When God sent a prophet to speak to Jeroboam the first time, as we saw in the last chapter, Jeroboam would not receive his message. He received his healing but not his message. Now we read that Jeroboam’s son has fallen ill and he seeks a prophet to heal him. But though he wants healing from God he does not want to receive God’s correction. He wants God to bless him as he seeks his own agenda. It is highly probable that God wants to address something in your life, something that is harmful to you and others, and which grieves him. We are always very quick to ask God for things that we want, but how willing are you to receive from God what he wants to give you? God wants you to receive what he is saying, he wants to restore you and set you free. God does not want to bless your journey of flight from him. So often we pray for God to bless our lives when we have not given our lives over to him. God is certainly wanting to speak into your life now. Are you willing to receive his message no matter what that means? Are you willing to put everything on the table for God to take charge of? Are you willing for him to change anything he wants to change in your life? The extent to which you are willing to be changed will be the extent to which you experience God.
Yield yourself to God’s authority and ask him to address what he wants to address in your life.
Read 1 Kings 14:1-20
