Miracles Week 3

Miracle — A natural or supernatural event with precise timing. 

Miracle — A divine intervention in human affairs. 

Miracle — A surprising event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of the divine. 

Have you ever experienced a miracle?

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not the exception. 

— G.K. Chesterton 

Psalm 139:13-14 — You formed the way I think and feel. You put me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was!

We are breathing in roughly 25 sextillion molecules every time we take a breath. 

 — National Geographic

Have you ever experienced a miracle?

There is only 2 ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.

— Einstein

Psalm 150:6 — Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not the exception. 

— G.K. Chesterton 

Do I live my life as if it is a miracle?

Praise

Positivity

Pleasing God

Gratitude/Gratefulness

What will I do with my miracle? 

Time

Talent

Treasure

Philippians 4:7 — And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 

Romans 15:13 — May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Acts 2

1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 

2 Suddenly a noise came from heaven. It sounded like a strong wind blowing. This noise filled the whole house where they were sitting. 

3 They saw something that looked like flames of fire. The flames were separated and stood over each person there.

4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak different languages. The Holy Spirit was giving them the power to do this.

Acts 4

29 And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word. 

30 Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

31 After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they preached the word of God with boldness.

Acts 13:52 — And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 5:18 — Don’t be drunk with wine, which will ruin your life, but be filled with the Spirit.

What the church needs today is not more strategies, but more of the Holy Spirit.

— Jim Cymbala 

The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.

— A.W. Tozer

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God’s kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

— Francis Chan 

You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.

— Smith Wigglesworth 

The Holy Spirit doesn’t just want to visit you on Sundays; He wants to move in and live with you every day.

— Author John Bevere 

You might as well try to see without eyes, hear without ears, or live without breath, as to try to live the Christian life without the Holy Spirit.

— D.L. Moody 

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

— Corrie ten Boom

Revival is not churches filled with people, but people filled with the Holy Ghost.

Mark 12:30 — Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.