2 Chronicles 16:9--For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Here's the short version of the story behind this promise/warning to Asa, one of the kings of Judah. Instead of trusting God, he hired one of his enemy nations to attack Israel. Hanani the seer came to him and delivered to him this prophecy from the Lord. The essence of this prophecy is that we have two choices. We can either choose to trust God's supernatural ability or we can trust our own physical ability. When we trust our own ability, we begin asking for trouble instead of getting away from it.
If we were to take a look at all of the promises of God, we could sum them up like this. Man is able to do only the physical while God is able to do the supernatural. In this scripture, we find that a supernatural God is looking for a physical man whose heart is right so He can do some supernatural things for him that a physical man cannot do.
As we have discussed many times on this blog, Abraham and Sarah did what they could do. They believed God that His word was true. That's all God asked them to do. Believe Him. When it looked like their bodies had shut down for good, God supernaturally strengthened their bodies ABOVE their normal abilities and Sarah conceived and bore Isaac. It happened just like God said that it would.
Here is another scripture. Eph 3:20--Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Paul declares that this supernatural God could do more than the physical man could imagine. What it takes is for man to do all that he can do and trust that God will take over where man's ability ends.
Malachi 3:10 describes the promise. If we would physically bring our tithes to Him, He would supernaturally bless with an abundance.
It would take too long to list all of the promises that God has made and give examples of His faithfulness. Besides, you need to spend some time in the Word of God and find them out for yourself. The bottom line in every promise is that God is looking for and waiting for a physical man to meet His conditions of a promise. Then God will supernaturally do what He promised to do.
Let's have the boldness of Elisha. When God supernaturally took Elijah to heaven in a whirlwind, he dropped his mantle back down to his servant Elisha. Elisha picked it up and physically did what he had just seen Elijah do. He slapped the Jordon river with the mantle of Elijah and asked "Where are you God?" Notice that the physical did all that he could do and God supernaturally opened the Jordon River just like He had done for Elijah.
We have seen great revivals. We have seen miracles in the past. We have seen the hand of God move providentially. It all came about through prayer. We need the boldness of the saints. God is looking for bold prayer warriors that will come to the front and do the physical thing Ask in His name. Ask largely in His name. Ask boldly in His name. Hebrews 4:16. It is only when we physically come boldly to the throne of grace that God supernaturally shows up with more than enough of His grace to help us in whatever it is that we need.
God's looking for somebody to show himself strong to. Let's raise our hands in prayer and praise and say, "Here I am, Lord. I'm ready for Your supernatural power to be poured out."
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