SOVEREIGN AND SUPERNATURAL ACTS OF
GOD
Life and Ministry
Sharing With Pastor Dapo Adeniyi
It is very important for us as believers, to
remember that God is not only our Father but a king in heaven.
As such, He does as He pleases in the
firmament of heaven.
We cannot call His acts to question.
Fortunately for us he is both good and all wise.
People do not query
God because they feel they know better than God but rather because a
spirit of rebellion is in them.
Very many times, the wisdom behind God’s sovereign acts
become visible to us later on.
David for example never could understand why it took so long
to remove King Saul from office after
God had rejected him. It must have been later on that David realized
that Lord preserved Saul for his sake.
God was using Saul to train David and reveal himself to David
as the great savior. The proof of this was that Nabal the Carmelite insulted
David and was a dead man in 10 days!
I think it was Pastor E.A Adeboye who once
said that it is the wisdom of God that controls the power of God. In other
words, there are many things that God’s power can do but which His wisdom will
not allow Him to do.
His power could
save Joseph from the hands of his brothers, but his wisdom released him to go
down in chains to Egypt.
His wisdom also
transferred Joseph from serving in Portiphars house to the prison lest Joseph
should escape back to Canaan before the word of Pharaoh called for him.
One of the many
reasons the Bible is precious to us is that it is a record of the judgments of
God.
His judgments are things He considers as right
in His sight.
Some things that God
will decide are right may be appalling to some people.
The sentencing of
the Canaanites to mass killing under the hand of Israel has appalled some.
A commentator even
said that it confirmed to him that the God of the Old Testament was not the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Unfortunately for
them, none can question the King of heaven in His judgments.
They perhaps will
also need to remember that it was to give the Canaanites room to mend their
ways that God kept Israel in Egypt for 400 years.
We see a lot of the
judgments or sovereign acts of God in the area of divine healing.
Healing is likened
to rain.
God can decide to
send His rain on the wicked. No one is qualified in the real sense for God
rain, they are a rain of His mercy.
Those used of God in
the healing ministry must also realize that they are God’s witnesses only.
He is the doer of
it, not us
The baptism in the
Holy Spirit that may seem to us to be commonplace is also a rain of God’s
mercy.
To take glory for a
sovereign act of God and to give His glory or credit to graven images are the
same.
We also see God’s
judgments at work when we call for His help.
Spiritual babies
think their prayers are answered because of the quality of their cry to God.
The heathen for
their own part think they are heard by God because of their much speaking or
fasting.
The mature Christian
however understands that every answer to prayer is a sovereign act of God.
God is not compelled
to prove anything to us by answering our prayer.
We can always call
on God and trust in His goodness.
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