Miracles are Love expressed in power!
The majority of believers do not expect miracles, and it is due to unbelief. Teaching from the pulpit has watered down the Gospel because of unhealed disappointment and unanswered prayer.
Jesus spoke in Mark chapter 9:
23 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it: “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!”
26 Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.”
27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
The Gospels recorded 37 miracles performed by Jesus in His 3 ½ years of ministry on the earth.
Jesus spoke in John chapter 14:
12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
13 And whatever you ask in My Name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask anything in My Name, I will do it.
How many of us are walking in the manner that Jesus spoke of in the above passage? Do you have to travel a thousand miles to a meeting to experience a miracle?
The expectation of miracles has been limited by redefining GOD’S present activity. Unbelief doesn’t say “GOD no longer heals.” Instead, it whispers, “GOD can heal, but HE usually doesn’t.” The excuse that GOD is sovereign is associated with such thinking. This doctrine essentially removes accountability and responsibility away from the believer.
That being the case, what do you do with Jesus’ command to do “greater works” than Him? Lack of miracles is not drawn from Scripture, but from experience.
Scripture never authorizes experience to interpret Truth. Truth interprets experience!
What you believe about miracles determines how you pray, how you expect, how you interpret delay, and how you respond when symptoms remain. Your belief shapes your posture and your posture shapes prayer, and ultimately, prayer shapes experience.
Jesus never adjusted Truth to accommodate disappointment. He never softened revelation to protect wounded expectation. Jesus never said, “Miracles once happened, but times have changed.” Instead He said, “”If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Did He really mean “All things are possible?” Did that include miracles? Did FATHER change HIS Divine Intent in the last 2,000 years? Jesus’ statement has never been revised and has never expired nor was it ever limited to a generation!
Did Peter believe that miracles had passed away when Jesus went to the cross?
Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 3:
6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”
7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
The man had been lame his entire life but that did not intimidate or limit Peter in any way. Peter had just spent forty days being instructed by Jesus Himself after His resurrection, concerning the Kingdom of GOD. Peter had been baptized in The Holy Spirit, speaking in Tongues. He was no longer a “knucklehead”, but now endued with power from On High and, he knew it and embraced it.
After the Day of Pentecost where 3,000 souls were added to the church, Luke records by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2:
43 A deep sense of Holy awe swept over everyone, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.
People change when they see miracles happen, especially when they experience a miracle themselves. Isn’t it time to no longer allow unbelief to determine our personal walk with Christ? Isn’t it time that each of us begin expecting miracles to take place as we pray?
Don’t let your past experience of disappointment determine your future!