God is Still Doing Miracles
By Scott Phillips
By Scott Phillips
Remember us when you pray. We would like the Lord to bless us with a few more sponsors for the Radio program. If you are connected and interested in supporting this effort, it would be appreciated. We are baptizing a Lady Sunday in our Brand New Baptistry that came from the Radio Program. She and her Whole Family came a few weeks ago. They set very respectfully and during prayer I went over to her and asked her of her background and she told me, "I am episcopalian, this is very different, but I feel like I have come home." Without Further Ado, Here is things I think I will cover tomorrow.
GOD IS STILL DOING Miracles Everyday we are surrounded by the miraculous.
Hebrews 11:1-3 KJV
(1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.(2) For by it the elders obtained a good report.
(3) Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Often you get what you’re looking for.
When you discover something, ever where you look you find a confirmation for what you have discovered. Like buying a new model of a car, you think you have something unique until you strap it on, and you find out& hellip; hey look, another one.
God has away of leading and guiding our steps to bring confirmation of the things he is doing in our lives.
Miracles still happen.
Beyond the norma l everyday miracles.
Everyday miracles like
Babies being born,
Flowers blooming,
Songs being written and
Prayers being prayed.
You know the fact that you want pray, is a miracle of the supernatural?
The fact there is a longing inside of you that is much deeper than a hunger pain, is confirmation of the Spirit of God working in your life.
Sure we know people try all the wrong prescriptions to the same hunger. 99% of the prescriptions are just that… they treat the symptoms.. But don’t fill the void.
Miracles Still Happen!
2,000 years ago…
A special child was born…
Conceived by a Virgin
Heralded by angels
Worshipped by shepherds
Found by wise men…
Echoes of a thousand prophecies began to bloom in a certain place at a certain time.
When the fullness of time had come,
Jesus was born.
When the scales of justice could not be assuaged any longer, God wrapped up his
fullness and planted it in a woman,
and the fullness of God was born in the
weakness of humanity.
If it happened back then… Miracles still happen.
This man Jesus was not like every other child born that day.
He came in the likeness of sinful flesh, To condemn sin in the Flesh.
2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV
(21) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Romans 8:3-4 KJV
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Jesus came that we could do through him, what we can not do by ourselves.
You have tried to quit smoking
You have tried to quit drinking
You have tried to quit lying
You have tried to be a good father
You have tried to do everything just right
But what you could not do by yourself, Jesus Came so you could do it through him.
Like getting the water from the hydrant to the thirsty things in your garden… you can try to cup your hands
to get a bucket
to get a watering can
But what you need is something that the water can flow from the point of
origination to the point of the need.
Jesus is the Conduit that we get in our lives that his spirit can water the
thirsty needs in our lives that will never be sustained by handfuls of good intentions.
We need Jesus..
He is the Water and the Conduit that Miracles of Healing and deliverance flow
through. He is the source…
He is the answer that flows From the source
Jesus is the conduit that answers flows from the source to the thirsty needs in your life.
Jesus, the miracle of manifestation we read about in our Bible, is still answering the nagging question of humanity today.
What God planted in the womb of Mary; that same answer he wants to plant in the womb of your spirit.
What will be born is not necessarily a baby… but the blossoming and
fulfillment of Gods purpose in your life.
Jesus!
God is still doing Miracles.
A young boy stood up a few weeks ago and testified that God helped the bus to come back and pick him up because he missed the bus. He prayed, and the bus came back; he said, “The Bus Don’t wait and the Bus don't come back; But I prayed and God sent that bus back.”
Might not seem much to you, but to that young child, it was a miracle.
These are the kinds of miracles that begin a miraculous momentum in our lives to help us see God not just as some story written in the pages of history, but a God that is written in the pages of our everyday lives.
If you will be bold enough to ask God to help you in the details of your life, you will begin to believe he can help you in the dilemmas of your life.
Often we can’t believe God for the Dilemmas because we never let him in to
the details.
God is still doing miracles.
We were concerned about our middle son Nates Eyesight. We have prayed and believed. We took him to the doctor the other day and the Doctor said, "He doesn't need glasses, he can see fine."
Miracles still happen.
I have seen God do miracles for me so many times that I feel almost spoiled. But I believe I know why. It is not my righteousness or my intelligence. He meets us at the level of our faith. The more we exercise our faith, the greater our ability to exercise faith.
Faith is more than just something you pray about' and you do pray your faith; but it is more than that.
Faith is more than something that you write down in your bible; and you very well may write it down..
But faith many times is beyond just something on our list of things to ask for. Faith is beyond something that we look at and want. Faith is this deep seated knowing, understanding, grasping…
I am a Child of God.
I am a Child of God.
I am a child of God.
When this revelation comes to you… you quit working so hard to please God.
My children are not my children just when they are good. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and all day
Saturday. Twenty four hours a day, 365 days a year, in the good times and the bad. They belong to me.
The same is true about me and you.
If we are living in the Fathers House; we eat of our fathers food.
If we are living in our fathers house; we enjoy our Fathers Protection.
If we are living in our Fathers House; We are enjoying our Fathers Favor.
Some of you may be like the prodigal son; and you have wondered FAR from Father;
But if you're a child of God you know;
If I can ever get back to Father….. I can enjoy the benefits of being a Child of God.
If you're puffing on your cigarette..
If you're drinking from your beer can..
If you have the balance sheet of the money lost in the casino;
If you have the headache from the night before..
If you have the regret of broken promises and missed opportunities;
The Father is Waiting on you to come back home to Daddy.
