“they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
Mark 16:18 KJV
Jesus told His disciples before He ascended, that they were to bring the Gospel to everyone with signs and wonders in Jesus’s Name, “They will be supernaturally protected from snakes and from drinking anything poisonous. And they will lay hands on the sick and heal them.” They will pick up snakes and be unharmed, and whatever poison they drink will not hurt them. These are two Aramaic idioms. To pick up snakes is a picture of overcoming one’s enemies (“snakes”), and drinking poison speaks of dealing with attack on one’s character (poisonous words). As the psalmist says, “You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.” Our immediate reaction to snakes and to drinking poison, in the natural, is to recoil. But as we meditate on God’s Word and abide in it, we realise that we are supernatural. We are not only a disciple of Christ, we are now in Christ by faith. Just by believing, we are now supernatural as we put God’s Word into practice. Help us Lord, to walk in the supernatural by faith that pleases You. Amen!
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