Song: Jesus has all the power and all the glory. Jesus is King forever, all power belongs to the Lord

You see, sometimes, when we hear that statement, we limit it to supernatural power, and when we talk about the power of God, we think it only applies when something beyond the conception of our human understanding happens. 

• Who said the expertise a doctor has to treat people, is not within the powers of God? 
• Who said that the skillset of a teacher in school, is not within the powers of God?

The Bible says that God is the Prince of all the kings upon the face of the earth and the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.

As Christians, we must come to the point where we understand without a shadow of a doubt that the entirety of this earth belongs to our heavenly father and there is nothing that cannot be an extension of his will and his power towards us. 

There was a time when a woman was about to have a child and it was clear she was having preeclampsia. She went to the hospital and the doctor said “It is expedient that we cut you open and bring this child out that you may live and the child also” but the woman said, “My pastor told me, we must give birth like the Hebrew women”. The woman went ahead against doctors’ advice to try to push out that child and died with the baby that day. 

For what? Who says God’s hands could not have been there in the doctors’ hands? God is the one who raised the doctors to understand the herbs and different things in the world to treat mankind. Who said God is separated from it? God is part of it. 

We need to get to the point where we don’t disconnect the things of the earth from the things in heaven. 

“Who said that the practice of a Doctor cannot be an extension of the life of God”? That is how medicine is supposed to be: that a doctor, treats the patient physically, and by extension, the soul and mind and everything is an extension of God's miraculous power and healing.

That we can understand something, and explain the same doesn’t mean God cannot be in it. God can walk through a means we can’t comprehend and at the same time work through structures that we understand but he is still God. We should make peace with that - all power belongs to God. 

Now, is it possible that one can get to a point in faith and knowledge of God that God tells them not to take any medicines? Yes! One can get there and there are many testimonies like that. But you see, you ought to have known God that way. Because, when we talk about faith, the word faith in Hebrew is “Emunah” which talks about Steadfastness, a conviction that is a product of our encounter with God. 

There is an encounter we must have to bring about a solid conviction. I’m not saying that one cannot try without knowing but, many people hear someone’s story and try to do the same thing. Something that stemmed from walking with God for 15 years, someone else would think they would wake up and replicate the same. 

Now, this might work, but would you have the same patience they had? For some people, God will tell them to move their family to a different country, and for two years they will be hungry in that country before things start to show up, but because they have walked with God, and know their God will surely show up, they can endure those two years. But you, or me, who has not known God at that level, can we endure those two years? 

There’s that place where we “journey” in our knowledge of God. 

If a person has not gotten to that level where they can give away everything they have and follow God even if they are hungry, don’t do it because you heard of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. You don’t know the journey they’ve had with God and their experience (they made a statement from knowing and experiencing God). It was beyond the hearing of the ears but what their eyes had seen. 

We must understand that faith is a living thing that can grow on the inside of us – and it grows from glory to glory, from stage to stage. So, there is nothing wrong with going to the hospital when you are sick and there is nothing wrong with going to the hospital and also still praying. Why not? As you are treating in the physical, you are treating in the spiritual. 

Are there instances where God will tell you to “abandon the hospital completely”? Absolutely! But, be sure that is what God is saying to you and if God has said it to you, then by all means – if you are sure that is the God you have come to know (not just because someone is trying to use you as a Guinea pig) because many things like that have happened.

Is it possible for God to heal a person beyond the scope of medicine? 100 percent. It has happened many times (I am a recipient of such and God has done such even through me) but the fact that God can do that does not mean that taking medicine – Panadol, is evil and you are faithless (absolutely not), the body is physical and sometimes for physical things, you use physical things.

Yeah, there were times Jesus multiplied bread and fish but there was a time when he also gave them money to go and buy bread so they could eat, and both were the supply of God. So we have to understand that all power belongs to God. And, whether it is an angel that brings you the bread from heaven or your neighbour comes and gives you a plate of rice, it is still from the Lord, and in all things, we give thanks.