Thursday, December 9, 2010

Do You Believe in Miracles?

Whether you're a skeptic finding yourself in doubt or not, I want to propose a question to you.  Do you believe in miracles?  I can tell you firsthand, yet once again...I was a skeptic and now a believer.  Miracles happen in everyday life.  When you think of a miracle, what do you think of?  A baby's birth...yes, it's a miracle, I believe this.  However, I think there is so much more to miracles than birth.  The whole concept of life is a miracle.  As sinners, we clearly deserve hell, yet by God's great mercy we have been set free by the blood of the Lamb and no one or nothing else.  It's only God and Christ, who came down as an infant.  I honestly think this is part of the reason why birth is such a huge miracle.
All throughout high school and college, I thought miracles were simply the cute little bundles of joy.  Nothing else.  When I heard of physical healings, I thought the people who believed in miracles were crazy.  However, I would see them with my own eyes and not believe it.  I can recall a time when IHOP came to Sioux Falls and put on a presention.  A girl was healed from deafness in her right ear, yet even though I saw it, I did not believe.
I have to say, I am a believer.  Something happened to me, while I was in Peru and that would be God used my hands and my intercession to heal someone.  There is NO way that it was me.  I did not have all my stuff together so I thought there would be no way I would be able to bring healing to a person.  Here's the thing.  God changed my attitude on many things, including healing.  He used me to bring a woman with a crippled hand to freedom.  Okay, so for some of you, lot of you, this sounds crazy, but what was given to me during this time was the gift of faith.  How ridiculous is this, my team and I were praying for a dead man to rise.  Some people heard God saying "This man is not dead, he's only sleeping."  He was our Lazarus, least I mention that as a team we had cried out for the valley of the dry bones to come to life, just like Ezekiel.  Sad to say, he did not come to physical life, but this man is alive.  2 weeks prior he accepted Jesus into his heart and we all know that we will see him in heaven.
Okay, this is not something random that I just wanted to say.  But on Facebook, a friend just posted something about a healing in Alabama.  A woman was able to walk after being paralyzed for 22 years.  Do you believe miracles are possible?  Do you really believe?  Personally, even though I saw this in Peru, I have started to doubt it is possible in the States.  However, after seeing this, I fully believe it is possible.  If you believe, I ask you to stand up for what you believe and run to the Spirit.  We don't need anyone physical person special, we just need the Spirit, which we have received at our salvation.  Live in the Spirit; I urge you too, as this is also a call to myself.

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