The Right Way to React to Miracles (Part 2)

Why God does miracles:

God is supernatural. It is the only way He interacts with us.

What good is an encounter? A divine encounter brings your faith beyond a relationship with a book and lets you experience the God of that book first hand. You’re no longer just reading about Him.  He’s confirming  everything you ever read about him.     Furthermore, you own the experience. Your faith is embellished when you have a testimony of your  own to stand on. Scoffers can tear apart the  scriptures to you, but they cannot take away your  testimony. What does it do for a religious person? One world wrecking supernatural encounter ends a religious person’s games of competing over who knows the bible the best. Evidence that God is  really out there smacks him in the face. That  knocks him off his platform. He is humbled with  the realization that God has had His eye on him  since the beginning. His relationship with God is  now tangible.  It wasn’t until Jesus knocked Saul off his  high horse that he became Paul the Apostle.  Saul thought he knew it all. Jesus showed him he knew nothing. It was this miracle that catapulted  Paul into bringing the gospel to the Roman  Empire.  Once he experienced God’s power, Paul’s faith  rested in the power of God instead of the wisdom  of men. From that resting point, Paul demonstrated the gospel instead of blabbing about it. What good does it do to demonstrate the  supernatural to others? Signs and wonders are a vehicle to get others to  Jesus. It is a gospel that preaches itself.  When  the spiritually hungry witness His glory, they want to know more. What caused it? How did it happen? It strikes curiosity. It opens the unbeliever’s heart to the kingdom. It makes believers out of unbelievers and  and strengthens the faith of the believer. The real miracle is the work that is done in your heart once you have humbly stood in awe of God’s glory. Miracles are a precursor to evangelism. Did you ever have something happen that was so  great you just had to tell somebody? That’s what happens to a person who receives a miracle. He  immediately becomes an evangelist, whether or not he took a training class. If fear of man ever stopped him from sharing the good news, he no longer is afraid. He doesn’t care about looking foolish to men.  Consider the women at the tomb. How foolish did  they look proclaiming “He is risen!” They couldn’t  help but preach. Any self-consciousness turns  to God consciousness. And God wants others to experience what you’ve experienced.  He doesn’t want His sons and  daughters to be religious.  He wants to interact with His children.   He wants your life to never be the same.  He wants you to embrace who He is. So, thank Him for  Godly encounters.  Always remember what He has done for you.