Uncommon Methods

Scripture: John 5: 1-10 NASB1995

For some time now, God has been challenging us through his word to take a more mature approach in our walk with him, meaning not relying on outside sources to provide what already lies on the inside of us. And with this next level of maturity we must realize that if we are going to walk into this year without limitations, it first begins with the revelation that no humans holds the power of your deliverance outside of what you are able to maintain. There is no need for an altar call if you yourself are not ready to take the necessary steps needed to maintain your Sunday deliverance Monday through Saturday. There is more we offer than just a good Sunday sermon that is life changing, but it is in conversation and Midweek Bible Study that the tools to uphold your conviction is revealed. It is my job to impart doctrine and biblical truths into your life, but it is only through personal devotion that God himself is able to give you the details pertaining you and your personal walk with him, this is why you need a bible, a journal, whether digital or analog, to make sure you are keeping track of what God is saying to you because there will come times when I cannot be reached in the heat of the moment but you must be able to have a reference to look back at and get your answer in the moment. Basically what I’m saying is that we outsource tools that we really can insource but we find it easier to rely on others as if God’s word is not enough. But I remember the song that says God is still on the throne and within your bosom you have a phone, maybe my southern can testify that Jesus is still on the main line and you can always tell him what you want, tell somebody your answer is already in you?

We must be constantly reminded that once we came into salvation, there was no 12-step program we had to go through in order gain power to be able to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover, search the scriptures and we see that their were some who received the Holy Ghost and walked in power but also their were some who the bible says they spoke in tongues and prophesied in the same verse, but our religious upbringing taught us you had to be in this thing awhile in order to have power therefore we may have survived because of grandmas prayer, and we might have people in our lives that taught us the things of God but there does come a time where even Jesus tells the disciples ‘I must leave you, because as long as I’m holding your hand you’ll never know how to walk in what I deposited in you’ so therefore that lets us know the Holy Ghost is a teacher but a good teacher should be silent during the exam to test whether you know how to apply what I taught you without me standing over your shoulder.

Your hands were formed to work the work God has designed for you, your hands were made as Aristotle would put it as ‘tools of all tools’ the very things God gave us that represent authority, stability, and tools to communicate, summon, show approval and disapproval, and yet we only think our hands are good enough to either clap in Church, lay hands, or for some of us work mischief, but I want you to look at your hands and see them as kingdom tools needed to get the job done. These somebody these hands have power. And this is why the scripture says lay hands on no man suddenly, neither be partakers of any man’s sin because what you lay hands on you ordain and sanction. Hands are the portal by which you will see the miraculous, feel the intangible, but it is only once you have a revelation of the power that rests in your hands.