Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for July 31, 2026

ORDINARY VERSUS EXTRAORDINARY

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Matthew 14:26

And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.

Additional Verses

📖 Matthew 14:13-36; Acts 19: 11-20; Romans 6: 1-23

Before you were born again as a child of God, you were ordinary. In other words you were just a natural being and you were subject to the power of the devil. However, when you accepted Jesus Christ to come into your life as LORD and Savior, you become supernatural just as He is supernatural. Matthew 14:19 says, “And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat and were filled; and they took up the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.” You were converted from being ordinary to extraordinary. Your old nature which was ordinary, died with Christ when He died at the Cross and was buried with His body when He was buried. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold, all things become new.” You were then raised with Him in glory when He was raised from the dead. Both Satan and sin became subject to you. It is only the ordinary that is subject to sin and the devil. But the extraordinary of who you are, is superior to all things. Romans 8:4-8 says, “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that is just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.” As an extraordinary person you therefore no longer walk by sight but by faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. The Word of God is the wisdom of God which is superior to the wisdom of this world. The wisdom of this world is limited to the human five senses while the Wisdom of God is unlimited. A man of faith in God must learn to look beyond his present circumstances. What matters is the vision and the mission ahead. Those who are not yet born again can never understand you at all. Therefore you should never waste your time arguing with them. Because you are extraordinary, you have the authority of Jesus Christ working in you. You can ask for anything in the name of Jesus Christ from the Father in heaven and if you are sincere and genuine, the Father will certainly grant whatever you ask. Make the Word of God your standard every day and all the time and I tell you, the Father’s unlimited Grace will always rest upon your house. Alleluia!

Prayer

Thank You LORD Jesus Christ for today’s wonderful revelation which shows me who l really am. Help me to grow in faith and wisdom as I can never exhaust You and also to make Your Word the standard of my life. In Jesus Christ’s name l pray. Amen.