Where miracles still happen

“You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples (Psalm 77:14 NIV84).

“Philip answered him, ‘Eight months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!’ Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, ‘Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?'” (John 6:7-9 NIV84).

Does God still perform miracles?  We all believe He did as recorded in the Bible.  Most of us believe He still can, but the question is, do we believe that He still does?  More specifically, do we believe that He will perform a miracle on our behalf?

Have you ever attempted something so beyond yourself that if God didn’t act, you’d totally fail? If you haven’t, then that might be why you have yet to see a miracle. The place where miracles happen is the place where your human wisdom and effort ends and where God begins! Miracles happen where God’s people risk it all to obey His call.

Pastor Rick Warren says, “What we often wait for God to do for us, God is waiting to do through us.”

When Jesus fed five thousand men (not counting women and children) with only five loaves and two fishes, the miracle was so well known that all four gospels record it. He could have rained bread from heaven like manna, but instead He chose to use a little boy’s lunch basket.

Of course, the boy had to offer his basket before Jesus could act. Perhaps there were others in the crowd with even better food supplies, but they didn’t come forward. The boy did. He trusted Jesus with all that he had.

John noted that both the bread and the fish were small in size. He even mentioned that it was barley bread, otherwise known as poor man’s bread because it was half as valuable as wheat.

Jesus took this small, poor lunch and He fed a multitude. He performed a miracle, but He chose to do it with the boy’s lunch and the disciples obedience to answer His call to give it out. Jesus did the miracle through them.

Where do you need a miracle today? Do you need one in your finances or in a relationship? Perhaps you need a miraculous healing of your body or in your marriage? Wherever you need a miracle, the key is to stop asking for a miracle and get yourself in a place where God can perform a miracle through you.

Trust God with your “lunch” and you’ll finally be in a place where you can watch Him miraculously feed both you and a multitude of hungry folk with it!