The supernatural is one of the redemption rights of every child of God. So, the moment you become Born Again, the supernatural becomes your natural inheritance. Last Sunday we saw that: 1) Faith obeys the unreasonable, 2) Faith sees the invisible and 3) Faith believes the unbelievable. Today, we are going to look at some other ways faith provokes the supernatural.
4. Faith declares the unimaginable Faith declares something far beyond your scope.
Look at the example of prophet Elisha: “And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver…” (2 Ki. 6:24-33).
But in the midst of this crippling famine, Elisha declared the unimaginable saying, “Hear ye the Word of the Lord; …By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, five quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver, and ten quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver” (2 Ki. 7:1).
Look at what the officer assisting the king of Samaria said to the man of God: “That couldn't happen even if the LORD opened the windows of heaven...!” (2 Ki. 7:2).
And prophet Elisha answered him saying: “Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof” (2 Ki. 7:2).
Elisha declared it thereby calling those things that be not as though they were. That is the way of the supernatural.
What prophet Elisha declared was unimaginable. How can he say by this time tomorrow, there shall be abundance of food in Samaria? The faith that ends in your heart without getting out through your mouth is not faith.
In Luke 21:15 Jesus said, “For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.”
In Mark 11:23 Jesus said, “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.”
In Romans 10:9-10 the Bible said, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
The mouth is the primary weapon of the supernatural. Whatsoever you declare with your mouth is confirmed. The man that operates in the supernatural speaks.
Romans 4:17 says, “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.”
In Genesis 1:1-3 the Bible says, “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
In Mark 11:23 Jesus did not say, “If you shall PRAY to the mountain...” Rather, if you shall SAY to the mountain….”
5. Faith does the impossible. In Luke 1:37 angel Gabriel said to Mary, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
Your case is not hard for our God. God said, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for Me?” (Jer. 32:27)
God said to Moses, “…lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea” (Ex. 14:16-17).
Again, the Lord said unto Moses, “Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea” (Ex. 14:26-27).
Again, Virgin Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost (Lk. 1:26-38).
Faith commands situations and circumstances and they obey. It was about to rain heavily on Sunday evening. But I commanded the dark clouds to shift to another location, and they obeyed, and it did not rain. Jesus commanded the sea to be still. And the wind causing the storm in the sea ceased immediately (Mk. 4:35-39).
Again, Joshua commanded the Sun, to be still” and the sun stood still (Josh. 10:12-13). Jesus commanded the sea to be still. And the wind causing the storm in the sea ceased immediately (Mk. 4:35-39).
6. Faith expects the unusual. If you are going to receive the breakthrough you need from God, you must have an expectation because you can never receive what you don’t expect.
Faith is the reality of your expectation. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now, faith is the substance (reality) of things hoped for ...”
“Things hopped for” means “things you expect.” Expectation is a strong belief that something will happen. When you say you have expectation, you must have a picture of what you are expecting. If you have no such picture, your expectation is without foundation. It is baseless.
Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think (imagine), according to the power that worketh in us.”
This is the truth: Your imagination is your image maker. You should develop it and let faith fill it. If you can see yourself doing whatever picture you have in your imagination, faith will cause that thing to manifest in the physical.
If you can see yourself healed, delivered, prosperous, living in that mansion in Heaven, your faith will bring that which is in the unseen realm to the seen realm. If you can see it in your imagination, you can possess it in the physical.
Jeremiah 1:11-12 says, “Moreover the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod [branch] of an almond tree. 12 Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten My Word to perform it.”
Without expectation faith has nothing to fill. Expectation is like the very thing you desire, but faith is what fills it.
You will eventually become what you behold (see)! That picture you have pasted is the image you have developed. This is what you are expecting (hoping for). Your faith is what will bring your expectation into manifestation in the seen world. Your faith will call it from the unseen realm to the realm of the physical (the seen world).
Locate your expectation: Then meditate (reflect) on that your expectation that is in line with God’s Word until an image (picture) is conceived in your imagination.
At this point, you have developed an image in the spirit realm. Thereafter, your faith calls it into existence.
7. Faith dares the un-dareable. The three Hebrew children dared the king by faith (Dan. 3:14-25). Also, David dared Goliath by faith (1 Sam. 17).
My prayer is that you’ll be fully persuaded and convinced that if God said it, it will certainly come to pass.
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