CREATIVE MIRACLES
Psalm 105:15 says: “Touch
not my anointed; do my prophets no harm.” But verse 17 reads: “Joseph was sold
for a servant, whose feet they hurt with fetters: his soul came into iron.”
A contradiction? No. Verse 19 tells us: “Until the time that his word
came: the word of the Lord tried him.” Timing is a vital part of what we need
to understand about how God works. “Time” in the original text means the
“certain time, the proper time, the fit time,” and “word” means “the answer,
the promise, the notable deed.” There is a certain timing for every answer,
every promise to come to pass, every notable deed. Receiving new body parts and
healing old ones are notable deeds.
I’ve never been in a
service where a person has received a new body part, never seen for myself a
hand grow or an eye develop where there was none before, but I believed it, and
I trust that others have witnessed this kind of miracle too. I found a verse that
documents how this kind of creative miracle works. It’s like the verse that
tells us God knew us before we were born. The following verse shows us that He
also sees us completely healed and whole! Read it slowly and concentrate.
Psalm 139:16: “Thine eyes
did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book, all my members were
written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of
them.”
The King James Version has
a remarkable note on the phrase “in continuance were fashioned.” The note goes:
“Or, what days they should be fashioned.”
God already saw the end
from the beginning, and in His sight, the part was already there; But in our
time, not necessarily from birth. Just like God saw Joseph as the Pharaoh’s
right-hand man, placed there for Israel’s survival in a time of famine, but
that didn’t happen right away. Joseph was in prison for a while first. People
who are missing body parts or lacking the healing they need are in a type of
prison as well. But in God’s sight, there is absolutely a day for the unperfect
to be perfected. God always knew what He had for Joseph, and He always
knows what wholeness in body, soul, and spirit He has for us, too. We must faithfully
believe and trust.
Joseph’s trust and
faithfulness sustained him, and God was able to bless Joseph and turn around Satan’s
plan entirely, at the right time.
The older I grow, the more
peaceful I am with God’s timing and the more aggressive I am with taking down demonic
forces. We must trust the Lord’s timing for the manifestation of our personal
word (as in Psalm 105:19, our answer, promise, or notable deed). Confidence
that the Lord will do what He’s promised keeps our hearts healthy and at peace
so that, in the present, we can remain calm and sure ambassadors for our Lord.
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