God's Intervention

2-15-2010
God’s Intervention

The senior pastor at Preston Trail Community Church, Jim Johnson, preached an amazing sermon about God’s intervention. Within this sermon he outlined what we should do when we need God’s intervention and the two ways in which He intervenes.

James 5:13-15 says the following:
“13Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.”

The first thing we should do in times of need is pray, as this leads to healing. Secondly, we need to confess any wrong doing so we may have peace. Last, we need to walk with God because the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective (James 5:16). Through these three steps we recognize the two ways God intervenes.
One way God can intervene is by the removal of a circumstance. For instance, he may miraculously heal someone with cancer or a disease. Though God is certainly capable of doing this, he doesn’t always intervene in every circumstance, but God always redeems the circumstance, and this is the second way God intervenes.

God always utilizes circumstances to aid us in our maturation as a Christian. It’s in the difficult times we build character and our faith grows. It’s extremely important to understand the fact that God can be found in all circumstances. It’s not His will that bad things happen, and His perfect will was destroyed when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. We have free will and live in the confines of created order. God never desires for people to die in earthquakes or other forms of natural disasters, but he does intervene and redeems the circumstance for good. What ways has God intervened in your life? Do you see how God intervenes in your life daily?