WHEN GOD SPEAKS

When God speaks, things happen. The Lord God has never spoken an extraneous Word. He has never just flung out a word or phrase as some superfluous aside. If you recall Genesis chapter one, God said: “LIGHT” and light came into being. Out of things that did not exist, God has created all that has been created by the power of His Word. He speaks and what He says happens, becomes, takes place…always.

Jesus made eyes for a man born blind. He made mud from saliva, put it on the man where eyes should be and when the man did what He said by going to wash his face, he came back seeing.

Lazarus, Jesus’ friend had been dead four days. Lazarus had been wrapped up in burial cloths and placed in a tomb because he was a corpse. There was no residual life in him. Jesus speaks at the opening of the tomb, “Lazarus, come out!” What ever had killed Lazarus disappeared. What had begun to decompose was fully regenerated. A regenerated, brand new cardiopulmonary system began to work. Fresh blood began to be pumped by a regenerated heart. The central nervous system that had ceased to function came back to life minus any disease that had affected it. Jesus spoke and what was not came into being. Lazarus was fully alive once more.

Lepers were cleansed in a moment when Jesus said, “I am willing to heal you.” Deaf folk received new hearing parts, new inner ears and eardrums, everything needed to hear. Lame people got up and walked when Jesus told them to get up. Demons released those who had been held in their thrall when Jesus said, “Leave!”

What is impossible for mankind is not impossible for God. We could never save ourselves regardless of the earnestness of human effort. You see, what is dead cannot change its condition, cannot undo its deadness. We all like sheep have gone astray, we have each one turned from God to go our own way, the Lord God declares through the Prophet Isaiah.

God has intervened in Jesus Christ to do what we could not ever do: redeem, restore, rescue, reconcile and reclaim us for Himself. Jesus Christ opens our lives and gives us the grace to respond and surrender who we are to Him, His Life, His ways, His perfect will to make us fully human once more. New creations, born again by the power of the Holy Spirit, given a new spiritual DNA, we become children of God. Where no essential and true life existed, God speaks and we are given Eternal Life in Him.

Romans 4:16-25

“Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised. ²² This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”

Over and over, when faced with impossibility from a human perspective, angels throughout history have said, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” How could a teenaged Hebrew girl in Nazareth become pregnant without the normative human interaction that causes pregnancy? Because God is able to do everything that He promises. What He says will happen, will happen, and in specifically in Mary’s case, she became pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit. Eternal God the Son miraculously became a human embryo and took His humanity from a young Hebrew virgin as He retained the spiritual DNA of God the Father. Fully God and fully man, God kept His promise that THE Redeemer, THE Messiah would come.

Can you actually change? Can your mind be renewed and transformed to view life and living as God sees life and living? Can you begin to live from a new heart and a new spirit? Can you receive power from God enabling you to live the new life He wants to give you by grace through faith? The eternal answer is, “YES!” That is because it is exactly what God has promised to give and do in everyone who will take Him at His Word as did Abraham. Let God open your ears so you can hear Him speak into your life so that He can call into being in you eternal things that were not there before.