REALIZE THAT IN EVERY PROMISE OF GOD IS THE SEED FOR YOUR MIRACLE!

Today, we want to look at the fifth step to receiving your miracle - “REALIZE THAT IN EVERY PROMISE OF GOD IS THE SEED FOR YOUR MIRACLE!”  

One of the reasons why many people do not experience miracles in their lives is because they don’t know that the Word of God is the seed for the miracle they need. The truth is that miracles are based on God’s Word. In times of need, if you can cling tightly to the Word of God, you will experience great wonders in your life.

When we talk about the Word of God, we are talking about (i) The written Word which is the Logos found on the pages of the Scriptures, and (ii) The Living Word, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The Living Word is the Word made flesh. It is the Logos putting on human flesh (Jn. 1:1, 14).

In the written Word, God reveals His great love for you and His desire to meet to all your needs. In His written Word, He has given you many promises. These promises are His “miracle provisions” for you. Through these miracle provisions God has provided for the healing of your body (Isa. 53:4-5; 1 Pet. 2:24); finances – He has promised to supply all your need accord to His riches in glory, and to open the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing on you (Mal. 3:10; Phil. 4:19; Lk. 6:38; 2 Cor. 9:6); family (Ps. 112:1-3); when you are lonely, fearful or discouraged (Heb. 13:5-6; Isa. 41:10); when you are faced on every side by problems and there seems to be no way out and no hope in sight (Matt. 21:21-22).

In the Living Word, God reveals Himself. Colossians 1:15 says, “Jesus is the image of the invisible God.” Hebrews 1:3 says, “Jesus is the express image of His Person.”

The power for the fulfillment of your miracle is not in you, or in the preacher, or in anyone else. It is contained in the promises that God has made to you in His Word. Receive this revelation into your spirit-man. Believe it. Act on it, and stop struggling.

God has a purpose for every Word He speaks. And He has already spoken the Word to meet to your circumstances. God’s Word is His miracle provision for your life.

Within every one of these promises is the power for its own fulfillment. The same creative power that created the heavens and the earth is contained in every promise God has given to you in His Word. This is what makes the Word of God the most powerful force upon the face of the earth. Its power cannot be limited by anything.

God’s Word is the only thing in this world that is not subject to change. Your circumstances are subject to change. But God does not change (Mal. 3:6; Heb 13:8). God’s Word has no margin for error. It is “infallible.”

In 2 Kings 6:24-33, we see the problems Elisha faced during the terrible famine in Samaria. To the natural eye Elisha’s predicament was impossible, yet he faced the terrible conditions of the famine, and the king’s messenger who came to cut off his head, with a word from God (2 Kings 7:1-2). Elisha faced his predicament with courage, confidence, and a simple loyalty to God and His Word. He knew that the power for the miracle he need was contained in God’s Word concerning his predicament.

What was the very Word God gave to Elisha to meet to his predicament? In 2 Kings 7:1 Elisha said, “Hear ye the Word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.” These words coming from God through Elisha challenged the existing circumstances.

Today, the Word of God will challenge your sickness. It will challenge your poverty. It will challenge whatever mountain you are facing.

In Mark 11:23 Jesus said, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

These Words were not based on presumption, hope, Elisha’s intuition, or his ability. The Word was not based on anything Elisha had seen with his natural eyes. The circumstances were still the same; people were still starving and dying.

But here is the point: Elisha spoke forth the Word based on his confidence in the miracle-working God. He knew that what he was saying sounded ridiculous to the king and his men. But Elisha also knew that whatever God promised would come to pass because if God said it that settles it (Ps. 119:89; Isa. 55:11).

Just as God’s Word came forth to meet the needs of the people of Samaria, that same Word is coming forth to meet to your needs today, in Jesus’ Name. His Word is full of His promises to you. Therefore, regardless of how distressing or how impossible your situation may seem, there is a particular Word from God to challenge that your need.

The Words of God that came out through the mouth of Elisha had the power for its own fulfillment. They were not Elisha’s words. They were words from God. Elisha was just an instrument God used to speak forth His Word to meet to the needs the king and the people of Samaria faced.

