"THE SUPERNATURAL"

Genesis 18:10-15

New International Version (NIV)

10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.”Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”15 Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.”But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”

Lets face the truth, there are a zillion times that we all have the Sarah-like feeling of doubt, hopelessness when we know in all reality some things as childbearing child-bearing age cannot be scientifically reversed. At 90 years to be told that you will be having a child in the preceding year is enough to make you want to think humanly that the barrier of the news must be crazy. It would be news enough for you to say what an insult. Scientifically childbearing age as noted by the obstetricians and gynecologists of our time is age 20 to 30. Sarah was 60 years past this mark. 60 years over a time frame that would pose so many risk of deformities, abnormalities and more. But reverse 60 years to 06 days. It took God 06 days to create the heavens and the earth. 06 days for the universe in which we thrive to exist. Truly than 14. is anything too hard for the Lord?  Sarah only used a human reaction that most of us might have used if we were in her position. But the God that we serve is not one to be mocked. When God says it, you should believe it. It is obvious that when in doubt there may be a denial of any thing you might call a miracle. You see God no longer speaks to us as he did in the times of the prophets Moses, Abraham Elijah, but today he speaks to us through the gift of his son Jesus.

“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds”(Hebrews 1:1-2)

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Only a fool says in his heart that God is non existent (Psalm 14:1).That He cannot perform miracles and more. I want to inform you He is the same God of yesterday as is today. If He could part the red sea, Exodus 14:13-31(NIV) that is supernatural in itself that should tell you the kind of God He is, if can take the prophet Elijah away without death in the flaming chariot, 2 Kings 2:9-15(NIV) that is supernatural in itself that should tell you the kind of God He is, if He cloud love us so much to send His only begotten son in whom we have hope to experience the supernatural today via a virgin, Luke 1:27-38 that is also supernatural in itself that should tell you the kind of God He is, if He could allow His son to use only 5 loaves of bread and a 2 fishes to feed 5000 and more Matthew 14:13-21, lastly if He could allow his son to be wiped, crucified and left dead for 3days and rise again that is supernatural in itself that should tell you the kind of God He is.

The Supernatural! All the events listed above are bizarre, out of the ordinary things that can only be attached to the work of a deity not of this world.  I got news for you when you trust in God your creator, when you lean not on your understanding and his understanding of your situation, He truly rewards you with the desires of your heart and enables you to experience the wealth of understanding his supernatural abilities, inconceivable things that will come your way.

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Examples hurricanes came our way, many houses left to your ruins but yours survived with minimal damages to the garage and your basement, or you landed in an accident that caused your car to be crashed beyond repairs but you survived with minimal bruising to your body…Never my friend underestimate the power that God has.  Sarah situation was a supernatural intervention of God stepping in on Abraham’s behalf. The unique thing about Abraham as many theologians have found is that he had a relationship with God beyond all reasonable doubts. He loved God he trusted God that is why God found so much favor with him. He had beyond all unreasonable doubt a supernatural relationship with God. He had a friend in God.

•             May your trust and hope in God bring you to a place of undeniable friendship with     you.
•             May God favor you because he finds you worthy of his friendship
•           May God provide for you because you trusted him first!

Abraham’s life and story is an example of someone who teaches us how to trust God and listen to him. By default He may test your so-called love for Him like He did to Abraham who continued to trust God. Here is the story Genesis 22:1-18

22 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram  caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”

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Because Abraham Trusted God, he obeyed God! Because he feared God, he was going to without doubt scarifies his child as God instructed. The passage did not show once that Abraham was reluctant or did he question or oppose what God wanted of him. He trusted God to the point that when his son asked, “ where is the lamb for the burnt offering” his response was “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” God surely did!  Cause in verse 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram [a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. Many of us will not experience the supernatural until we come to recon with ourselves that God is mightier than we’ll ever know or try to figure out. His mysteries are far beyond human comprehension. His mysteries are way beyond the thoughts of man. We only get an peck of understanding when we seek Him and allow Him God to guide us to a place in Him where we come to understand His teachings via the episodes of life that unfold before our eyes. Like the birds of the air that He feeds and the grass that grow today and are gone tomorrow he is capable more than capable to do what he said he would do for you and I.

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“Therefore like Matthew 6 reminds us”, “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink”. My favorite part to these scriptures is   “…Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life” See God knows our needs and wants. He also sees the intent of our heart. His only requirement of us is to seek first His Kingdom and all other things will be added unto us. Not one not two but all things. "All"  includes the power  He has to help you to understand supernatural things that have happened in scriptures,  around you and by faith to you because you know the God you serve. To close this thought on "the supernatural" I would like to encourage you to allow the Holy Spirit  to teach you about the supernatural for the Holy Spirit is in fact the evidence of the supernatural that teaches you and I to see and experience things that are not natural to our human eyes and comprehension. When you trust the Holy Spirit the road to understanding  the supernatural becomes an acceptance of God mighty powers shown via  "fire" like horse that lead His servant Elijah to Him. With your trust in the Holy Spirit, you will also be lead into the bosom of God.


Catheirne K.