Romans 1:16 16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes...
If you have been to motivational seminars, you would probably have heard the
speakers say, “If you follow these five steps, then you will come to a place of
financial increase.” They would probably have told you also that if you don’t
succeed, it is because you did not follow the steps correctly or diligently.
Thank God that the gospel or good news does not work like that! The minute
you hear or read the good news, and you believe and receive it, His Word goes
forth to sozo (the Greek word for “save”) you, making you whole in every way, “for
it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes”.
What is the good news? It is that God loves us so much that He gave us
His Son to take our beating so that we can have His blessings without having
to work for them. Right now, as you are reading this devotional, listening to a
preacher or watching a sermon DVD, as you hear God’s Word, His power is
released into your situation, working things out for you and turning your situation
around for your good.
In Acts 14:8–10, we see Paul preaching the good news in Lystra. A man who
was crippled from birth was listening to Paul. Paul, seeing that he had faith to be
healed, said, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And the man leaped and walked! He
heard the good news, believed it and was healed.
At a leadership conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was speaking, a pastor
there shared how a well-respected businessman in his church was healed while
listening to one of my sermon CDs. This man was deaf in one ear. And when he
was listening to my teaching on the CD, his deaf ear popped open without anyone
laying hands on him or praying for him! He was just listening to the good news
when his ear opened. Now, that is what I call the power of God unto his salvation,
sozo-ing him, making his hearing whole!
My friend, these miracles happen not because we follow some kind of formula
faithfully, but because we hear the good news preached and simply believe it!
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