There is no doubt that
the miracle of creation started with a word from God. The bible goes on to reaffirm
this in the gospel of John where it states that everything God made was done by
His word who is still God’s instrument for creation even today. There is
therefore, no end to the capacity of the word to create anything that is spoken
except the word chooses not to. The scriptures then go on to tell us that God’s
word is fully represented in the person of His son – His word in flesh. So we
know that the word of God truly has life and is able to give life. For God to
make all this effort for us to understand that His word is living and The
Creator, it suggests to me that having and accepting that truth must make a
difference in the life of a believer. One thing I can say for certain is this -
until one realizes the importance of this word, there is a high tendency to
treat it like any other word yet therein lies the salvation and hope of mankind.
Only God would put something so great in something so little whilst still retaining
its power and ability so that it is hard for man to understand and accept the
concept. For man is used to treating word as just mere word. Yet, if he treats
the word of God as mere word, He would suffer loss untold missing out on most
of the things God ordained for him. The answers to our prayers are revealed in
the word of God, so we cannot afford to treat the word with the level of carelessness
that we would normally treat mere words. We don’t do God a favor by taking His
word seriously; we actually do ourselves a lot of good.
John
1: 1, 3 – 4a “In the beginning the word already existed. The word was with God,
and the word was God… God created everything through him, and nothing was
created except through him. The word gave life to everything that was created,”
Whilst it is true that
times have changed and almost everything is fluid, we have a God that never changes
so that in all the change going on in life, we must accommodate the reality of
our God remaining the same. Our God has chosen to send everything through His
word. In a world where we only believe when we see, God is asking us to believe
when what we have cannot be seen or touched. It is almost unreal but it is
truth. If we must succeed in life and fulfill our destiny then we must accept
this reality instead of what we were used to before we came to Christ. This is
a real struggle for us so a number of us tend to desperately seek information
about the future just to make it easier to hold on to the word. This is leading
several believers to several wrong places; they just want this information about
their future. They don’t want to leave Christ but they feel a need to know a
lot more than God is willing to tell us and they argue that it makes it easier
to wait on God but the truth is most of this information comes from familiar
spirits who disguise themselves as believers. I guess these believers who
operate with familiar spirits are some of those Jude refers to as false
brethren. The truth is many of us that go to such believers already suspect
that there is something not right about them but we are so desperate to know
what God chooses to withhold that we ignore the knowing we have inside. The
familiar is a very big problem to us when it comes to receiving miracles because
we are set in the way we believe things ought to happen. We need to make urgent
adjustments so we don’t miss the appropriate timing for our miracles because God
works with times and seasons. When the season rolls away, He who causes the
harvest has moved on and without Him, one can do all and yet have zero harvest.
Mathew
9: 38 “So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest.”
Isaiah
55: 11 “It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces
fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I
send it.”
Jesus often likened the
word of God to a seed and I believe that is deliberate. Every seed carries life
in it despite that it is little and appears lifeless. The purpose of each seed
is already settled just like the word that God sends into our lives. That the
seed will do well or die when it is sent, is dependent on other factors like
the soil and everything it needs to be nurtured. God always does His part but
do we recognize the word He sends as answers to our prayers? It cannot be planted
if we do not recognize it as God’s answer to our request. If we treat it as just
another word, so it will be but if we take it in and nurture it providing the
right environment, it will accomplish its purpose. When God sends His seed, He
expects a harvest but we must not frustrate the seed. Our hearts are a major
part of what the word becomes in our lives. If we do not recognize the word
that is sent to birth our miracles, we may reject it thereby unknowingly, rejecting
our miracles also. We must learn to patiently wait on God that we do not miss
Him. Patiently waiting on Him does not mean one does nothing at all but that
one is attentive to Him even in all that one does. The day is far sent and the
return of our Lord is closer than we think. Please let us work while it is yet
day and every blessing is meant to help us complete our work; we can’t afford
to be so careless that we loose them.
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