SOVEREIGN AND SUPERNATURAL ACTS OF GOD

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.