And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage (John 2:1,2). The disciples and the mother of Jesus were at the wedding; there was faith present for Jesus to work with. And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him (verses 3-5,11).

Turning water into wine was His miracle, for the miracles belong to God. Be conscious of each miracle belonging to Him—His miracles, not yours or mine—only the benefits belong to us. Delight in seeing His miracles, knowing that He delights in working miracles so much that one of the nine gifts of the Spirit is the working of miracles (I Corinthians 12:10). It is a supernatural gift operated only by supernatural power. The gifts of the Spirit cannot be operated by the spirit of man; they are operated by the Holy Spirit working through the spirit of man. It is an impossibility for one of the supernatural gifts to operate with human power and human spirit. The gifts work through the divine power of the Holy Spirit of Almighty God. [God] that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, ACCORDING TO THE POWER [of the Holy Spirit] THAT WORKETH IN US (Ephesians 3:20). The degree to which we yield to the Holy Spirit is the degree to which the power of the Holy Spirit can work through us; in fact, our yielding to the Holy Spirit is the only way the gifts of the Spirit can work. God’s holy miracles are His, and the results ours.

The Miracle of Adam and Eve

The great miracle creating the first man, the fantastic miracle of the first woman were His miracles. That man, that woman belonged to God. God had performed many miracles to prepare the Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve—His miracles. Man had nothing to do with the creation, but man delighted in its beauty. God created the birds, wrote the songs and taught the birds to sing. He made all the fish of the sea, gave them the ability to swim; they were God’s miracles, they belonged to God, and they blessed man. God made the trees and caused the green grass to grow. He created the heavens and the earth, the moon and the stars in the sky for all to behold. The moon does not belong to anyone but God, nor the stars; they are God’s miracles, wonders in the sky for all to behold. When God made man and woman, He delivered miraculous works into their hands; He gave Adam knowledge to name all the birds, the beasts and the fish. The wisdom and knowledge present in the Garden of Eden were God’s miracle for the man and woman He made. And God blessed them, and God said unto them…have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Genesis 1:28). The knowledge belonged to God, and willingly He gave Adam all the miracles he needed to be a caretaker of the Garden. Adam could not have understood about plants and trees unless God had given him a miracle. Adam did not struggle to become educated the way we do, and he did not have knowledge in just one area; he had knowledge of all that God had made and placed within his reach. The miracle was God’s, and the benefits poured down upon Adam.

“Cursed Is the Ground”

Many things are within our reach, but since we do not know what to do with them, we have to be trained. Why do we not have the same knowledge as Adam? Because man and woman left God’s miracles behind when they failed God and were driven from the Garden of Eden. And unto Adam he [God] said…cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life (Genesis 3:17). No longer a way of life were the miracles that God had made for man, the miracles that God had delivered into their hands. Sin had wiped out all the benefits. Before the fall God had provided such miraculous power, such protection that the devil could not even bring sickness to Adam and Eve. God’s miracle of protection was stronger than any wall that has ever been built; nothing harmful could penetrate it. Adam and Eve breathed as we do, they had hearts that beat as do ours; but no sickness, no arthritis, no cancer, no disease of any kind could touch them. They lived with God’s miracle protection until the day they were driven from the Garden.

To prove that miracle protection was still available even after the fall of man, God promised Israel protection. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee (Exodus 15:26). God said He would keep sickness from their door—God’s miracle—but through their disobedience, Israel destroyed many, many miracles that God made for them. Like the Israelites, you can destroy God’s miracles by unbelief, by doubt, by disobedience. How many miracles that God either made for you or was going to make have you destroyed through your failure?

Consider His Works

Every miracle that is performed in my services is performed by the Holy Spirit, not by Ernest Angley. I am just a vessel of clay who is yielded to His will, and He pours out His miraculous Spirit through me to work His divine will for people. It is a miracle when an eye that was dead is given life. Only God can give life, only God. When the blind suddenly receive their sight, look beyond the human hands and see divine hands, supernatural hands with supernatural ability. The supernatural ability of God is indeed miraculous, so miraculous that God merely threw out His hands and sprinkled the heaven with stars; He knows the number of stars and their names (Psalm 147:4). God spoke the universe into existence; He said, “Let it be,” and it was. Consider His works, the Bible declares. Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked (Ecclesiastes 7:13)? Consider His miraculous works. Recognize His miraculous hand; and you, too, can see the results of His miracles in your life.

