WEBVTT 00:12.103 --> 00:15.544 [SPEAKER_01]: First King's chapter 17 verses one through six. 00:15.564 --> 00:17.544 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll be on the screen if you want to follow that way. 00:17.564 --> 00:25.126 [SPEAKER_01]: It says, now Elijah, the tish bite from the Gilead settlers said to Ahab as the Lord God of Israel lives. 00:25.286 --> 00:31.067 [SPEAKER_01]: I stand before him and there will be no due or rain during these years except by my command. 00:31.428 --> 00:33.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Then a revelation from the Lord came to him. 00:33.608 --> 00:41.630 [SPEAKER_01]: Leave here, turn eastward and hide yourself at the water chair where it enters the Jordan, which is just a broke little stream, okay? 00:42.611 --> 00:44.092 [SPEAKER_01]: You are to drink from the water. 00:44.553 --> 00:47.977 [SPEAKER_01]: I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there. 00:48.798 --> 00:54.225 [SPEAKER_01]: So he did what the Lord commanded, Elijah left and lived by the water chair where it enters the Jordan. 00:54.705 --> 01:01.413 [SPEAKER_01]: The ravens kept bringing him bread and meat in the morning and in the evening and he drank from the water. 01:02.274 --> 01:05.737 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're taking notes this morning, which I hope you are, I'm excited about this message. 01:05.777 --> 01:10.520 [SPEAKER_01]: The title of today's message is simple, it's, he's a miracle worker. 01:11.280 --> 01:14.523 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, turn to the person next to you and tell him he's a miracle worker. 01:15.964 --> 01:22.788 [SPEAKER_01]: Find somebody across the room, make eye contact with them, point to them, and tell them, he's a miracle worker. 01:23.989 --> 01:25.610 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, he's a miracle worker. 01:26.271 --> 01:27.011 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 01:28.012 --> 01:29.273 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a miracle worker. 01:30.386 --> 01:31.066 [SPEAKER_01]: So let's pray. 01:31.746 --> 01:34.127 [SPEAKER_01]: Father, I thank you, Lord, for this day. 01:34.247 --> 01:35.608 [SPEAKER_01]: I thank you for your word. 01:36.088 --> 01:38.749 [SPEAKER_01]: I thank you, God, for what you have already done in this place. 01:39.289 --> 01:43.170 [SPEAKER_01]: Where we look forward with great expectation, with hunger and our hearts, Lord. 01:43.610 --> 01:46.091 [SPEAKER_01]: Hunger and our spirits for what you're gonna continue to do. 01:46.511 --> 01:50.132 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you, God, that you are a miracle worker. 01:51.595 --> 01:52.896 [SPEAKER_01]: You are a miracle worker. 01:53.457 --> 01:56.320 [SPEAKER_01]: And you can do absolutely anything. 01:56.841 --> 02:00.925 [SPEAKER_01]: And so today we put you to the test and we know God that you are gonna come through on our behalf. 02:01.245 --> 02:03.948 [SPEAKER_01]: We thank you for the miraculous to take place today. 02:04.249 --> 02:12.377 [SPEAKER_01]: For signs, wonders and miracles, God, we thank you, Lord, for pouring out your spirit upon us and greater measure, God, to overflowing, Lord. 02:13.038 --> 02:20.983 [SPEAKER_01]: And we thank you, God, that if there is a need in this room, that the miracle worker, you, God, are going to meet that need. 02:21.784 --> 02:24.145 [SPEAKER_01]: And so Lord, we thank you for it in Jesus' name. 02:24.165 --> 02:26.567 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody said, Amen. 02:27.047 --> 02:32.871 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm going to kind of pre-warn you a little bit and let you know that I am excited about this word this morning. 02:33.571 --> 02:34.492 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 02:34.512 --> 02:35.933 [SPEAKER_01]: So we read that scripture. 02:36.929 --> 02:50.753 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that one of the biggest reasons why God sent His Son Jesus upon the earth was to teach an important lesson and beyond coming to save us and redeem us and heal us and all that kind of stuff. 02:51.393 --> 02:59.255 [SPEAKER_01]: But I believe it was this that the birth of Jesus, His Son, was a demonstration to us about the nature of God the Father. 03:00.411 --> 03:04.177 [SPEAKER_01]: that he wanted to demonstrate himself by sending his son. 03:04.818 --> 03:06.240 [SPEAKER_01]: And what do you mean by that pastor? 03:06.260 --> 03:07.341 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's simple. 03:08.002 --> 03:16.355 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the reasons why God sent his son Jesus was to teach us and to show us what God is actually like. 03:17.995 --> 03:26.580 [SPEAKER_01]: We know that they are three in one, but I believe that Jesus being sent upon this earth was literally to show people who God really is. 03:27.060 --> 03:28.601 [SPEAKER_01]: And what God is all about. 03:29.041 --> 03:35.866 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus the Son is not just like God the Father, but God the Father is just like Jesus the Son. 03:36.866 --> 03:42.992 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus says, He who has seen me has seen the Father, come on, you know that, that's what Scripture says. 03:43.412 --> 03:45.394 [SPEAKER_01]: He who has seen me has seen the Father. 