PLACE A DEMAND ON THE POWER OF GOD!

Today, we want to focus on the seventh principle of receiving your miracle from God – “PLACE A DEMAND ON THE POWER OF GOD!”

Whenever you need a miracle form God, realize that He requires you to place a demand on His power, connect to the power of God, or cause the power of God to flow in your direction right into your situation.

How do you place a demand on the power of God? You place a demand on the power of God by faith.

How is this faith released or activated? It is released through your seed. The seed you sow helps you to release your faith, and place a demand on the power of God to flow into your situation. That power is more than enough to destroy any yoke of bondage in your life.

From the Scriptures we know that every dealing of man with God is by faith. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.”

Faith cannot manifest without works. In James 2:17 the Bible says, “Faith without works (the right seed) is dead.”

The word “works” in Hebrew means “corresponding action.”

James 2:14-26 says, “…17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone….26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO.”

God is the God of seed. Everything you need in life is hidden in that seed in your hand or bank account. The miracle you need is in your seed. What releases your miracle is your seed.

That new car, that enlargement in every area of your life, that divine healing, that new job, that new house, that scholarship, or that the life partner you need is hidden in your seed. But that seed in your hand will never produce the desired harvest unless you sow it.

The seed may leave your hand but it will never leave your future. Whatever you ask God to do for you, a finished marriage, a finished house, or a new car, He answers in seed.

Genesis 8:22 says, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

What is a miracle seed or a seed faith? Seed faith is a precious seed you sow to place a demand on the power of God to flow in your direction so as to meet to a particular need in your life.

It is a seed that releases your faith. It is a seed that stands before God to plead your case concerning a particular issue. A miracle seed stands as a barrier between you and the devil. The miracle seed is a weapon that confronts the forces of darkness that want to mess up your life – finances, health, business, marriage, family, children, spouse, and career.

Your miracle seed will say what you cannot say and go for you where you cannot go. Your miracle seed confirms what you believe God for. In other words, your miracle seed is the evidence of your faith because faith without works is dead.

The miracle seed touches the heart of God concerning your case. It speaks for you before God. It spoke for Cornelius (Acts 10). What your connections, your mini-skirt or your show-back cannot do for you, angels are released to do it for you once you sow the required seed. Once the Lord inhales the sweet aroma of that miracle seed, angels are released to work on your behalf. God takes from you the seed of faith to make for you that your very pressing need.

Your faith is measured by your seed. Your seed is the evidence of your faith (Jam. 2:22). You can believe God for big things in life, but if you have no seed, you have no evidence for your faith.

Your miracle seed will challenge your mountain. If you have faith as small as the size of a mustard seed, you can use that your seed to challenge that mountain you are facing and the mountain will move.

In Matthew 17:20 Jesus said unto them, “…for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”

For instance, there is a particular pressing need in your Church, and you sow what you cannot afford towards it, this miracle seed will place a demand on the power of God to flow into your situation to produce your desired miracle. The money you sow as a seed faith can fetch anything you desire for yourself. It stands before God to plead your case.

Examples of people who received their miracles by placing a demand on the power of God abound in the Scriptures:

1. God the Father. God the Father needed a family - the Church. So He sowed the unspeakable seed (2 Cor. 9:15), Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, and reaped the Church which He so much desired (Jn. 3:16; Phil. 2:5).

2. The Bible talks about a prophet’s widow who desperately needed a miracle. This widow was the wife of a Bible school student under Prophet Elisha.

In 2 Kings 4:1-7, the Bible said that a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But he owed money to a man. And now that man is coming to take my two sons to make them his slaves.” So the man of God, Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house BUT a jar of olive oil.”

Listen to me beloved, most times you hear people claiming to have nothing to sow. Adam actually did not have anything to sow. But because he needed a miracle, he had to surrender himself for surgery. A rib had to be taken from him through surgery. That is the only way it can happen: you must give something – a seed that will activate your faith and put a demand on God’s power (Gen. 8:22; Lk. 6:38; 2 Cor. 9:6-7).

My dear, even if a seed has to be taken from you tonight by surgery, it is worth it. After all, the dress you are putting on right now is something. That your shoe or hands watch is something.

The woman in need claimed to have nothing BUT. Notice that BUT. In your own case, I know that you don’t have anything to sow BUT... What is that your BUT? That is exactly what you need to sow in order to achieve the result you desire. The BUT of this woman was a jar of oil.

Then the man of God gave her a simple instruction that sounded very unreasonable. He instructed her to go and borrow many empty vessels (not a vessel) from everywhere, from all her neighbours. And when she had come in, she should shut the door behind her and her sons. She should then pour the oil into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones. She obeyed the voice of the prophet of God because 2 Chronicles 20:20 says, “….and believe the prophet, so shall ye prosper.”

Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is no other vessel.” So the oil ceased. You see, she borrowed vessels according to the level of her faith. If she had filled that large room with empty vessels no matter how large, God would have still filled all of them because our God is unlimited (Eph. 3:20). The oil ceased when the last vessel filled up. The woman limited God.

She came and told the man of God the result achieved. She waited for the next instruction from the prophet of God. And he said to her, “Go sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons live on the rest.” You see that this woman, by sowing a miracle seed, not only solved her immediate problem, but crossed over from lack to overflowing abundance. You too can cross over from less than enough to more than enough right now.

3. Abraham was childless and desperately needed a miracle. He activated his faith for the miracle he needed from God by sowing a miracle seed (Gen. 18, 22). Isaac was the quality seed that Abraham sowed in order to reap the harvest of becoming the father of nations.  Your seed contains your harvest [miracle] – your new car, your new house, your divine healing, that new job etc.

Abraham tapped the wonder-working power of God into his situation by placing a demand on the power of God through his seed, and the yoke of childlessness was destroyed. Abraham linked up with the invisible hand of the Omnipotent God through faith and virtue was instantly released into his situation to enhance his value by meeting to his need. Isaac came forth!

In Genesis 18:1, the Bible records that Abraham remained in the heat of the day. We all are going through one heat or the other. It is inside. You can’t tell it to anyone. For some, it is an anti-progress curse that has been upon their family.

They do everything within their power to succeed in life but success always eludes them. For some it is the case of spirit spouse. For some it is their children that have refused to follow the way of the LORD. For Abraham, it was the case of childlessness. In this state, this man who was in dare need was looking for where to sow a miracle seed that will challenge his situation and give him the miracle he was looking for.

In Genesis 18:1-8, Abraham attended to three men. That was the day he planted the seed that settled his case. The seed you will sow today will settle your case.

In Genesis 18:9-10, the Bible says, “And they said unto him (Abraham), where is Sarah thy wife?” And he said unto them, “Behold, in the tent.” And He said, “I will certainly do unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.”

In Genesis 21:1-2 the Bible declares, “And the Lord visited Sarah as He had 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. God’s Word came to pass in the life of Abraham just as God said simply because Abraham sowed a quality miracle seed that settled his case.

What is the situation you are facing right now that requires a miracle? What mountain are you facing right now? I want you to know that though the devil meant it for evil, but God is turning it around for good.

Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”

Beloved, that which you are holding in your hands right now is your miracle seed for that miracle you need. That is the seed that will release your faith and place a demand on the power of God required for the miracle you desire. You have your destiny right in your hands. The choice is yours!

• Your friend, I. I. MADUBUNYI (Head Pastor)                 March 17^th, 2019.

Promise of God for the week: “God shall increase your greatness, and comfort you on every side” (Ps. 71:21).