Luke 15:10-24 KJV
(10) Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
(11) And he said, A certain man had two sons: (12) And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
(13) And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
(14) And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
(15) And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
(16) And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
(17) And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
(18) I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
(19) And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
(20) And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
(21) And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
(22) But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
(23) And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
(24) For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
It may have been a weekend away from God.
It may have been a month.
It may have been a year.
It may have been a decade..
It may have been so long you can’t remember the last time you enjoyed true peace;
Are you ready to wake up and realize;. It's better to be a slave in the Fathers House than a Ruler in the Devils Kingdom.
An usher in the church house has more peace than the wealthy drug dealer;.
A Sunday school teacher has more calm than any lying business man.
Psalms 84:10 KJV
(10) For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Hey Sinner friend….
If you’re doing things.. living in ways that you know do not please God;. You may be a child of God, but you're not living in the Fathers House.
You may have all kinds of excuses…
But let’s be honest for a moment; you and I both know it is just an excuse.
If you’re lukewarm and being way less than God has called you to be. Don't blame it on the preacher or the song leader.
It is an excuse.
And there is no excuse to leave the Fathers House.
Maybe you just need to reconnect with God.
God is still doing miracles.
The Greatest Miracle is not healing Blind Eyes or Making the lame to walk.
But the Miracle God wants to do is a miracle of mercy in your life, heart and
family. Can you feel the drawing of a loving savior.
I am sitting on the porch with him looking down the road and wandering when you're coming back.
Don't buy the lie; your alright because of what you did as a child or young adult. If you're involved in adulterous lifestyle; you may be a child, but you're in the pig pen.
If you're living a lifestyle and making a living telling lies, you may be
a child, but you're filling your life with husks and pig feed.
Don’t settle for past commitment… but understand that God
meets you
at your level of commitment.
If you were committed, truly committed ten years ago… guess
where God met
you at.
Ten years ago.
He is waiting for you not just at your past level of commitment…
but he
wants to know..
Do you want what I have for you now?
It is not just written in the history books of past holy people.
But God is writing the miracles in the lives of normal everyday people
like you
and I that have to get up every morning and look in the mirror and
wonder…”What am I doing?”
Miracles Still Happen!
2,000 years ago…
A special child was bor
n…
Conceived by a Virgin
Heralded by angels
Worshipped by shepherds
Found by wise men…
Echoes of a thousand prophecies began to bloom in a certain place at a
certain
time.
When the fullness of time had come,
Jesus was Born.
When the scales of justice could not be assuaged any longer, God
wrapped up his
fullness and planted it in a woman, and the fullness of God was born in
the
weakness of humanity.
If it happened back then… Miracles still happen.
Jesus wants to be Born in your life.
HOW CAN JESUS BE BORN IN MY LIFE?
John 3:2-7 KJV
(2) The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know
that
thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that
thou
doest, except God be with him.
(3) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
(4) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is ol
d? can he
enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
(5) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born
of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
(6) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
the
Spirit is spirit.
(7) Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
When you are born again…
When you are Born of Water and of the Spirit…
Jesus is Born in you
When you believe the Gospel, you follow the Gospel.
Jesus Died.
Jesus was Buried.
Jesus Rose Again.
When you believe the Gospel, you follow the Gospel.
Jesus Died.
Jesus was Buried.
Jesus Rose Again.
When you believe the Gospel, you follow the Gospel.
Jesus Died.
Jesus was Buried.
Jesus Rose Again.
How do I demonstrate my faith in the Gospel?
You die
You’re Buried
You Rise Again.
This is the Process of the New Birth.
You die
You’re Buried
You Rise Again.
If you want Jesus to be Born in you…. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.
It’s not rocket science, it is as simple as 123.
Anyone can do this any time.
You die
You’re Buried
You Rise Again.
Colossians 2:12 KJV
(12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through
the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:10-15 MSG
(10) When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too.
His
power extends over everything.
(11) Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or
achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list
of laws.
No, you're already in--insiders--not through some secretive initiation
rite but
rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying
the
power of sin.
(12) If it's an initiation ritual you're after, you've already been
through
it by submittin
g to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old
life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the
dead as
he did Christ.
(13) When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable
of
responding to God. God brought you alive--right along with Christ!
Think of it!
All sins forgiven,
(14) the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed
to
Christ's Cross.
(15) He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their
sham
authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.
BURIED UNTO HIS DEATH
Romans 6:3-6 KJV
(3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were
baptized into his death?
(4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like
as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also
should walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
we
shall be also in
the likeness of his resurrection:
(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body
of
sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 6:2-11 MSG
(2) I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is
sovereign,
how can we still live in our old house there?
(3) Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace--a new life in a new land! That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means.
(4) When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.
(5) Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we
can see where we're going in our new grace-sovereign country.
(6) Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life--no longer at sin's every beck and call! What we believe is this:
(7) (SEE 6:6)
(8) If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.
(9) We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.
(10) When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.
(11) From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word.You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.
So… Do you want to come back to Fathers House?
Do you want to be BORN AGAIN?
Are you Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired?
THE PROCESS OF LEAVING THE PIG PEN.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my fat her's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
(18) I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
(19) And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
(20) And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Have you Been Born Again?
Have you died to your old ways? DEATH TO SIN.
Have you Been Buried In Jesus? Buried With Jesus. Like he was buried in a Tomb.
Have you ROSE AGAIN IN NEWNESS OF LIFE?
The New Testament Message of Salvation.
Death, Burial Resurrection.
Death, Burial Resurrection.
Death, Burial Resurrection.
Listen to the Salvation Message of Peter 2,000 years ago.
THAT IS HOW YOU CAN BE SAVED TODAY.
Acts 2:37-41 KJV
(37) Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
(38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
(39) For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
(40) And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
(41) Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
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