03:45.434 --> 03:54.282 [SPEAKER_01]: So if Jesus' life coming to this earth is a demonstration of the nature of God, then what is it that it's teaching us? 03:54.342 --> 03:55.323 [SPEAKER_01]: What is that teach us? 03:55.663 --> 04:02.049 [SPEAKER_01]: It teaches us because of who God is that God is a miracle working God. 04:02.930 --> 04:06.113 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything that Jesus did upon the earth was a miracle. 04:06.833 --> 04:07.794 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything that he did. 04:08.294 --> 04:11.617 [SPEAKER_01]: Every single thing that he did was accounted for as a miracle. 04:12.017 --> 04:22.726 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if Jesus was sent as a demonstration of the Father, that means that we have got to come to the understanding and know that the Father is a miracle worker. 04:23.466 --> 04:29.911 [SPEAKER_01]: Jesus didn't come just to perform miracles upon the earth and die and send back to heaven and then there's no such thing as miracles anymore. 04:29.951 --> 04:30.172 [SPEAKER_01]: No. 04:31.103 --> 04:33.725 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a demonstration of what God can do in our lives. 04:34.725 --> 04:36.646 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that He is the same yesterday. 04:36.786 --> 04:38.948 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, today and forever. 04:39.228 --> 04:43.330 [SPEAKER_01]: And if He was a miracle worker, then, come on, He is still a miracle worker today. 04:43.350 --> 04:58.920 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, wait a second, I didn't say that by God sending His Son Jesus to demonstrate who He is as a miracle worker, I didn't say that that is exactly who He is, but that is an action that He does. 05:00.375 --> 05:01.937 [SPEAKER_01]: because it is part of his nature. 05:02.918 --> 05:06.642 [SPEAKER_01]: He is a miracle worker that is what he does, amen? 05:07.082 --> 05:09.965 [SPEAKER_01]: And he wants to do a miracle on our behalf. 05:10.746 --> 05:14.810 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that the miracle worker doesn't sit back and say, well, today's not a day for a miracle. 05:15.711 --> 05:16.492 [SPEAKER_01]: No, never. 05:17.304 --> 05:20.785 [SPEAKER_01]: The miracle worker wants to perform a miracle on your behalf. 05:21.265 --> 05:27.206 [SPEAKER_01]: In any time we call on the name of the Lord, come on, I believe that He is there and He is willing to answer us, amen. 05:27.866 --> 05:29.266 [SPEAKER_01]: God is a miracle worker. 05:29.286 --> 05:30.867 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody say, God is a miracle worker. 05:32.487 --> 05:37.288 [SPEAKER_01]: And so working miracles isn't just what He does, but it's who He is. 05:38.148 --> 05:40.949 [SPEAKER_01]: At 2 AM, let me tell you, He's a miracle worker. 05:41.803 --> 05:55.186 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, when your world is spinning around you and you can't go to sleep and things are happening and you're thinking about all the problems in your life in the middle of the night, I'm telling you, he's a miracle worker, come on somebody. 05:55.606 --> 06:06.049 [SPEAKER_01]: On eight, 20 in the middle of traffic or when they reroute you on eight, 20 like they did this morning and it shut down, I want to tell you, he is a miracle worker, come on somebody. 06:06.309 --> 06:08.889 [SPEAKER_01]: He is a miracle worker in your prayer closet 06:13.852 --> 06:17.976 [SPEAKER_01]: And let me just say that he won't just show up in this house, but he'll show up in your house. 06:18.857 --> 06:22.701 [SPEAKER_01]: He won't just show up in the house here or the house of God, but he'll show up in your car. 06:23.222 --> 06:24.723 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll show up in your own household. 06:24.743 --> 06:26.825 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll show up at your job if you believe for it. 06:26.866 --> 06:27.606 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody. 06:27.907 --> 06:29.188 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that is who he is. 06:29.228 --> 06:30.609 [SPEAKER_01]: He is a miracle worker. 06:31.445 --> 06:36.066 [SPEAKER_01]: So if it's in his nature to do miracles, then we gotta define what America will actually is. 06:36.906 --> 06:38.667 [SPEAKER_01]: America will as this, let's look at the screen. 06:39.147 --> 06:44.688 [SPEAKER_01]: It's when God's the spins are altars and natural law to accomplish his divine plan. 06:44.708 --> 06:48.289 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to write that down because you need to understand this. 06:49.029 --> 06:58.751 [SPEAKER_01]: America will as when God's the spins are altars and natural laws, the things of the natural, the things that we see here upon earth to accomplish his divine plan. 07:00.883 --> 07:03.564 [SPEAKER_01]: It's something that is super natural, right? 07:03.884 --> 07:07.706 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make sense in the natural, so therefore it has to be supernatural. 07:08.547 --> 07:18.071 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not something that would line up and that's something that is not norm for us in the flesh and in our natural thinking, but to God, it's totally normal, right? 07:19.092 --> 07:24.315 [SPEAKER_01]: As the miracle worker, God performing a miracle, that's very natural to him. 07:25.215 --> 07:28.957 [SPEAKER_01]: It's supernatural to us, but it's very natural to God. 07:30.465 --> 07:45.229 [SPEAKER_01]: So a miracle is when God in heaven looks down upon the earth, and he recognizes that certain natural things are interrupting or about to interrupt his divine plan, so he suspends or altars a thing. 