Man Cannot Heal

Many doubt God’s healing power; they do not believe that man can heal. I agree, man cannot heal. The miracles belong to Him, but the results can be yours. When you receive a miracle from God, remember where it came from. Treat it with great respect and love; give much praise to Almighty God for that miracle.

I shall never forget the time, when I was twenty-three years of age and close to death, that God brought my miracle to me. It was a miracle straight from Heaven. I am grateful for good doctors, good hospitals, good medicine; they assist the healing that God has put into nature, but God is the One who heals. God gave man wisdom and knowledge to take from nature the healing He placed there and to apply it to the body, but it is still God’s healing power. If God in His miraculous work had not put healing into nature, there would be no healing for the body that came from the dust of the earth.

Man has struggled greatly to find the healing that God placed in nature; God has not just handed it out on a platter but has made man and woman work for it. Why? Because man and woman in the past have covered up the miracles of God with their disobediences; they turned their backs on God, going forth to walk paths of their own choosing, leaving God behind. When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened (Romans 1:21). Not desiring God’s fellowship, God’s miracles, they separated themselves from God.

God’s Time for Miracles Comes After Obedience

People through the ages have not recognized God’s miracles nor the marvelous benefits which could have been theirs. Look back to Noah: By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith (Hebrews 11:7). God gave Noah an unheard of plan—a miracle plan—and although the people of his day saw that plan come together daily for over one hundred years, they still did not believe. Noah knew, however, that it was a miracle plan; he had received it from God, and he knew it would work. He knew that God’s miracle plan would bring water enough to set the ark afloat. Not until the ark was ready, not until Noah, his family and the animals were safely in did the miracle come; in other words, after Noah had done all that God said, it was God’s time for a miracle, and the ark door closed, Noah and his family secure.

There comes a time—God’s time—for miracles. God is always on time, but we must prepare for a miracle just as the mother of Jesus prepared for His first miracle in Cana. Who was better qualified to receive a miracle than the handmaiden of the Lord who had been visited by God’s angel? And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (Luke 1:28,31,34,35). How could it be? God was going to perform an unbelievable miracle. The holy conception was a greater miracle than when God created the first man and the first woman, greater than the creation of planet Earth, greater than the creation of the moon, the stars and the sun. It was the miracle that would serve the world, a miracle that would save men, women, boys and girls from their sins, a miracle that would pave a highway into that heavenly Eden. Without that miracle, there would have been no Calvary.

Some have never recognized God’s miracle of holy conception, but Jesus the Babe of Bethlehem was the miracle of God, a miracle that would save all humanity that yielded to Him. If you fail to recognize that miracle, you fail to find the gate back into Eden, that sacred gate formed in the shape of a cross. If, however, you believe the miracle of holy conception, then you can find your way to Calvary; you can find the gate back into the heavenly Eden. Those of you who have been born again have found the miracle of God—the Savior, the Son of God. You have found the great miracle of salvation, God’s best, the miracle of redemption—how great! Your sins have been washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Jesus said, For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins (Matthew 26:28). In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace (Ephesians 1:7). But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:14). The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin (I John 1:7).

God’s miracle of salvation is not by works, not by anything man can do but through the miracle of God’s saving grace. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8,9). The miracles are God’s, but the results belong to all who accept them. The blood that came down from Heaven—divine blood, not human blood—was in Jesus. The body was human, the blood divine. Salvation is not an act of nature but a miracle, a supernatural, fantastic miracle; and it’s ours for the taking.

