaten up.
e. When he had no money to drink, He extort money from other people and luckily, he did not end up in
jail. Together with his 3 friends, they would regularly meet to drink at a bar but in a span of four years,
three of them passed away and only him survived. His life got worse. Despite his efforts to control
himself from drinking for a while, a week or maximum of a month, he could not hold on. His drinking
habits got even worse, and would even take twice as much alcohol than he normally do. He totally lost
it.
f. in 2011, his friends at church started reaching out to him for they realized he was helpess before his
addiction. There he started going back to church and studied the bible again. but his disease persisted to
the point that he started asking for professional help.
g. As he looked for his healing, he had to go through some challenges... he was unable to stand, balance
himself, mouth dry and he had that funny uncomfortable feeling. He would became desperate for his
drink. But each time he take his first gulp, there he feel some painful spasms. He was wobbling and
looked into the mirror with watery red eyes... at that point... he realized he hit rock bottom.
h. He asked God, "Help me, I just want to live a normal life like them." He saw people drink to enjoy and
now he found himself in a situation where he just drink to be normal. He had a hard time walking,
writing, driving, and even driving. He kept praying and praying... and then God answered his prayer...
but God answered him in a strange way.
 i. In 2015, a clot in his brain caused him a stroke and he got admitted in the ICU. From there, he was
admitted to rehab. He was paralyzed from the right side down. his speech had become impaired. But his
experience in rehab became a time where he had spiritual breakthrough. It was where he came closer to
God. People prayed for him.
j. Instead of yoga, he went to the gym there, and miraculously in 3 weeks of gym, his right hand started
functioning. the staff called him "miracle man. For it was really unusual” And in some time, he could
also start speaking normally. He had a great progress in rehab. By the sixth month, he was appointed as
dorm-in-charge and by the seventh month, he was appointed as the training staff... he had the authority
to implement rules to inmates.
k. And later on he was discharged, the professional group was there to welcome him and the people on
staff were shocked to see it because it never happens. Because when an inmate is discharged, only a
family member comes to take him but it was different for Ranjit. He had a hero’s welcome as if he won
something or returned from a big event.
l. That was Ranjit’s life. Isn’t that amazing on how God healed him? And help him get back on track?
m. And one thing I was so impacted is when he shared this to the people, he said…
n. "I was a full time minister when I fell. I needn't have reached a point where along with spiritual help, I
now required professional help. Please don't make the same mistake I did... Just talk about it. Back then I
did not open it up just to save my image in front of people. I was moving into misery without realizing. I
preferred to be a loner, hated to fellowship in church for the fear of what people might say or what
people might sense about me."

2. On that note, I know how hard it was for Ranjit. But one thing is for sure… there is always hope. There is
always a cure no matter how difficult it can be… God will always offer the cure.
3. But we gotta heed his advice… talk about it… ask help… don’t make the same mistake I did.
4. Brothers, I don’t know about you. The solution to your problem is right here in this 3 steps of what Naaman
did…
5. Just have the courage to come out in the open. Think about the stress if you keep hiding it. Open it up…
6. Then be humble to go low enough. Stop going up because God wants you to go down so that he can bring
you up…
7. And lastly, just obey even if it doesn’t make sense… because at the end of the day, he’s the doctor and
we’re just the patient. It’s never our call… the healing is always his way…
8. Let’s grab the cure… If we do, I believe great things will happen. Thank you. TGBTG!

Road to Healing:
1. Humility
a. Vulnerability
b. Be willing to go to an unfamiliar territory
c. Go lower and lower
2. Obey even if doesn’t make sense.
a. No human logic found just pure obedience