What about miracles?

Partial transcript from tape #4881 - "The Apostolic Calling Card"

"…as the Lord is bringing back the miraculous into the life of His church, the fact is you’ll find, generally, two points on the spectrum, and their quite far apart. Those who just really question, or assign this to such a high level of sovereignty that it’s almost capricious. If a miracle takes place, it’s like, ‘Look, don’t you bother to ask God for a miracle. If He wants to work one, He’ll do it, and it has nothing to do with you.’ And on the other end, people who are just slavering after miracles. ‘Oh God, give us a miracle.’ And who will in fact drive anywhere, pay any price, get on any plane, go somewhere and see a miracle because it’s really exciting to see. It is. And it is.

"…Miracles are not just simply fascinating displays of Divine power. They are not simply things for the comfort or convenience of humankind. Miracles are for God to show how deeply He cares. To make something so clear that people blinded by their sin would say, ‘Look.’ For people that are going down the racetrack of life to say, ‘Here’s a place you need to turn if you’re going to get to the goal you’re really after.’ It’s miracles and signs and wonders. This is God’s strategy with the supernatural, and we see it in play throughout the Book of Acts. We often say, ‘Oh that the church had the same signs and wonders like the Book of Acts.’ Well, there are signs and wonders taking place in the church today, and so commonly when you hear the places where the most wonderful things take place, there are things that result in more than the miracle healing. More than the wonderful sign. They are things that result in something of hearts turning to Jesus.

"I’m often asked about the ministry of Benny Hinn. The fact of the matter is that I know Benny very well, and we are very good personal friends. I enjoy much trust of this man and grateful for his friendship. Because of some of the flamboyant styles of Benny and the uniqueness of his personality he draws a lot of flack from people that don’t like the way he does things. Well let me tell you the secret to Benny Hinn’s ministry. It’s not the power that takes place in the miracles. It’s the way that he leads people in worship before the Lord and points them to come before Him. And what you often see on television is just the miracle part of the service, but it has been preceded by 45 minutes to an hour of people just being brought into the presence of God. Because it’s in the presence of God, that there is ‘in Your presence there is fullness of joy. At Your right hand are pleasures evermore.’ And God’s pleasure is to bring healing to people. And you talk to people who are touched mightily, and you’ll find as a result of true miracle signs that there are people who’ve come to Christ. There’s a testimony of Jesus that is raised. But it is something that characterizes a tragedy that exists sadly in that portion of the church, oftentimes that most represents us. In that charismatic part of the church there are sectors that all they see in miracles is something that excites them, and that excitableness, that thrill, the talk about the miracle rather than the focus on the glory of Jesus who gave the miracle, that is the misfortune of this present stage of immaturity in the church’s view of the strategy of God with the supernatural. I deeply believe the more that we come to the place of recognizing what God is really wanting to do with the supernatural, and we open to it on those terms, the more supernatural signs, wonders, and miracles will proliferate through the whole body of Christ, and they will not become the verification of our person, or our position. The miracle does not become a sign. There are people today that if God worked a miracle through their hand, they’d say, ‘Well I guess I’m supposed to go in the ministry.’ Listen folks, you are in the ministry already. And the Lord wants to work miracles through His people today. Not for the sake of verifying something superior to us. Peter and John will say in chapter 3, don’t look up on as if there were some accomplishment of ours, or by our own righteousness we work this. This is not humility. This is just honesty with the facts. They’re saying, ‘we’re just people like you.’

"Brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He consecrated for us..." Hebrews 10:19-20

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