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Don’t let anyone or anything talk you out of a miracle. It happens more often than not.
I’m not sure why people listen to people more than they listen to God sometimes. I suppose it is hard enough to believe in miracles even with that inner witness that comes from the Holy Spirit, and even harder when we don’t have it.
The Gospel of Matthew (14:28-29) records the miracle of Peter walking on water. There were 12 disciples in the boat that day but only one walked on the water. Which one? The one who prayed for a miracle and heard the answer, and followed the instructions.
However, (v.30), Peter didn’t shut the door on all the other voices. He let the wind speak to him; he let the waves speak to him; he allowed fear to speak to him; and so he began to sink right in the middle of his miracle.
Faith doesn’t make things easy, faith makes things possible.
Peter beginning to sink was not the end of the story. When he cried out to Jesus, the Maker of the miracle, Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.
More than once in the life of King David, he had to shut the door on the voices of both his enemies and his friends who did not believe God was going to help him. Once at the city of Jebus, which is now Jerusalem. The enemies said that even the lame and the blind would be able to stop him from taking the city. The next verse says:
2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).
Another time it was David’s friends, the men in his army. He tried to tell them God would help them, and they responded by saying they were going to stone him. What did David do to shut these voices out of his head and continue his pursuit of the miracle he knew God would give him?
1 Samuel 6c David encouraged himself in the Lord. And David asked God for a miracle so he could recover his family.
God told David – (v.8) – “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”
David had to shut the door on the issue and not allow his friends or his enemies to talk him out of it, which they attempted to do. In fact the odds got worse, but David refused to reconsider. If God was for him, who could be against him.
It is important to understand that not everyone has heard the voice or the instructions you have heard. And, you haven’t heard what they have heard. Unless it violates the Word, the Will, or the Way of God, give your wisest counsel but don’t try to discourage someone when they believe they have heard from God. It might not make any sense to you but if it’s not sin, it may be God.
Like I said: Give your wisest and most godly counsel but don’t try to become someone else’s Holy Ghost. And, don’t let anyone or anything else talk you out of pursuing your miracle from God.
The miracle you seek may be the same miracle the woman of 2 Kings 4 was needing. She needed to see the salvation and the deliverance of her children. Now here is a miracle worth our prayer and our obedience.
Let’s read: (And remember – God is thinking bigger than we are thinking.)
2 Kings 4 NKJV
1 ¶ A certain woman of the
wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my
husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And the
creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”
2 So Elisha said to her,
“What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she
said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow
vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors — empty vessels; do
not gather just a few.
4 “And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.”
Miracles
throughout the Bible generally follow the same path. The prescription usually
goes like this:
·
Someone
wants or needs something.
·
They
petition God, usually in prayer.
·
God
gives them steps to take in faith.
o Based on something
they can do with effort.
o Usually involving
something they have in hand.
· As they do what God says, they get what God promised.
Elisha
gave this woman in 2 Kings 4 specific steps to follow:
1. Go borrow
vessels from everywhere.
a.
Empty vessels
b.
Not just a few
2. Go into your
house.
3. Shut the
door behind you and your sons.
4. Pour the oil
into all the empty vessels.
5. Set the full ones aside.
This evening I want to encourage you to shut the door to the outside world that does not believe in miracles.
Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the issues of life.
Reach
to God for a miracle. There is bound to be something you want that only He
can do. Ask Him for the miracle. He will answer. (Write it down and write
the answer) - Trust Him and obey Him. Shut the door, and don’t allow anyone or
anything to talk you out of your miracle.
