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What Do We Do With Miracles?
Brian Mashburn
April 30, 2017
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Signs And Wonders
What are we to do with miracles?
The book of Acts reveals that "signs and wonders" accompanied the expansion of the Jesus movement. Those first followers expected and prayed for them.
I started early, as a teenager, asking about this. My teachers usually answered with long-winded explanations about how and why those supernatural interventions do not exist anymore; that since we had the Bible, we don't need them. I couldn't find this claim anywhere in the Bible, and add to that (and maybe I was just weak), I felt like I did need them. My need for "them" felt (and still feels) much like my need for "Him."
Besides, Acts 2:22 says that even Jesus was validated through miracles, signs, and wonders. If the living Word needed supernatural back up, how much more does the written Word? Let alone us as we share the Kingdom.
If we want Kingdom results like those first followers saw in Acts, I believe we should expect what they expected as exemplified in their prayer of Acts 4:30 - "Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus."
Are you open to seeing the signs that He sends your way? Do you pray for God to heal and perform wonders? Do you expect God to supernaturally back you up and validate you by His own direct intervention in the world? Or do you have a long-winded explanation for why God "doesn't work that way" anymore?
Look, I'm not trying to prove to you today what is and is not a miracle, what God will or will not do. I'm trying to call you to belief in a God who can do anything, to embolden you to go in His name, knowing He will back you up in amazing, wonderful, validating ways.