Where is your faith-10

 

We are talking about faith that can lead us into rapturing faith. Now I will talk on faith for supernatural protection. When you begin to believe for this, you are bound to become more spiritual.

 

Faith for supernatural protection:

 

You can hear what is going on right now in the streets: drive-by shooting, gang activities, little kids killing one another with guns, mass-murders in the schools. Even the fear of terrorism, the fear of nuclear bombs getting into the hand of terrorists. Terrorist attack in buildings and cities is going on world-wide, everywhere. Until it happened recently in Tanzania and Kenya, people always assume the threat was only in European countries. There is nowhere safe, except in the Lord Jesus Christ. However, as Saints of the most High God, we ought to be able to claim our authority as sons of God, for supernatural protection of ourselves and our family, using the authority and the faith of the word of God.

Let’s look at the promises of God in the book of psalms. Psalm 91 is full of promises for protection by God, but these promises are for some people. Who are these people that can claim these promises of God? Anyone that belongs to Christ, these promises are at your fingertips, at your reach, but you’ve got to use your faith. You’ve got to have faith in the word of God and build up your anointing, build up your most holy faith.

In psalm 91, we read: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."

Now you’ve got to dwell in the secret place of the most High. How do you do that? The secret place of the most high is when you are close to him, and you are hiding inside Christ. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you", now that is the secret place of the most high. "Ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you". First of all, you must be born again, washed by the blood of Jesus Christ from your sins, because if you are in sin, you cannot be in the secret place of the most High.

How do you get under the shadow of the Almighty God? When you are worshipping the Lord in praises and in prayer at the midnight hours, doing spiritual battle for the kingdom of God at the wee hours of the night, as I have said in earlier sermons, you are abiding in the secret place of the most High. No man fights for the Almighty God that will not be abiding under his shadow. He will have to protect you from the forces of evil; when you wake up in the night to pray and intercede for the body of Christ, you are expected to be protected by the Almighty God, otherwise you will be a target for the devil.

These are the promises. They are for our supernatural protection. What do I mean by that? You walk in the streets and there is a drive-by shooting, but the bullets of the wicked shall not come near you. They may shoot, but it will just be deflected away from you! That is the supernatural protection you will get when you are abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. Your faith can be built up to that level in which even an armed robber may put a gun to your head, demanding your wallet, and the gun will not shoot or the bullet will not hurt you, when you are protected supernaturally by God. You will have this faith and this confidence as you walk with the Lord and believe in these promises of God. This is what king David wrote: "I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God in him will I trust." Listen to the promises. It says, "Surely". That is a certainty! "He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence." God promised that he shall deliver you from the snares of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. What could be pestilence? They talk now about chemical and biological weapons that terrorists may use. If that occurs, what those weapons introduce is "pestilence", that people may breathe into the nostrils and be dead or sick, or it may come upon the skin and cause death or sickness. But what did God promise the believer? Faith is what will claim this for you! This is not by assumption. You’ve got to walk with the Almighty God in the prophet’s way of life. In that narrow road! And you’ve got to build up your faith by the exhortations, and you’ve got to walk in holiness with the Ancient of days. Because he said "if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you". (Jn. 15: 7).

I am preaching this to you who is a Christian and is born again. If you are not born again, you must first of all seek salvation by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, and make your commitment to follow and obey Jesus. Repent from your sins and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2: 38-39).

This same faith that brings you salvation is what you will begin to apply to the word of God as you walk in your way and sin no more. You will be able to sin no more once you accept Christ and he will begin to live in you.

The Lord himself will begin to deck you with anointing as you do the exhortations. When he decks you with anointing, the scripture says these promises are guaranteed to be for you as you believe in them. You are guaranteed all these protection which are written in the book of psalms as you abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Now, listen further to the promises: "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shall thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night". No matter what the terror is, you will not be afraid! Why? Because God himself will be your shield and your protection. That is the supernatural protection we are talking about. It went further, "Ye shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrows that flieth by day!" What are arrows that flieth by day? Those bullets are arrows. They may be flying, but you will not be afraid because the Almighty God, in whom you are abiding, will be a shield round about you. Arrows of the enemy in the form of bullets from the drive-by shooting, or from the armed robbers, or from some gang members, will just be diverting themselves away from you, when you are under the shadow of the Almighty, because the Almighty God is protecting you. Believe it! That is the faith. But this faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. That is why we are preaching this to you.

