“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed”. James 1:25

There is power in looking. The miracle power of the Word can be released through looking. It is recorded in Numbers chapter 21 that when the Israelites spoke against God and Moses, the Lord sent fiery serpents among them and many died. However, because God is full of compassion, He designed a way out for them when they repented.

“Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live”. Numbers 21:7-8

In the above scripture, God is showing an eternal pattern with respect to the miraculous. Everyone that looked, lived. Bless God that was only a shadow of the real thing; for in John 3:14, Jesus said, And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. Jesus is seen here as playing the role of that brazen serpent. Jesus is the Word of God (John 1:1-2).

If we look at the Word as the Israelites looked at the serpent in the wilderness, we will without doubt derive a miraculous virtue from it. The Bible declares in Psalm 34:5,

“They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

Everyone that looks will receive light, and scripturally, light is synonymous with life. We derive the miraculous life from looking at the Word. Jesus said:

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light”. Matthew 6:22

Let the Word have all your attention. Do not give in to any distraction. Do not allow the pains in your body to draw your attention from the fact that, by the stripes of Jesus, you WERE healed. Let your “eye be single,” focused solely on the Word, and your body will be full of the miraculous – the life of God. There is power in looking!

“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my savings.vLet them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.vFor they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh”. Proverbs 4:20-22

The emphasis here is again on looking: “let them not depart from your EYES.” Keep looking at the Word; it shall be life to you and health to all your flesh. There is miracle power in looking at the Word. One day, the Holy Ghost spoke to me from 2 Corinthians 3:18:

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord”.

It was revealed to me that the glass mentioned here refers to the Word of God. James 1:23-25 makes this abundantly clear. I began to see that if a man will “keep an open face” at the Scripture, he will continue to be transformed from glory to glory. That must be the miraculous. As believers, we must spend time looking into the Word. Are you suffering in any particular area of your life? Go to the Word with an “open face”, and you will draw divine virtue from it. The Psalmist said in Psalm 121:1:

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help“.

From the beginning of this book, we emphasized that our help is in the Word of God; so, we must focus on it, and our help will come. Are you facing the problem of unemployment? You have read some scriptures concerning that; you have heard preachers quote some and no doubt, you have been prayed for to get a job. May be you need to settle down and locate the scriptures that depict your heritage of gainful employment; fix your gaze on them, and you will soon see the miracle power of God at work. There is power in looking.

A young man was jobless for seven years, until he shifted his focus to the Word. While reading my book, Winning Prayer, he discovered what to do from page 96 to 97. He got seven scriptures from there, which were the seven stones that broke the devil’s back in his situation. He didn’t stop at that. He later got the book, Born to Win, and “devoured” it. 

That same day, he received a text message inviting him to pick up his appointment letter the following day. When he got to the organisation, he resumed immediately….

This text is an extract from the book “THE MIRACLE SEED” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
We invite you to read the following article “SEED TIME AND HARVEST“.

FOCUS ON THE WORD. FOCUS ON THE WORD.