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Sunday, July 12, 2026

Willing Heart


 It is so easy

To step into trouble

Or become sickly

Yes, "life" keeps you humble


You step away from light

A storm clous come chase you

A sign something's not right

Still, you know what to do


It's not God's way or else

He is love, say a prayer

Do this for yourself

Put your self in God's care


Speak from you heart

Say it out loud

Confess be real

Admit you veered proud


Keep a willing heart 

For a change of mind

Blessings will impart

God's love, you will find


Sick?  Remember poor Naaman

Suffering with leprosy

He was told to wash seven times

But this seemed too easy


Pride stood in his way

He wanted the prophet's hands

To command the disease away

And the river had grit and sand


But humbled, he recalled

He would try anything

He washed, though not enthralled

Healed- no flesh was peeling!


Keep a willing heart 

For a change of mind

Blessings will impart

God's love, you will find





[Verse 1]

It is so easy

To step into trouble

Or become sickly

Yes, life keeps you humble


You step away from light

And storm clouds come chase you

A sign something's not right

Still, you know what to do


[Pre-Chorus]

It's not God's way or else

He is love, say a prayer

Do this for yourself

Put your self in God's care


[Chorus]

Speak from you heart

Say it out loud

Confess be real

Admit you veered, proud


Keep a willing heart

For a change of mind

Blessings will impart

God's love, you will find


[Verse 2]

Sick? Remember poor Naaman

Suffering with leprosy

He was told to wash seven times

But this seemed too easy


Pride stood in his way

He wanted the prophet's hands

To command the disease away

And the river had grit and sand


[Chorus]

But humbled, he recalled

He would try anything

He washed, though not enthralled

Healed- no flesh was peeling!


Keep a willing heart

For a change of mind

Blessings will impart

God's love, you will find


Keep a willing heart

For a change of mind

Blessings will impart

God's love, you will find


Draws from the biblical story of Naaman, the Syrian commander healed of leprosy.
Lyrics emphasize overcoming pride through humility, as Naaman washes seven times in the Jordan River per Elisha's instructions despite initial reluctance.


2 Kings 5 NIV version
 9 Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”

11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

16 The prophet answered, “As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.

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