Prayer 2021 - September 19 - Prayer and Miracles pt 1

Scripture For Today:

Acts 16:13

“On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.”

Prayer and Miracles pt 1

Prayer ought to be part of your life – continuously.  From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night, you should be in a state of constant communication with God – all day long each and every day!

Go to Ephesians 6:10-18 which is the base foundation for our study in prayer…

You are the one who has to stand and speak to the devil…God is not going to do it for you, Jesus is not going to do it for you…they have already done all they are going to do…Jesus gave you His Name, His Power, His Authority to deal with the devil and He is expecting you to do so yourself.  Now, that is not to say, in certain situations, where you are about to be overwhelmed by demonic forces – Jesus might intervene to set the battlefield more evenly….as matter of fact, when that happens – we call it a “miracle.”  Miracles are nice…but, let’s take a quick look at what a miracle really is.

A miracle is God imposing His Will and Actions in such a way as to override the natural order of things….now, it may be awesome to have a miracle…and I have had a few in my life…more than a few…but, if a miracle is the sort of thing that God has to have move into your life because you have just totally screwed everything up and it is the only way He can try to restore some order…that’s “messed up.”  It is nice to have miracles…but wouldn’t it be a whole lot better and wouldn’t your life be more enjoyable…if you could live a Blessed Life without needing God to intervene all the time to do a miracle and clean up your messes? Amen!  I’m not trying to be mean here, just honest…I want you see this.

For example… Let’s say there is someone with a broken arm…the natural process of healing takes about 6 weeks or so….but, a miracle accelerates the actual healing process into about 6 seconds!!!  Same process – God just accelerates the time aspect!  Someone who is disabled, can’t walk…God heals them and accelerates the healing process – or starts it where it had stopped – and the person leaves walking….but God is the one who is moving… moving to FIX something that WE have messed up..

“Brother Bob, what could that person who is disabled could have done….?”  Well, in some cases – absolutely nothing…but in most cases…diabetes could have the basis…or some other disease…car accident, whether the persons fault or not…there as still some sort of “error” on “somebody’s” part…  that the end result, perhaps even years later, was this person being unable to walk.  And we need God to intervene.

Now, again, don’t get me wrong…I believe in miracles….I just want to get you to the point where you don’t need a miracle each and every day from God, just to fix mistakes you have made…..if I can get  you into a constant state of communication with God, you will receive insight into situations and you will avoid a lot of the mistakes you have been making…and you will not need a supernatural visitation to fix things…suddenly – things will begin to work in your behalf, where before it seemed like everything was going wrong….amen!!!

Let’s Pray! 

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