Experience with Lifechurch.tv!!!

HOW A BIBLICAL MIRACLE WORKS

DR. JOHN MAXWELL

KEY THOUGHT

When there is a NEED sensed by a FEW and each individual UNDERSTANDS his or her RESPONSIBILITY and gives his ALL, regardless of the ODDS, then Jesus works a MIRACLE.

When Jesus arrived, he saw his huge crowd. At the sight of them, his heart broke---like sheep with no shepherd they were.

He went right to work teaching them.

   When his disciples thought this had gone on long enough---it was now quite late in the day---they interrupted: We are a long way out in the country, and it's very late. Pronounce a benediction and send these folks off so they can get some supper.

 Jesus said, "You do it. Fix supper for them."

 They replied, "Are you serious? You want us to go spend a fortune on food for their supper?"

 But he was quite serious. "How many loaves of bread do you have? Take inventory."

 That didn't take long. "Five,"they said,"plus two fish."

   Jesus got them all to sit down in groups of fifty or a hundred---they looked like a patchwork quilt of wildflowers spread out on the green grass! He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples in turn gave it to the people. He did the same with the fish. They all ate their fill. The disciples gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. More than five thousand were at the supper.   Mark 6:34-44

• Every miracle begins with a PROBLEM.
• If you have a PROBLEM, you are a candidate for a MIRACLE from God.

MORE THAN DUST

Pastor Pierre Du Plessis

The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, "Go down to the potter's shop, and I will speak to you there." So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.

   But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.

   Then the Lord gave me this message: "O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand."  Jeremiah 18:1-6

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11

But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter.... Jeremiah 18-4

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9

People cannot see their own mistakes. Forgive me for my secret sins. Psalm 19:12

But the people replied, "Don't waste your breath. We will continue to live as we want to, stubbornly following our own evil desires." Jeremiah 18:12

But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make. Jeremiah 18:4

"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the Lord.

 And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." Isaiah 55:8

For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9