What Do You See Your Father Doing?

After Jesus healed an impotent man of a thirty-eight year infirmity he spoke the following:

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. —John 5:19-21

We know that Jesus the eternal God has always been one with the Father. As the Son of God, he has always seen what his Father was doing, but this is not the position he took as he walked this earth—he took upon himself the form of a servant. Jesus as the Son of Man walked as our example: He did all that he did as a man full of the Holy Ghost and taught of the Holy Ghost. He did no work outside of that which was revealed to him by the Spirit through the scriptures. It was in Jeremiah and Isaiah and Daniel and David that he saw his Father do works that only God could do: “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law” (Psalms 119:18).

Jesus understood the absolute impossibility of circumstances changing the eternal truth of God’s Word. Circumstances said that this impotent man could not walk, The Word had declared in Isaiah 35:6, “Then shall the lame man leap as an hart.” The Word of God is as unchangeable and powerful as the Lord Almighty is!! You can not separate the two because they are One Spirit. What God has said is what God has done: His speaking and his action are one. When Jesus told the impotent man to “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk,” He was not quoting what God had said in Isaiah 35, he was revealing the truth of what God was saying and doing in him at that very moment:“The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works” (John 14:10). Jesus through his virgin birth had become the Word of God made flesh: Everything that he did was a revelation of that which had already been revealed to the Prophets. It was impossible for it not to come to pass!

Nothing of his power has been diminished in the church today. We are to walk as he walked in absolute assurance that faith in his living word brings. Jesus lives and continues his ministry of all that is written in and through his body, which is the church. We have been given the wonderful power and authority of his exalted Name. To go forth in the Name of Jesus is to walk in all that he is and all the he is doing right now! It is time to pray in the wonderful Name of Jesus all that we see him doing in the scriptures: It is truly all that he will bring to pass! To see it in the scriptures surly means that without fail, we will see it come to pass in Dadeville, Jackson Gap, Alex City, and wherever he sends us!! What do you see your Father doing?