THE SUPERNATURAL FAITH

 In continuation of our discussions on the different kinds of FAITH, we want to look at The Supernatural Faith today (Rom. 4:17-21). 

 

What is supernatural faith? 

1. Supernatural faith is trusting God and His Word more than anything you can see in the natural realm. This is also called “Abraham’s kind of faith, Real faith, Heart faith, Bible faith, Strong faith, or God-kind of faith.”

 

2. “Supernatural faith” is a faith that is based purely on what God has said in His Word concerning any situation. 

 

3. “Supernatural faith” is a faith that believes with the heart (your spirit-man), in spite of what your five senses are saying.

 

This type of faith says, “In spite of what I am seeing or feeling; in spite of contrary evidence, if God said it is so, then it is so.”

 

It is the faith that says, “I have it now even though I can’t see it with my physical eyes.” 

 

It is the faith that says, “We walk by whatever God has said in His Word” (2 Cor. 5:7).

 

It is the faith that says, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor. 4:18). 

 

4. Supernatural faith in God simply says concerning you whatever God has said about you. God said: It is well with you (2 Ki. 4:26). You are blessed (Eph. 1:3). You shall be on top only and never below (Deut. 28:13). No weapon formed against you shall prosper (Isa. 54:17). You shall not die but live, and declare the works of the LORD (Ps. 118:17). If God says that by His stripes you have been healed, then you are healed (Isa. 53:4-5, Matt. 8:17; 1 Pet. 2:24). 

 

Grief means sicknesses and diseases. Sorrow means pain. Sicknesses and diseases cause you pains. If you have no sickness or disease you will not feel any pain. Jesus took away the grief that brought us sorrow. No grief, no sorrow! Can you say, Thank you Jesus? Isaiah 53:10 says, “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him (Jesus); He (God) hath put Him (Jesus) to grief:” 

 

Now, begin to look back and see God lay your sicknesses and pains on Jesus. “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Gal. 3:13). Sicknesses and pain are signs of the curse of the law. Beloved, Christ has taken them all and nailed them to the cross at Calvary. 

 

In Colossians 2:14 the Bible says, “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it (them) out of the way, nailing it (them) to His cross;” 

Therefore, I don’t have them anymore. And if you are a New Creature, you too don’t have them anymore. God is interested in both your physical health as well as your spiritual health. In fact, when you are spiritually healthy, you are bound to be physically healthy too. 

 

1 Peter 2:24 the Bible says, “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes we were healed.”

 

5. Supernatural faith is the faith that never fails. Here you cast yourself on God, taking His Word as the absolute truth. Casting yourself on God is casting yourself on His Word. 

 

6. Supernatural faith is laying hold of the unseen realm of hope and bringing it into the realm of reality. And supernatural faith grows out of the Word of God (Rom. 10:17).

 

7. Supernatural faith anchors itself strictly on the Word of God. When your faith is strong, you not only believe the Word but you instantly act on it, rejoicing that what God said in His Word has already come to pass in your life. It is easy for you to act on His Word just as Peter did (he walked on water, cast down his net etc.).

 

8. Supernatural faith is the faith that SPEAKS and it comes to pass. That is the faith God used to create the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1-3; Heb. 1:3). Every Word that God spoke during the creation came to pass because He spoke them in faith. He knew that whatever He said must come to pass (Isa. 14:27; Isa. 55:11; Jer. 1:12; Num. 23:19). That’s supernatural faith! Isaiah 14:27 says, “God has spoken – who can change His plans?”

 

9. Jesus defined supernatural faith in Mark 11:23. In Mark 11:12 He was hungry and wanted to eat some fruit. But because He saw no fruit on that tree, He said to the tree, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever” (Mk 11:14). His disciples heard Him when He cursed the tree. After Jesus cursed the tree, it looked the same as it was before He spoke to it. But 24 hours later, His disciples observed that the fig tree had dried up from the roots. 

 

This suggests that when Jesus spoke to the tree, it died immediately from the roots. The roots were in the ground so no one could immediately tell that anything had happened to the tree. Though the tree looked the same, as before Jesus spoke to it, the tree was already dead from the root. Its source of life had been cut off. Seeing that the tree had withered away, the disciples were amazed. Then Peter said, “Master, look! The tree you cursed has withered away.” Then Jesus said, “Have the faith of God,” or “Have ‘God-kind’ of faith – the supernatural faith.” He wanted His disciples to know that with this kind of faith, they could do anything; they could move mountains.

 

10. Supernatural faith is a fearless faith. With supernatural faith you could do anything. That is why Jesus said, “To him that believeth all things are possible” (Mk. 9:23). That is to say, “To him that has fearless faith, nothing shall be impossible.” In Mark 10:27 Jesus looking upon them saith, “With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.” 

 

Just like Jesus when He spoke to the fig tree, each time you speak forth what God has said in His Word concerning any situation, whether you see any change immediately or not wouldn’t make any difference. In your spirit-man, you know that the words you’ve spoken with your mouth will surely come to pass. 

11. Supernatural faith does not consider the outward appearance of things. It does not consider whatever the five senses are saying. It does not consider the circumstances. It considers only what God has said concerning the particular situation (2 Cor. 5:7). 

 

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

 

·      Your friend: I. I. MADUBUNYI (Senior Pastor)