When I was a young Christian talking to other Christians there was not much talk of miracles. Talk was mostly about, don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steel, don’t swear or hang those who don’t care.
Ac 2:22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man attested to you by God with (works of power) miracles and wonders and (confirming miracles) signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—“
QUESTION: are our churches approved by the same standard? Where miracles begin theology and doctrinal arguments end.
Miracles mean: point away from yourself, to show forth to expose, to view or to prove by demonstration. Jesus’ ministry was filled with miracles and these miracles pointed to the King demonstrating His power. “ Or “A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency”. It is an intervention, interruption or overriding of natural laws by God.
If God is a supernatural being then the presence of the supernatural points to to the reality of God. It proves God is a supernatural being.
When a miracle takes place the sovereignty and love of God are established in the hearts and minds of the recipients or witnesses of those miracles.
Crack addicts and prostitutes may not understand systematic theology but they understand being delivered from the power of addiction. They know nothing of systematic theology, homletics and hermeneutics.
Ther Great Commission has become the great omission of the power in the gospel. Without the power of God in the gospel then all you have is a “spell”. A spell of intellectualism; where self-help; self- improvement; be a better me; six ways of being promoted, sermons are prolific. The result is a WOK’en society needs to be AWAKENED by an explosive power filled gospel message.
The Gospel is a love story to humankind and the demonstration of that love are the miracles. To the man in the pool of Bethesda who had been cripple 38 years love looked like, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk”. No one had authority like that before.
It is our inheritance. Jn 14:12 “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I am going to the Father.” Just like anything you inherit, acknowledgement and recognition are necessary in order to release the portion that has been given to you.
Every believer has been given the divine right to operate in the miraculous. For further instruction on the miraculous please read, “Sword Oil And Fire” or The Royal Physician”; books written by the Keir and Callie Tayler available on Amazon and Kindle