Miracles of Faith

Bill Johnson, Senior Pastor of Bethel Church in California poses an interesting question.  Do you want healing, or do you want resurrection power?

Both boost our faith and confidence in God, but which is greater?  He talks about Lazarus who was raised from the dead. He said that Jesus could have gone to Lazarus and healed him, but He waited two more days and said,

“Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” John 11:40

When we take steps of faith and see miracles this boosts our trust in God, and that’s what God wants- It’s never about the miracles, He said, “Your faith has healed you…”  He wants us to trust and believe that He is who He says He is and He does what He says He does- Just like our Father in Heaven.

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign!  But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.  For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12:38-40

The resurrection of Jesus is the greatest sign and miracle of All, and it’s what we should always point others, too.  Our belief in Christianity rests alone on this fact that Jesus died and after three days rose from the grave- and went to heaven where He lives to intercede for us.  We know, that “If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”  (Romans 10:9)