{"id":7137,"date":"2021-06-27T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/commanding-signs-and-wonders-part-3-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:59:56","slug":"commanding-signs-and-wonders-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/commanding-signs-and-wonders-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanding Signs and Wonders (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations and welcome to the last few days of June 2021. Three weeks ago, we began a series titled\u00a0<strong>Commanding Signs and Wonders.\u00a0<\/strong>In the course of the series, we have explored the book of Acts, and so far, we have established that signs and wonders are<strong>\u00a0a miraculous and unique series of events, performed by God through the apostles and a select few others,\u00a0<\/strong>for a unique purpose.<\/p>\n<p>As we conclude the series this week, I would like to begin by asking this question: How many times does the Bible use the words \u201cgreat joy?\u201d. Without waiting for you to go do your research, I will straight up give you the answer \u2013 less than a dozen times in the entire Bible. Interestingly, every single time these two words appear in the Bible, whether in Greek or Hebrew, they are talking about truly memorable events and the emotions of <strong>VERY happy people.<\/strong>\u00a0Furthermore, they involved events that were basically spiritual in nature.<\/p>\n<p>In the Old Testament, the people had\u00a0<strong>GREAT JOY<\/strong> at the coronation of Solomon, when sacrifices were offered for the building of the temple, and after the wall around Jerusalem. In the New Testament, there was <strong>GREAT JOY\u00a0<\/strong>at the birth and then at the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Twice we read of <strong>GREAT JOY<\/strong> as sinful societies received the gospel, and once Paul spoke of his\u00a0<strong>GREAT JOY\u00a0<\/strong>in the love of Philemon.<\/p>\n<p>In Acts 8, the Bible mentions a man named <strong>Simon Magus,<\/strong>\u00a0a magician and sorcerer. He was a Samaritan Rasputin who practiced<strong> a polluted, hybridized, satanically inspired religion,<\/strong>\u00a0and everybody in the city\u00a0<strong>respected but feared him<\/strong>, mostly because for a very long time, this<strong>\u00a0Simon had bewitched them with his sorceries. T<\/strong>hat narrative, however, changed when Phillip arrived at Samaria to preach the Kingdom of God in the Name of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible records that there was much rejoicing in Samaria, and the reason for the <strong>GREAT JOY\u00a0<\/strong>was that Jesus was being proclaimed and significant changes were taking place. Philip preached Christ to Samaria. Men and women, including Simon, believed and were baptized. GREAT JOY came to the city and although there was a church being gathered there, it wasn\u2019t the presence of a church that made the difference,\u00a0<strong>NO<\/strong>. . . the difference was the presence of the power of Christ.<strong> Revival time is a time of personal spiritual reawakening,<\/strong>\u00a0and anyone\u00a0<strong>spiritually asleep\u00a0<\/strong>in a revival stands t<strong>he risk of missing out on the blessedness of a revival\u00a0<\/strong>so as I sign off on this series, my prayer for you is that you will\u00a0<strong>make the most of this season<\/strong>\u00a0at the place of prayer, intercession, and soul winning. Today, no matter who you are, what you have, or where you came from, the same joy can come into your city and into your life. T<strong>hat is what revival is all about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God BLESS You!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Triumphant Obamoh<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revival time is a time of personal spiritual reawakening,\u00a0and anyone\u00a0spiritually asleep\u00a0in a revival stands the risk of missing out on the blessedness of a revival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-signs-and-wonders","category-supernatural","tag-signs-and-wonders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphantobamoh.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}