The faithless exploitation of the sovereignty of God has become the bane of Christian theology. This is when religionists wander around the wilderness assigning every problem they face to “the will of God.” The sovereignty of God does not mean the capriciousness of God. Capriciousness is childish, dishonest, unpredictable. God is not these things. His sovereignty is consistent with his faithfulness, compassion, and other attributes. He keeps his promises, not because we force him to, but because he always decides to. When God keeps his word, he is being true to himself. It is in his own nature. This is divine sovereignty.
Faith matters. The mouth speaks what flows out of the heart (Matthew 12:34). If a person keeps talking about his struggles, his sicknesses, his sufferings, if he insists that he suffers because of the will of God, who is afflicting him with this or that, and if he keeps refusing to receive deliverance by faith in the divine promises, or even denying that these promises belong to sound doctrine, then he will have what he says. “As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say. You will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you” (Numbers 14:28, 34).
For this reason, faithless doctrines such as the distortion of divine sovereignty and the cessation of miracles and powers correspond to the experience of those who affirm them. Just as they have rejected God, God has rejected them. God will make them wander around the wilderness until they rot and die in their unbelief. They say that life in God is suffering? God will make sure they suffer. They say that there are no miracles, healing, prosperity, deliverance and victory? God will make sure they never get any of it. Their punishment is that their doctrine will become true — for them.
Although they consider themselves the best of Christians, many of them have never believed in Jesus. Their religion is only a culture or tradition that they have embraced to explain their failures and disappointments, or it is a worldview that serves as a foundation for their political views. God has abandoned them in their unbelief, and those among them that have spoken against the Holy Spirit can never be converted. They are destined to burn in hell forever.