07:46.990 --> 07:57.493 [SPEAKER_01]: God has a way and is okay with suspending and altering natural laws that he has already put into place so that his divine plan can be established in a thing. 07:58.795 --> 08:05.480 [SPEAKER_01]: Now the book of Exodus, just to give you an example, the book of Exodus is a demonstration of this very action of God. 08:06.700 --> 08:11.203 [SPEAKER_01]: When the Israelites make an exit out of Egypt, we all know the story we've all heard in a million times. 08:11.904 --> 08:16.987 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says that they encounter what is called a red sea, the Red Sea, we all know about the Red Sea. 08:17.788 --> 08:21.050 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, now I want you to just really listen to me for just a moment. 08:21.770 --> 08:26.834 [SPEAKER_01]: They've got Pharaoh behind them, and they've got the Red Sea in front of them. 08:28.815 --> 08:33.676 [SPEAKER_01]: That's trouble, that's a tough situation to be in. 08:34.596 --> 08:50.699 [SPEAKER_01]: They've got the one that has held them captive for years, right behind them, literally chasing them down, but yet in front of them, they've got just as worse as a situation with a red sea that they're facing, knowing that there is no way they're gonna be able to cross. 08:51.079 --> 08:55.420 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're standing there wondering, how in the world I'm gonna get across this 08:58.971 --> 09:01.892 [SPEAKER_01]: So they're caught really between a rock and a hard place, right? 09:02.532 --> 09:10.596 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Israelite people are wondering, how in the world are we going to get out of this situation to get out of this mess that we're in? 09:12.437 --> 09:17.699 [SPEAKER_01]: They can't go backwards because the one that has been enslaving them is right behind them. 09:18.839 --> 09:23.121 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're afraid to move forward because they know that the Red Sea is going to take them out. 09:24.101 --> 09:25.222 [SPEAKER_01]: But then all of a sudden, 09:26.292 --> 09:36.704 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on now, all of a sudden glory to God, all of a sudden God tells a man named Moses to take his staff and to stretch forth his hand. 09:37.725 --> 09:40.989 [SPEAKER_01]: And all of a sudden watch this, watch this, water. 09:41.988 --> 09:55.610 [SPEAKER_01]: The Red Sea, that is never supposed to be split, that's supposed to stay in place, supernaturally splits into two, forms a wall on both sides, and they walk through it on dry ground. 09:55.650 --> 09:56.471 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody. 09:57.531 --> 09:58.211 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 09:58.971 --> 10:00.391 [SPEAKER_01]: So what happened there? 10:00.711 --> 10:02.152 [SPEAKER_01]: God performed a miracle. 10:02.432 --> 10:05.132 [SPEAKER_01]: God suspended something that was natural. 10:05.172 --> 10:09.533 [SPEAKER_01]: He suspended and altered a natural law to accomplish his divine plan. 10:10.625 --> 10:16.290 [SPEAKER_01]: There is no way that it makes sense for us for waters of a sea to split in half so that we can walk through. 10:16.830 --> 10:18.572 [SPEAKER_01]: But to God, it makes total sense. 10:19.112 --> 10:23.676 [SPEAKER_01]: God says, I'm gonna, that, that red sea right there is in the way of what I'm trying to accomplish. 10:23.996 --> 10:25.337 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to alter 10:26.338 --> 10:31.220 [SPEAKER_01]: What I know and how I know water exists and what it's supposed to do, I'm going to alter this for a moment. 10:31.240 --> 10:35.722 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to suspend everything that we would call natural when looking at this water. 10:36.122 --> 10:43.746 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to split it into, they're going to get across, and as soon as they get across, I'm going to close it in all the Egyptian army is going to be caught in the waters. 10:45.166 --> 10:45.667 [SPEAKER_01]: A miracle. 10:46.567 --> 10:47.767 [SPEAKER_01]: A miracle, come on somebody. 10:49.928 --> 10:51.009 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, God says, 10:52.802 --> 11:08.594 [SPEAKER_01]: If water, which is natural, if water is going to stop my people from doing what I need them to do, I'm going to pause the water and make it do something that it doesn't normally do. 11:10.295 --> 11:18.662 [SPEAKER_01]: That's got performing a miracle, suspending or altering something in the natural, a natural law for his divine plan to be accomplished. 11:19.692 --> 11:25.554 [SPEAKER_01]: So now in 1st Kings chapter 17 that we just read, there is a famine that's happening in the land. 11:26.875 --> 11:31.637 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible says before this point of time that we were just reading that there is no food, there is no water. 11:32.657 --> 11:35.098 [SPEAKER_01]: There is nothing for them, the Bible says to even drink. 11:36.599 --> 11:38.079 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're caught up in this famine. 11:38.099 --> 11:41.320 [SPEAKER_01]: And God raises up prophet Elijah. 11:42.521 --> 11:47.663 [SPEAKER_01]: And Elijah was a man who refused to allow what was happening in the natural to become his normal. 