GREETINGS beloved nation, in the name of Jesus Christ. Romans 15:19, “Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.”
We see Paul saying that by the power of the spirit of God, he has fully preached the gospel of Christ. The meaning is that the gospel of Christ cannot be fully preached without the power of the spirit of God.
The moment we ignore the power of the spirit of God, the gospel will be half preached. Unfortunately, in the season we are in, we are seeing the gospel being half preached. Why? Because we have ignored the power of the spirit of God. That’s why we cannot witness the mighty signs and wonders. It is the power of the spirit of God that produces the mighty signs and wonders as we see in the life of the Apostle Paul.
It is a pity that we are seeing a lot of Christians compromising their walk because of certain sicknesses and diseases. They end up going to witch doctors for solutions and for healing because there is no power in what we are claiming to be.
Nowadays, pulpits are full of speaking and there is no longer a demonstration of what we are saying. There have to be signs and wonders when the spirit of God is operational. Unfortunately, people speak about the goodness of God and that goodness is not seen in the life of a believer.
We speak about the power and the power is not seen. My prayer is that the Lord restores in this end time the power of the spirit of God, so that there may be noticeable signs and wonders.
People are tired of only hearing and not seeing the evidence and the proof that God is alive. I was saddened last week when I spoke to a woman who was once on fire for God, who was now being trained to become a traditional healer.
When I asked her what happened, she said she got sick to the point of death and her business went down.
She tried to get help from many churches and couldn’t find any and she only became worse. In the end, she was convinced by her family to go to the mountains of Matopos to be trained to become a traditional healer.
My question is, where are men and women of God who are full of the power of the spirit of God, who can demonstrate the power of the living God, of healing and deliverance? It’s so sad if in the church we speak about the power of the living God and that power is not seen in us, in our speaking and it’s not demonstrated.
It is because we have ignored the spirit of his power as a church and as a body of Christ. We know how to package the gospel well in our vocabulary but it is not seen practically.
The gospel was designed so that people may hear and also see what we preach and what we represent as a church.
Two dimensions that need to be seen when the spirit of God is at work. It has to (i) catch the attention of men (ii) it has to cause men to see the realities of what we are talking about. We cannot talk about healing and fail to demonstrate it. In Acts 8:5-8 we see Phillip going down to Samaria and preaching the gospel.
We see that the people gave heed unto those things, which Phillip spoke. The Bible says they were hearing and seeing the things he did. We have to underline two words here, “hearing and seeing”. That is the sign that the power of God was upon his preaching. They were able to hear and see the miracles he did.
The problem with this generation is that people are hearing the nicest things we say about God. But they are not seeing, there is no evidence, no witness.
The Bible says in verse 7, “For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.” And verse 8 says, “there was great joy in that city”.
We see Peter and John performing a noticeable miracle on a man who was lame by the power of the spirit of God and the Bible says all the people saw him walking and praising God in Acts 3:9-10. We also see in Acts 4:16 when Peter and John were put in front of the council accusing them of preaching about Jesus of Nazareth.
The council could not deny what Peter and John did to the man who was lame. They had to agree that indeed it was a notable miracle and the miracle was made manifest to all of them who dwell in Jerusalem and could not deny it.
May God release his spirit of power so that there will be miracles that will become noticeable and undeniable, such that everyone who is in the city and in the country will surely acknowledge that God is alive in the midst of his people. (i) they have to hear, (ii) they have to see a noticeable miracle.
We are tired of extended testimonies where people secretly go to traditional healers then they come and stand in front at the pulpit and testify that they were healed by God, whilst God was not involved. We are tired of seeing people being paid to testify lies that they were healed by God, whilst they are stage-managed miracles. It’s now happening in the church of God because people have denied the ministry of the Holy Spirit that carries the power.
May God revive and pour his spirit of power that will bring noticeable and undeniable miracles. Jesus one time when he was preaching, John sent his disciples to enquire if he was the messiah or if they should look for another. Jesus sent them back to tell John what they have heard and what they have seen. That the dead are raised, the blind see and lepers are cleansed, Matthew 11:2-6.
In the book of John 1:45-46 when “Phillip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
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