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Making Room For The Miraculous

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Mark 2:1-5

If we get too programmed in what we do in any service, we eliminate the possibility that we will see the miraculous...

Introduction

People amaze me at just what they are capable of.

You, in fact, are capable of more than you realize.

I read recently about a man who the doctors are fascinated with.

The human body has 360 joints, and the doctors believe that according to what he is currently able to do, he could be able to pop all 360 joints out of place.

To that man, I say, “More power to you.”

He’s capable of extreme horror.

But we’re capable of a lot.

Like putting a man on the moon.

Think of that.

We read over that a lot, but that’s an amazing feat.

I realized that I myself am capable of more than I had though I was… the other day, I drove by Krispy Kreme, the fresh donuts sign was on, and somehow… I kept on driving!

But the people in this place, listening to Jesus have fascinated me for some time in that they were capable of allowing a man in need of a miracle to stand aside, without access to the power of God.

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We should not allow ourselves to become complacent in seeing the supernatural take place in our midst.

We live at such a carnal level and state, that there are times when we have to remind ourselves that God lives on a much higher plane.

We should feel provoked to work in the business of making a place and creating an atmosphere where God can manifest Himself and show Himself to be very real.

When you look at the story of the man who was sick of the palsy, we can derive that when these friends got to the place where Jesus was, there was absolutely no place to take him.

There was no place for their need to be presented.

I believe that we, as children of God, should always strive that whatever individual walks in this building, whatever need walks into this building, whatever heart is calling out for God, that when they get here, they find that there will be a place, there will be an opportunity, there will be a place, where they can present themselves, and their need to Jesus Christ.

The Bible says that in this place where Jesus was preaching, there was no more room, even at the door.

I don’t want to seem redundant today, but there is a real possibility that we can so align ourselves and program our own minds with what we usually do, that there is not room for God to do His supernatural work!

Am I among intellectually sufficient, knowing people today to agree with me that we can actually not leave Him a place?

Even when we feel His Spirit and His touch, there might not be that opportunity for the Spirit of God to be available to somebody who has a need.

I know that by experience.

I know that there are times when someone will come and they leave wondering, “It really didn’t happen, there was no place for me to present my need to the Lord.

No room to receive.”

There was no exceeding opportunity for them to come into the presence of God.

That’s why oftentimes when we stand here, Pastor will say, “We need to move in this realm right now!

We need to walk in the Spirit of the Holy Ghost right now.

There might be an opening!

There might be a door that opens up that somebody will make their way from where they are, and be able to present their need to the Lord!”

We’ve got to have a space.

There was no room for them.

Not even in the courtyard, outside the door.

Luke mentions that they could not find a way to get this paralyzed man into the building because of the multitude.

It’s not so much sometimes that we do this intentionally, but there are always people there who are merely observers, not nearly so much as involved and participating.

What if somebody’s response to their need before God today was dependent upon you making yourself available and giving God a space to do His work and His will?!

These scriptures tell us that there was not a place for this man with a need to get in.

There was no place.

I believe that this detail has more than just physical significance.

That there was “no place.”

They had to create a place.

They developed one.

They had to push beyond everything else.

They were desperate enough to do what was necessary for their friend.

There were onlookers present.

There were critical people present.

There were pharisees present, wanting to catch Jesus in something.

They were there, they were looking for a way to accuse Him.

But while all of the rest of that is going on, there is somebody that is there that has a genuine and desperate need for the Holy Ghost!

That’s why we cannot afford to let our lips be silent and our hands by our side when we come to the house of God!!!

That’s why everybody ought to engage in a church service!!!

Because somebody might be there that needs to get to the Lord Jesus Christ!!!

Oh yeah, we can have good church.

We’ve got good singers and musicians.

We can have worship that actually draws us close to the presence of God, but hopefully not at the expense of the supernatural move of the Holy Ghost!

Somebody say SUPERnatural.

That means it’s “above the natural!” Far above!

Not something that man can create or devise, but into the ABOVE!

The far above what we can even imagine.

If there were to be a breakthrough today in this house, and people who don’t normally push themselves would break through to the supernatural, I wonder what possibly might happen in this sanctuary!!!

We already believe for there to be miracles and signs and wonders when we come together.

What if we reach for the far above the natural for God to perform in our midst?!!

You see, God is totally divine!

TOTALLY!

If you’re going to deal with God, you’ve got to get above the natural!

It’s SUPER.

It’s FAR ABOVE the natural.

Have you ever been in a supernatural service?

I’m talking about one of them services where even you get up there in the super, far above, presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is continually pulling us to be above the earthly.

To be above the mortal.

To be above the human aspect of our lives!

He is pulling us into an aspect of salvation that delivers us and sets us free.

It is the ability of God to do something in our lives that is FAR… ABOVE!

It is SUPER… SUPER… FAR ABOVE THE NATURAL!

There is a God who is in the house who is able to do far above what we can think!

Or even ask!

We’ve got to find ourselves reaching and desiring to be in the SUPERnatural!

tells about a woman and a man who occasionally had a prophet visit them.

And they said, “We need to build the preacher a room.”

God’s always gonna go where He’s welcome.

It’s more than “Holy Spirit you are welcome here.”

It’s an attitude that lives in the hearts of men and women where He truly feels welcome.

Where He truly feels loved!

Where there is a genuine response out of the hearts of His people that says, “We love you!

We want you here!

We want to be in your presence!”

He’s looking for that kind of place.

And so the Bible says the prophet always turned in.

And so she said to her husband:

2 Kings 4:9-10

We need to recognize that God sometimes is waiting and looking for a place for His Spirit to come and just SETTLE!

I want to build a place for God through my praise and through my faith and through my worship, that whenever the Holy Ghost blows in here, that He’ll decide that He’ll just settle over this congregation for a little while because He finds there SOMEBODY WHO WELCOMES HIM!

And because she that’s the way she felt about God’s prophet, God said, “I’m gonna give you a desire of your heart that you have longed for.”