Power Of Problems

Key Scripture: " And the disciples went everywhere preaching, and the Lord was with them and confirmed what they said by the miracles that followed their messages."  Mark 16:20

Power Point:

     Problems are the ingredients for miracles to happen.  Shortages, relationships, pain, disease,-all of these are problems that provide the platform for miracles to enter the stage of our lives.  If there had been no lack of food, Jesus could not have fed the 5000.  If there had been no leprosy, ten lepers would not have experienced the miracle of healing. If there had been no storms, there would have been no need for peace.

     Some miracles require great faith-like the centurion who asked Jesus to only speak the word of healing and his servant would be healed. His servant was healed at that very hour.

     Some miracles require a little faith on our part, and a big faith on God's part.  All that the children of Israel needed to do was start walking into the Sea.  God, after all, had to be sure it would part!

      Some miracles require persevering faith, faith that lasts through the problems and comes out on the other side with a miracle.

     I don't know where you are today. You may have GREAT Faith, or LITTLE Faith.  Could I suggest that the size of your faith is not the birthplace of the miracle?  Might I suggest to you that it is the OBJECT of your faith that is important?

Jesus KNEW that God wanted to feed those hungry people.  He simply blessed what He had, and handed it out, anticipating more than enough. Peter knew that the Storm was great but that Jesus was GREATER.  Moses knew that if he did what God told him to do, God would show up.  They each understood the WHO, behind the promises that led to the miracles.

     Miracles are supernatural answers to very natural prayers.  They begin with a lack in some area that God is waiting to fill.  They begin with impossible situations that are waiting for God's finger to mold them into possibilities.  Miracles are born because God is Bigger than the problem; Bigger than the current resource and Bigger than Life itself. They are born because someone, somewhere believes that God will do what He has promised to do in an extraordinary way.

Power Thought:

One of the signs of a disciple of Jesus is that Miracles accompany their problems.
Beloved, you won't get a miracle unless you need one.  But if you need one, you'll get one!  

Copyright © 2014, Suzanne Roberts, Unpublished Work.