Expecting a Life of Miracles

God has been challenging me lately about living with greater expectation of experiencing His miracle power. Christianity isn’t just about personal transformation of alignment with the moral principles of God, but is a daily walk in the power of Christ’s presence. And from what I read in Acts 2:22, His presence means a life of miracles, wonders, and signs: "Jesus of Nazareth, approved by God among you by miracles, wonders, and signs..."

A miracle is “an event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things; a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event”. While God established a natural order to things, giving laws that provide structure, He is not bound by those structures. Such laws were put in place for one thing – the performing of His will. And when those laws and structures have become corrupt or dysfunctional regarding His plans, then He has the power to bring it back into alignment for the fulfilling of His purposes. Light supersedes darkness.

If miracles were a part of life’s “norm” for God’s Son, then it is to be a part of our daily walk with God as His children, too. Jesus experienced miracles in provision (the multiplying of food for the thousands); miracles in finances (finding money in a fish’s mouth—and knowing where to find it); in health (the countless healings of people); deliverance and raising the dead to life.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He hasn’t stopped doing miracles, but still performs the Father’s will through His Body; He continues to heal and provide in miraculous ways for our needs, setting things in accordance with divine order—even if it means altering the structure and rearranging the box of nature’s rules to uphold His divine purposes.

Sometimes we don’t have expectations for miracles because our eyes see the natural circumstances around us and we believe the negative message they tell us. But no matter what your situation, God says to recognize His presence and expect a miracle. Have faith in God who performs all things for you, and who works on behalf of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.

Q4U: What is the miracle you need today? Leave a comment.

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The Divine Tuning Fork Effect

Words carry power. How often have you felt that someone’s words “rang” true (or not), or that what they said “resonated” within you? Their words stirred you, not with mere interest, but with a grander movement that awakens the heart with a clarion call to rise to a new level.

I experienced that recently from a stranger whose words flowed with waters that refreshed my soul and encouraged my spirit. I was so aware of what was happening inside me, it was like a resonating effect—words that produced a continuing echo of like thought and feeling within me. The Spirit from which this person spoke caused my spirit to move, as it were, at the same frequency.

Words have power because they carry frequency—energy—degrees of light vibration that impact our spirit, soul, and even body. Divine truth carries the greatest degree of light—that’s why God commands us to speak truth in love to edify, encourage, and energize one another to forward momentum on our journey with Christ. As truth and love resonate within us, and we speak it, it causes others to rise, move, and flow in the same energy of that truth.

Satan, too, understands the power of words and uses dark speech to dishearten, demean, discourage, and distract the hearer—words that act like a flow of sludge to clog the heart and make us hesitate, stop, and fall short of our divine call in Christ.

Today, let’s not hesitate to speak words of encouragement to someone who may be weary in well-doing, disillusioned by the cares of life, or detoured from their course. Your words may just well be the tuning fork that lifts their spirit and clears their eyes to see their way again toward their heavenly prize and high calling in Christ.

“Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.” (Heb. 10:24)

J. Nicole
Knowing God as Papa