Luke 8: 40-56, Mark 10: 27
Many individuals have had encounters with God and they named him based on their experiences.
Jesus wanted us to know that all things are possible with God.
Man has vulnerabilities and inadequacies. On the other hand, God was showing his omnipotence and power; that with him all things are possible. In him there is possibility and with him there is nothing impossible.
God’s efficacy and infinite power, to do, to deliver, to bless, and reign makes impossibilities possible. God can turn things around, he can turn situations around. That is the power and possibility of God.
Man is limited. He is in a lonely state because he cannot do things without God. That is why with man it is impossible but not with God.
While we look at the possibilities in God it is not pit of place to see the limitations of men; they include:
1. Man cannot create something out of nothing, but God created the whole universe out of nothing. God in his power can create something out of nothing.
We have been made in the image of God, yet we don’t share the attributes of God. That exclusive power is reserved for God.
Gen 1:26-27 talks about how the world was made into existence by God’s words. The whole world was void and empty, but God in his power, spoke and said “let there be…” and there was. The whole creation came into existence out of nothing. John 1:1-2
God had a picture of the future and spoke it to being. As believers, we can possess our future through the scriptures. Have a mental picture of your future. Speak into being what you want for yourself and claim with words what you want for yourself.
2. Man cannot change time but God can. God has the power to change time or make time to stand still. Joshua 10:12-14
Man can only change the clock but cannot change time.
This power is exclusive to God, no man has the ability to stop time. God can change time and seasons. Day did not exist until God called it to be. Isaiah 38: 7-8
3. Man cannot know the future, only God does. God in his foreknowledge knows what will happen tomorrow, the day after and years to come.
When Abraham had nothing, God called him the Father of many nations. God had seen ahead of him that he would be the father of many nations.
Romans 4:17 Romans 4:17 (KJV) (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 are not as though they were.
Man cannot see into the future, only God can. That is why we do not need to panic, our future is bright in God. The Lord has gone ahead of us, he has seen it. We only need spiritual sight to see it.
4. Man cannot know everything, only God does. One of the fundamental characteristics of God is omniscience; He is all-knowing. He knows everything.
Prophet Isaiah was a prophet of God. He saw things in darkness; however, he is still limited as a man. He could not see everything. He only saw what the Lord revealed unto him. God is the God of all knowledge, he sees and knows all things.
Isaiah 40:13-14 (KJV) Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
With whom took counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgement, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Only God knows what is in the hearts of men. It is only him who can see the heart of a man.
Concerning the heart of men. There are two realms – the natural realm and supernatural realm.
The supernatural comes from the supernatural realm to the physical realm. We all need the supernatural realm in all our dealings.
Salvation is supernatural The Bible says, “unless a man is born of the Spirit of God, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
A man must be born again to be baptized into the supernatural. He must be born again into the supernatural in order to be saved.
It is salvation that produces a man to be supernatural. When we are born of God we are this initiated into the supernatural. It is a man that is born of the Spirit that the supernatural is open to.
However, some are still dragging in harnessing the supernatural.
We need salvation and spiritual growth as men. The spiritual growth is what the believer needs and yet it is supernatural. The things of the Spirit influences the physical, this is why as a man the things of the Spirit must be an aspiration to you.
When we are born in the Spirit, we are expected to grow in the Spirit and use it in the natural realm. When we are born in the Spirit we should speak the language of the Spirit.
There are three languages of the Spirit:
First on the list is speaking in tongues.
1 Corinthians 14:2-3 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
Every believer must desire to speak in tongues, not just in knowledge but must be able to exercise it at all times and in all places.
It is speaking possibilities to the impossibilities.
He says, “the word that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are life.” This means the word of the Spirit is speaking in tongues. The whole world came into existence by the spoken word of God. The word was spoken into the world when everything was void and dark.
Secondly, speaking by faith is of the Spirit.
Hebrews 11:10
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
We are the children of faith. We live by faith. We speak by faith. We walk by faith and not by sight. We are children of faith. Faith involves agreeing with what the Lord has said. It is working with what God has spoken on.