11:49.763 --> 11:51.398 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I believe that's what God's looking for. 11:52.512 --> 11:54.573 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what God's looking for in His people. 11:54.913 --> 11:59.834 [SPEAKER_01]: People that will say, I know this is what I see, but this is not the result that I'm gonna get. 11:59.914 --> 12:00.594 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody. 12:01.194 --> 12:05.715 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to help you in the area of your faith today, because some of you are facing a storm. 12:05.755 --> 12:07.276 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you are facing a red sea. 12:07.576 --> 12:12.737 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you are caught in the middle of there's a Pharaoh right behind me and there's a red sea right in front of me. 12:12.817 --> 12:13.937 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do. 12:14.257 --> 12:15.257 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how to act. 12:15.337 --> 12:16.578 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how to respond. 12:16.838 --> 12:18.138 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know the end result. 12:18.178 --> 12:19.779 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's gonna come of this. 12:20.119 --> 12:21.479 [SPEAKER_01]: God, I'm crying out to you. 12:24.472 --> 12:28.634 [SPEAKER_01]: There's the same thing that's occurring here in First Kings chapter 17. 12:29.274 --> 12:31.635 [SPEAKER_01]: And Elijah says, everybody else is not eating. 12:32.715 --> 12:48.261 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody else has nothing to drink, but I refuse to be one that stands in this natural place and allow myself to die when I know that God is my provider, that God is a miracle worker and God can give me exactly what I need. 12:54.735 --> 13:09.541 [SPEAKER_01]: says, I don't know who's not going to eat, but Elijah, you will, a man who stood in a place of faith and said, around me, nobody's eating, around me there is no water. 13:10.802 --> 13:12.243 [SPEAKER_01]: But I am a man of faith. 13:13.143 --> 13:17.345 [SPEAKER_01]: I refuse to allow what I see to become my normal. 13:18.728 --> 13:26.137 [SPEAKER_01]: And he stood in a place of total faith in total victory and God rewarded him and God said, nobody else may be eating today, but you will, Elijah. 13:28.820 --> 13:32.925 [SPEAKER_01]: I know there's no food in the land, but I've got food somewhere for you. 13:34.023 --> 13:39.626 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got water somewhere for you Elijah and I am a God that takes care of my people. 13:40.266 --> 13:50.692 [SPEAKER_01]: If I can take care of my people and bring them across the Red Sea, I can take care of you today and I can provide you with the food and the water that you need to continue to survive. 13:50.912 --> 13:52.593 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on and the midst of this famine. 13:52.853 --> 13:56.114 [SPEAKER_01]: It may no sense in the natural but it may total sense to God. 13:57.275 --> 14:02.598 [SPEAKER_01]: So God says to Elijah the prophet, says I want you to go down to the brook to the 14:04.243 --> 14:06.405 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to send Ravens to feed you there. 14:08.667 --> 14:13.391 [SPEAKER_01]: Birds, I don't want you, but birds are gross. 14:14.732 --> 14:21.518 [SPEAKER_01]: For the most part, birds are nasty, they eat everything, they eat the trash, okay. 14:23.060 --> 14:26.483 [SPEAKER_01]: Those black birds, no matter what you throw out your window, they're going to eat it. 14:28.408 --> 14:29.408 [SPEAKER_01]: I tell the kids all the time. 14:30.029 --> 14:30.889 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what they'd say. 14:30.949 --> 14:32.189 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what to do with my gum. 14:32.809 --> 14:34.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Said throw it out the window, the birds will eat it. 14:36.831 --> 14:37.491 [SPEAKER_01]: The birds will eat it. 14:39.151 --> 14:44.053 [SPEAKER_01]: So God tells Elijah, go down to the water. 14:45.733 --> 14:48.794 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to send ravens there to feed you. 14:50.215 --> 14:54.136 [SPEAKER_01]: You see, church, sometimes your miracle is that you're there. 14:55.796 --> 14:57.737 [SPEAKER_01]: He said to Elijah, I want you to go there. 14:59.444 --> 15:03.267 [SPEAKER_01]: Notice how God didn't send Ravens to feed him where he was at that point of time. 15:04.688 --> 15:06.589 [SPEAKER_01]: But God sent Ravens there. 15:07.390 --> 15:09.811 [SPEAKER_01]: My, my, my, I'm gonna start preaching you but I'll be listening. 15:11.152 --> 15:13.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Watch, some of you are looking for the Ravens. 15:14.474 --> 15:17.877 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of you are looking for a miracle, but you ain't there. 15:20.138 --> 15:20.719 [SPEAKER_01]: You ain't there. 15:21.639 --> 15:23.661 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't send the Ravens to you. 15:23.741 --> 15:25.042 [SPEAKER_01]: He sent the Ravens there. 15:26.458 --> 15:29.180 [SPEAKER_01]: He sent the raven where you're supposed to be, hello. 