Thursday, April 14, 2011

MIRACLES STILL TAKE PLACE

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD SOMEONE SAY, "IT WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE TO MAKE HIM GO TO WORK?"  "ONLY A MIRACLE COULD MAKE HER ILLNESS GO AWAY."  "ITS A MIRACLE THAT THEY HAVENT DIED YET FROM ALL THE DRUGS THEY DO."  "IT WILL TAKE A MIRACLE TO KEEP HIM OUT OF JAIL."  LAST NIGHT I WAS READING ABOUT THE MIRACLES JESUS PERFORMED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.  I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND I STILL HAVE THE SUBJECT OF "MIRACLES" ON MY MIND.
THE BIBLE IS FULL OF MIRACLES, BUT LAST NIGHT, I WAS READING ABOUT THE MANY, MANY MIRACLES PERFORMED BY JESUS CHRIST.  IN MATTHEW 15:30-31, MY BIBLE TELLS ME THAT "GREAT MULTITUDES CAME TO SEE HIM, HAVING WITH THEM THE LAME, BLIND, MUTE, MAIMED, AND MANY OTHERS; AND THEY LAID THEM DOWN AT JESUS' FEET, AND HE HEALED THEM.  SO THE MULTITUDE MARVELED WHEN THEY SAW THE MUTE SPEAKING, THE MAIMED MADE WHOLE, THE LAME WALKING, AND THE BLIND SEEING, AND THEY GLORIFIED THE GOD OD ISREAL." 

JESUS WAS CERTAINLY A BUSY MAN!  HE CALMED STORMS.  HE GAVE SIGHT TO THE BLIND.  HE RAISED THE DEAD.  HE CURED LEPERS.  HE TURNED WATER INTO WINE.  HE WALKED ON WATER.  ALL OF THESE MIRACLES WERE SUPERNATURAL EVENTS PERFORMED IN ORDER TO POINT PEOPLE TO GOD!  HUGE CROWDS, MULTITUDES, WENT TO SEE JESUS TO BE HEALED.  THEY WENT TO HIM WITH BELIEF AND EXPECTATION!

JESUS IS STILL PERFORMING MIRACLES TODAY.  HE CALMED THE STORMS IN MY LIFE.  HE GAVE ME SPIRITUAL SIGHT AND RAISED ME FROM THE DEAD IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.  HE CURED MY DISEASE OF ADDICTION.  HE RESTORED MY SELF ESTEEM.  I CAN LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND ACTUALLY LOVE THE PERSON I SEE TODAY.  HE HEALED THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT I HAD SO CARELESSLY THROWN ASIDE.  HE HEARS ALL OF MY CRIES. 

YES, I WOULD SAY THAT MIRACLES DO EXIST EVEN TODAY.  IT IS ONLY THROUGH HIS MIRACLES THAT I AM ABLE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU TODAY.  THROUGH FAITH AND BELIEF IN HIS WORD, I CAN LOOK FORWARD TO A GLORIOUS TODAY AND TOMORROW.  HE IS STILL IN THE BUSINESS.  MIRACLES ARE STILL IN HIS JOB DESCRIPTION!  AND FOR THAT, I PRAISE HIM THIS MORNING.   I FEEL PRETTY SURE THAT GOD HAS PERFORMED MANY MIRACLES IN YOUR LIFE AS WELL.  IF HE DID IT FOR ME, HE CAN AND HE WILL SURELY DO IT FOR YOU!  OUR GOD IS SUCH AN AWESOME GOD!

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