God in His great love reaches out and touches with a measure of faith everyone who wants to believe in the holy conception, who wants to believe in His great plan of salvation. He can touch multitudes at a time the way He did in just one service in Africa. Over 100,000 found God; the angel of the Lord numbered them, declaring the exact number that Heaven had recorded. The miracle of it all belongs to Him, and the results are theirs; I was just a witness standing in awe. I do not doubt God when He moves; He performs the work, and I shout, “The Lord did it!” Those who do not have a deep-rooted faith in the Word of God think the miracles of God are nonsense, but they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD (Jeremiah 5:4). Those, however, with faith in the Holy Scriptures know that miracles belong to God, and the blessings from those miracles, to them.

Written by the Finger of God

This Bible, this Holy Book, is God’s miracle to us; and the benefits we can receive from it, beyond the imagination. Over fifteen hundred years in the writing, this Book was written by holy men of God. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21). God worked day and night preparing these men to set down His Word in all its truth so that His miraculous Spirit could flow through them without one tiny particle of thought from the human mind getting mixed in with God’s Word. It had to be the divine, pure, infallible Word of the living God.

In Old Testament days, God came down to give Moses the Ten Commandments; by His own finger God wrote His directions for the Children of Israel. And the LORD delivered unto me [Moses] two tables of stone written with the finger of God (Deuteronomy 9:10). As long as the Israelites lived by those commandments, God’s miracle hand covered them.

After Jesus ascended into Heaven, the Holy Spirit was given to all mankind who would accept Him. Through the power of the Holy Spirit men could be completely yielded to God one hundred percent, men could be cleansed of human doubt that would contaminate the flow of the living Word of the living God. His Word did flow; it streamed like mighty rivers. The Word is God’s miracle; the miracle is His, and He has given it to us—the Word of the living God that instructs us in everything we could ever need to know from the cradle to the grave. The Word tells us how to live, how to act, how to get into God, how to please Him; because the Word understands our innermost being. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). The miracle is His, but the gift of His miracle belongs to us. The Bible is God’s miracle gift. You will never receive anything as great as the Word of God. The Lord has declared that the Word will live forever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever (I Peter 1:24,25).

Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away (Matthew 24:35).

God’s miracle, God’s miraculous voice at times is a gentle, tender whisper and at other times a fearsome thunder booming forth with judgment and warnings to flee the wrath of God that is to come. The voice of the Lord cried out through John the Baptist, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight, and also told that God would burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire (Matthew 3:3,12).

Vessels of Honor

What a miracle it was when God finally groomed that last man who was to complete the Scriptures! God chooses men that the world would never have chosen. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (I Corinthians 1:26,27). That no flesh should glory in his presence (verse 29). In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight (Luke 10:21). The Lord chose a Paul. Who ever would have dreamed that Paul could have been made into God’s vessel of honor to play a major part in evangelizing the known world of that day? Paul was definitely God’s miracle; God had to make him completely new, but that was a small thing in the miraculous hands of God. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature (Galatians 6:15). Paul, through the blood of Christ, was made a whole new person.

When you come into Christ Jesus, you, too, are made a new creation—that’s God’s miracle for you, for the lost. He seeks to make many vessels of honor. The miracle is His, but the benefits ours.

Some people have tried to claim the credit for salvation; they have substituted other ways to reach God rather than through the blood, the miraculous blood from Heaven that was shed on Calvary. It cannot be done. Those vessels of honor are molded through the blood.

With His own hands God made a miraculous Heaven; He did not consult man. Only through the miracle of all miracles—salvation—can you find your way there. The miracle of salvation is paramount; deliverance from all sin, being made pure as God Himself are brought about only through the miraculous, divine faith of Almighty God, faith in the divine blood from Heaven that His Son brought down here. It’s all according to the Word of God, the Miracle Book. The miracle is His; the gift of such a miracle of salvation has become ours because of His great love. Treasure it, obey it, live with it.

Life Beyond the Grave

The Word of God will dry your tears when nothing else can dry them. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds (Psalm 147:3). The miracle of the Word will give you hope and courage when nothing else will. It will help you see beyond the grave when death’s cruel hand snatches one you love away from you.