If we do not agree with it, it will practically not work.. It will render the word of God ineffective. It makes it void. The word that made all things out of nothing can be rendered ineffective.
By tradition, the word of God can be rendered void and impotent because it is not agreed with. This is why when it was spoken we must run with it.
Whatever God has spoken about us, we must agree with it, whether by his prophet or by his servants.
A man with faith confessions must be in line with what God is saying. While it has not come to pass, we must keep saying it.
That is why a man of faith does not speak negative words. We cannot be asking God for something in prayer and we are also speaking doubt at the same time. Our confession must be in alignment with God is saying.
Even though we have not seen it come to pass we must keep saying it. This is because the word will prevail and grow eventually. It is the language of the Spirit. We know that the Lord can do supernatural things in every situation.
We must not say things that the world is saying. We must not talk in line with the happenings in the economy. People are doing valiantly in the country. We are children of faith.
Matthew 28:17
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth.
We are the body of Christ and the authorities have been given unto us. The authority of God follows it as we say those words.
Life does not happen by accident. It is what you give to life that life gives back to you..
If you give good things to life, life will give good things unto you. If you speak good things unto yourself good things will happen unto you. Your prayers must align with your words. Scriptures say God will give unto us above all we can ask or think, so your thoughts can also be prayers, therefore do not give room for negative thoughts into your mind.
Luke 8:40
Faith cometh by hearing not by prayer. That is why we must always give ourselves to teaching. We need to learn to wait on God because he makes all things beautiful in his time. If you want to experience the supernatural you need to surrender all to Jesus. We need to see God as a loving father who will never take delight in seeing his children suffer. God cannot be glorified in our sufferings.
In Judges 6: 23, 30 the Bible talked about how God promised that there would be no death but the devil tried to counter the word of God. That is how the devil always ministers contradictory words to us, but we should stand our ground with Faith and declare only the word of God concerning our life, believe it and run with it.
Faith is believing what God has said concerning you.
Luke 8:43 “twelve” in this Scripture is symbolic. The other girl was twelve years old, the woman with the issue of blood also has spent all that she has for about twelve years she has been in the problem. The Bible says she has spent all that she has on livelihood on physicians and could not be healed. Yet her situation was getting worse.
What she has been carrying for years ceased for a moment when she encountered Christ. So what you are been passing through for years can come to an end when you encounter Christ. It is called supernatural Intervention.
The moment the woman with the issue of blood encountered Christ, her problem was solved. Christ is a problem solver, he is the author of blood, he is the author of life. That woman’s life was going gradually until she encountered Christ.
Jesus felt that someone touched him, if you touch Jesus, he will know that he has been touched. It was her faith which is one of the language of the spirit that healed her. So it means if we have faith, our faith can make us whole. And faith is agreeing with what the Lord has said.
Luke 8:49
While He was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, “Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Teacher.”.
The moment the daughter died, fear griped the man, his faith jumped out of him and Jesus said he should not be afraid but believe and she will be made well.
Reading down that scripture we saw that Jesus only allowed people of like mind, not pity parties. That is why you should move with people in the household of faith because your language will be the same and they can see things the way you are seeing it. Others might not see things the way you are seeing it and if you are speaking by faith, they might be mocking you because they don’t understand.
In the actual sense, the girl was dead but Jesus was speaking by faith and he said “she is sleeping”. Put people that don’t have the faith you have aside, people that are not seeing what you are seeing, people that do not believe in you, in your future/Vision put them aside.
There are three enemy of vision:
(1) People that will not expect the vision.
(2) People that will not respect the vision.
(3) People that will not accept the vision.
Jesus drove people who cannot see what he is seeing out and went in with people of likemind. That is how to experience supernatural Intervention. With God all things are possible. There is nothing impossible for him to do.
Above all, be expectant, believe God for the miraculous, believe God for supernatural Intervention. He has the final say. In all you’re going through, keep trusting God for supernatural Interventions.