SEE GOD AS HE REALLY IS!

Today, we want to look at the first step to receiving your miracle “SEE GOD AS HE REALLY IS – THE GOD OF WONDERS!” 

The name of what happens anytime God manifests His wonder is “miracle.” For you to receive your desired miracle, you must see God the way He really is – unlimited in all things!

For you to see Him the way He really is, you must have a sound knowledge of His ability. You must be fully persuaded (convinced) that GOD IS ABLE to do whatsoever He promised you in His Word (Lk. 1:37; Jer. 32:27, Eph. 3:20).

But because of the ignorance of His ability, many Christians fail to experience the wonder-working power of God.

Pain, fear, frustration, hopelessness and the hard cold facts staring you at the face could hinder you from seeing God as He really is. For instance, suppose you have been hospitalized and you are told by the doctor that you have cancer and you have only two weeks to live, it is difficult to look beyond the circumstances and see a supernatural God who cannot be limited by anything. Fear engulfs you and blinds you from seeing God as He really is.

When your JAMB score is 50 out of 400, a sense of hopelessness hinders you from seeing the God who can turn your impossible situation around.

When your womb has been surgically removed and you are told that you are going to have a baby, a sense of hopelessness hinders you from seeing the God who can instantly change your story.

To take limits off Jesus, to look beyond your problems, to have an unlimited vision of Jesus you must be fully persuaded that He is able to perform whatever He has promised us in His Word (Rom. 4:21).

Knowledge of the power of God you will truly convince you that He has all it takes to do for you far beyond whatsoever you can ever ask or imagine.

Joshua 4:23-24 says, “For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and He kept it dry until you were all across, just as He did at the Red Sea when He dried it up until we had all crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the nations of the earth MIGHT KNOW THE POWER OF THE LORD, and that you might fear the LORD your God forever.”

“…but the people that do know (the power of) their God shall be strong, and do exploits” (Dan. 11:32).

This power is not natural, but supernatural. This is the very power that makes God to be God. The Bible has an eight-fold description of this divine and irresistible power:

1. This power is GREAT! Acts 4:33 reads, “And with GREAT power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.”

2. This power is MIGHTY! Ephesians 1:19 says, “And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us ward who believe according to the working of His MIGHTY power.”

3. This power is EXCEEDING GREAT! Ephesians 1:19 says, “And what is the EXCEEDING GREATNESS of His power to us ward who believe according to the working of His mighty power.”

4. This power is EXCELLENT! 2 Corinthians 4:7 says, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the EXCELLENCY of the power may be of God and not of us.”

5. This power is ETERNAL! Romans 1:20 says, “For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even, His ETERNAL power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.”

This is not a power that fades with time. It is permanent. It never loses its strength (potency, quality). It is the same today, yesterday, and forever (Heb. 13:8; Mal. 3:6). The miracles it did in the past, it will do today, and even in the timeless future. There will be a repeat of such miracles in your life today!

6. This power is GLORIOUS! Colossians 1:11 says, “Strengthened with all might according to His GLORIOUS power unto all patience and longsuffering and joyfulness.”

7.  This power is DIVINE! 2 Peter 1:3 says, “According as His DIVINE power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that called us unto glory and virtue.”

8. This power is UNLIMITED, and this is why God can never be limited by anything.

In Luke 1:37 Jesus said, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”

In Matthew 19:26 Jesus said, “…With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

In Jeremiah 32:27 God said, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for Me?”

Here is the truth: God is omnipotent, and therefore, cannot be limited in any way. And because He is unlimited in power, He can do the impossible! God is able to:

1. Do the unthinkable or unimaginable (Isa. 43:18-19; Lk. 1:37; Jer. 32:27). For instance:

a) He is able to raise children from stones (Matt. 3:9-10).

b) God can make a way for you where men say there is no way. For instance, God parted the Red Sea for the children of Israel to pass (Ex. 14). This is unthinkable!

c) Make a woman that was 90 year old, in whom it has ceased to be after the manner of women, to conceive and bare a son (Rom. 4:17-21). This is unthinkable!

d) Shut the mouth of the hungry lions in the den of lions (Dan 6), so they could not harm Daniel. This is unthinkable!

e) Convert a fiery furnace into an air-conditioned room. In Daniel 3, He converted the fiery furnace that was made seven times hotter into a properly chilled air-conditioned apartment. This is unthinkable!

