Believe in Miracles

When you are young, you dream and you believe in miracles. One of the saddest things that can happen to a human being is, the sin and the world take away our faith that miracles can happen. Instead of believing that life can be great, we simply try to survive. God does big miracles but He also does small miracles. God raises the dead but He also provides wine at weddings. God knows about the whole universe and about every sparrow that falls to the ground. He knows about the number of hairs on our head. We gonna look at 3 places where Jesus raised the dead. And we are going to ask the question why God did miracle in these situations.

1. Desperation

Luke 7:11-19 tells us the story of a widow in Nain. Imagine what a widow would have gone through seeing her only hope (son) passing away. Over and over in the Bible God came when the people were desperate. God does not come to the comfortable and He comes disturb them. But God comes to the disturbed in order to comfort them. He came to the Israelites when they were in slavery, they cried out in pain. In the days of the Judges He came when the people cried out to Him. This is one of the keys to miracles. It is to be desperate. Today may be you are facing a problem. May be it’s a tough situation. May be it’s a health problem. May be it’s a money problem. May be it’s a relationship problem. And you see no hope; no way out. This is when God is ready to work. But you got to go to the city gate and meet Jesus. If he can’t see you He won’t touch you. Many other people in the city buried their dead but Jesus did not heal them. But this woman was desperate. And in our times of desperation it is then we should turn not to bitterness, hatred or sin but to God. When you think you are all alone, Jesus is sitting right next to you. He wants you to see Him. He wants you to find Him. And some of us we faced many tough times and still we don’t look for Jesus. God does miracles when in our desperation we seek Him.

2. Courage and Faith

Mark 5:21-24,35-43 tells us the story of Jairus daughter. This man was the ruler of the synagogue. His 12-year-old little girl is dying. He was desperate. A crowd as usually was surrounding Jesus. And Jairus begged Jesus for help. Even though he was a religious leader, a pastor, he was willing to say, “I need help”. Then what happened? Jesus helped a woman who interrupted Him. If we were Jairus, we would have felt very stressed out as Jesus was helping this woman. While Jesus was talking, the bad news came. Your daughter is dead, don’t bother the teacher anymore. Those who have children cannot imagine the sadness they would feel if they heard that news. Jesus ignored what they said. See people tell you to stop bothering with Jesus, you got to ignore them. Jesus told them not to afraid but believe. Once again one sentence from Jesus Christ raised the dead. This is amazing. Jairus must have been so happy. But it took courage and it took faith and it took humility for him to talk to Jesus. What would people think of us if we do what we think is right? Often the right thing to do is not the popular thing to do. It pleases you to give in to the crowd than to stand by conviction.

3. Love

John 11 tells us the story of Lazarus. Jesus saw how troubled they were. He saw them crying. He saw also not only them crying He saw the friends the Jews would come and they also were crying. If you cry at someone’s funeral that is not your family, that shows love. There was so much love there. Jesus saw that love and He wanted to do something. Look at some conversion stories in our ministries. Why our ministries grew – there was so much love.Oh, brother there were mistakes. You know parents love their children. That doesn’t mean they don’t make mistakes. We pray to God that we don’t grow up always talking about the mistakes of our parents instead of the love of our parents. God does miracles because He sees the love in our lives.
Love is not easy. Much easier to love a stranger (beggar) than to love someone you know. The stranger never sinned against us. But wives, husbands, children, they’ve sinned and we have sinned against them. Much harder to love them. Very hard to love sinners and yet the Bible teaches when sinners can learn to love each other, the world will know that we are disciples of Jesus. Not by hatred, nor by division, not by condemnation but by our love, God’s love is made evident to the world. You want to see miracles show some love. God looks for people who are filled with love so He can do some miracles. The human solution to problems is to get stressed out, to get selfish, to push people away and to work on the problem.

Miracles we want them. How can we have them? Jesus is enough. We need desperation to find them. We need courage, faith and humility to say I need help. Do not hesitate to talk about your life to someone who can guide you with scriptures. We need love. No matter how desperate your situation is you can always show love. Hard to love sinners but that’s what Jesus did. Miracles, let’s see them

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