John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it."
A spree is basically a period of an outburst of a particular activity and in these times, the prayers of many people are mostly geared towards a miracle. A miracle is a supernatural happening that beats human imagination but the question is does it really happen out of nowhere? In the opening scripture, Jesus was at a wedding in Cana and when the wine ran out, His mother told Him about the problem but He said it wasn’t yet His hour. His mother then told the servants to do anything Jesus told them. I believe strongly that she understood that miracles would surely happen when Jesus’ instructions are obeyed. Soon after, Jesus actually instructed the servants to fill the jars with water and then draw them out and once they did it a miracle happened – Water was turned into wine. Guess what? If they had not filled the jar with water, nothing would have happened.
This reminds me of the widow of Zarephath who after the prophet told her to prepare a meal for him, even though there was famine and she had little, after acting on the Word, never run out of oil and flour. In 2 Kings 4, Elisha told the wife of the prophet, when she said she had nothing apart from a jar of oil, to go borrow vessels and fill them with oil, and all the vessels she got were filled with oil from one jar – that’s a miracle but she had to heed to instruction.
In the New Testament, for the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:25-29, we see that when she heard about Jesus, she went where He was and said to herself if she could touch the hem of His garment she would be made whole. First, she heard of Him and took a step to get out of her house and then press through the crowd to touch him, and immediately a miracle happened. She didn’t say: if I’m at home, Jesus would come to me. What will be will be. A popular statement that keeps many Christians lazy, expecting God to do everything while they do nothing is this one. Another one is to leave everything to God. We don’t leave everything in God’s hands by sitting down idle. The centurion whose servant was healed in Matthew 8:5-13 did not say because He was a man of authority, He would send his subordinates to come and call Jesus to heal his servant. He went there Himself and sought Jesus’ help.
Jesus did not feed five thousand people out of thin air. The bread and fish came from a little boy and He gave thanks and asked that the disciples distribute it to the people. It was in distributing that the multiplication came. The last time God fed people with manna from heaven, they were ungrateful. The last time God gave a man a wife without the man’s choice, He blamed God and said, the woman you gave me was the reason for my disobedience. So God is going to use what you have. Moses had to stretch the rod He had in his hands, God did not manufacture the rod for Him. This goes against what most people have believed over the years – just relax and God will do it. Having rest in the finished work of Jesus doesn’t mean we do nothing. In 2 Corinthians 6:1, Paul said: As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. Many people are taking God’s grace in vain. They believe that once you are saved, that’s it.
Miracles are birthed through obedience.
The people who are blessed are not just hearers but doers. You put the Word to work and see results. I remember times when God told me to take certain steps and in obeying, I experienced things that were seemingly impossible at the time. A few years ago I asked someone who helped me with keyboard lessons what He wanted for Christmas, and He told me He needed a particular keyboard. When He mentioned the price, I was like why did I even ask? The keyboard I had at the time was even lower than that price. That giving cost me because it was a little above an entire week’s pay. In a particular year, I wanted to get a great keyboard and great things are expensive. With the work I was doing at the time, I had to work for 10 weeks to get that amount and I was combining school with work and realized it would be stressful for me so I decided to quit the job and it was a tough decision. There was no way, humanly speaking, that the money would come if I didn’t work. God told me to give an amount of money and in two weeks, at a time I was not working and with no money from my parents, I got five times what I gave and could buy the keyboard with extra money left. As I thought about how this happened, I was reminded of the keyboard I bought for that friend. I didn’t have to struggle through that stressful job because I had sown a seed years ago.
It is in walking with God and obeying Him every step of the way that you see His hand. Once God has said you should do something, just know that there’s something He wants to give you. People want miracles from God but are not ready to do anything. As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest will not seize. You will always reap what you sow. It’s a system set in motion. You can’t reap abundance where you have sowed nothing. A seed must be sown before a tree with fruits appears. Faith without works is dead.
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