Recently, I was praying about some circumstances in my life, and the Lord spoke to my spirit that I need to put my expectation out for miracles. But it’s not to seek miracles, but understand that I have the miracle working power of the spirit of God inside of me who raised Christ from the dead. Jesus is the miracle worker and I know Jesus. It’s putting expectations or my faith out there for the miracle worker inside of me. It’s Christ in you the hope of glory. Col. 1:27
I believe we need to be more open to the expectation of miracles and to do something “out of the norm” at times and out of our comfort zone as far as what God wants us to do.... What is a miracle?
A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine.
A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.
Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles he performs for people.~ Psalm 66:5
It amazes me what was accomplished by faith in people’s life in Hebrews 11. Then we look at Jesus hometown folk, and Jesus could not do anything because of their unbelief.
He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. Mark 6:5
My understanding is that Noah built a huge boat when there was only a mist that went up from the earth at that time. I don’t believe they even had rain back in that society. Genesis 2:6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
Daniel came out of a Lion’s Den and a fiery furnace.
It says that Elijah in the Bible was a man just like us. Elijah called fire down from God for a sacrifice and ended up killing all the prophets of Baal, he ran faster than King’s Ahab’s strong chariot horses for fifty miles, God fed him bread with a raven, he made the oil and wine never run out for the widow and her son, and prayed to stop and start rain. Does that sound like you and me? I don’t think so…LOL
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. James 5:17
What does sound like you and I is that Elijah got depressed. I get depressed after I minister or have a great day. Its like Jerry McGuire that I lost the person I shared my blessings with. That is my most vulnerable time. Joyce Meyer said after ministering she is exhausted. After I’ve lead worship at a single’s group, hosted a single’s social at my house or boating, or after I’ve shared the word of God with another believer --- especially a person who has lost his or her spouse for 1-2 hours and then I go through an attack of the enemy like Elijah to discourage me not to want to minister again. I was leading worship with some candles for Christmas Eve and my candle blew up in my face and broke (I was fortunate the glass did not go into my skin). I recognize that this is spiritual warfare.
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 2 Cor. 10:4
I’ve done a lot of crazy things in life and I’ve done some crazy things in sharing the gospel. One crazy thing was getting a tattoo put on for a Halloween’s single party. I wanted a “Heaven’s Angel” drawn on me with a magic marker to go as a biker chick. I downloaded a picture of an angel from the Internet. I went to this tattoo place and the guy waited on me acted like he was high on marijuana. He asked me what I was high on and I told him Jesus. I can remember as a non-believer meeting Christians when I was high (Jesus freaks) and I could tell there was just something different about a person and you can’t put your finger on it. Anyway, he was trying to get me to put permanent skulls tattoos on me and said that Jesus died at the skull of Golgotha. He was quite a character and I enjoyed talking to the whole tattoo place. It’s just these type of non-conventional ways, I like to “let my light shine” to non-believers.
Some witnessing may be just in the common market place like Jesus was going to get a drink of water and spoke to the woman at the well. She was hiding out from the other women since she was married so many times and was living with a man who came at noon day and she went to a different well, but Jesus knew she would be there. I sympathize with the woman and understand her pain in not wanting to deal with people and their judgmental/critical attitudes. It’s being “open” for new venues that God wants us to share his gospel.
Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. 2 Timothy 4:2
Maybe life comes like ripe apples off a tree for some people, but I’ve been in a warfare like Paul from the day I became a Christian. The Bible talks about “fight the good fight of faith.” 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:17, and 1 Timothy 1:18
It reminds me of the movie Charlie Angels, and one of Charlie Angels turned bad. Several of God’s angel’s turned bad and their leader does not play fair. I was watching the movie, Brian’s Song how Gale Sayers got clipped (fouled) playing football for the Chicago Bears and it broke his knee. He was ready to give up football, but Brian Piccolo encouraged him. (Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. Proverbs 27:6). I would much rather have a spanking from a friend to get off my rear end and feeling sorry for myself, than multiple kisses or compliments from a person I cannot trust.
In the movie, Seabiscuit, the jockey Red had an “axe to grind” from his parents giving him away during the depression. He would get angry whenever a fellow jockey fouled him and he lost a horse race because of it. Some of us have been fouled in life. You will know when you have been fouled because it has a bad taste in your life. It could be a hurt relationship, a spouse who cheated on you, a sudden death of a child or a spouse. Satan knows his time is short on this planet. Jesus said “be of good cheer, because he had overcome this world.” They call it the quarter back being blind-sided when he does not see the hit coming. Jesus bore those blows for us when they put a hood over his head and they punched him in the face and mocked him saying, “Prophesy, who hit you.” Luke 22:64
Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short." Rev. 12:12
Is Satan alive and well on planet earth? Actually, Satan has been stripped by his power by Jesus. He is like a traffic cop running around giving tickets out (sickness, disease, and calamity) and carrying a false badge. I remember my step-son liked playing a policeman growing up, and one Speedway police in our neighborhood who was no longer on the force gave him a real badge. When another police officer saw my step-son with the real badge, he took it away from him. That is how we are to be as Christians, we need to take Satan’s power away when we see another person is oppressed by him. One way is through the power of intercession prayer and breaking the strongholds over a person’s life. About a year after I became a Christian, I was lead to fast and pray for my ex-boyfriend, and later I ran into him at church and he was a Christian. He became a Christian around that time I fasted and prayed for him. There are promises in God’s word about the additional “fasting” along with prayer. Jesus said when he went to heaven that his disciples would fast. Matthew 9:15
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Col. 2:15
Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Isaiah 58:6-7
They say it’s a woman intuition when it comes to her children. I woke up one morning and I heard this voice, “pray for your children’s safety.” I prayed and happened to have my cell phone on me at 2:00 p.m. I happened to get a phone call from my daughter Jessica’s friend that happened to be driving by when my daughter Hannah was in a car cash. It totaled her car but only her hand was sprained. I’m claiming that God’s blessing will be on my children for my following the Lord.
What a mighty God we serve
Angels bow before Him
Heaven and earth adore Him
What a mighty God we serve.
Charlie’s Angel Full Throttle
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