Bad theology, unbelief!  Call it what you want, but some people just don’t understand our miracle-working God.  There are some who believe that all miracles ended when the 12 Apostles died.  There are other people who claim everything is a miracle even when it isn’t. But neither of these extremes changes the fact that we serve a miracle-working God.

 

There are times when I stand up in a church to speak and I can tell that the people just don’t want to hear about the miracles that I have seen.  Sometimes I tell them anyway.  I guess I am trying to snap them out of their complacency.

 

There are some people who operate in miracles, signs and wonders and have seen God do tremendous things, but when a new miracle begins to occur, they are very uncomfortable with it.  They have faith to believe that God can heal the sick, or raise the dead but they do not believe that Manna or Angel Feathers can fall in a meeting.

 

I understand where they are coming from.  I remember the days before I ever saw gold dust, I was pretty skeptical about it.  I wondered why God would do such a thing, and truthfully, I still do.  But He does do these things and when I experience them, I am in awe.

 

There are people who feel that we will be led astray by signs and wonders.  They often quote the scripture in Matthew 24:23-25 that says:

At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time.

 

They emphasize the part about false prophets and signs and wonders.  In fact they are quoting this scripture out of context, because this passage is speaking about people who come claiming to be the Messiah performing signs and wonders and saying that is evidence that they are the anointed one.

 

The people I see performing signs and wonders are giving glory to Jesus as the Anointed One.   I remember at a meeting in Texas a woman came forward and we saw gold dust on her hands and on all of her family’s hands, including her husband’s.  I said to her, “How does that make you feel?”  She said, “I now know that Jesus is real.”   The sign pointed her to Christ as Messiah, not me or any other person.

 

You see, signs and wonders follow the preaching of the gospel (Mark 16:15-17).  Signs and wonders followed the disciples.  Strange signs like clothes that touched their body healing the sick.  Some of them floated into the sky.  Others walked on water.  Jesus told Peter to go to the shore to get a coin from a fish’s mouth to pay taxes.  Jesus also multiplied the fishes and the loaves feeding thousands.

 

Jesus said that we would do greater things than He did (John 14:12). In another passage it says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).  Jesus lives inside of our hearts and is still performing mighty signs for the world to see.  If you only believe, all things are possible.

 

I am like a child in my father’s arms looking at the stars for the first time every time I see God perform a new miracle.  It is exciting–so exciting–for me.

 

Dear DWOD friend, I pray that signs and wonders will follow you as well on the road to your destiny and draw many to Christ.