15:29.841 --> 15:36.846 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you can get to where you're supposed to be, you'll run into a miracle that was planned that belongs to you. 15:37.906 --> 15:40.248 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what's interesting about this. 15:40.649 --> 15:44.591 [SPEAKER_01]: God tells Elijah to go, but then watch what he tells them. 15:44.671 --> 15:49.115 [SPEAKER_01]: He tells him right after this, he says, I have commanded ravens to feed you there. 15:50.657 --> 16:01.079 [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, here's another point of time where God does a miracle where He suspends and alters what is natural for His divine plan to be accomplished. 16:02.340 --> 16:03.360 [SPEAKER_01]: How is that pastor? 16:04.680 --> 16:06.941 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you, birds don't feed people. 16:10.881 --> 16:11.662 [SPEAKER_01]: Is that obvious? 16:12.342 --> 16:12.842 [SPEAKER_01]: It's simple. 16:13.962 --> 16:15.442 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you how this does work. 16:22.013 --> 16:24.175 [SPEAKER_01]: People feed birds, birds don't feed people. 16:25.556 --> 16:31.640 [SPEAKER_01]: So when God speaks to Elijah and he says, I want you to go to the specific place and a raven is gonna come and feed you. 16:34.002 --> 16:35.823 [SPEAKER_01]: I feed the ravens, God, what are you talking about? 16:35.843 --> 16:36.884 [SPEAKER_01]: The ravens are gonna feed me. 16:38.157 --> 16:44.904 [SPEAKER_01]: but God alters and suspends what is natural to perform a miracle to do something that is supernatural. 16:45.304 --> 16:54.654 [SPEAKER_01]: And if he had to get the attention of Elijah and tell him, I will feed you today even though nobody else is feeding and the way that I'm going to feed you is by sending a raven. 16:54.694 --> 16:54.975 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on. 16:55.255 --> 16:56.897 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to be, we got to be right. 16:56.917 --> 16:58.178 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to say, you know what, God? 16:58.478 --> 17:02.420 [SPEAKER_01]: If that's how you're going to make the miracle happen on my behalf, I will take it. 17:02.660 --> 17:07.283 [SPEAKER_01]: If it sounds weird, if it looks weird, if it doesn't make sense, I'm okay with that. 17:07.523 --> 17:11.525 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I know you are a supernatural God who takes care of his people. 17:11.785 --> 17:15.407 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you've got to send a raven to feed me in the midst of a famine, I'll take it. 17:18.268 --> 17:23.631 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how God's going to perform the miracle on your behalf, but I don't want you to be complaining and how he does it. 17:25.798 --> 17:27.899 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you to be saying, well God, that don't make sense. 17:28.559 --> 17:29.700 [SPEAKER_01]: God, that don't line up. 17:29.720 --> 17:32.581 [SPEAKER_01]: God, that's not how I expect him this miracle to take place. 17:33.661 --> 17:35.162 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that's how you were gonna do it. 17:35.562 --> 17:37.683 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, Elijah not wants to we read. 17:37.843 --> 17:39.984 [SPEAKER_01]: Where Elijah said, no, God, that don't know how to make no sense. 17:40.264 --> 17:42.125 [SPEAKER_01]: We're supposed to feed Ravens, Ravens don't feed us. 17:44.306 --> 17:46.787 [SPEAKER_01]: But not once, but he said, you know what? 17:46.987 --> 17:49.968 [SPEAKER_01]: If God promised to thank, it's gonna come to pass. 17:50.588 --> 17:54.350 [SPEAKER_01]: And if God said he's gonna feed me today, if he uses the Ravens, 17:56.314 --> 18:00.596 [SPEAKER_01]: I understand that his ways are not my ways, but his ways are so much better. 18:00.836 --> 18:06.319 [SPEAKER_01]: And so if he's got to go send a bird to get the food for me, when nobody else is eating, I'm gonna be okay with that. 18:10.481 --> 18:21.607 [SPEAKER_01]: So before the prophet starved, he changed the natural law, the natural way things work, and he used the raven to feed the man, Hallelujah. 18:23.648 --> 18:24.929 [SPEAKER_01]: And that just reminds me today 18:26.548 --> 18:28.109 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll make a taker, become a giver. 18:31.571 --> 18:36.675 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll change the nature of a thing to get to you what belongs to you. 18:37.675 --> 18:38.036 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? 18:38.496 --> 18:40.137 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he's a miracle worker. 18:41.017 --> 18:42.819 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I said, he's a miracle worker. 18:42.839 --> 18:45.480 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, shout out loud, he's a miracle worker. 18:46.201 --> 18:47.782 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, tell the person next to you. 18:47.822 --> 18:49.203 [SPEAKER_01]: He's a miracle worker. 18:52.785 --> 18:53.806 [SPEAKER_01]: So here's the question. 18:55.292 --> 19:05.215 [SPEAKER_01]: I came to ask you this morning, if God is a miracle worker, then why do we not see a lot of miracles happening today? 19:07.636 --> 19:15.379 [SPEAKER_01]: If God is a miracle worker, if that is the nature of who He is, if that is what He loves to do, if that is who He is. 19:16.703 --> 19:26.807 [SPEAKER_01]: If he is the miracle worker and our hope in our salvation is in him and we worship him and that's who we lay our lives down for why don't we see as many miracles today. 