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by Lindsay Roberts

Have you ever noticed that people can react differently when we talk to them about the miracle-working power of God to change their circumstances for the better?

Some people think the very idea of receiving a miracle is crazy. “Oh, that’s just crazy,” they might say. “Expecting a miracle is crazy.” They may even make it personal by saying, “You’re crazy for believing for miracles.”

Others may have the opposite response and say, “It’s amazing! It’s amazing what God can do. Look what the Lord has done.”

What we receive into our lives, of course, depends on what we believe. I believe God can take the situations that the world has termed crazy, and He can turn them into something amazing. The question is, which are you believing for? Are you expecting your life to remain crazy, difficult, or out of control? Or are you expecting God to take the crazy in your life and, by His power, turn it around into something amazing?

Our Faith Can Bring about Miracles

Jesus often taught about the power of our faith to change the circumstances of our lives. We see this principle of faith at work in Mark 11.

In this passage of scripture, Jesus and His disciples were traveling from Bethany to Jerusalem. They were hungry, and they saw a fig tree. But when they approached it, they could see it didn’t have any fruit on it. The fig tree wasn’t producing. The Bible says, In response, Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it (Mark 11:14).

From there, the Bible tells us that Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, cleansed the Temple, and then returned along the road to Bethany the next day. As they passed that same fig tree, the disciples were astonished. Peter said, “Look, Rabbi, the fig tree which you cursed has withered away!”

Jesus answered and said, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:22–24).

When you see the word assuredly in the words of Jesus, it means, “This is a guarantee. It’s guaranteed by My Name, and there’s no higher name on earth to make that guarantee by. You have the backing and the assurance of God with this promise.”

You see, the disciples saw the fig tree had withered in the course of one day. And they were focused on the element of that situation that was crazy. It was crazy to their natural thinking that Jesus’ words alone would cause the tree to wither in a day.

But Jesus’ response to His disciples (and His response to us today when we think the Word of God and the promises of God seem crazy or impossible) was to immediately take them out of that way of thinking. He said, “Assuredly, God guarantees to act on your faith, when you pray according to His Word and His will.”

So, let’s get out of thinking miracles like this are crazy. Let’s believe what God can do in our lives is amazing.

Jesus Came to Do the

Miraculous in Our Lives

Now, the Bible says that every good and perfect gift comes from God (James 1:17). The Bible says very clearly, “Many are the plans of a man’s heart, but it’s the purpose of God that shall prevail” (Proverbs 19:21). And, “For I know the plans I have for you. They are for your good and not for evil” (Jeremiah 29:11). Jesus came with a plan from God the Father to set the captives free. That means us!

The Bible says, For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). It’s important to separate the crazy situations of the world and the evil works of the devil from the miraculous works of God.

John 10:10 says, “The thief comes not but for to steal, kill, and to destroy.” But Jesus said, “I have come for this purpose, that I might destroy the works of the devil.” The Bible also says, Greater is He that’s in you (God) than he that’s in the world (the devil) (1 John 4:4).

And the Bible also says, By His stripes, we are healed (1 Peter 2:24).

I have made the decision to choose Jesus—the Greater One, in me. Jesus went to the cross so we don’t have to go through it. Therefore, right now, I believe this is an amazing day for miracles. It’s an amazing day for amazing miracles! No matter how crazy your circumstances seem to your natural mind, miracles are amazing to your spirit man.

Be Led by Your Spirit, Not Your Mind

A miracle may seem crazy to your natural mind. But in God’s kingdom, it’s created to be amazing. Why is there such a difference? It’s because, as Romans 8:7 says, Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

You see, the kingdom of God is different and in many ways even opposed to the natural, or carnal, mind. That’s why it is useful to pray that God would help us daily to allow our spirit man to supersede, or overule, our natural man.

God made us to be in the world but yet not of it. We are created to live in this natural world. But that means “exist and dwell in.” Then we see that while we may live IN the world, we are not OF IT. But John 4:4 says, We are of God, and greater is He—God working within us—than anything working from the outside in.

You see, we are actually a three-part being, a triune being. We are a spirit, we have a soul (our mind, will, emotions, and intellect), and we live in a body. When we are born again, our spirit man has a divine connection with God—a straight line between us and God. Then there is our soul, which allows us to process what God is saying by His Spirit. Through our spirit man, our mind can receive instruction from God; then God’s instructions can filter down into our body, bringing us health and wholeness.

As believers and as children of God, we are to be led by our spirit, not our body or mind. And as we’re spirit-led, as we’re led by the Holy Spirit, the Bible says we receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon us (Acts 1:8).