Believe in the word of God, and the word of God will make itself real to you. However do the works! Faith without work is dead. You’ve got to act your faith in the time of need. This is first. Secondly, there is a deed you need to be doing to keep your faith on fire for God. Part of the deed is ‘praying and fasting’ often; part of the deed is by waking up in the night to praise him, so that he can build you up with anointing. You’ve got to walk the walk and do the deeds the prophets were doing that gave them the power and the anointing. The notable deed the prophets were doing was worshipping God in the midnight hour. Only prophets were known to be worshipping God in the midnight hour, consistently. Not just once in a while. Not just when the church calls for it. Because some churches will call for revival, and all the people will be there for one week. That is good, but not enough. This anointing I am talking about, it is the prophet’s lifestyle that will build the anointing with the faith to change political situation, translative faith, and for supernatural protection. It is the prophet’s way of life that will give you this.

Going further in the psalms we read: "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee." What could make a thousand fall at thy side? Earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes could be destroying masses, the promise said it shall not come nigh thee. You’ve got to believe these promises and confess it before the devil and before the world. That is, you must not be afraid to confess it, else you’ve denied the faith. To be afraid to confess it means you don’t believe it, because fear is enemy of faith. You may say you are not sure of your standing with God. Then check yourself with the word, that you are abiding in him, and that you are doing the exhortations of how to dwell in the secret place of the most high to abide under the shadow of the Almighty. When situation is threatening people, you’ve got to confess what you believe, and trust God to make it good to you. That is the word of God. Your own part is to abide in the secret place of the most High. Your lifestyle has to be the prophet’s lifestyle, living the Christian life in holiness and righteousness. And the Lord will help you on the way.

It is the anointing of the Son of God, as you come to the fullness of the stature of Christ, that will give you the translative faith to go in the rapture and never see death. This is what we are leading to.

"Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High thy habitation, there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." I know that some folks in some Pentecostal churches quote these bible verses commonly. However you must abide under the shadow of the Almighty consistently, and build up your faith by the exhortations, to be able to regularly claim these promises. That is, you’ve got to walk right so that these promises can be yours. Also you’ve got to have faith in these promises. Faith simply means you believe that what God said in the scriptures shall be so, as written. When the situation threatens, like a hurricane is coming to your city, you’ve got to stand your ground, and confess these promises in prayer when standing against the spirit in the hurricane. Your faith will make things happen for you.

"For God shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."

The Lord Jesus said "Behold I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." That is for you and for me also. Nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Psalm 91 said the same thing: "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall thou trample under feet." They shouldn’t hurt us, because the Almighty God said so. Forces of darkness are represented in the lion, adder, and dragons! They shouldn’t hurt us, for the word of the living God must be obeyed.

These are the promises of God, and you’ve got to confess it. Faith in these scriptures, faith in these promises of God is what gives supernatural protection. When the fear is already present, you need the anointing to be already present in you so that when you see the situation, your flesh does not overrule your spirit. That is why you must put your body under, by fasting and by praying, constantly. There may be a lot of preachers who know these things, but because they have not received the anointing to give them the boldness at the situation, they may push the word aside and run to man-made effort for help. Don’t allow such lukewarm preachers to water-down this faith in you. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

When we say supernatural protection, hear again what God promised in Isaiah 54. I was saying even the nuclear bomb will not stand against faith. Even the bullets from a military tank will not stand because our God is a supernatural God. This is what the Lord God said in Isaiah 54, verses 16-17. God said, "Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper".

This is the promise of God, my friend! God says, remember he created the manufacturer of the weapon, (the smith) and he created the user of the weapon (the waster). He can call their spirit away anytime God wants, if it takes that to protect you! How much more is it an easy thing for God to divert the bullets of the enemy away from the believer when you abide under the shadow of the Almighty! Believe his word, "whose going forth has been from of old, from everlasting". God watches over his word to perform it.

 

 

Bro. Julius Adewumi

Gospel Distribution Ministry