Miracles

Finances and family issues were crushing Natasha.

So when she saw a billboard inviting people to call and request Bible studies, she wondered whether this was an opportunity to find clarity in her life. When she called the number, a pastor answered. She told him she was calling about the Bible studies being advertised on the billboard. “What billboard?” the pastor blurted out before catching himself and saying, “Oh yes, the billboard.” The church had never rented a billboard, nor had the pastor ever publicized his number.

It was clearly a miracle. Before long, Natasha was studying the Bible with the pastor, and Jesus was bringing peace and clarity into her life.

God says, if we call, He will answer.

And He promises to show us “great and mighty things” (Jeremiah 33:3). Miracles really should not surprise us. The God of heaven opened the Red Sea, carpeted the ground with manna, and caused water to flow from a rock.

The same God still lives and still works miracles of divine grace. The sick are still healed. Financial blessings are still received.

What you might call coincidence is, in reality, God’s providence. He brings together circumstances and details in a way that could never be orchestrated by human wisdom. Someone once said that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. It is right to expect much from God. John Knox asked God to bring an entire country to faith in Jesus.* George Müller once asked the blessing on food he did not have, while three hundred hungry children bowed their heads.

Minutes after Müller said “amen” at the conclusion of his prayer, there was a knock on the door. A baker delivered bread for the orphans —bread he felt impressed to bake the night before. Then there was another knock.

This time, it was a milkman whose cart had broken down outside the orphanage. He wondered if Mr. Müller could use the milk for the orphans.† God is still the God of miracles. He still performs miracles to draw human hearts to His own.