The
space where miracles happen.“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
The
space where miracles happen.
“And from the days of John the
Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take
it by force.”
Miracles happen at that place where we find ourselves faced with a choice to act or draw back. When the Lord is prompting us to make that step and we make it, this is the divine space where we see the miraculous working of Gods power and grace.
I awoke rather early with my mind spinning. I wrote a little, but really had no traction, prayed a little and still not a whole lot happening. So I decided to go back to bed. I had a thought drift through my mind. I saw two people who have received the holy ghost in Clinton in the past year. I saw them at that moment when I saw as it were the Holy Ghost just fell on them. The thing that struck me that was the same about these two instances is they both were moving forward… in a place that was further than they would normally come, exercising themselves beyond their normal level of participation.
It struck me, Miracles happen just a few steps beyond where we naturally go.
There is that space that is filled with faith. Like seeing the stepping stones through the water that flows over them in a stream. Seeing beyond the surface to see the rock that will support you while you step out in faith. We often must be able to see beyond the surface to make that step in that place where God is prompting us to go.
Think about this.
The things of God are not naturally discerned.
No amount of learning or experience can qualify you to know what only God can
cause you to know. Even when it seems you would have all the tools in the box to
getting the job done, that being knowing when and what God is doing, does not
mean you are going to be aware.
"For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."
In a moment of time, things change. We travel from night to morning with the
turning of the numbers on the clock from a.m. to p.m. The dropping of a ball and
crowds cheer as a moment transfers you from one year, one decade and recently a
millennium.
Jesus walked the roads of Judea. Israel did not know Messiah had come.
Because of the lack of pomp and circumstance they could not see the
meaning in the miracles. No amount of seeing brings faith. It is
that knowing inside of us when we don't see it or it comes in a way that is
different that what we anticipated. God always shows up in a disguise, not
purposely, but we clothe him in robes of a stranger because of our lack of
understanding.
How can we perceive? For Peter it came in a vision of a sheet full of unclean
animals. For Paul it was a bright light and a booming voice. How will it come to
you? I cannot say, but I do know that our ability to connect with the time of
God revolves around our ability to be tuned into the world of the Spirit.
Who would have thought that Paul was going to be the most productive Apostle?
Most of Christian Doctrine flows from the conversion of this single man. What
would have happened if Annaias had not went and prayed for Paul? What would have
happened if Barnabas could not have perceived something deep inside Paul?
No man can know the things of God except by the Spirit of God. Barnabas a
man willing to sell all he had, made his mark in the kingdom by having faith in
the potential of men that others could not see.
That is a mark
of Holy Ghost leadership. Responding to things when you don't have enough facts,
but your heart moves inside of you and you know, this is right.
Christopher Columbus gazed over the horizon and
believed in a round globe, even while he lived in a square world.
We never know the significance of the little things we do that are motivated by
God. I have found in my life, that some of the most significant things in my
life spring from inspiration I follow and often it proves to be something of
note.
It is in this area when we immediately respond to what we feel led to do that miracles happen.
It is this bold faith that we read about
The Woman with an issue being healed
The woman with an alabaster box is a memorial
Peter walked on the water
Peter caused the lame man to be healed.
When we stretch out our withered hand, when we respond to that calling of God we hear inside of us, this is where the special and miraculous works of God are done. We make our mark in our world by hearing and seeing what others cannot and acting boldly upon that.
Step into that place, into that space of
spiritual potential. It is where Miracles Happen.
In Him, By Him, Through Him,
Scott Phillips