The Word tells you that the godly will never die. As we see our bodies going down, this miracle Book tells us that we will have a new body to go with our new life in Christ Jesus. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God (Job 19:26). Jesus said…I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25). After physical death comes the new physical body, but the new spiritual body comes with the born-again experience. We have this new spiritual life as long as we have Jesus living in our hearts and controlling our lives. We do not have to wait for eternal life—for the new spiritual life—until we are at death’s door; no, the minute we are miraculously made a new creation through the blood of Jesus, we have the eternal life of Heaven.

Some say that once you have this new life in Christ you cannot lose it no matter what you do—the devil would like you to believe that; it’s the lie he told Eve. God said, But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:17). Surely you won’t die, the devil said; but when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, they died spiritually. It was only later that they died physically. Spiritually they were dead to God the moment they disobeyed Him.

Our tree of forbidden fruits that lead to spiritual death, the seventeen works of the flesh, is found in Galatians 5:19-21: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If you partake of these fruits you will die spiritually; you cannot enter God’s Kingdom with even one sin in your life. Just as Adam and Eve died spiritually when they took one piece of fruit, you will die when you partake of sin, willful sin; the sacrifice of the blood of Christ no longer will cover you. You will have turned your back on God’s miracle of miracles. The soul, although spiritually dead to God, does not cease to exist after the physical death of the body but will spend eternity in hell. As long, however, as you live holy, act holy, talk holy and are as holy as God said for you to be, you have God’s miracle of eternal life abiding in you and can look forward to a new body to go with the new life. The provisions for this are made through the miracle plan of God, the plan of salvation; but even though you have salvation, you can lose it through sin. The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:20). For the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

Miraculous Fruits

God depends upon us to help Him make miracles; He needs us to believe in Him, to accept His love, faith, humility, gentleness, goodness so that He can perform miracles. He sent the miracle worker—the Holy Spirit—to take up habitation on the inside of us, to dwell on the inside and to produce the nine fruits of the Spirit. He [the Holy Spirit] dwelleth WITH you, and shall be IN you (John 14:17). The flesh produces fruits; however, the fruits that the Holy Spirit produces are miraculous fruits, fruits that cannot be produced with the human spirit but only through and by the Holy Spirit as the human spirit is yielded to that miraculous Spirit of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law (Galatians 5:22,23). The love of God is a miraculous fruit, produced within you by the Holy Spirit. The peace of God is produced within—it’s God’s miracle. The miracles are His; and He must have the honor, the praise, the glory for them, but His marvelous benefits are ours.

The Secret of Receiving Miracles

Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it (John 2:5). One day as I read over that scripture, the Holy Spirit revealed to my mind: That’s it! It’s all said in this verse. It’s the secret of letting God perform miracles and healings. Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Complete obedience.

Strange things the miraculous God of this universe calls on the human race to do—fast, for instance. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21). I repeat, the secret of receiving miracles, the secret of deliverance is unlocked by doing whatever He says.

The Word, the miracle Word…you must hide it in your heart so that you won’t sin against God, and so you have a standard of obedience. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee (Psalm 119:11). My son, attend to my words…For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh (Proverbs 4:20,22). The Word is so miraculous that it heals, brings health to your flesh—God’s miracle. He [God] sent his word, and healed them (Psalm 107:20).

In Cana Jesus looked at the waterpots and told the servants to fill them to the brim. The servants helped bring about a miracle. It was a simple thing, but acts of faith are not complicated.

Why did the Lord tell Joshua to have the Israelites march around the walls of Jericho in silence except for those who were to blow the rams’ horns? He was preparing them so that He could perform a miracle; in order for that miracle to take place, the Israelites had to obey His word. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him (Joshua 6:5). The people were obedient; when they shouted, God tore down the walls and they were victorious. The Miracle Book delcares it.

With the miracle faith that God has given us, we should never doubt anything from the Miracle Book, never neglect to follow any instructions from the miracle mind of the eternal God. His Word came forth, and it will live as long as God lives—you cannot separate God from His Word. It’s the Word people need today, the living Word. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). As people yield entirely to all that God has said, they will know that the miracles are His; but the results of those miracles belong to them.

