Unstoppable Faith (Part 2)

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Unstoppable Faith

(Part 2)

Pastor Charles Omofomah

(Luke 5:20). Faith is not visible to the physical eye, but there are certain actions of faith you will do that will make your faith visible to God. You should tell yourself that you refuse to give up or stop in your tracks. Make up your mind on the number of babies you desire and nothing is going to stop you! No obstacle is strong enough or big enough to stop you. Some of the obstacles that can stop you are natural laws. You should not neglect natural laws; health habits, but many times when you need a genuine miracle, you need to put aside certain natural laws like medical or biological reports. Something can In the previous article, we looked at the story of the paralyzed man in Luke 5:17-26, and we saw how he took advantage of the anointing that was present at that particular time. I also shared with you some testimonies on how the anointing was taken advantage of at certain times in my ministry. In this article, I will be sharing with you two things you can do to make your faith unstoppable.

only be called a miracle when it does not work according to the normal course of nature. Think about this, they were not even afraid of what could happen to the man when they drop him from that roof because they were blinded to that obstacle. That was the kind of faith Joshua was operating in when he said, “Sun stand still over Gibeon and moon, in the valley of Aijalon. So the sun stood still and the moon stopped...” (Joshua 10:12-13). That time lapse is still missing in the calendar of life till this very day. All because a man dared to believe

Refuse To Recognise Obstacles

God and refused to see obstacles.

Remember that we were told that the man was paralyzed (Luke 5:18), and he could neither go by himself nor struggle through the crowd,

Another obstacle to your faith is mental assent or reasoning. There

but he still wanted to be healed. His friends wanted him to be healed

may be some things from science, from your reasoning or logic and

too. Another thing you must know is that an unstoppable faith is the

from calculations that just don’t make sense. You may be wondering

faith that refuses to recognize any obstacle. The man could not by

like Mary, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” (Luke 1:34).

himself get through to Jesus, but he remembered the roof. His friends

Yours might be after what the doctors have said that you can’t have a

quickly went to get some implements and spoilt the host’s house by

child. Medicine gives you facts, but God’s Word goes beyond the level

removing the roof and lowered him. I can imagine what could have

of facts to the level of truth. Truth is the reality. Some other person

gone through the hearts of those watching as they saw this man being

might be thinking, “It’s not that I don’t want to believe God for this;

lowered from the roof by his four friends. Some could have said, “Why

but this is the best doctor or the best gynaecologist in town.” The

struggle so much? Just go back home, you can’t get to Him.” He and his

question still remains, whose report will you believe? (Isaiah 53:1).

friends refused to acknowledge that obstacle. That’s unstoppable faith. That’s a faith that is persistent. That’s a faith that says, “I must

This question suggests that there are many reports - there is God’s

get what I want or what I need and nothing can stop me.” When they

report and there is the report from other sources, but you’ve got to

finally got through to Jesus, the Bible says, He “saw” their faith

choose whose report you are going to believe. God’s report says, “No

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God’s report says, “He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered

stop the man is a sense of condemnation. For you to operate in an

them from their destruction” (Psalm 107:20). God’s report says, “He

unstoppable faith, you must recognise that you have right standing

grants the barren, like a joyful mother of children. Praise the

with God. The day you got born again you were declared righteous.

Lord” (Psalm 113:9). God’s report says that your quiver will be full of children (Psalm 127:3-5).

Righteousness means right standing with God; it means you are not guilty. In all honesty, there are times when you have certain

Many times, what you don’t know or know can kill you. A lot of

symptoms in your body and one of the thoughts that will come to

people run to the internet when they see a sign or a symptom in their

your mind will be thoughts of something wrong that you did, and

body. Why spend two hours on the internet checking out symptoms

could be linked to why you are in that situation. That is just the

or diagnosis when you can use the same two hours to meditate on the

enemy at work, but when you have a sense of righteousness, when

Word of God that would produce results for you?

that kind of thought comes, you will be bold to say, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk

A preacher once said he was having some symptoms, so he went to

after the Jlesh, but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:1). You need to

the doctor and it was diagnosed as cancer. He told the doctor he

shout it if you have to, that Jesus has taken your place because He

would return, and he went and locked himself in his room for

became sin so that you might become the righteousness

a period of time and just kept listening and

of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). The great

meditating on the Word on healing tapes by

exchange has already taken place, you are

Gloria Copeland and one other minister of

His righteousness, your past not

the gospel. He kept playing those

withstanding. Everything became

messages over and over because “faith

bygone after Jesus died, and you

comes by hearing, and hearing by the

tapped into this new life the day

Word of God” (Romans 10:17). After

you received Him into your life

he had done that for several weeks, he

as Saviour and Lord. You

went back to the doctor, but the

became the righteousness of

doctor who saw him before could not

God in Christ Jesus.

see the tumor again. If you refuse to see obstacles, and choose to see the Word,

There is nothing that gives

you will be a joyful mother indeed.

boldness and coneidence before God like when you don’t have a sense of

Do not be easily given to natural things, they cripple

condemnation. Nothing can be compared to

your faith. You may be going through the television

what God did for you through the blood of the Lamb.

channels and you stumble on a new cause of infertility that has been

Yet we are so prone to walking in the natural that what comes to

discovered or it may not even be from the negative as they might just

mind at eirst is complaining when there is a challenge. If you are

be saying how they are making exploits in the treatment of eibroids,

blessed, you are blessed, whether you have children or not, if you

and they start saying what looks like a cure. As they begin to drift into

know this and live in its consciousness, your children will come. As

unbelief, you may be already completely taken in by then. Some may

you continue to meditate on the fact that you are the righteousness of

not even know when they’d say, “That was the sign I felt the other

God in Christ Jesus, you will begin to do acts of righteousness.

day.” Things like that will kill your faith! You need discipline where meditating on the Word of God is concerned. That is the only way you

Acts of righteousness in themselves are not the things that make you

can develop an unstoppable faith. When you see certain symptoms in

righteous, but because you are righteous, you will do acts of

your body, don’t be in a hurry to give them names, so you don’t have

righteousness. Just as I bear the name Omofomah because I was born

what you say (Mark 11:23).

into the Omofomah family, so are you righteous because you are born again. So as many as are born again are the righteousness of God in

Recognise You Have Right Standing With God

Christ Jesus, and if you live in that consciousness, nothing will stand

When they dropped the man and Jesus saw him, He said to him, ”Man,

as an obstacle against you. Choose not to see obstacles. They might be

your sins are forgiven you” (Luke 5:20). Jesus was dealing with the problem from the root because He knew the next thing that would

there but ignore them and always take advantage of the anointing of God.

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