Do you believe in miracles?
Well you ought believe in miracles if you are a Christian.
Because the greatest miracle we ever experience, is the miracle of the new birth.
How can it be that we who were spiritually dead have been made alive unto God, how can it be that our hard and stony selfish heart has been replaced with a loving tender heart.
How can we who lived to please only ourselves, now live to please our heavenly Father.
It is a miracle.
It is the power of the living God entering and miraculously changing our lives.
It is a miracle.
Do you believe in miracles?
Well, you will if you read and believe the bible, it is packed from cover to cover with miracles, signs, and wonders. Remember, all that God did as he brought the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt, the plagues, the pillar of fire/cloud, opening the red sea, water from the rock.
Or what about the the miracles of Elijah/Elisha and many, many more right through to the time of Jesus and his disciples.
If you study the miracles in the bible, you will notice something surprising, God never breaks his owns rules, never does anything un-natural.
Matthew 14:15-21 Feeding the 5000
He may multiply loaves and fishes, but he does not turn a fish into a bird that is magic where supernatural power is used to act in an unnatural way like voodoo or witchcraft.
God is the one who naturally causes fish and grain to multiply since he is the life source of all nature. This miracle was in a sense a miracle of timescale.
In the same manner if God is not healing all of our human bodies every day we would just die. I want you to see that God is the only healer. Doctors can only help set the right conditions for healing, but it is the life force given by God which heals. No doctor can heal a corpse.
When Jesus performed many healings. He was just doing what God did normally with only difference being the time scale i.e. the healing was instantaneous.
The miracle was in a sense of timescale.
John 2:1-11 Water to wine
Who gives power for yeast to convert water in wine normally?
It is God. Again we see a miracle in sense of time scale.
It seems at least some miracles are things that God does routinely but can
happen instantaneously or much faster than normal.
The miracles of change as we grow into Christian maturity
Who produces spiritually maturity in you? It is God (the Holy Spirit) working through the word of God you read, who changes your life, your thoughts, your actions, and your character.
Ephesians 4:11-13 The five-fold ministry gifts
Jesus gave the five ministry gifts to his body to prepare God’s people for works of service, to build them up, to bring them into a unity of the faith and in knowledge of the Son of God, i.e. to bring the believers into maturity and fullness of Christ.
The Holy Spirit works through our leaders in their teaching, preaching, exhortation, correction, and last but not least by their example.
There is no substitute for the word of God and prayer in the sense you, yourself can determine how fast you will grow.
Where we experience problems in our spiritual growth, God is gracious and is ever-willing to help you. God can provide deliverance from our obstacles and hindrances, so that we are free to mature.
I believe in miracles.
I believe God has sent this message as a vessel through which He will work miracles of timescale.
Can you believe that God can do things in your heart now that would otherwise have taken years. Will you ask to be delivered from specific hindrances even now?
Others may receive a miracle of growth in a certain area.
God will still require you to be diligent in bible study, prayer and attending church fellowship but today he can do a miracle for each one of you personally.
Could this be his special opportunity for an instant work that will produce and encourage maturity in your life.
Do you believe in miracles?
We don't want to limit God.
Amen
Personal prayer