The Evidence That God is with You

Matthew 16: The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.² He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ ³ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.^{[a] 4} A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.

Folks are looking at you crazy, wondering ,because they want to know whether the God you worship, and serve day, and night, whether the God you visit every Sunday out of a hunger and thirst to have an encounter with Him because you love him so much that you cannot do without him. They are wondering and looking at you inquisitively because they want to come to the bottom line of the equation.

  

Whether this God with whom you speak about with so much energy, with so much verve, with so much confidence and fire brand passion, :they want to know is he really who you claim him to be.

Just the other day you told folk he was a mighty healer, just the other day you told people he is a way maker, 

just the other day you told people he  was going to make you make you ruler over many because you have been faithful over a few.

Just the other day you told people he was going to deliver you from the shame of poverty.

Just the other day you told people he was going to loose from the snare of the Fowler.

Just the other day you told people who thought you going to amount to no good that God is going to resurrect the dead stuff in your life so they can come back to life.

 Just the other day you told your friends that though he slay you yet shall you trust him, why?

Because he is no man that he should lie to you.

Just the other day folk told you to give up, and you told them you can’t give up because God has not yet given up on you.

Just the other day you told people that the reason why you have nothing good happening in your life is because God is behind the scenes of life working on your behalf.

 He is working out some thing eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither entered in the  hearts of humanity what great things God is about to drop down on your laps.

 God is getting you ready to receive great finances, great friends, a great wife, and a great top of the line Mercedes Benz automobile, a great family, a great church, a great assignment, great wealth and health.

So that the folk who have been floating their good stuff can look at you marvelous and say, “God is a great God he is what you really claim him to be”.

They are asking because they want some proof that God approves you to do for you what you hope and believe him to do for you. They want evidence of God’s hand of favor over your life.

Not as a way to come over to your faith once that evidence is produced by God performing a ground breaking miracle in your life but rather they hope God does nothing for you cause to them you no special and different to warranty the attention and care of the power of God.

What they do not know is that God is no respecter of persons but rather of faith.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. I heard God declare, “Let the sick man say,’ I am healed’-so I claimed it.

 I heard God declare,’ let the poor man say,’ I am rich’-so I claimed it. I heard God declare,’ let the weak man say,’ I am strong’-so I claimed it.

What I claim is what I believe he will do for me, so you hope he will not do it for me in anticipation of my shame, but I hope and believe that he that spoke will also perform because he is with me.

I know this because he spoke to me this morning and he told me how much he loves me, and if he loves me he will do the impossible for me.

God declares,’ leave and go away from every one who is in question about whether God is with you because they do not see him shift and turning tables in your life.

Go away from them because they are evil and godless people in the last days who see bad before they can see good, who hope for bad and not for good, who see no good thing in others, but only the bad.

Thus is the nature of the people of the last days because they can’t even discern the signs of the season that they are operating in.

In Matthew 16:4, Jesus argues against these people inform of the Pharisees, and the seducees by saying, “How evil and godless are the people of this day you ask me for a miracle, for evidence that God has favored me and approved me.

 No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah,’ so he left them and went away.

What is the miracle of Jonah?

The miracle of Jonah is that he was swallowed by a hungry, violent shark but after three days he came out of it alive, because the glory of God in the assignment on Jonah’s life was so powerful in that the shark would not eat him because Jonah had an assignment from God to bear and carry out.

No assignment of God and assignee of God can be hindered, cut off nor swallowed by anything under the sun, because the assignment of God is too powerful to be hindered.

Jesus was killed and buried in a tomb but after three days he rose again and came out of the tomb alive.

That was a miracle –evidence of God’s favor on his life-he was not cut off by death because his assignment was greater and powerful than death.

  

The life of any body that believes and trusts in God is not just a life but a great assignment that bears the glory of God.

And the evidence that God is with you and that your life is a miracle-is in the fact that with all the odds against you, for some reason or another you still standing.

God is with you because doctors gave you a cancer report, an HIV report and after a while the same doctor another examination and told you that they is no cancer in your body they is no HIV in your body, they is no diabetes in your system.

That is the favor of God-you eat, drink, and sleep under a roof even with no job…that is the favor of God.

People follow you in droves and take your word as influential as it comes even when you are sometimes not sure of your self, even when you do not have much financial wealth…that is the favor of God.

Your enemies are waiting for you to lose your mind, to fall by the way side, to give up on the assignment of God over your life but you still thinking right, if not progressively, you still trusting, believing, giving, and working the assignment of God on your life..That is the evidence that God is with you