ONE WITH GOD IS A MAJORITY

Man lives in two worlds, he lives in a natural world and he lives in a spiritual world. Just as there are natural laws, there are also spiritual laws. Now whether you believe in these laws or not doesn’t really matter, the fact is that they are there and if you violate them you reap the consequences. If you take the natural law of ‘gravity’ for example, you don’t have to believe in it. But if you were to go to the top of the highest building in the place where you live and step out into thin air, I don’t have to tell you what will happen. The same is true of spiritual law. You don’t have to believe in the ‘law of sin and death’, but it’s there and if you live under that law, the result is death.

 

When Jesus spoke in parables he always used natural truths to explain spiritual truths, we can therefore say with confidence that all truth is parallel. God has given man five natural senses, but man does not reach God by his natural senses. Jesus said ‘The reason I talk to them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing or understanding’ (Mt. 13:14) 

It was because of their hardness of heart, they didn’t want to change and because of that they couldn’t see, hear or understand the word of God. Jesus also said that ‘You can see me and still you do not believe’ : ‘The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life’. We need the spirit to be able to see spiritually and to look beyond the natural circumstances that surround us all the time.

In 2 Kings chapter 6, there is a very unique story about the power of God in operation. The King of Syria was at war with Israel. He would meet with his army officers in his chambers and together they would set out their strategy and plan their tactics of attack. But Elisha the man of God would send word to the King of Israel that the enemy was about to attack at such and such a place, so that every time the Syrians attacked they were prepared for them. This happened time and time again, so that the King of Syria became enraged and he summoned his entire army council. He said ‘there is someone here, who sits in counsel with me while we make these plans and that person is spying for Israel, because every time we make a move they are ready for us’. One of his officers stood up and said ‘It’s none of us my Lord the King, it’s Elisha the prophet who is in Israel, he tells the King of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom’. So the King put out an order for his arrest and at night he sent out a strong army of horses and chariots and they surrounded the city. Early the next morning the servant of Elisha had got up and went out of the house only to discover that the city was surrounded with an army of chariots and horses and he cried, ‘Oh, my Lord, what shall we do?’ ‘Don’t be afraid’ the prophet answered, ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them’. And Elisha prayed, ‘O Lord open his eyes so that he may see.’ Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

This is what happens when you get just one person on fire for God. You strike fear into the ranks of the enemy. Imagine, here you have one man and there were thousands sent out to capture him! It doesn’t matter how many come against you;

One person with God is a majority. ‘The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you in one direction but will flee from you in seven directions’. (Deut. 28:7).

The question we need to ask ourselves is this. What do we see whenever we look at the circumstances of our lives? The reason why so many stumble and fall is because they are failing to recognise the fact that there is an enemy out there whose purpose is to ‘steal kill and destroy’. (Jn. 10:10).  They are looking at their natural circumstances, it maybe physical, it may be financial, it may be a relationship problem, it is not the storms or circumstances of life that defeat us, it’s the way we react to the storms that determine whether we are built on rock or on sand. There is a world of difference in shouting, ‘My Lord what shall we do’ and ‘Thank God for what you have done’.

When you start to look beyond the natural and look at the spiritual provision that God has already made for you in Christ Jesus, when you have spiritual sight, then you don’t see the problems that you’re facing, you see past them and into the provision of the healing and delivering power of God. Elisha said, ‘Don’t be afraid’. It’s the absence of fear that gives us the ability to move forward in faith irrespective of our circumstances

Most people only see as far as their problems. It’s easy to get caught in a cycle of defeat it’s very easy to forget that God is supernatural. The Church in Laodicea was told to get ‘salve to put on your eyes, so that you can see’.

 

We have to find out that the God whom we serve, who is ever present, who says he will never leave us or desert us, will actually do ‘ infinitely more for us that we could ever ask or imagine’. (Eph. 3:20)   God is more interested in our circumstances than we could ever ask or imagine, if that is so; then are we to stay in spiritual blindness? ‘The entrance of his word gives light and they are life to those who grasp them, health for the entire body’. (Ps.119: 130) & (Pro. 4:22).