God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared. Gen 1:3 (Msg)
I remember asking my dad as a child,
why there was no light as there had just been power failure. I asked this
question because I remembered the third verse of the Bible that says 'And God
said, let there be light, and there was light'. His response was the light that
was just taken, wasn't the light referred to in the Bible, but the light we see
outside from the sky.
I said that short story to remind us
of the wonderful story of creation. When God created the earth, there was
darkness all over and something had to be done about it. In this third verse of
the Bible, we see what God did as against what we many times do in the face of
unpleasant situations. God said, 'Let there be light'. Although what was
visible to the eye at that moment was darkness, instead of making a sermon out
of the darkness and preaching about it all day to everyone that came our way, God
spoke light.
Light and darkness are not the same.
Light here could mean something good we so much desire, and darkness, the
unpleasant experiences we are experiencing. God did not consider darkness a
subject matter for the day, rather He spoke with authority what He desired into
existence.
This clearly shows us that light and
darkness respond to our words. The words we speak as children of God, have
creative ability. Just as God could speak things into being, we too share in
that ability because we are born of Him. When we became born again, we became
God's children and partake in His ability.
The creative power of God is resident
in us and put to work when we put our words to work over any situation or
experience that we are going through. Remember God did not throw a pity party
over darkness, He simply spoke forth with words of assurance what He desired. God
spoke it deliberately, and we also ought to speak our words filled with faith deliberately
to see what we really desire in our heart come to pass. We will show we are
true children of our Father when we act like this.
In Matt 21:18-22, Jesus cursed the fig
tree, and then it withered afterwards, his disciples wanted to know the secret
behind it and Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, whoever may tell
this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his
heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for
him". Jesus' words to his disciples shows we can dominate whatever
situation we find ourselves by our words.
God's will is not that we should be
slaves to whatever negative circumstances we find ourselves. We can speak
health in the face of sickness, we can speak life in the face of death, we can
speak abundance in the face of lack, we can speak success in the face of
failure, we can speak victory in the face of defeat, the list goes on.
We must not bow our heads to any
predicament but must lift our heads up like sons and daughters of the King of kings
and speak forth with so much boldness and confidence our desired results
in spite of the negative circumstances staring at us.
We have the nature of God and possess
His ability over situations, we can choose to speak like Him until we see our
miracles manifest before us.
If
you have not made Jesus Christ your Lord and saviour, you cannot take advantage
of what God had prepared for you. We urge you, don’t wait another moment. Make
up your mind and say this prayer:
“Dear
God, I ask you to forgive me all my sins and make me anew. I believe that Jesus
died for me and you raised him up on the third day, I confess that He is Lord
now and forever. I accept your son, Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.”
Congratulations!
Now that you are born again, look for a bible believing church to attend that
you might know what he has provided for you.