Many visit my services, see the miracles and healings but do not know where these miraculous works come from. They come from the miracle God. Some try to cast His miracles into the trash—healing is of the devil, they say. Why do they doubt? Because they are shrouded in the darkness of the enemy, not the light of God. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not (John 1:5). How very tragic when people cannot see the miracle hand of our loving God! God knew it was difficult for man to see His great miraculous hand; and that is why He sent the Light, Jesus, into the world. The Light shines for all who do not refuse to see, for all who will do whatever God says.

Jesus was divinity made flesh with hands the size of a man’s hands, eyes to see, ears to hear like we have. When Jesus came to Earth He took steps the length that a man takes, letting us know that He wanted to walk with us, to be our companion, our guide, our life. [Jesus] who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him (I Thessalonians 5:10). He wants to look out for us; but as the prophet Amos asked, Can two walk together, except they be agreed (Amos 3:3)? They cannot, for there will be strife and confusion just as there is much strife and confusion in men and women today which have taken them away from God’s miracle of love and protection. The Holy Spirit is grieved daily by the sight of it.

The Holy Spirit seeks to work; He is gathering all mankind together in the great arms of God in this final hour as He did on the day of Pentecost when those in the Upper Room were in one mind and one accord (Acts 2:1), one faith—the faith of God, one Bible—the Word of the living God. God is bringing us together to believe Him for all things, baptizing us in the Holy Spirit so that He can perform miracles and healings in abundance, so that He can perform signs and wonders before the people; and they will know that He is God, the Almighty Creator, the Eternal One with everlasting love for all. He wants us to know that He will do anything good for us when we are obedient to Him in all ways. They that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing (Psalm 34:10). And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). He has come to bless and not to curse; He has come to love and not to hate, to receive and not turn aside.

Whosoever Will, Come

His invitation is standard: Come whosoever will, come. Come in your dirty rags of sin, come with your leprosy of sin. I will not turn you away; you will not be repulsive to me because I will wash you; I will cleanse you from all sin and you will be whiter than snow. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow (Psalm 51:7). I will make you as pure as Heaven itself, and I will speak through you. I will sing through you and I will live on the inside of you. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5). I, the Lord thy God, will be your God; and you will be my people, the sheep of my pasture. No one can destroy you; no one can ever take you away from me because my righteousness and my holiness will be your protection. My faith will be your shield (Ephesians 6:16); and I, the Lord thy God, will do battle for you. In the name of Jesus you will cast out devils—it will be my miracle—through my miracle power that’s in the name of my Son Jesus. You will lay hands on the sick and they shall get well (Mark 16:18). Remember, however, when you get well the miracle is His; it belongs to Him, and He must have all the honor, all the glory. You don’t give honor to the instrument of clay that God uses to work His power through; the miracle and the glory belong to God, but health is yours.

Miracles Seen through the Eye of Faith

The miraculous Christ stood among men and performed His miracles. It was His miracle that gave the blind sight. It was His miracle that changed the water into wine; the servants filled up the pots with water to the brim—something that any able-bodied person could have done. The pots were full; nothing else could have been added, or it would have spilled out—no room for Jesus to have added another substance, no. The ingredients that He uses to perform His miracles cannot be seen with the human eye but only through the eye of faith, God’s faith. There really is a sixth sense after all: it’s the faith of God. Only through His Spirit can you see it; only through His Spirit can you believe Him. Jesus spoke to the sick and they were healed. The miracle was His, but the results belonged to the ones who had been healed, the ones to whom He had given His wonderful touch of healing. They went forth to praise Him and glorify Him.

Jesus is the name above all names. God has given us that name to use. We speak it and God performs miracles; we speak it and He performs healings. That signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus (Acts 4:30). By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole (Acts 4:10). We speak His name, but the miracles are His—they are not of us—they are divine miracles and divine healings performed by divinity, divinity only; and the results of those miracles become living realities in our lives.

