We saw in the previous devotional that divine visitation draws on divine promises. God's word is the pace setter for His visitation. In Numbers 23:19, the Bible says, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” God is committed only to what He has spoken and whatever He has said He will make it good. That means He will perform it. If you want any good thing from God, first of all find out what He has spoken. So, if you are not word inclined, you can never attract divine visitation.
Every time the word of God goes forth, you can be sure that God is on the way coming because He is always attracted towards His word. Permit me to say that God's word is like a remote control to God. Each time you press the word, God is bound to respond, He moves in the direction of His word. Where ever His word goes, there He follows. God is in control of all things but the word controls God.
The Psalmist said, “For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name” (Ps 138:2). So, if you want God to visit your situation and you are just in one corner calling upon His names, “Oh God of Abraham, Jehovah Rafa, Jehovah Shammah, I need your visitation, come down now!” You may never get a response to that prayer. But when you begin to put God in remembrance of His word and say to Him, “Oh my Father, have you not said in Exodus chapter 23 that when I serve you, you would take away sickness from me? Have you not said, you would bless my bread and my water? Over to you Lord, confirm your word in my life. You have spoken it, now make it good!” Then, you will see God in action.
Talking of the disciples of Jesus, Mark 16:20 says, “…They went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.” God does consider your age, size or gender to qualify you for His visitation. As long as you are declaring His word in faith, He will show up to confirm it. That is why no matter how long your problem seems to have been, as you keep declaring the word, you are attracting God to yourself for a visitation. He keeps coming closer and closer and closer, and then suddenly, you see Him appear in your situation.
The deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage as recorded in the book of Exodus was simply a confirmation of the word God that spoke to Abraham in Genesis 15:13-14. “…He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.” So, no matter how long a situation lasts, there is always an “afterward” because God will never allow satan to have the final say.
Mediate on these: Hosea 14:2, Psalms 89:34