19:28.568 --> 19:41.473 [SPEAKER_01]: Scripture is filled with miracle after miracle after miracle all from the Old Testament to the New Testament from the beginning to the end it started out with a miracle and it ends with a miracle. 19:41.793 --> 19:44.094 [SPEAKER_01]: It is constantly full of miracles. 19:45.140 --> 19:52.185 [SPEAKER_01]: So, if you're a believer, and you believe in the Word of God, which is full of miracles. 19:53.365 --> 19:54.946 [SPEAKER_01]: And you become a person of faith. 19:56.147 --> 20:00.350 [SPEAKER_01]: And a person of faith is a person who believes and will stand for miracles no matter what. 20:01.791 --> 20:06.534 [SPEAKER_01]: A person of faith will believe and stand for miracles even when things aren't adding up and making sense. 20:07.514 --> 20:13.058 [SPEAKER_01]: A person of faith will stand and believe for a miracle, even though things don't look like there could be a miracle right now. 20:14.017 --> 20:16.398 [SPEAKER_01]: a person of faith will stand there and believe. 20:16.458 --> 20:20.119 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, knowing that God is a God who will provide. 20:20.679 --> 20:23.199 [SPEAKER_01]: That He is to hold the gyro, our provider. 20:23.239 --> 20:32.482 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, that He is to hold the knee, that He is to hold the rope, our healer, that whoever He says He is, He will be in our lives. 20:33.653 --> 20:42.901 [SPEAKER_01]: And so a person of faith will stand in a place of total faith and victory knowing who God says he already is and that he will come to come to pass for our lives. 20:44.022 --> 20:58.794 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that today that God is just looking for some faith in this room, that God is looking for some faith to believe and what we would say is impossible, that we would say is not normal in the natural, that God would rise up people's faith in this room 21:02.264 --> 21:04.024 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I believe that he's a miracle worker. 21:05.725 --> 21:08.006 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe he wants to do a miracle on your behalf today. 21:10.166 --> 21:12.787 [SPEAKER_01]: How can you read the whole Bible that's full of miracles? 21:13.547 --> 21:17.328 [SPEAKER_01]: And have a faith that's really based all on a miracle, come on somebody. 21:17.728 --> 21:20.209 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a miracle that God even created. 21:21.289 --> 21:24.670 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a miracle that Jesus, his son, was sitting upon this earth. 21:25.530 --> 21:29.552 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a miracle that Jesus came and died and he resurrected for you. 21:30.032 --> 21:30.752 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a miracle. 21:32.243 --> 21:41.026 [SPEAKER_01]: So if all of that is true, and if we believe in the Word, and we are a people of faith, then why can't you believe for a miracle for yourself? 21:44.747 --> 21:46.128 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's where it lies. 21:47.548 --> 21:48.709 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the end result. 21:50.389 --> 21:55.531 [SPEAKER_01]: I can believe for a miracle for you all day long, but if you don't believe a miracle for yourself, it's not gonna happen. 21:57.271 --> 21:58.432 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not gonna come to pass. 22:00.365 --> 22:16.752 [SPEAKER_01]: And you'll say, please pray for me for this, this and this and then next week you'll say, please pray for me for this, the same thing and it's constant, it becomes cycles and it becomes the way of life and all these kind of things and God is just saying, where is your faith to believe for yourself? 22:18.515 --> 22:20.375 [SPEAKER_01]: Where is your faith to believe for yourself? 22:20.435 --> 22:30.278 [SPEAKER_01]: If I am a miracle worker, if you believe in who I am, if you believe the truth of this word, if you are a person of faith, you will stand in a place of faith, no matter what. 22:31.478 --> 22:32.218 [SPEAKER_01]: No matter what. 22:32.858 --> 22:35.619 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, things don't line up perfectly for that, it all matter. 22:38.760 --> 22:41.100 [SPEAKER_01]: The Red Sea didn't make sense either. 22:43.841 --> 22:46.922 [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah being fed in the midst of the famine, did not make sense either. 22:48.057 --> 22:54.220 [SPEAKER_01]: So you can't, you can't come up with all of these excuses in all these reasons for why you can't believe for the miracle. 22:55.180 --> 23:00.803 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't come up with all of these thoughts in all these misconstrued ideas thinking, oh, God's not gonna do it, no? 23:02.223 --> 23:03.204 [SPEAKER_01]: He has a way of doing it. 23:04.264 --> 23:06.205 [SPEAKER_01]: It may not look the way that you want it to be. 23:07.105 --> 23:13.808 [SPEAKER_01]: It may not seem like it's the right choice, but God has a plan because he's the miracle worker. 23:18.617 --> 23:21.059 [SPEAKER_01]: First and foremost about anything else is that Jesus loves you. 23:25.122 --> 23:30.026 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, going all the way back to Sunday school, Jesus loves me, this I know. 23:30.406 --> 23:38.232 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, for the Bible tells me so little ones who can be long. 23:38.972 --> 23:42.255 [SPEAKER_01]: They are weak, but he is strong. 