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Your NEED is the seed for your MIRACLE

So often we curse the problems of life and wish if only I didn’t have this need in my life how much better things would be.

I want to take a contrarian view to this thought, as we look through the pages of the Bible it becomes quickly apparent that the greatest heroes of our faith also had some of the greatest needs or were in some way handicapped by their circumstances. Yet we find out of their desperate need came the desire for a breakthrough for deliverance for themselves or others.
So often a need will produce frustration to the point of action that otherwise wouldn’t have happened.
Need is one of life’s great motivators its just how God has wired us up.

There was once a group of people who were in a church in Asia minor and they felt they had arrived, they had no needs that they were aware of – life must had seemed good, but all was not okay.
We read their story in Revelation 3:17 God is speaking to them through the Apostle John, he says
“You say I am rich; I have aquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked”.
Their lack of a perceived need robbed them of humility and dependence upon God as their source of life and blessing and gave them a false sense of self sufficiency even to the point of self deception. What they possessed God hated.

So don’t despise your need, it is God’s seed for a miracle in your life if you look to Him in faith for the answer.

There is always a test when you are believing for a miracle

Number one always look to the source of your miracle – that God

Secondly don’t cave into fear, – miracles operate in a realm of faith.

God will use your need for a miraculous breakthrough

“And my God will meet all your needs according to his riches in Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19

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Miracles in Your World

MIRACLES, – definition – Events which unmistakably involve an immediate and powerful action of God designed to reveal His character or purposes.

That’s one definition of a miracle, as I read the Bible I see miracles everywhere both Old Testament and New Testament, in fact take miracles out of the Bible and you would lose much of the wonder and awe of God.

Miracles accomplish what natural things often cannot in our lives, and God intended that to be so.

So common were miracles in the New Testament that the following statement was written -
Acts 15: 12 “Barnabas and Paul reported matter-of-factly on the miracles and wonders God had done among the other nations through their ministry.” TM

If you need a miracle today – pray, expect, believe open the door to the possibility of a miracle in your world .

Miracles can both deliver you from your problems, and also open the door to your future
My conclusion is that miracles were never intended to be separated from the working of God both in Bible times and also in modern times. God is God and he is still connected to his power and he still loves this world. But every generation and every individual must decide whether to embrace them (his miracles) or not.

More on Miracles in my next post

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Signs and Wonders

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Signs and Wonders

Signs – ( definition) that which points to something else, – an object, occurrence, or person, through which one recognises, remembers or validates something

Acts 4 – prayer of the Disciples
…..and give your servants great boldness in their preaching. 30Send your healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
31After this prayer, the building where they were meeting shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And they preached God’s message with boldness.

A sign of being filled with the Holy Spirit is BOLDNESS –

Sometimes we miss what the sign or wonder was about, ie someone gets healed, we get excited about the healing but the sign is there to point us to the Healer,

3 things signs do – in a Biblical sense

1. Recognition, signs point us to who Jesus really is, separates Him from the Crowd of would be Messiahs
The pharasees never recognised Him, the Disciples took some time to recognise Him
In order for salvation to take place we must first recognise Jesus for who He is.
Most in the world today don’t otherwise they’d respond

2. Rememberence, signs point back to the Cross and what really happened there.
The sign is more than just about the here and now it gives us context to our faith

3. Validation, signs validate – something validated is authenticated ie validating our online account
The signs and wonders around Jesus’ life and ministry validated He was the Son of God

John 2:23
23Because of the miraculous signs he did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many people were convinced that he was indeed the Messiah. 24But Jesus didn’t trust them, because he knew what people were really like. 25No one needed to tell him about human nature.

Some people still don’t get it – even after a sign, – answered prayer after answered prayer – do you know someone like that???

God wants to help these people yes, but the answered prayer is the sign that He’s put there to point them to Himself.
They get the answered prayer but miss the sign.

Do we need signs and wonders today??? YES

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