His Heart, My Home

MIRACLES! The signature of GOD!

Our GOD is WILLING! Our GOD is ABLE!

According to His POWER at WORK in US!

The POWER of FAITH, working in US, is the catalyst for MIRACLES!

“Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us…”
(Ephesians 3:20, Amplified Bible)

As we learned last week, faith is our connection to the unlimited, unrestrained power of God.

We began by looking at the story of a widow who was in a desperate situation. Her husband had died, and left a huge debt that she was unable to repay. The creditor was threatening to recoup his financial losses by taking her two sons to be his slaves. (2 Kings 4:1-7)

When she came to the prophet Elisha, to tell him her tragic story, he wisely “flipped the script”, moving her from a state of worry, anxiety, and fear into a position of faith, so she could receive her miracle.

First, Elisha asked the widow, “What do you want me to do for you?” He was attempting to get her to stop dwelling on her problems long enough to verbalize her faith. Elisha was looking for a fulcrum-point (the power of her words) that could be used to shift her expectation from disaster to deliverance.

Principle #1:

STOP talking about the NEED!

START talking the language of FAITH!

And before she could answer, he asked her. “What do you have?”He quickly moved her past just a verbal confession of her faith into a place where she was actively applying her faith.

Her first words were hasty, and unthinking. She began to say, “I have nothing”…but then she stopped right in mid-sentence. She remembered the last small jar of oil she had in her pantry. Now, in faith, she told Elisha what she did have, not what she didn’t have, and listened for his instructions.

Principle #2:

STOP focusing on what you DON’T HAVE!

START focusing on and using what you DO HAVE!

Moses had a “fire-side chat” with God on the backside of the desert. He gave God every conceivable excuse in the book for why he couldn’t possibly be the leader God needed to miraculously deliver His people from Pharoah’s bondage.

In the book of Exodus, Moses said:

● “I don’t have the necessary qualifications”
     (3:11)

● ” I don’t have the necessary connection to
      you. I don’t even know your name.”
     (3:13)

● ” I don’t have the credibility.” (4:1)

● ” I don’t have the ability to speak well.”
      (4:10)

Moses sounded like a broken record. “I don’t have… I don’t have…I don’t have…”

Monotonous, whiny, full of self-doubt, and drowning in self-pity. Just like many of us! Everyone, say, either “amen”, or “oh, me”!

Moses made God angry, and rightfully so! (4:13)

Finally God said, ” Moses, all you’ve told me is what you don’t have. Use the eyes of your faith. What do you have? What is that in your hand? That twisted gnarly stick that you use as a shepherd’s rod? Hold it, and use it with the hands of faith, and it will become a supernatural emblem of your authority, and a miracle-generating weapon, that is greater than all the power of the enemy! You will defeat Pharaoh and all the armies of Egypt with a stick. Moses, did you hear what I just said? …with nothing more than the stick you have, because I am the God of Miracles, and nothing is ever, ever impossible with me!” [My paraphrase]

Stop focusing on what you don’t have, and check your “pantry”. Take inventory of what you do HAVE. Then gather those things and place them in the Master’s hands. Give Him whatever He asks of you: finances, assets, abilities, skills, talents, or gifts.

Give Him your voice, as you share your testimony of His love and grace.

Give Him your feet, as you walk to your neighbors house to share your garden’s bountiful harvest.

Give Him your hands, as you lay them on the sick, believing for their recovery.

No matter how inefficient, insignificant, or insufficient you think your resources to be, God can and will use whatever you give Him by faith as His raw materials. He will improve them, multiply them, and utilize them to construct something marvelous,  an amazing miracle for you!

After all, this isn’t His first rodeo, as we say in Texas. He created the universe from His Word, and the human race from a couple of handfuls of dust. He still specializes in the miraculous.

All Abraham had was a promise, that he, 100 years old, and his wife, 75 years old, would have a son.

All Gideon had was a rag-tag group of 300 men to attack a Midianite army of 135,000, using only torches, clay pots, and trumpets.

All the teen-aged David had was a slingshot, and a small round stone which he used to kill the giant Goliath, and send the army of the Philistines running in terror and defeat.

All the little Galilean boy had was his lunch: five small barley loaves, and two small fish, which Jesus multiplied to feed a large crowd of more than 5,000.

But we have so much more than all these Bible heroes. We have God’s life, His Word,  His Spirit, His presence, His nature, His fruit, His gifts and His love within us.

We have so much to give. We have so much to use for His glory. We literally have the Creator and Source of life and light abiding within us, the Miracle-Maker, Himself!

“But this beautiful treasure is contained in us—cracked pots made of earth and clay—so that the transcendent character of this power will be clearly seen as coming from God and not from us”.  (2 Corinthians 4:7, The Voice)

MIRACLES! That’s what you have, because of who you have inside you!

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Blessings and miracles to you and your family!