Everyone wants a miracle
But no one wants to be put in the crisis that requires a miracle
The only way you really need a miracle is that you have a problem and the bigger the problem the bigger the miracle you need
We like miracles, but not the problems that go with them but sooner or later it's going to happen to you
The phone is going to ring and you're calm tranquil
well-ordered life is
Instantly going to be in the raging storm
Sooner or later you're going to face a crisis
Beyond your power to control
Our God is a God who wants to perform the miraculous in your life
There are times in our lives where we face something that it just seems like there's no way out
We could do all the math in our mind and our mind will tell us there's nothing that can be done here
Maybe you're in a job and you know God wants to bless you, but you look at your situation
You think God can't move here. My boss doesn't like me. I can't get along with the other people at work
There's there's such a ceiling in my environment
It's impossible for God to move in this situation other times we might say well my marriage pastor. It's just so bad
It's been so many years that it's been sliding in the wrong direction
I don't know that God could ever move our marriage into the position that he keeps talking about
How is God gonna change these things in my life?
Pastor I've been attacked in my body for so long
And the diagnosis is that it's incurable. Nothing can be done here. I'm not sure that God could even move
I don't know what he would do and our brain starts to opt us out of God's best in our lives
It says well the impossible things. I don't know that God still does that anymore
We begin to forget the things in our past
Where God did perform the miraculous
Can you think back to a time when God did something miraculous in your life that no one could explain?
Something happened and you got a breakthrough when there seemed to be no way
There was a miracle that happened in your life. That could not be explained with the mind
The mind wants to get in your way. It wants to say well that's impossible
A lot of people believe in the Bible they believe in the miracles in the Bible
What they don't believe is that God will do it for them and do it now
That's what faith is believing that God can do it for you and do it right now
We live in a world where everyone's telling you you can't pull this off
We live in a time when people
even in the church don't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit and what he can do
Sometimes we just look at the scriptures and go well yeah that was back then and you guys it's not about back then
It's about always
It's about ever since the beginning of this book and all the way to the end
The followers of God were filled with courage
There was a fearlessness in them
There was a confidence of my God will come through we grew up with these stories
we really did and don't you remember as a kid just
Having this faith like God can do anything
God loves to work best and shine his glory when things seem the darkest when the Israelites were in a
Situation hemmed in by the mountains, they couldn't escape the mountains. They had to sea in front of them
They couldn't swim across that and the Egyptians were coming in and God had positioned them there
They thought what is going on? This is impossible
You know what, even when it looks impossible God can either blow up the mountains or he can part the sea
He's gonna figure it out. We just have to keep believing that no matter how impossible it looks God can still do it
I don't know how he's gonna come through in this financial situation
But here's what I do know, I know that my God will meet all of my needs according to his riches in glory
I don't serve a God of the practicals. I serve a God of the miracles
The God of the Bible is a miracle working God in the genesis of time
He breathed into a handful of dirt
And Adam became a living soul
That was a miracle
He separated the day from the night. He flung the glittering stars
Against the velvet of the night to glisten like diamonds as an eternal reminder to mankind
That he is the Infinite Creator
He set the sun ablaze and placed it in the heavens as his version of the eternal flame
The infinite power of God to create is far beyond our imagination to grasp
The God of this Bible is a God of might and miracles. He's a God of grace and glory
He's a God of power and patience
Moses parted the Red Sea and walked across on dry ground with almost 2 million people
He healed the lame, healed the deaf, he healed the blind
That my friend is
miracle-working power
We serve a Jesus who walked around making the
Uncommon events and the power of God look like they were common
Every day he was performing a miracle you have that same spirit on the inside of you and
It's so rare
that someone
even in
Church gatherings so rare for someone to put their arm around you and remind you of how powerful you are
How powerful your God is who dwells inside of you
And what you can do
You know, we kind of we become more and more cowardly
He's never been pleased with cowardice
He's never been pleased with people who don't believe that he can come through and that he can do anything
But have we lost the wonder of God
Do we see his might and majesty so often were blind to its presence
Have you ever watched the sunset or the sunrise?
That ball of fire that's glowing on the horizon. It's a staggering miracle that you can't wrap your mind around
Why should you know this?
Because on Creations morning a divine spark of glory
Escaped from the fingertip of Almighty God
It blazes in the heavens on a daily basis as God's billboard to the nations of the earth
He say this is my miracle working power of the God that created heaven and earth that you can serve
He is awesome. He is full of wonder. He is the light of the world
Sometimes we think of all the busyness we're gonna do to help God try and do what he's doing
Listen, take a step back and let God do what God's trying to do just put your faith that when things get impossible
He's gonna unlock the impossible. He's gonna show up in his glory so that we could say all these years later
That was God that did that and not us
People get the idea it's easy for God to heal a head cold and he can't touch cancer
Let me tell you cancer is not a challenge for God
When you have the faith for it, I mean you can move mountains here
God's just waiting for you to uncross your fingers and start believing
He wants you to see that miracle. He wants to wow you
And will we stop expecting and we negotiate we say how God's gonna do that. I don't know
But you know what God I'm fine
Our brain tends to look at what the devil's bringing and say well that might be working
You know, it's not what I thought it was gonna be. It's not a wow, but it'll do I'll settle in this situation
I'm just gonna take what this compromise is
Remember this if you remember anything out of today God is not a God a compromise
He's gonna bring a miracle into your life don't accept second best
We get knocked down here and there and then people start telling you you can't pull it off
And our faith and that risk and that courage just seems to subside
And it's not right
It's not good. That's not how we want to live
Why don't I believe like I use to. We're children of God
God is still God not just when we were little kids
But when were 40 when were 80
Just go man. I'm gonna go for it God's done some amazing things throughout time
As I grow in my knowledge. I want my courage and my boldness to grow with it. Not the opposite
Our Father which art in heaven is still Jehovah
Rufie the Lord that heals all disease. His son Jesus Christ is still the Great Physician. He is the balm of Gilead
He's the conqueror of death Hell and the grave. This is the word of the Living God
It is a two-edged sword. This is the bread of life. This is living water
This word spoken under the anointing of the Holy Spirit is a divine
proclamation that can move mountains and
conquer diseases you are what this book says you are you can do what this book says you can do you can have
What this book says you can have you can know what this book says
You can know you can go where this book says you can go. Nothing is impossible
unto you if you go in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, this book says whatsoever you ask in my name
I will do it and if that was the only verse in the Bible, it would make Christianity the greatest faith on the planet
Ask and you shall receive. Today I'm asking God that you receive the miracle that will turn your life around