In Numbers 23.19-20, Balaam was paid by Balak to curse the people of God. But this is what Balaam said, “God is not a man that He should lie, neither a son of man that He should repent (change His mind) – what He said, shall He not do it, and what He has spoken will He not make it happen?!” God cannot lie, He cannot change what He has said. And in the next verse Balaam says, God has blessed, no one can change it! When you have learnt power with God, God will begin to bless your life, your home, your family, your finance, your job – everything about your life! God will bless you. No one can change it, no one can reverse it – your life is under the power and blessing of God! I am living under the power and the blessing of God, I have a covenant relationship with God, God will never change that covenant! What a relationship! It does not depend on your ‘holiness’ – look at David, look at Israel – they went away from God, they sinned against God – but God cannot break His covenant! You have to come to a place in your life when God enters into that covenant with you and says, “I will bless you!” – When you receive that from God, for the rest of your life it will never change – it’s as certain as that! I challenge you to get to a spiritual place with God where the power of God is on your life. You can have that relationship with God, but first you have to have a personal experience with Him! Don’t depend on me – I challenge you – get on your knees, cry out to God, “Oh God I must have Your blessing in my life, I want power with You and a covenant that cannot be broken, so that You will bless my life, my ministry, my family!” You will see miracles in every area. Every time I preach the Gospel I dare to say from the platform, “God will work miracles.” I know. How? I have a covenant relationship with God. If I preach the true Gospel, if I declare the glory of God, God will honour it and work miracles.
Some years ago I was invited to speak at a conference. The theme was how we can know God, how we can come into His presence. Most of the speakers were saying you need to have holiness, quietness and peace. I caused some revolution because I began preaching from Deuteronomy 4.29: ‘If from where you are you shall seek the Lord your God you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul.’ You will find God if you search for Him from just where you are! When you are in tribulation, when all the problems of life have come on you!
When everything’s going well, when you’re not sick, when you have no financial problems – you don’t call upon God as much. But when you are in difficulty, when you’re sick – that’s when you begin to call on God more intensely. I have had long years of experience with God and I know personally that I learned more about prayer when I had cancer, when I was in prison, when I had financial problems, than at any other time! Prayer becomes more urgent when there is no other way – no alternative. When I had both experiences of cancer there were two ways – an operation or a miracle! I chose to go the hard way of asking and believing for a miracle – but this meant a total commitment – not accepting ‘no’. When I was in the prison, there were two alternatives: either accept the inevitability of five-to-ten years incarceration or ‘barnstorm’ Heaven until I got out! That’s not holiness, it’s just following the prayer principles Jesus laid down for desperate widows and people like me! – Luke 18.1-8.