23:42.275 --> 23:45.798 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, yes, Jesus loves me. 23:46.794 --> 23:49.596 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, Jesus loves me. 23:50.677 --> 23:53.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Jesus loves me. 23:53.439 --> 23:53.780 [SPEAKER_01]: Why? 23:54.360 --> 23:57.743 [SPEAKER_01]: The Bible tells me so. 24:00.105 --> 24:01.145 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the first miracle. 24:03.047 --> 24:04.548 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the first miracle for you. 24:05.729 --> 24:08.071 [SPEAKER_01]: Is coming to the realization that Jesus loves you. 24:10.171 --> 24:17.093 [SPEAKER_01]: And once you become saved and you fall in love with Jesus because he's already falling in love with you, that's a miracle in and of itself. 24:17.814 --> 24:23.055 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a miracle in and of itself that some of you are even sitting here this morning listening to this message. 24:27.057 --> 24:28.357 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I said it's a miracle. 24:28.377 --> 24:36.980 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, some of you who have witnessed a miracle for that, come on, you ought to be shouting right now, but it's a miracle that some of you are even sitting in this place right now into the sound of my voice. 24:38.419 --> 24:40.140 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, because God rescued you. 24:40.220 --> 24:41.021 [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, come on. 24:41.241 --> 24:43.522 [SPEAKER_01]: God delivered you, God set you free. 24:43.542 --> 24:45.103 [SPEAKER_01]: He showed His love to you. 24:45.163 --> 24:45.443 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 24:45.483 --> 24:45.924 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 24:45.944 --> 24:47.805 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a miracle. 24:48.846 --> 24:50.266 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a miracle that you're here today. 24:51.587 --> 24:55.430 [SPEAKER_01]: So the first miracle is coming to the understanding and realization that Jesus actually loves me. 24:56.831 --> 24:57.931 [SPEAKER_01]: He loves me to spite me. 24:59.032 --> 25:02.074 [SPEAKER_01]: He loves me to spite the stupid things I do. 25:04.133 --> 25:11.999 [SPEAKER_01]: The things that I say, the ways that I act, sometimes my attitude or my this or my that, he loves me despite all of those things. 25:13.400 --> 25:16.422 [SPEAKER_01]: He loves me despite the fact that I've made some dumb decisions. 25:18.263 --> 25:19.944 [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, let me help somebody else out real quick. 25:20.265 --> 25:26.109 [SPEAKER_01]: He loves me even now the thing that the decision that I made has led me to the situation that I'm in right now. 25:27.250 --> 25:28.010 [SPEAKER_01]: He still loves me. 25:30.052 --> 25:31.072 [SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, Jesus. 25:32.132 --> 25:37.016 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody that's helping you out right now, because I know we can hear that all the time. 25:37.156 --> 25:38.758 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you. 25:38.818 --> 25:41.801 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, we know that, but do you really know that? 25:43.382 --> 25:48.046 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you heard it when you were growing up in Sunday school, but what happened in life? 25:49.467 --> 25:50.188 [SPEAKER_01]: What changed? 25:54.231 --> 25:55.793 [SPEAKER_01]: You gotta know today that Jesus loves you. 25:57.805 --> 26:05.992 [SPEAKER_01]: So if we can start by believing in faith that there is a man that came and died and resurrected because he loves me, then what else can he do for me? 26:07.633 --> 26:18.502 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody, if Jesus loved me enough, even to the point of going on a cross and dying for me, then what else could he do for me today? 26:20.523 --> 26:24.327 [SPEAKER_01]: That means if I'm sick in my body, I know he can heal me. 26:25.617 --> 26:29.398 [SPEAKER_01]: If I've got a financial situation, I know he can come through. 26:30.439 --> 26:37.901 [SPEAKER_01]: If I'm dealing with something in my life right now, I know because he is the miracle worker that he is going to work on my behalf. 26:40.282 --> 26:41.282 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's who he is. 26:43.743 --> 26:46.043 [SPEAKER_01]: We got to start believing for ourselves, church. 26:47.044 --> 26:54.126 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think we do a really good job standing in place and believing for someone else's miracle, but when it comes to ours, we're like, God, I don't know if you're going to do it. 26:56.659 --> 27:00.621 [SPEAKER_01]: That's like, wait a second, you had enough faith to pray for somebody else, but you don't even have enough faith for yourself. 27:02.402 --> 27:03.702 [SPEAKER_01]: Then what kind of faith is that? 27:05.503 --> 27:07.184 [SPEAKER_01]: That's somebody else's faith, not yours. 