Faith Follows Laws

God is predictable and orderly. He doesn’t do one thing this time and another thing another time. God created this world and everything physical around us, and the physical world is orderly. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is forever faithful.

Faith is governed by laws. Romans 3:27 says, “Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” The kingdom of God operates under law. It is consistent. When someone is killed due to the law of gravity, some try to blame God or wonder why God did that. He didn’t. It happened because there are laws that He put in place. The law of gravity was put in place by God.

Gravity says that if you jump off a building, you will fall to the ground and be killed. But if you cooperate with the law of gravity and understand it’s there for your good, you will be perfectly safe. However, if you choose to ignore the law of gravity, you can be killed by the same law that exists for your good. It’s the same with the spiritual laws of God. You need to know what they are and understand how to cooperate with them.

Learn to Cooperate and Receive

So, how do you receive a miracle from God? First, you must recognize that miracles are not just hit and miss. You can tap into a miracle. Once you learn the laws of God and how they work, miracles will happen. I’m not saying that you can push a button and God pops out or that you can make God do whatever you want. I’m saying God’s power is turned on all the time. You can actually connect to the power of God and see it operate supernaturally in your life. God is always wanting to move on your behalf. God is for you. He is a good God.

God is so good that he placed promises in his Word for you to claim. The Bible clearly states that God’s desire is for you to prosper (Ps. 35:27). God’s will is for you to be healthy (3 John 2). God’s will is for you to be above only and not beneath (Deut. 28:13). Christians need to start believing in these promises to receive them.

Activating God’s Power

You are the one who controls God’s ability to work miracles in your life. God doesn’t. It is God’s power and His ability, but it’s up to you. The Scripture says in Ephesians 3:20:

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

Many people leave off that last phrase, “according to the power that worketh in us.” If there is no power in you, God’s intervention in your life is blocked. God has chosen to never violate your will. God has chosen to flow through you. Satan can’t stop God’s power, but you can. God wants you to have a miracle, but you have to stop waiting and start believing.

Power of the Spoken Word

Let’s look at the most important miracle in the Bible—the virgin birth of Jesus. God came to earth and lived in a physical body. Now that’s a miracle. An angel came and spoke to Mary about this miracle. But the miracle actually happened when Mary received it by answering:

Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.

Luke 1:38

When God creates, He speaks whatever He wants into existence by His Word. In the book of Genesis, God did all His miracles by the spoken Word. He created the world and everything in it by speaking it into existence. Think about that. That is a huge revelation.

Hebrews 11 tells us, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” The important point here is that your words are involved in your miracle. They have the power to create.

The Seed of God’s Word

Many Christians focus on the action of praying and believe that if you pray, it will happen. You need to understand that prayer is like water or fertilizer that you put on the seed. But, without planting a seed, watering is useless. If God was moved by praying for needs alone, every person’s need would be met. And those in the worst situations would get their needs met first. That’s obviously not happening because it simply isn’t true.

You’ve got to plant a seed, which is the Word of God. First Peter 1:23 says,

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

We are born again of incorruptible seed—the Word of God. The word seed in this scripture means sperm. We are born of a supernatural union and the seed of the Word of God.

Farmers believe that if you plant wheat, you get wheat. If you plant corn, you get corn. They don’t question it—they are natural laws. Everybody agrees with that in the natural, but when it comes to spiritual things, most people don’t believe that. Many Christians don’t even have a clue on how any of this works.

Reaping What You Sow

But the truth is, if you aren’t reaping what the Word of God says, you haven’t planted what the Word of God says to plant. You reap what you sow. It’s spiritual law. If the Word of God is primary in your life, you’re going to get the results of the Word of God. That doesn’t mean Satan won’t fight you and you won’t have problems. But the end result will be that you’re going to have what the Word of God says. Satan may fight you, but you’ll win. Many of us know this intellectually, but in our hearts, there is fear or reservation. We don’t have the absolute confidence that God’s Word is going to prevail in our lives.

Romans 8:6 says, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” If all you think about is the Word of God, that’s all you’ll get. You may not be thinking, I want to be sick, but your thinking has been sick. Proverbs 4:22 tells us that the Word of God is “life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”

God’s Authority Through Man

When God wanted to bring Jesus to earth, He couldn’t just create Jesus. God gave all authority over the earth to man. God did not rule directly over the affairs of the earth. After man blew it, God couldn’t come down here and intervene. He had to work through man. God was looking for a man to flow through but couldn’t find one. So, He had to come Himself (Is. 59:16). In the virgin birth, the Word of God was the seed. Everything else about the birth was natural. God spoke that miracle into existence.

I believe every one of us has a spiritual womb where the Word of God enters in and germinates, and we conceive a miracle. Sometimes you may receive a miracle as a gift through someone else’s faith. But you can’t always depend on someone else; God wants you to be able to conceive a miracle. If you meditate on the Word day and night, you will get spiritually pregnant and bring forth fruit.

Sow the Word By Meditating on It

It’s impossible to have a miracle without planting the Word of God. I know a farmer who once thought he could violate the laws of God. He waited to plant wheat until everyone else’s wheat was about ready to harvest. He planted hundreds of thousands of dollars of wheat the month before harvest. When it didn’t come up and he lost his money, he came and wanted me to pray. I told him that’s not the way it works. You don’t sow a crop when you want a crop. Some of us haven’t had the seed planted in us, but we want the crop. There is a time of sowing and reaping (Gal. 6:9).

We don’t just naturally grow up believing God. It takes renewing our minds. Meditating on God’s Word is the most important step to receive a miracle. Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” You can’t just know the Word intellectually. As you meditate on the Word, it becomes living and active on the inside of you.

Most of us don’t meditate on the Word as we should. We are occupied and don’t have time, and we are upset with God when we don’t receive our miracle. That’s just as foolish as the man who didn’t plant his seed but was upset when he didn’t receive a crop.

If God’s Word is planted in your heart, you’ll receive. It doesn’t matter what you feel—God’s Word will produce a miracle.