For a short teaching on miracles and why God gives authority to His children to call upon His name to do the same, please keep reading. Indeed it is always God who does the miracles, yet He chooses in His infinite wisdom to use simple believers to carry out His will here on earth. Yes…. we get to! Call it a benefit of being a son or daughter of a King!
The bible tells many stories of miracles that Jesus performed. While people differ in how they define a miracle, we can look to Jesus as our example. There are at least eight different accounts of varying miracles demonstrating Jesus’ control over nature. You can find them here:
1. Calming the storm – Matthew 8:23-27; Mark 4:37-41; Luke 8:22-25
2. Feeding 5,000 – Matthew 14:14-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14
3. Walking on water – Matthew 14:22-32; Mark 6:47-52; John 6:16-21
4. Feeding 4,000 – Matthew 15:32-39; Mark 8:1-9
5. Fish with coin – Matthew 17:24-27
6. Fig tree withers – Matthew 21:18-22; Mark 11:12-14, 20-25
7. Huge catch of fish – Luke 5:4-11; John 21:1-11
8. Water into wine – John 2:1-11
In addition, there is the transfiguration, raising the dead, healings, deliverances, post-resurrection miracles and more! How much more? Well John concludes his gospel account with the following words, “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”
Why He did them? John 20:31 tells us His miracles were recorded “that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
Why He uses believers to do them? John 14: 12-14 provides this insight: “I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
The Father is glorified in the Son when the name of the Son demonstrates that Jesus is the Messiah and proves that those who believe have life in His name by the power that it carries!
So why should believers walk in miracles today? John 14:11 urges us to believe Jesus that He is in the Father and the miracles serve as evidence, increasing our faith in this fact that Jesus is God. They also demonstrate His deity and affirm the truth of the gospel to the unbelieving. And finally, as John 14:13 noted, they glorify God.
To read some encouraging miracles God has done in our journey check out the stories categorized under “The Lion Roars”. To God be the glory.