The making of miracles

Everyday prayer requests come to my attention. People have great needs. Some want God to supply much needed finances. Others want God to heal them of some disease. Still others want God to give them gainful employment. We have different needs at one time or the other but I have come to realise that every man has needs. No-one is exempted.
Though I receive other people’s needs and do the priestly duty of presenting them before the Almighty God I also have got my own needs. This means that having needs is a universal experience. Some of our needs can be met through human means. Other needs can only be met by God Himself. It is those needs that are beyond human power to meet that I focus on this week.
Being in need of something is not a new age thing. It has always been the experience of humanity since the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden. The history of Israel journeying through the wilderness for forty years was a history of people having their acute needs met supernaturally by God. Israel always had needs and God always met her needs. She had need of clothes and shoes, God supplied that need miraculously. The clothes and sandals they had on when they left Egypt lasted forty years.
 Psalm 105 is a record of God’s providence and care of Israel in the wilderness. She had need of covering from the scorching heat of the desert, God ‘spread a cloud for a covering”. Her need of light in the night was supplied with a fire. The people asked, and God brought quails. He satisfied them with manna from heaven. God supplied water from rocks for them to drink.
Even in the time of the Lord Jesus Christ people had needs. Some wanted healing from terminal sickness. Others wanted their dead relatives to be resurrected. Still others wanted miracles of supply of food. For instance, in John chapter two a certain couple, newly wed, ran out of wine at their banquet. The way their need was supplied sets parameters for us if we desire to have our own needs met miraculously in desperate times.
The making of a miracle as revealed in this account consists of three important steps. The first step is the realization of an acute need and an acknowledgement of human weakness to meet that need. Wine ran out at the wrong time. People were in the middle of the wedding celebrations and wine ran out. It must have been impossible to replenish the wine. No wonder why some people at the banquet revealed the dilemma to Jesus’ mother. They knew she would in turn relay the message to her miracle-working son. And she did exactly that.
This brings us to the second step in the making of a miracle which is to make your request known to God. No matter how scary or hopeless your situation is do not spend time complaining or cursing the day you were born and foolishly asking why me.
Present your case to God in earnest prayer. Do not tell people who do not matter; that is people who give you wrong counsel or gossip about your needs. Identify people like Mary who know Jesus as a miracle worker and as a supplier of all our needs. Anointed and faithful pastors represent Mary today. They lead you to Jesus whom they really know.
The third step is to obey instructions that you receive from the God of miracles. This is where most of us miss it because we are by nature children of disobedience. We doubt everything that is odd, illogical and seems not to make sense. But we will do well if we pay heed to Mary’s spiritual perception. We must be ready and willing to do whatever God says to us. In response to their request Jesus told the servants to fill the empty waterpots with water. They did that. He told them to take the water to the master of ceremony to taste it. And he marvelled at the fact that it was the best wine. They were obedient, humble, faithful and persistent in carrying out each instruction given to them. The question is do you have these same qualities or you re a doubting, complaining, impatient and pessimistic someone? Here is the crux of the matter: do whatever God instructs you to do.
 Many will never see the miracles they greatly desire because they are hearers only and not doers of God’s instructions. Just do it!
– Pastor Mairos Mubvumbi is the founding pastor of Hope In Christ Ministries. You can send your prayer request to him on 0772889766 or mairos78@yahoo.co.uk