TOMMY TENNEY - The Ultimate Comeback

[MIRIAM JACOB]

The Ultimate Comeback
God’s March!

Your weakness is stronger than your enemy’s strength when God amplifies it!

The Ultimate Comeback, p. 123-124

Scripture Reading

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you.”
–Isaiah 43:2

Those lepers had decided that at the very least, a quick death is better than a slow one. It is interesting to me that when they started marching, apparently, so did God.

God was on the move! Often the only thing necessary to get God to move is for man to move first!

Since these men lived with leprosy for some time, their bodies were undoubtedly showing the strain. The famine hadn’t helped things either. They must have been emaciated, weak, and unsteady on their feet. Even the act of clambering to their feet may have been a major challenge that left them breathless.

As they walked they realized that the further they went, the more resolved they felt. Their feet began to move together to a unified beat, and perhaps they began to pick up the pace. I think they could actually smell the food simmering in the Syrian pots long before they could see anything.

We've learned from the experience of Naaman, the leper, that God is waiting for an excuse to bless you. The obedience of the four lepers to their inner prompting linked with their risk-it-all attitude gave God the excuse He was looking for.

God could have used four nobles or five city elders, or a single king from Samaria, but He didn’t. He could have hand-chosen four Israeli Green Berets or Samarian SEALS—but none of them seemed to be listening that night. The only ones willing to step up were four lepers. And that was all He needed to break the enemy’s chokehold on the city.

The Bible tells us the four lepers started walking, and roughly during the same period the Syrians started hearing things…big things, loud things, sounds like warhorses and a mighty army of foot soldiers on the march.

The Bible doesn’t spell out the divine methods involved, but it sure gives us a strong hint that those lepers were involved in some way. Could it be that anytime you turn toward the promise and away from the past, angels fall in step behind you, marching with you to your destiny?

Prayer:

Lord, I know that You are just waiting for me to move so You can bless me. I know that if I step out in faith, that You will meet me and fight against my enemies. I don’t know how You can do it. I just know that You can do it! I put my hope in You! AMEN.

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[MIRIAM JACOB]

The Ultimate Comeback

Never underestimate the power of four limping lepers!
The Ultimate Comeback, p. 124-125

Scripture Reading
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am strong."
–Joel 3:10

We have heard that as the four lepers walked toward the Syrian camp their enemies heard their steps and thought that it was a large army. How can that happen? How can the bloody feet of crippled lepers scare away a ferocious army?

This is what I suspect happened: God amplified the eight feet of those four determined lepers as they marched. Their path perhaps was marked with bloodstained footprints.
When God turns up the amplifier, He can make eight shuffling feet sound like an army. The enemy hears you coming—even in your weakness—if you have a “nothing-to-lose” attitude! The Bible says, “When I am weak, then I am strong.” Your weakness is stronger than your enemy’s strength when God amplifies it!

Can you hear God leaning over the ramparts of heaven and calling to His archangels, Michael and Gabriel:
“Hey boys, take the microphone down there to the road leading out of Samaria. Put it real close to the ground and amplify the sound of those feet. You know the ones, the bloody footprints marching toward My purposes. That rhythmic shuffle pleases Me—it is the music of obedience to Me. Turn it up—more—more! Let the earth shake with the glory of My praise! Let My enemies be scattered with the sound of eight obedient feet moving to do My will.”

The four lepers didn’t have a clue about the power of fear being loosed on the enemy. Step after step they moved toward God’s purposes. Soon they would witness its aftermath.

Will you allow God to amplify your obedient steps against your enemies? Obedience and submission to God is a weapon. If you surrender all to Him, you have nothing to lose and only territory to gain!

Prayer: Lord, I am not my own. I no longer want to do what I want, but rather what you want. I ask that you amplify my steps so that my enemies will flee. I surrender to you. I have nothing to lose, and only victory in You! AMEN.

© TOMMY TENNEY

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[MIRIAM JACOB]

The Ultimate Comeback
March Toward the Promise

The Ultimate Comeback, p. 126-127

Scripture Reading :
Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fullness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
–Psalm 16:11

Perhaps you have reached that point in life where you know you’ll lose only if you stay where you are and the way you are. You have nothing to lose, so why not put your hope in God? Start marching toward the promise. Tell yourself and anyone else who is listening,

“If I’m going to die, at least I’m going to die going the right way. Why sit here till we die?”
“What good is it going to do if I go look for a job?”

“What good will it do to attempt to start over at my age?”
“What good will it do to keep on trying? My husband’s gone and the children are out of control.”

“What good is it going to do if I write that letter and try to heal that relationship? I already know what they’re going to say. For years, they’ve said they don’t want to talk to me.”

This is what the story of the four lepers was about. They were tired of sitting outside the city walls and dining on the meager scraps that no one else wanted. When they saw their opportunity, they took it! They marched toward the promise of food by putting one bloody foot in the sand at a time. They decided that they would rather die trying to improve than never try at all!

Take a lesson from some lepers who said, “Look, we are going to die here, or we are going to die there, so at least we should die moving in the right direction!”

There comes a time when you just have to make up your mind and do something. Draw a line in the sand! Make your stand! Declare out loud, “I am not going to run or turn away anymore. This time I am not going to back up.” Remember—when you are down to nothing, God is up to something!

Prayer: Lord, I pray that You help me persevere through the storms in my life. I will march toward Your promises in faith. I choose to move out of my situation by taking action. I am going to take You at Your promise! I will do whatever it takes to come back! In Jesus’ name, Amen!

© TOMMY TENNEY

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