It is true that you are a member of God’s supernatural family, and that you live in heavenly places. But to maximize your life in this new kingdom, faith is a principal requirement. Faith is a requirement for working the supernatural.

Faith is your license for living a profitable life. Everything about God and heaven is supernatural. It’s clear that God has designed that everything about you and I be supernatural too. But how do we actualize it?

The Bible says these signs shall follow them that believe. You cannot actualize the supernatural life style that God has ordained for you without faith. Faith is the only way to live in the reality of the supernatural world. How does faith get the job done?

The Bible says when faith is in place, the word of God is converted to the power of God.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth…” Romans 1:16

It is faith in the word that converts it into power.

In the story of the woman with the issue of blood, when she touched Jesus’ garment, He said somebody touched me, virtue is gone out of me (Luke. 8:40-48). At the end of all that transpired, Jesus said to her, “Thy faith has made thee whole.” Through her faith in Jesus (the word), she tapped into virtue for her healing. When faith in the word of God comes alive in you, you tap into the virtue that the word carries, causing you to become what the word says.

We’re also told that through faith they obtained a good report. So, faith is a means through which every evil report is converted to good report.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.” Hebrews 11:1-2

Every evil report is converted to a good report at the instance of faith. No matter the evil report you are faced with right now, faith in the word of God will convert it into a good report.

A young man named Michael came down from Germany. His doctor had given him only six more days to live because he had leukemia. He decided to take the risk to come down here to Nigeria. Unfortunately, I wasn’t available until after the third day. By then he had only three more days to live. On that Sunday morning, he sat in our church service, where the word of God came alive in him.

He met me at the end of that service, and I prayed with him and anointed him, and he returned back to Germany. He got back having just one more day to live, according to the medical prediction.

After the first week of arriving back in Germany, when his doctor saw him, he questioned, “Are you still alive?” The second week passed, the third and the fourth weeks also. All comprehensive tests carried out showed that leukemia was no longer traceable in his blood! Michael is still alive today. He and his family were all at Shiloh 2003, six months after his supernatural healing. Faith in the word of God converted the evil report he had been given to good report! Faith is God’s grand design for maximizing your supernatural status in the kingdom. Faith is all it takes!

Another man from the United States of America heard on the internet that the following Sunday was our Covenant Day of Healing, and decided to travel down with his child who had an acute case of sickle cell anaemia. This child was on medication every two hours. As a result, both husband and wife could not afford to work at the same time.

They took turns working, one must be in while the other is working, so they could dispense their child’s medication. This man brought his child to our church in Lagos, and sat through a Sunday service. God’s power came down via His word. At the end of the service, they met me and I prayed for the child, and they returned to New York. The child was set free from then. It was a terminal case, but Jesus cleaned him out through and through!

Every evil report is convertible via faith.

How does faith get the work done? The Bible says in Ephesians 6:16:

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”

That you are in heavenly places does not mean the devil will not attempt to attack you. Remember he fought in heaven, so he can fight anyone, anywhere (Rev. 12:7-11). But with the shield of faith (in God’s word), you can quench all the fiery darts of the devil.

So faith delivers the promises, faith quenches all the fiery darts of the opposition, and faith converts every negative report into good reports. Faith converts the word of God into the power of God, and faith enables you and I to tap into the virtue that brings the word of God into effect in our lives. It takes faith to operate in the supernatural, which is your birthright as a covenant child of God.

The Bible says “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not; but as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believe in His word” (John 1:11-12).

You are empowered to become what the word says through faith. Faith enables you to manifest your sonship in the midst of conflicts…

This text is an extract from the book “OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL” written by David O. Oyedepo.

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