HOW DOES THE WORD OF GOD PROVOKE THE SUPERNATURAL?

The supernatural is one of the redemption rights of every child of God. You see, when you become a citizen of USA, there are certain rights and privileges that accrue to you. Similarly, when you become a citizen of heaven, there are certain rights and privileges that automatically become yours. For instance, the moment you become a child of God, the supernatural becomes your natural inheritance. 

What is it in the Word of God that provokes the supernatural? 

1. The Word of God upholds the fullness of God’s authority. The fullness of God’s authority is vested in His Word, and that is why the Word will always provoke the supernatural.

Psalm 138:2 says, “He has exalted (magnified) His Word above all His names.”  “He upholds all things by the Word of His power” (Heb. 1:3).

2. The Word of God never changes. “The Word is the same today, yesterday and forever” (Heb. 13:8; Mal. 3:6).

3. The Word of God imparts divine nature to your spirit man. 2 Peter 1:3-4 says, “…4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

God’s nature is nurtured in the Word. The more you behold Him (His Word) the more you look like Him (2 Cor. 3:18). When you stay with the Word of God, you will carry divine nature, and God’s nature is the nature of the supernatural. 

4. The Word of God imparts boldness and confidence to your spirit man. Acts 4:13-14 says, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus (Word).”

The way to kill timidity is to settle with the Word. When you settle with what God has promised in His Word concerning your situation, nothing in this world can move you any longer because the Word of God must surely come to pass (Isa. 55:11; Matt. 5:18). 

Until you are bold, God cannot use you in the supernatural. You don’t have to wait for the facts to come in before you declare the Word. Everyone God uses in the supernatural will first of all declare what you want before God manifests it in the physical. For instance: It takes boldness to declare that you are healed when the symptoms are still quite obvious. Until you declare it, you cannot see the expected result. But it takes boldness to do that, and boldness is a product of the Word. 

Acts 4:29-33 says, “… and they spake the Word of God with boldness….” You must be drunk with the Word of God in order to manifest unusual boldness. When you keep taking in the Word of God, at a point, you will be drunk with it. And when you are that drunk with the Word, you are ready to manifest the miraculous.

Therefore, “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Col. 3:16).

How? “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).

5. What is it in the Word that provokes the supernatural? The Word releases the harmer. What does the hammer do? The hammer breaks you when you throw yourself against it, but if you make the mistake of waiting for the Word to fall on you, it will grind you to powder (Matt. 21:44; Lk. 20:18).

6. The Word of God carries the Spirit of God. “The letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life” (2 Cor. 3:6). We are not asking you to just read the Bible. We are asking you to contact the Word.

In John 6:63 Jesus said, “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.”

7. The Word of God unleashes the joy of the LORD. A person that hangs around the Bible cannot be depressed. 

If you happen to be depressed, it means that you don’t have this Word in your spirit man. Because the things depressing you are the things happening in this world. The Word of God births an invisible and unexplainable joy right in your inner man.

In John 15:11 Jesus said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”

8. The Word of God is a seed. Every seed has in it a germinating principle. In it, the life of the plant and the power behind that life is contained. So, there is life in the Word of God and this life is the light of men (Jn. 1:4). And this is why the Word of God can give life to the lifeless (dead).

Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the Word of God is quick (gives life), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 

The power in the Word of God is the power that makes God to be God. Therefore, every promise (Word) of God contains this power, the very life of God by which the promise can be fulfilled. 

Anyone therefore, who by faith receives the Word of God is receiving the very life, nature, and character of God. 

He is receiving the very power that makes God to be God, the power that makes impossibility possible (Lk. 1:37; Mk. 9:23; Jer. 32:27). 

Can you now see why in Romans 10:17 the Bible says, “So then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God?” 

So, if you receive the Word of God, you have received all the power you need to change that your distressing situation. When the Word of God jams its target, it discharges the whole power of heaven on that target, and no situation, no mountain or Red Sea can survive this divine impact. 

In Isaiah 10:27 the Bible says, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.” 

9. The Word of God imparts fire to your spirit man. In Jeremiah 20:9 Prophet Jeremiah said, “I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name. But His Word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”

When fire is burning in your bones, you can’t remain still. When I see you still in the midst of your trouble, I know that you lack the fire. 

Here is the truth: You cannot have the fire and allow the enemy to consume you. For instance, When the three Hebrew children were to be put in the fiery furnace, I can hear them saying that the fire in us is greater than the fire out there. The fire in us is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29). 

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up” (Dan. 3:16-18).

Who was it that appeared in the fire as they were thrown into the furnace? The Son of God. The king said, “Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God” (Dan. 3:25).

Who is the Son of God? Jesus!  Who is Jesus? Jesus is the living Word of God (Jn. 1:1, 14). 

Hear this: Every challenge in your life represents some degree of fire. But when you have the fire from this book – the Bible, it will consume the lesser fire.

In Jeremiah 23:29 God said, “Is not My Word like as a fire? And like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”

Beloved, the Word of God can also change your situation even right now. Give God’s Word your undivided attention. Put everything else away from your mind, believe God’s Word, receive God’s Word, accept God’s Word, and act upon what His Word says. 

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• Your friend, I. I. Madubunyi (Senior Pastor, HOG).  06.03.2022