27:08.145 --> 27:12.006 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, I need you to have faith, even if it's the size of a mustard seed. 27:12.527 --> 27:14.628 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not looking for this enormous amount of faith. 27:14.968 --> 27:19.010 [SPEAKER_01]: I just need you to have enough faith to believe that I can come through on your behalf. 27:21.511 --> 27:23.312 [SPEAKER_01]: He's looking for your faith today, church. 27:25.206 --> 27:38.711 [SPEAKER_01]: I have enough faith and I believe there's enough faith in this room today so not just know that the miracle worker is here but to believe that the miracle worker wants to perform miracles today. 27:41.012 --> 27:42.793 [SPEAKER_01]: You should have shouted they meant a whole lot louder than that. 27:44.253 --> 27:51.296 [SPEAKER_01]: I know for a fact that the miracle worker is present today and the miracle worker wants to 27:54.307 --> 27:55.107 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, somebody. 27:56.108 --> 28:02.632 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, if I were you and I was needing a miracle in my life, I'd be standing to my feet right now and shouting saying, yes, Lord. 28:05.874 --> 28:08.415 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's how hungry and desperate I would be for a miracle. 28:09.756 --> 28:13.238 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you're gonna sit back with your arms crossed and say, I don't know about me today. 28:13.258 --> 28:14.559 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if God's gonna do that. 28:14.599 --> 28:15.939 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe for somebody else. 28:16.920 --> 28:19.842 [SPEAKER_01]: Then you just watch God not do it for you. 28:23.174 --> 28:35.203 [SPEAKER_01]: You know my grandma used to say this all the time and church and say if all you got is stinking thinking and ain't going to happen, but God's looking for some faith today. 28:35.683 --> 28:37.385 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, faith. 28:38.586 --> 28:42.448 [SPEAKER_01]: I know you can have faith to believe for somebody else in this room, but can you have faith for you? 28:43.469 --> 28:44.030 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 28:44.770 --> 28:46.752 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you believe for you today? 28:47.818 --> 28:52.261 [SPEAKER_01]: And I believe that there is a miracle worker that is in the room right now that wants to do a miracle for you. 28:52.782 --> 28:54.002 [SPEAKER_01]: Worship team, if you can come up. 28:54.323 --> 29:00.727 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a miracle worker that is in the room right now that wants to do a miracle for you. 29:01.708 --> 29:07.972 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a miracle worker that is in the room right now that wants to do a miracle for you. 29:11.119 --> 29:17.021 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a miracle worker that is in the room right now, that wants to do a miracle for you. 29:17.682 --> 29:24.284 [SPEAKER_01]: There is a miracle worker who is in the room right now, that wants to do a miracle for you. 29:24.304 --> 29:26.545 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah! 29:27.786 --> 29:28.766 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah! 29:31.027 --> 29:32.648 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, Lord, yes, Lord. 29:35.009 --> 29:36.889 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I don't need to pump you up. 29:40.102 --> 29:45.345 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't need you to get filled up to try to, no, no, no, I just need you to have faith for you. 29:46.706 --> 29:51.008 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got faith for you, but that's just not gonna just do it. 29:52.389 --> 29:54.710 [SPEAKER_01]: I've got faith for you, do you have faith for you? 29:56.451 --> 29:59.053 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you thinking and praying for somebody else right now. 29:59.793 --> 30:02.055 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you laying your hands on somebody else right now. 30:02.075 --> 30:04.236 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you to go pray for somebody else right now. 30:05.256 --> 30:07.598 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, I want you to believe for you right now. 30:08.764 --> 30:09.465 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we cut the lights? 30:09.685 --> 30:11.448 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you to believe for you right now. 30:11.528 --> 30:13.530 [SPEAKER_01]: What is it that you need in your life? 30:13.570 --> 30:18.417 [SPEAKER_01]: What is it that you're looking for for the miracle worker to come and work on your behalf today? 30:19.838 --> 30:20.479 [SPEAKER_01]: Hallelujah. 30:23.114 --> 30:24.936 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to today's message. 30:25.256 --> 30:28.619 [SPEAKER_00]: We pray you were inspired, challenged, and marked by the word you heard. 30:29.239 --> 30:33.883 [SPEAKER_00]: If this message blessed you today, we encourage you to subscribe to the Church of the City podcast. 30:34.484 --> 30:39.207 [SPEAKER_00]: There you can find more faith-filled messages to uplift you and help you on your journey of faith. 30:39.988 --> 30:48.517 [SPEAKER_00]: For more information about Church of the City, head on over to www.cotcdfw.com. 30:49.278 --> 30:53.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember this, the best is yet to come.