Last Sunday in my church, we started the Sunday School for the year 2023. Our topic for last Sunday was The Sovereignty of God.
For me, the key takeaway from the Sunday School is that God did not just create the world by His power, He still has power over the earth.
In the course of our Bible study, we saw that The Lord does whatever pleases him throughout all heaven and earth, and on the seas and in their depths. (Psa. 135:6 NLT)
Just before you think it’s the claim of someone who doesn’t know God enough to describe His character, God declared by himself, “From the beginning I predicted the outcome; long ago I foretold what would happen. I said that my plans would never fail, that I would do everything I intended to do.” (Isa 46:10 GNT)
Yes, God is indeed all powerful and He rules over the earth and the inhabitants.
Long after Abraham’s wife had passed the time of child bearing, God told him that He would make him the father of many nations (Gen 12:2-3). He could make the promise and keep to it because He is sovereign over human beings and every cell and organ in their bodies.
Since God has that amount of power, then, I can take His words to the bank knowing fully well that He will never fail.
I know for a fact that God “grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!” (Psa. 113:9 NKJV)
Therefore, even if a specialist doctor from the top medical school in the world certified my wife unfit to bear children, I can ask the Sovereign God to give my wife not just a child but children.
Any other person may resign to the doctor’s verdict; but I am not them. By God’s infinite mercy, I have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and by virtue of our relationship, I can ask Him for anything because Jesus paid in full on the cross.
So, I will ask and it will be told to me, “…when Elkanah slept with Hannah, the Lord remembered her plea, and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, ‘I asked the Lord for him.’” (1 Sam. 1:19-20 NLT)
God created the human body but He is still in absolute control of its operation. Even without being exposed to the causative agent, Gehazi became leprous and acquired a genetic modification that made his descendants suffer the same disease (2 Kings 5:27).
In the same way, God is still modifying people’s genes and bringing dead cells to life (2 Kings 20) or even creating new ones as well as killing those multiplying too fast (what doctors would call cancer).
While we know that there are charlatans staging healing miracles, the truth is that God is still healing people whenever they reach out to Him with faith in their hearts. I mean, the counterfeit is because there are genuine miracles.
“Brother Ijay, what if it’s not God’s wife for my wife to have a child or for me to be cured of a disease?”
See, this is the situation of many people regarding their health.
“A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.” (Mark 5:25-26 NLT)
At this point, it’s easy to say, “Well, it’s God’s will. Sickness will not take me away from the love of Christ. I’ll just focus on running my heavenly race.”
That’s good and commendable but why settle for good when God has the best available to me?
Like the woman with the issue of blood, I am going to the Sovereign, all-powerful God to ask for my healing. He has it and because Jesus has paid, I can download it in full.
The woman with the issue of blood is not just a Bible story, it’s a demonstration of God’s power to heal anybody who comes to Him with faith in their heart.
Her experience can become our testimony if we can look away from the stories we have heard about people with similar conditions, doctors’ verdict or even how long we have suffered and fix our gaze on the fact that God is sovereign over every disease.
“I am God and always will be. No one can escape from my power; no one can change what I do.” (Isaiah 43:13 GNT)
If God specifically told you that barrenness is His will for your wife and diabetes for you, I can’t question Him.
But if He didn’t tell you anything like that, don’t allow Satan to sell you sickness as the will of God. I believe God’s will is sound health for me.
I know for a fact that God’s eyes are running to and fro the world (especially Enugu😄) wondering if I would just trust Him and not the doctor’s verdict and what my genes says so that He will demonstrate His power to heal genetic diseases and make dead organs live again (2 Chro. 16:9 NLT)
Now that I know His Sovereignty is not limited to healing malaria, I can ask Him for genetic modification and what doctors say is impossible. You too can ask Him.
Wait o, have we forgotten the scripture that says, “What is impossible for people (like specialist doctors) is possible with God.” (Luke 18:27 NLT)
Doctors are not evil people and God actually uses them to heal. Although they come to their wit’s end, Jesus is telling you and I that God doesn’t!
Brothers and sisters, if all that our last Bible study offered us is another layer of Christian religious knowledge, that’s wasteful.
If I were you, I would go to God and ask Him for total healing in my body and family. I will knock on His healing doors and keep on knocking.
May God strengthen our faith in Him in Jesus’ name! Amen.
Regards,
Brother Ijay
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PSS: If you think that God’s Sovereignty is limited to the human body, wait for my next episode of Sunday School Takeaway. Our God is indeed all-powerful!