We fill up the water pots; in other words, we fill ourselves up with the faith of God; and when we are full of the faith of God, then the changeless Christ can change things. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). The name is Jesus; He never changes.

Jesus used miracle power to raise Lazarus from the dead; He said, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die (John 11:25,26). No human spirit raised Lazarus; the miracle was God’s; but, again, people were blessed.

You Do Something Small, God Does Something Big

Take ye away the stone, Jesus said. He could have commanded the stone to be gone, and it would have moved as though it had wings; but Jesus wants us to do what we can, and then He will do the rest. God said, you do something small, I’ll do something big; you do something foolish, I’ll do something wise and mighty. Joshua, tell a few of the Israelites to toot the ram’s horn, the rest to keep silence as they march; and then shout when I tell you to shout. Those mighty walls will come tumbling down.

Tell the people, Moses, to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, the miracle hand of God. Lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea (Exodus 14:16). The human spirit of Moses could not separate the waters, only the divine Spirit of Almighty God pouring through Moses. All Moses did was lift his rod and stretch out his hand with faith, and multitudes were saved from Egyptian slavery.

It wasn’t the human spirit of Daniel that protected him in the den of lions; it was God’s miracle. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me, Daniel reported to the king. No manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God (Daniel 6:22,23). God’s miracle power gave the lions “temporary lockjaw.”

The three Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace were delivered by God’s miracle power. When the king looked into the furnace, heated seven times hotter than usual, he was amazed. Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God (Daniel 3:24,25). The skeptic today would say that had they really been put into the furnace, they would have burned into three cinders—that’s the response of the human spirit degraded by Satan, filled with doubt upon seeing the hand of the Almighty God; but true believers through the ages have rejoiced over this mighty miracle.

God Has the Final Say

The spirit of Satan possessing the human spirit causes people to look away from God and to look to self, to take on a spirit called ego: “I’m in charge; I can do great and wonderful things.” Not so. Only the Almighty, only divinity can do great and mighty things. With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). The eagle is a powerful bird in the sky, but there is a limit on how high he can fly. There is, however, no limit on God in Heaven, only on Earth where He has to work through man; He chooses to limit Himself with man. Through God’s great love for the human race He is bound to man; and since the fall of Adam and Eve it has become great bondage, so great that it took God’s Only Begotten Son to break it. All of it will be broken. Revelation 20 tells that death and hell are to be cast into the lake of fire, destroyed by the power of God. Man and woman will make their choice: it will be a final one.

Just as the rod of Aaron swallowed up the rods of Pharaoh’s wise men (Exodus 7:12), God’s rod, the Word of the living God, will swallow up all the sins of Satan until every last sinful person, until Lucifer and his demons are swallowed as well. The entire kingdom of Lucifer will be swallowed up and cast into the lake of fire that will burn forever. What will happen then? And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he [God] that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:4,5). For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). Everything was lost in the fall of man in the Garden of Eden; and Jesus, by His miraculous works, will lift the curse from planet Earth. Then there will be a thousand years of peace, a thousand years of love, a thousand years of God’s wisdom and knowledge in action—it’s thus saith the Lord.

Only God Can Claim the Miracle

But in this world that we are now in, the earth under the curse, we still hear our God walking the earth; through the ear of faith we hear Him, walking, walking. Through the eye of faith we see Him working with miracle power. He sees a dying mother—He flows His power to her. Prayers do not have to come through a minister but can come through any child of God who really believes that signs shall follow believers as the Bible says. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:18). A child of God who has the faith of God reaches out and touches that mother’s brow, and the fever breaks. Little children shout with wonderful joy and happiness—Mama is no longer sick!

The miracle is God’s, the healing ours. No one has a right to lay claim to the miracle except the Lord. God must have all the praise, the honor, the glory. That is the secret of the Jesus ministry. I have seen the Lord heal countless thousands and perform countless thousands of miracles. I believe in God; and believing in God means believing in His works, in His miracles. The miracles are His; and we who see them are to witness, to declare that the hand of God is moving on planet Earth today and that the Lord is still performing miracles. They are His wonderful works; the benefits are ours, but the miracles belong to Him!