It took a miracle to put the stars in place.
It took a miracle to hang the world in space.
But when He saved my soul,
Cleansed and made me whole,
It took a miracle of love and grace.
--John W. Peterson

I cannot understand how anyone cannot believe in miracles, when the Bible contains so many accounts of miracles. Of course, you meet some intellectuals who contend--often in an inflated academic style and supercilious language--that the miracles recorded in the Bible either never happened or can be explained scientifically, or if they did happen, such miracles are impossible today. Well, those miracles did happen just like the Bible says they did, and in every case it only took two elements: the power of God and someone's faith. The power of God hasn't changed, of course, so whenever that power is met by the faith of some sincere believer, you can expect to see a miracle. It happens all the time!

Faith in the Bible creates faith in the miraculous. The Bible not only reveals the acts of the supernatural God, but it also imparts faith to anyone who reads it with an open heart (Romans 10:17). The Bible has a miraculous, transforming effect on our lives, and that gives us faith for other miracles. Faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ, faith in the Christ of the Bible, makes for faith in our everyday lives. That's because real faith believes in the changeless Christ, and His power brings the same results today as it did during His earthly ministry and through His original followers.

Shortly before His crucifixion Jesus promised, "He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father" (John 14:12). Then after His resurrection, when He appeared to His disciples, He said that signs (miracles) would follow those who believed in Him, and miracles did follow (Mark 16:17-18, 20). It wasn't long before others were saying of the first Christians, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too" (Acts 17:6). Those first followers and the ones who were to come had such confidence that the supernatural power of God was at their command that they dared to challenge the mighty Roman Empire and shook it to its very foundations.

Real faith believes in the changeless Christ, and His power brings the same results today as it did during His earthly ministry.

If Jesus is "the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8), why is it so hard to believe that He, in answer to prayer, will do the same kinds of miracles today? Wherever you find real faith manifested, you will find miracles. God's faithfulness to His Word absolutely compels Him to perform miracles.

So when you don't see miracles it must be due to an absence of faith, not because Christ or His promises have changed in the very least. If you live in His Word, if you dig out His promises and build your faith on them, if you trust Him to keep His word even when it seems impossible, you'll see things come to pass that are impossible in the natural realm. You'll see God at work in the realm of the supernatural.

I pray that God will help you discover a sense of the supernatural and learn to have complete confidence in the reality of divine power that's yours through the miraculous Word of God. "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27).

It's been my practice for many years, whenever some desperate need arose, to trust God to work a miracle. I didn't always get the miracle I was praying for, but that was never through any fault of God's--and He did send miraculous answers to prayer many more times than He kept me waiting or said no.

"The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect"--full of faith--"toward Him" (2 Chronicles 16:9 KJV). His compassion and love for you, His willingness to come to your rescue in times of need, and His faithfulness to His promises are just the same today. He longs to see faith and meet your needs.

The next time you need a miracle, claim this promise in utter confidence: "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:32). His power is just the same today, and it's there for you. God is still on the throne, and prayer--wholehearted, full-of-faith prayer--changes things!