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Walking in the Miraculous, Part 2
Hesitation is a miracle killer.
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Living in the Miraculous, Part 1
God had looked ahead a year in our church life.
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You hold the miracle
Give what is in your hands and see what he can accomplish with it.
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God isn’t fretting small beginnings
Mustard seeds. Five loaves and two fish. Twelve followers. 120 in the upper room. God isn’t intimidated or discouraged by what WE think is small. He asks for: 1. Surrender — Give what you have to him. All of it. 2. Trust — When he says YOU are part of the miracle, understand he just may know what he is…
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Is it God… or us?
The place of the miracle… the place of God doing something spectacular… is a dangerous place to be. We, as believers, need to plan. We need to work hard. But at the end of the day, if we have worked hard and planned well and something good happens… is it just us working hard and planning well? Is it just…
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The true POWER of the Kingdom
Luke 8 lays out several areas where Jesus demonstrates his authority. The Kingdom is powerful over nature, demons, death, and sickness. Then, in Luke 9:1-6, Jesus tells them simply to go repeat what they’ve seen him do. They obeyed. Here’s our challenge: Don’t argue yourself out of a victory. If Jesus said, “Go do this. The authority is yours. I’ve…
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The daily bread of miracles
There is the need to remember the prayer for DAILY bread. We need miracles DAILY. We think we have something “licked” and find out it raises its ugly head again. You think you’ve got one bill taken care of by a financial miracle… and here comes another hit. We need a daily trust in the grace and mercy of God.…
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Mark this week
I am only thinking out loud on this post. I am trying to leave record everywhere I can think of today because… well… I don’t know why. But I marked it in my journal, which will only get stashed in some box after it’s used up and I’ll never get it out again. I can wrap it in neon paper…
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The night before the dawn
As I pray for my friends Steve and John, two men of God, two ministers, who have battled physical attacks and it has seemed like “night,” I was listening to a sermon by John Kilpatrick. The word he spoke that gave me a new boost in prayer was, “Usually a bad report is a prelude to a miracle. A crisis…