Do you feel that no matter what you do, you never get the result that you want? Have you tried everything to change your situation, but it remains the same? These are times that will try the very faith that you possess to have in Christ. When it seems that everything looks hopeless, you may be in the middle of a miracle.
Picture this--a desperate man comes and falls at the feet of Jesus. He implores Him to come and heal his twelve-year-old daughter who is dying. Jesus agrees to go with the man, named Jairus, to his house. On the way, messengers meet Jairus and tell him that his daughter is dead. Jairus was in the middle of a miracle. Though his daughter was dead, Jesus told him, "Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole." (Luke 8:41-56) Jesus raised Jairus' daughter from the dead. This was a great miracle that we still read about in the Bible today.
There was a very faithful man one time named Daniel. He prayed to God openly, even though he knew that the consequence for praying to anyone other than the king was death. Daniel gave God his daily prayers, and he ended up in a den full of hungry lions. Daniel was in the middle of a miracle right then. Even the king told Daniel before the den was sealed with a stone, "Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee." (Daniel 6:16) The next morning, Daniel told the king that God had sent an angel that shut the mouths of the lions. Truly, this was a miracle. Those lions really were hungry because they killed everyone else that was thrown into the den after Daniel was saved.
There were three Hebrew children one time that kept their allegiance to the one true God by not bowing down to a statue. They knew the consequence was to be thrown into a fiery furnace, but that did not change their minds. The situation was dire, but they were in the middle of a miracle then. The furnace was heated seven times hotter than usual. It was so fierce that the men who put the Hebrew boys into the fire were killed. Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fire and cried with amazement. "Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." (Daniel 3) After they were out of the furnace, there was not even a smell of smoke on their clothes or one singed hair on their bodies. What a miracle!
There was a family that Jesus loved very much. He spent time at their home. One day, he got some news that one of his friends, Lazarus, was sick. Jesus did not go to the house of his friends right away. Mary and Martha watched their brother Lazarus die. They did not know why Jesus did not come right when they called for Him. Mary and Martha were in the middle of a miracle. Jesus did arrive after Lazarus had already been dead four days. Jesus commanded for the stone to be rolled away from the tomb. Martha said, "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?" (John 11) Jesus called for Lazarus to come out of the grave, and Lazarus obeyed. Can you imagine how the onlookers felt when they saw a man walking out of a grave that they knew had been dead four days? What a miraculous event!
Take courage, O child of God! Hebrews 11:33-34 tells us about Christians, "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens." Through faith, miracles can be accomplished! Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 21, "Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." Whatever your mountain is today, it can be removed through your faith.
They say that it is always darkest before dawn. I know personally that it is very hard to keep believing when you see nothing changing or going right in your life. We have to keep trusting God's word and walking by faith. Put your eyes on Jesus and not on the circumstances. You are in the middle of a miracle, just have faith that God is able to keep every word that He has promised!
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