“So again I ask, does God give you His Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?” -Galatians 3:5
Have you ever witnessed a miracle? I can’t say that I’ve seen someone come back from the dead, though I have experienced what might be considered “smaller” miracles in my own life related to emotional healing, safety, and finances. Our level of faith is often congruent with our experience. The enemy’s purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy. He tries to get in the middle of our dreams by stealing our faith for our dreams. But then, God comes in and shows us how “anything is possible to those who believe.” (Mark 9:23)
Let me pose a question to you: What if our default was faith, where we simply believed all the time, but still had peace, trusting God for the outcome? The Bible says that faith is “being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Heb 11:1) How can you know for sure? The wind is invisible, but we can feel it. Likewise, faith is something that we sense in our hearts. It’s the belief that yes, with God, all things are possible, to those who believe. I believe if we kept our hearts like this, we would see more miracles than we ever thought possible.
One day a man came to our church talking about faith and the working of miracles. He shared a story whereby a woman had conceived a child, but the father left her. This woman, with her newborn baby girl became a Christian. Then, 20 years later, the same thing happened to her daughter. She met a man and got pregnant, and the man left the country. She was devastated. But, even more devastating was the fact that her daughter had been born blind. Both the mother and grandmother were asking God “Why?”, but they kept on believing. Five years down the road they went to a church service where this particular minister was speaking. He prayed for miracles to occur in the lives of the people there. The mother responded to the altar call in faith. The next morning, at her home, she noticed her daughter acting rather strange. Normally she would have been playing with her dolls looking around without any focus, as blind people do, but instead she was holding the sheet on the bed, looking at it. She could see!
Do you have faith for the possibility of miracles in your life? Are you willing to do your part and believe? Pray today that God would give you faith in Him for your hopes & dreams, so that His purposes and plans for you can be fully birthed in your life, no matter how long they may take.
"I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father." John 14:12, 13 NIV
Have you ever had something happen to you that had no logical explanation, or that you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it had to be God?
I hope you have had this kind of experience. In fact, I hope it's something that becomes a part of your daily life!
A life lived with God is a walk of faith. It's not a stop of faith - it's a walk of faith. Faith requires a belief in something we can't completely hear, see, or understand. Events happen that cannot be explained in natural, human terms.
Let me give an example.
One day a friend of mine was driving in her car. She had struggled with anxiety her whole life, and she was at the point of utter breakdown. She found that she couldn't keep enough composure to drive, so she stopped her car and began to cry. She was so frustrated about the hold that fear had had on her life, and she was done with it. Suddenly, a man walked by and asked if he could hug her. She thought it a little strange, but she let him, only because she felt like it would be okay. He told her something that she couldn't have explained in her wildest imagination. "You know the enemy's greatest weapon against us? It's fear. But through Jesus, God has made us victorious." And then he began to pray with her.
Have you experienced the supernatural in your own life? I hope that you do. And if you have, but it hasn't happened in a while, begin to ask God for miracles to occur. God is a God of the supernatural. And He wants to show up on our behalf.
"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." -John 14:12
Have you ever wondered how to walk in the supernatural? Many people desire to walk in the supernatural, but few know how. There is always the danger of looking like a crazy person - repelling more people from the gospel than attracting them to it! But, there is a way to bring the supernatural to earth, naturally. God desires for each of us to walk in the supernatural, as His Son did.
Bethel Church Atlanta (at the time of this writing) experiences an average of 1 miracle a day through the faith of their members. This happens by their members stepping out in faith and having open eyes and ears to what the Father is saying.
A woman shared one Sunday morning about how she and her husband were led to talk to some teenagers who were passing by on the street. The woman had perceived that one of them was struggling with foot pain, so she asked the group if one of them did. A young man spoke up and said he had foot pain. She then asked if she could pray for him, and he said yes. After they prayed, he had no more foot pain! This event led to an open door to the woman sharing her faith, and one of the teenagers gave their lives to Christ.
Now that’s naturally supernatural!
Have you ever stepped out into the supernatural? Have you ever had an impression for someone or a word of knowledge about someone and stepped out in it? If you’re not sure how, find a place where the walking in the supernatural is taught. Let us be people of the supernatural, so that God’s kingdom can flow through us into the lives of others, naturally.
"And Elisha prayed, "O LORD, open his eyes so he may see." Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around." - 2 Kings 6:17
There are times we may look at someone and think they're crazy, or see a situation and see no solution. We think to ourselves, "There is no possible way to make this happen," or, "She is definitely out of her mind!" This is human. But to look past the circumstance or reality and see God's potential, this is supernatural.
It takes a lot to see potential sometimes. It definitely requires imagination. But when people's lives are so messed up that they can't see out of their situations, we need to be the ones who can see past their circumstances for them. But before we can do that for others, we need to be able to do it for ourselves.
God has a very different view of you than you have of yourself. He sees you in a way that no one else can see you. He sees you for who you are, unhidden, transparent, and with all the personality, gifts, and talents that he placed in you from birth. Many times the weight of the world puts layers on our soul. It takes awhile to peel back the layers of the onion, but when we finally do, we are able to see more of what God sees.
When we do, we become freer in the realization that God is our source, and we can do anything with Him.
Who are you? What has God placed in you that you have yet to discover? Ask him today to show you your potential. And see what amazing things will happen when you do.
