The group was associated with a nondenominational Christian
School in our town and was made up of families with a variety of Christian
backgrounds. My wife first became
associated with the group when she was the treasurer of the local Woman’s Aglow
Fellowship, as one of Aglow’s leaders was also in charge of the fledgling
homeschool effort and her husband was the principal of the Christian school. In fact, on the night our oldest daughter was
born my wife was experiencing labor pains while sitting at the dining room
table totally focused on finishing the yearly Aglow Fellowship books before we
left for the hospital! It drove me crazy
as I could not get her to go to the car with me! But when her last column added up correctly,
she triumphantly closed the book and said with a big grin, “Let’s go!” and off we went to the hospital where our daughter was
born a few hours later!
Anyway…
back to my research. Since
this particular school was always spoken of with such high regard, I thought
that I would look up its website and take a peek at their doctrine of
faith. Well, to say the least, even
though I wasn’t totally surprised, I was a little taken back at the vigor and detail
that they went into concerning their disagreement with many of the Pentecostal
tenets that I hold dear to my heart. But
putting that aside, the one standout was their firm supposition that the age of
miracles stopped with the death of the last of the original twelve apostles.
Now while I understand that this is a common belief with
a few denominations, it is one that I am completely baffled by! I have been around too long and have personally
witnessed too many naturally unexplainable miracles to say that God doesn’t do
this anymore. Especially considering
that we are living in the age of the Holy Spirit and He is the power source of
God’s goodness!
As I read from Ephesians 3:20 this morning, I was even
more solidified in my belief that God is still in the miracle business and will
be until Jesus returns. In this verse,
Paul goes out of his way (as he does in a
few other places) to explain and define God’s ability to do “exceedingly, abundantly above all than all we
ask or imagine, according to his power…” (combination of NKJV and NIV of Ephesians
3:20) Paul was known to use double
adverbs to qualify the verbs he used to describe God’s immeasurable power
toward us who believe. He witnessed God’s
miraculous powers on a regular basis… just as many do today and others have
throughout church history during the last 2000 years!
You know… come to think of it… if the age of miracles was
over, then NO ONE would get saved, for the born-again experience is the
greatest miracle of all! So… I encourage
you to THINK BIG! Think like
God! Ephesians 5:1 tells us to “Imitate God, since you are the children he
loves.” (God’s Word ©) Expect
a miracle! Expect God to be God
in your lives. Expect the supernatural
to occur for you, be it a supernaturally quick move of the long line ahead of
you in the line at the local Department of Motor Vehicles (like what happened to
a good friend of mine yesterday) to the healing of yourself or a loved
one. God is still in the miracle
business. It is the one thing that sets
Him apart from anyone or anything else.
Have a great day!
Stay in tune to His Word, and keep asking yourself… “What MIRACLE am I expecting today?”
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