All tagged miracle

A Flourishing of Faith, and the Greatest Miracle

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Greatest Miracle

Trust and obey... What a message regarding prayer! We have noticed certain themes throughout our study of praying... trust, obedience, compassion, persistence, and consecration, among them. We learned that these are the tools of prayer. Then, as we exercised them in praying, we witnessed divinity, and received its products which are a flourishing of faith, holiness, righteousness, relationship, power, wisdom, understanding but most of all... a dispensations of grace and mercy; all of which culminate in our salvation, and an eternal existence with God. We have found that as we were taught to use these tools in our prayers we received the Lord’s peace, and the other products of His divine nature.

The Day after a Miracle

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, After the Miracle

God performed miracles throughout the Bible, and He used various men of God and His Son Jesus to perform many of them, just as He uses men and women of faith to perform them today, but after the intense rush of faith, and the awe of that amazing moment has passed, what do we do the next day? Do we walk on, and simply let the fire of that moment die down, go to ash, and be forgotten, or is there more? Do we thank God in the moment, then recover the next day from the spiritual aftermath and hangover of it; that is left by the water that was turned to wine, or the words that God has spoken to us? Or is there “something” more?

Miracles, Lives Restored, and the purposes of God

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Miracles of Life

Have you ever been rescued by the Lord when you were on the verge of death? Sometimes it might be by a subtle working of circumstances, sometimes by sending a person, or Heavenly Angel, to do the job, like God did for Peter, but then there are other occasions when either He, or Jesus, show up personally to perform a miraculous rescue. Yet, in all of these amazing moments it is clearly the hand of God at work, and He has a message, or plan for us in those moments. Was your life ever spared? Did you know immediately why? Were you perplexed for a time regarding why you were rescued before at last His purpose was revealed to you? Are you still asking yourself why? Miracles happen, and none more intense than when our lives are saved in this way… by a miracle.

Our Burdens, and the Miracles within Them

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Burdens and Faith

Have we ever taken on a duty that is distasteful, or shouldered a hardship, or responsibility, that weighed us down, but, out of necessity, we had to bear? Were our labors meant to help someone in need? There are many things in life that we do simply because they must be done, not because we enjoy doing them. But, if we are doing them out of kindness to someone, and we do these things with a good Christian heart, something wonderful happens as we work at them… we develop a taste for the distasteful, and the burdens we bear for others become light to us, and often a pleasure. If we approach such situations with the caring, and the love of Christ, we find that our love and kindness will reward us. Can we remember such times in our lives?

Walking Immersed in Faith, and Miracles

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Immersed in Faith

We pray for something and then wait, but do we do what we have been told while we are waiting? Sometimes the answer to our prayer doesn’t come to us, but requires us to go to it. Much can be lost when we don’t listen for God’s voice in our prayer closets, and then obey Him. We behave as if we are frozen in place, and wait there for an answer before taking another step, when in fact if we are to be healed, or receive the provision we need, then we must begin a spiritual journey, by going the way the Lord has directed us to go.