The fulfillment of the words Elisha spoke did not depend on the ability of the king to believe or even Elisha’s great faith. The Word from God possessed enough power within itself to produce the miracle that was needed.

Here was a great need that could not be met by natural means. It required a miracle, a supernatural intervention from God. God gave Elisha a word to meet to [challenge] that predicament. Elisha spoke forth the word and the result was a miracle.

Therefore, if you have a need that cannot be met by natural means, God has a spoken Word to challenge that very need and all He wants you to do is to believe that He is not a liar (Num. 23:19) – that what He has spoken will come to pass.

In Isaiah 55:11 God said, “So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”

So, all you need to do in your situation is to take that very Word God has spoken concerning your predicament, and with simple loyalty to God, speak forth that Word, and your miracle will show up. Right here you are acknowledging that if God has spoken a Word, it will surely come to pass.

God’s promises are not dependent on your ability to believe. If you don’t have faith to believe, that does not affect the efficacy of God’s Word in any way (Rom. 3:3-4). The only thing is that your lack of faith will hinder the anointing you need for your situation from flowing in your direction. So, it is not that the Word or promise of God is not powerful, but your unbelief has stopped it from doing what it is meant to do in your life.

Do you think that the king of Samaria had the faith to believe that in a city where people had resorted to cannibalism because of the severe famine that was in the land, that the very next day somehow, they would have enough grain to be selling it in the gate of Samaria? Of course not! Yet God’s promise came to pass precisely on schedule.

The same creative power that enabled God to say, “Let there be light and there was light,” that same creative power is still in His Word. That is why when God’s promise is received by a person who is bound by a crippling disease on a wheelchair, there is creative power in that promise to straighten out his limbs and enable him to jump out of that wheelchair completely healed.

That is why when a deaf person receives God’s promise into his heart, the creative power of the Almighty God is there to create new ear drums if necessary, to restore his hearing.

That is why when a blind person receives God’s promise of healing into his heart, that omnipotent power in that Word can create new eyes, or repair the damaged parts.

That was why when Mary received God’s promise concerning Jesus in her heart she said, “Be it unto me according to Your Word.”

When she said this, the creative power in that Word caused that Word to fertilize the ovum in her Fallopian tube and conception took place immediately.

Just like Virgin Mary, as you receive the promise of God concerning your finances, health etc. in your spirit, the creative power that is resident in that Word will cause that Word to fertilize your finances, health etc. and cause to come into manifestation the desired results.

So, knowing that the Word of God does not change, that there is no margin for error, and that God has promised you that His Word will never fail, you can totally agree with that Word and receive it into your spirit-man and God will bring His promise to you into effect. 

This was the attitude of Abraham. Against hope Abraham believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN… (Rom. 4:18). And being not weak in faith, Abraham CONSIDERED NOT his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He STAGGERED NOT at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And BEING FULLY PERSUADED that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform (Rom. 4:19-21).

Against all human reasoning, Abraham and Sarah had a baby boy at the age of 100 and 90 respectively. This is practically impossible in the natural realm, but with God nothing shall be impossible (Lk. 1:37; Jer. 32:27).

In Genesis 12, God made a promise to Abram when he was 75 years old. God promised him saying, “And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 12:2-3).

And Abram received in his spirit this promise that he would become the father of a great nation even when there were no signs of any such blessing in his life. Ten long years passed and the promise was not fulfilled. Abram was still childless. At 85 years of age Abram had not given up hope but he apparently began to wonder how God was going to bring this promise to come to pass seeing that both himself and the wife were well advanced in age, being 85 and 75 years old respectively.

In Genesis 15:1-5, God spoke to Abram in a vision to reassure him that He had not forgotten His promise to him.

Abram believed this promise from God. He had a loyalty to God. If God said it, that settled it! Genesis 15:6 says, “And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.”

Abram’s wife, Sarah, was 75 years old at that time and it has ceased to be with her after the manner of women. She was tired of waiting for the fulfillment of God’s promise, especially after 10 years has elapsed. So, she decided to take matters into her hands. She persuaded Abram to have a child by her maid, Hagar.

