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OPPORTUNE TIME FOR A MIRACLE.

INTRODUCTION:

MANY OF US ARE WALKING MIRACLES, BUT HOW MANY OF US WHEN WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD LOOKING FOR A MIRACLE TO TAKE PLACE .

THE REASON WE DO NOT EXPERIENCE MIRACLES BECAUSE MANY OF US DO NOT PRAY TO GOD FOR THE OPPORTUNE TIME TO BE A PART OF A MIRACLE IN THE LIFE OF ANOTHER.

MATTHEW 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

WHEN TWO OR THREE GATHERED TOGETHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS, GREAT MANIFESTATIONS CAN HAPPEN IN THE LIVES OF THE NEEDY.

THEIR ARE 3 THINGS I LIKE TO DISCUSS TODAY.

BEGGARD HELP

BEGGARD HOPE

BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF A MIRACLE.

A. BEGGARD HELP

A BEGGARD IS SOMEONE WHO IS LESS FORTUNATE, USUALLY THEIR INCOME IS FROM GIFTS FROM OTHER’S. DEPENDENT TOTALLY ON OUTSIDE HELP.

ACTS 3:2 “And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;”

NOTICE THE BEGGARD NEVER WENT INTO THE CHURCH, BUT LAID DAILY AT THE GATE LOOKING FOR HELP.

THE BEGGARD WAS SO CLOSE TO HIS MIRACLE THAT HE COULD NOT REALIZE WHAT HE NEEDED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY.

SO MANY OF US TODAY BELIEVE THAT IF WE JUST COULD GET MORE MONEY THAT WOULD SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS.

THIS MAN WHO WAS LAME FROM BIRTH BECAUSE OF HIS CONDITION FOUND HIMSELF IN A HOPELESS STATE OF MIND.

WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, YOU DEPEND FOR OTHER’S TO HELP YOU INSTEAD OF PUTTING YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD. THE BIBLE SAID THAT GOD GIVES US THE POWER TO GET WEALTH.

BUT IF YOU ARE POOR IN THE SPIRIT , YOU’RE INNER LIFE IS STARVING.

WHAT GOD EXPECT FROM US IS TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED, BUT NOT TO THE POINT WHERE IT DO NOT LEAD TO TO A RELATION WITH THE LORD. SOMETIMES WHEN GOD HAS HIS HANDS ON A PERSON LIFE, IT IS NOT IN OUR POWER TO GET IN GOD WAY WHEN HE IS TRYING TO TEACH THEM A LESSON.

MATTHEW 5:42 “Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.”

THIS IS NOT SAYING KEEP GIVING TO THOSE WHO DO NOT MANAGE THEIR MONEY RIGHT AND THEN TURN TO YOU FOR HELP, BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU HANDLE YOUR’S RIGHT.

BEGGARS HOPE

A BEGGARD HOPE IS LIVING FROM THE NEXT MINUTE TO THE NEXT MINUTE, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT SEE PAST WHERE THEY AT NOW.

CHRISTIANS CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM A BEGGARD, BECAUSE MOST OF US BE CONCERN ABOUT TOMORROW , WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OF. GOD SAID LET TOMORROW TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.

A BEGGARD LOOKS FOR OPPORTUNE TIME FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP HIS CONDITION.

SOMETIMES WE LOOK FOR THINGS ONE WAY, BUT IT COME IN ANOTHER WAY. PETER SAID TO THE BEGGARD SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE: BUT SUCH AS I HAVE GIVE I THEE.

WHAT PETER WAS GIVING THE LAME MAN WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW JESUS.

THE BEST THING WE CAN GIVE ANYBODY IS JESUS.

2 CORINTHIANS 8:12 “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.”

IF YOU DON’T HAVE GOD;S SPIRIT IN YOU , YOU’RE NOT CABLE OF OFFERING ANYBODY NOTHING THAT WILL PERTAIN TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

BEGGAR HEALING

THE LAME MAN HEALING DID NOT HAPPEN UNTIL HIS FAITH IN JESUS CAUSED HIM TO WALK INTO HIS BLESSING.

TIMING IS EVERYTHING, WHAT THIS LAME MAN DID, WAS CEASE THE MOMENT. HE DID NOT ALLOW THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PASS HIM BY.

BUT WHAT THE LAME MAN DID WAS GET OUT OF THE SITUATION HE WAS IN AND ENTER INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND GIVE HIM THE PRAISE.

WHEN YOUR LIFE IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD ALL THING ARE POSSIBLE IN CHRIST JESUS.

PSALM 103:1-2 “Bless the Lord, O my soul: And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits:”