"Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" (Exodus 15:11)
"Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8)
It still seems strange and unusual today to many when they hear of outstanding answers to prayer, or great miracles of healing. But why should it? If Jesus Christ is real, and alive today, these things should be commonplace (1). After all, Jesus did teach, "If you abide in Me, and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it will be done for you" (2) and again "whatever things you ask in prayer, really believing, you will receive" (3). The God of miracles wants to get involved in your life! Any true answer to prayer is a miracle. To deny miracles is to mock prayer today. God has proved and is proving in many ways that He means business with us. But have we shown that we mean business with Him?
There are a lot of problems people face today. There is so much pain and suffering in this world. Fear, anxiety, depression, despair, heartbreak, rejection, loneliness, guilt, sickness and more can be found wherever you look. Maybe you feel like you have had more than your fair share of these things. How do we reconcile all this with the idea of a loving, caring Heavenly Father? Can we? Is He really out there? Would He really help you if you call upon Him?
Today God is doing just that for people like you who call upon the name of Jesus and get real with God. You can read some example true stories at http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/true-stories-testimonies-of-jesu... and in other places on the net. We prepared this message for you so you would understand how you can know the God who loves and cares for you, the God who does miracles, the God who answers prayers.
Point 1 - God is a good God and deserves to be worshiped
Maybe you've believed the lie that God is not good. Maybe you have believed he wants to deny you all good things and make you miserable. That's a devilish lie friend. People become miserable when they look to the wrong things to make them happy - often things they may never be able to have. But God wants you to have love, joy and peace in your heart, and He wants, as the God of miracles, to get involved in your life and prove Himself to you in so many ways.
God is the maker of all good things. He is the greatest artist of all. He gave good things to be enjoyed. True there are some things which feel good at the time to get into - but God is against them because in the end they will destroy you. Take drugs, for example. But don't think that God is mean. God is generous. If he was evil as some think, he could have destroyed everything and everyone already. But he is waiting for people to come to their senses, to have a change of heart, to come back to Him. He really deserves to be the center of our lives. He deserves to be loved. And He made the world so when we don't give Him that place, things don't work out.
Point 2 - We've Rebelled and Messed Up
Right from the beginning of human history, people have believed the lie that we'd be better off without God, without submitting to Him, without doing things His way. The basic attitude has been the root cause of all the evil that has come down to us, especially as people in one way or another have ended up worshiping other spirits - evil spirits, that are behind the false religions, occultic movements and the promotion of the things of this world system. By breaking God's first commandment, to have no other gods besides Him (5), whole populations have come under the curse and have been separated from God. Worse still, the Bible says that the wages of sin is death - eternal death. There is no escaping from evil by our own power either now - try it and you will see. And unless we get back to the plan of God, there is no future and no eternal hope whatsoever. This rebellion has consequences, and most have only tasted very little of the consequences so far.
Point 3 - Jesus Christ is our only hope - he took our sin and punishment so we could have God's favor
Jesus Christ really existed on earth and did the things that are recorded in the Bible. He's mentioned in roman and jewish history also. People watched him do miracles and lo
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I said the prayer in faith that God would perform a miracle in my life.
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