Do You Believe In Miracles?

Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. Matthew 21

Do you believe in miracles?

One definition of a miracle is “an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws.”

I have seen miracles happen in many lives. I have seen prayers answered, people healed, lives changed, and in ways that cannot be explained by the medical or scientific world. I believe in miracles happening in our world today! I have also prayed for miracles, and they don’t always happen. Obviously this is partly explained by the reality that if a miracle always occurred in answer to prayer, then it would no longer be “an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws.” Miracles are when God breaks into the expected outcome of life to change the results. Miracles happen to honor God, more than to make us happy. God does like us to be happy, but that is not his primary purpose with life. His purpose is to draw people to a saving relationship with Him.

More miracles happen that we don’t acknowledge, than those we do proclaim. This is because we are more impressed by healing of the body, or a change of our physical status, than by things that are not as easily seen. God says to love Him with our heart, soul, mind and strength. We can be miraculously changed in any of these ways as well. But it is the miracles under our strength, or our physical world that we seek the most. However, God is doing far more miracles in hearts, minds and souls. We just rarely think of them as miracles. When a person changes their eternal destiny, or is radically healed from emotional or relational pain, that is a miracle. And it changes a life more than the physical ones. Give me some dynamite and a bulldozer and eventually I can move a mountain. And everyone will forget about it after a week. But healing the emotional and spiritual brokenness of a lost soul will reverberate through lives and generations to come to provide healing.

Miracles happen. Prayer is answered. Sometimes God says no, for His reasons. Sometimes God says yes…for His reasons. This fall we will explore Biblical miracles and how we can develop a life where miracles happen. Join us to access the power to move the mountains in your life.

See you at church,
Pastor Tom