Examples of people that exercised supernatural faith

 Last week we learnt that supernatural faith is a faith that anchors itself on the Word of God – what God has said concerning your situation. Today we want to look at “Examples of people that exercised supernatural faith.” 

 

Abraham is a typical example of a person that exercised supernatural faith (Rom. 4:17-21). 

 

When Abraham was threatened by alarming symptoms of childlessness what did he do in such a situation? Did he fret? Did he consult a witch doctor? No! Rather he anchored his faith on what God said in His word concerning his situation. That is supernatural faith – a faith that anchors itself on what God has promised in His Word concerning your situation.

 

In spite of all odds, Abraham believed God’s Word. He did not consider what his physical senses were telling him.

If he didn’t consider his own body, he didn’t consider physical sight or physical feelings. Rather he considered what God said in His Word. Abraham did not consider his own body now dead, nor did he consider the deadness of Sarah’s womb, but he considered God’s Word, believed it, and anchored his faith on it in spite of all contrary evidence.

 

Notice what Abraham did:

1.  He anchored his faith in God. No doubt, Abraham was thinking of those things that were recorded in the early chapters of Genesis. Therefore, his faith was built on something that God did in the past as recorded in the Bible. Romans 10:17 says that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”

 

2. His faith was not a blind faith. How? He did not disregard the reality that his body was now dead, nor did he ignore the reality of the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 

 

You do not deny your condition because it is real. Childlessness is real, but it is not the truth. Poverty is real, but it is not the truth. Sickness is real, but it is not the truth. 

The only truth is the Word of God (Jn. 17:17). Therefore, you should always consider the truth and not the reality. The reality is temporal, but the truth is eternal (2 Cor. 4:18).

 

3. Abraham believed in hope against hope (Rom. 4:18). 

 

4. He faced the fact that his body and that of Sarah were as good as dead (Rom. 4:19). 

 

5. He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief. Rather, he was strong in faith (Rom. 4:20).

 

What does it mean to be strong in faith?  This means to give glory to God before you see your answer manifested; thanking and praising God before you see the answer you are expecting with your physical senses. 

 

6. He was fully convinced (persuaded) that God had the power to do what He had promised (Rom. 4:21).

Abraham believed according to that which was spoken by God. His faith was based solely on the Word of God.

 

I know that Abraham had God’s promise that Isaac would be born. In fact, God didn’t say He was going to do it. He said, “I have made thee the father of many nations” because God saw it already done. That’s the way it is with supernatural faith. It already sees the job done. 

 

Supernatural faith says, “It’s mine! I have it now!” God sees the future better than we see the past. He speaks as if it is already done, because in His sight it is done. The Bible says that God calleth those things that be not as though they were (Rom. 4:17). 

 

Abraham’s physical senses told him that it was impossible to father a nation at his age (nearly 100 years old), yet he considered not his own body. Abraham didn’t consider the circumstances that contradicted God’s Word. 

 

Here is the perfect counsel: Do not pay any attention to the physical symptoms you are seeing or feeling no matter how threatening they may appear to be.

 

In that your aching condition, what should you consider? Are you considering what the symptoms are saying? Are you considering what the doctors are saying? Are you considering what your senses are telling you or what the Word of God says concerning your situation? 

 

If you are truly considering God’s Word instead of what your senses are telling you, why are you still carrying that Panadol in your bag? 

 

Did He not say in His Word in James 5:14-16, “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” 

 

You see, when you develop your faith to the point where you believe what the Word of God says regardless of circumstances and physical symptoms, then you are believing the right thing, and that’s what brings results.

 

Do not consider and see the wrong thing because according to your faith it will be done unto you. Jesus is up there representing us at the throne of God, and He is saying, “I took their place; I died for them as their Substitute.” 

 

He didn’t die for Himself. He didn’t need to redeem Himself because He was never lost like you and I. He died for us. He became my Substitute. He took my sins. He bore my sicknesses. He rose from the dead for me. He ascended on high for me, and He is up there right now saying to the Father, “I did that for him.”

 

Therefore, we are to hold fast to saying the same thing down here. That is what puts the devil on the run. Learn to focus your attention on the TRUTH and not on the REALITY. 

 

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

 

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