f) Make dry bones to live again. In Ezekiel 37:1-10, He caused the dry bones of dead people in an open valley to become an exceeding great army.

g) Make you to walk on water. Peter walked on water (Matt. 14:22-32; Heb. 12:2).

h) Calm any kind of storm. He can calm the storm in your marriage, business etc.  In Mark 4: 35-41, He calmed the storm raging in the Sea of Galilee.

i) Feed you with the food of angels. In Exodus 16:35, God fed the children of Israel for forty years in the wilderness with manna from Heaven. They lacked nothing in all that time. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell! He gave the children of Israel bread from heaven when they were hungry and water from the Rock when they were thirsty (Ex. 17). He is the Fountain of living water (Jer. 17:13).

j) Make a paralyzed man whole again. In Mark 2: 1-12, He healed a paralyzed man.

k) Make the deaf and dumb to hear and speak. In Mark 7:31-37, He made the deaf and dumb both to hear and speak. 

l) Turn water into wine. In John 2, He turned water into the sweetest wine that ever existed.

m) Heal you no matter how long your sickness has lasted. In John 5, He healed a man by the pool of Bethesda who had an infirmity for 38 years. Also, in Mark 5, He healed a woman who was suffering from an issue of blood for 12 years.

n) Raise the dead. He raised the daughter of Jairus from the dead. May be the Pharisees said that the girl was not really dead but sleeping. Therefore, He raised the only son of the woman of Nain that was already in a coffin from the dead. The scientists among them said that he may have also been in a long coma. This time around Jesus decided to allow a man called Lazarus to be stone dead, and already buried in the grave yard. In John 11, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

o) Give sight to the blind (Mk. 10:46-52), even if you were born blind (Jn. 9:1-7).

2. Deliver you from any kind of trouble or destruction. The Bible says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all” (Ps. 34:19).

For instance, a) He delivered the three Hebrew children from the blazing fiery furnace (Dan. 3:17). a) He delivered Daniel from the hungry lions in the den of lions (Dan. 6). b) He delivered Paul and Silas from the dungeon (Acts 16:19-34). c) He delivered Peter from prison (Acts 12:11).

3. Help or assist you when you are tempted (Heb. 2:18; 1 Cor. 10:13).

4. Save you to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for you (Heb. 7:25).

5. Give you much more than you desire (2 Chron. 25:9).

6. Make all grace abound toward you so that you can abound unto every good work (2 Cor. 9:8).

7. Destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. 10:28).

8. Keep you from falling (Jude 24)

9. And if you ever happen to fall He is able to make you stand again (Rom. 14:4).

10. Build you up and give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified (Acts 20:32).

11. Graft the children of Israel in again if they abide not in unbelief (Rom. 11:23).

12. Do exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or imagine (Eph. 3:20).

13. Subdue all things unto Himself (Phil. 3:21).

14. Keep that which you have committed unto Him against that day (2 Tim. 1:12).

15. Succour them that are tempted (Heb. 2:18).

16. Save your soul (Jam. 1:21).

17. Save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them (Heb. 7:25).

18. Perform whatsoever He has promised. A good example is the case of Abraham and Sarah.

In Genesis 15:1-6 the Bible says that after this, the Word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very (exceeding) great reward."

But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can You give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."

Then the Word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."

God then took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then He said to Abram, "So shall your offspring be."

In Genesis 18:10 God said to Abraham, “I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.”

Abraham was fully persuaded that God is able to do whatsoever He has promised.

Romans 4:21 said, “And (Abraham) being fully persuaded (convinced) that, whatsoever He had promised, HE WAS ABLE also to perform.”

In Genesis 21:1-2 the Bible says, “And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said (promised), and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken (promised). 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set (appointed) time of which God had spoken to him.”

You too, like Abraham, ought to be totally convinced that you will receive your breakthrough whenever you come to God for help.

No matter how extreme your calamity, God is able to help you. Therefore, if you want that reproach in your life to be permanently rolled away right now, you must choose to take the limits off the GOD OF WONDERS.

Watch out for the next edition of Good News from the Pulpit!

Your friend, I. I. MADUBUNYI (Senior Pastor, HOG).                                   20.01.2019