Sarah acknowledged the promise of God, but when she failed to see the expected result when she wanted it, she resorted to helping God by taking matters into her own hands. This is the attitude of many Christians today. Their eyes are fixed upon a manifestation, instead of the unchanging infallible promise of God (Heb. 12:2).

Abram himself was so confused that he quickly bought Sarah’s idea and a year later, a son was born to him by Hagar. You know, God did not specify the very woman through which this promise was going to be fulfilled. What is clear from the Scriptures is that the child was going to come forth out of Abram’s bowels. I believe that God expected Abram to know that the promise would be fulfilled through his rightful wife, Sarah, and not through his house maid, Hagar.

Now because of what Abram did, God allowed another 14 years to elapse [go by] before He once again reconfirmed His promise to Abram. He allowed them to become older. Abram was now 99 years and Sarah was 89 years old. You see, when you take matters into your hands, you delay the manifestation of your miracle.

Again, God revealed to Abram that Sarah was going to become the mother of nations. God told him that Sarah was going to bear him a son, and through this son His promise was going to be fulfilled. Seeing that Abram was confused about the very woman through whom the promise would be fulfilled, God now specified to him that it was Sarah.

Abram thought that since he and Sarah were beyond the age of having children, the fulfillment of God’s promise would come through his son, Ishmael. Abram laughed to himself and said, “How is it going to be possible for a man who is 100 years old and a woman who is 90 to give birth to a child?” (Gen. 17:17).

Remember that the fulfillment of God’s promise is not dependent on man’s ability. God’s promise [His Word] had within it the power for its own fulfillment. The power to bring to pass that which God has promised is resident in that Word.

Again, in Genesis 18, God gave a third confirmation of His promise to Abraham that His promise cannot be changed. So, Angels appeared unto Abram and delivered a Word from the Lord. They told him that Sarah would bear a son. Sarah overheard the conversation and also laughed to herself. “How is it possible for me to conceive and bear a child? I have passed the age of childbearing and Abraham is quite an old man now. It’s impossible.”

In Genesis 18:9-14 the three angels said unto Abraham, “Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

12 THEREFORE SARAH LAUGHED within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? 14 IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Abram and Sarah, both laughed at the promise of God, but that did not make the Word of God ineffective. God had spoken a Word and it must surely come to pass.

In Genesis 21:1-2 God visited Sarah as He said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as He had spoken. Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. I believe that because both of them laughed at the promise of God, God put it in their heart to name that child “laughter,” which is the meaning of Isaac.

Is there any promise of God to you that you are laughing at today? Get ready because the Lord is about to fill your mouth with laughter; that promise must come to pass.

Psalm 126:1-3 says, “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. 3 The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.”

Twenty-five years after Abraham received and believed God’s promise, he received the fulfillment of that promise. A miracle took place.

From this miracle story, we can see that (1) You must never give up on the promise of God because it will surely come to pass at the very time God has appointed for it; (2) Don’t ever take matters into your own hands – don’t help God.

Before the Word of God can produce a miracle in your life, you must first receive it into your spirit. The natural mind cannot accept the fact that it is possible for a 90-year-old woman to conceive and give birth to a child; that it is possible for a person born blind to see again; that exactly the right amount of money to meet to a certain financial need will come from unexpected sources precisely at the very moment it is needed. And, because the natural mind is not capable of understanding miracles, God’s promises to you must bypass your natural mind.

When the Word of God takes root within your spirit-man, the faith and power are released and the promise of God is fulfilled in your life.

As in the story of Elisha and the people of Samaria, or the story of Virgin Mary, the miracle was within the power of the Word itself. It was in, “Thus says the Lord.” It was in, “It is written.”

Mary simply yielded herself to God and said to the angel, “Though I do not understand it, though I cannot comprehend it, be it unto me even as thou has spoken” (Lk. 1:38). Therefore, no matter what your need may be, just stand firm on God’s promise to you and you will see the Word come to pass right before your very eyes.

 

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

·         Your friend, I. I. MADUBUNYI (Senior Pastor, HOG).              24.02.2019

Promise of God for the week: This week, “God will disappoint every device of the devil against you. He will thwart their plans such that their hands cannot achieve what they have planned against you” (Job 5:12).