Miracles of God

We are continuing our series this morning Summer Stories.

This four-week series will explores the lives of four people who had profound, life-changing encounters with Jesus. We will connect their stories to other modern-day individuals who have had similar experiences.

We can all have life changing event with Christ. It just matter if you want to experience it or not.

Week 1 we looked at the call that each and everyone of us have. In fact we have two calls. One being the call for us to follow Jesus with our whole heart. The second being the call that to server him any any way that we can. Weather that means we server him at our job or move across the world. We must be willing to go anywhere he calls us. Are you willing to go?

Last week. We look at thing that can be holding you back. We all have something that can hold us back from serving God. Job friends family, being scared, think you not good enough or just not wanting to do it. We can turn all of it over to God and ask for him to heal us. So we can be used for his glory. Profound healing can take place when Jesus is near.

This week we will be look miracle that Jesus did. So if you have you bible go head and turn to John 6:1–14. If you do not have your bible you can follow along in a few minutes.

Before we look at this passage. I have a question for you. So think for a moment.

Have you every experienced a miracle?

if you would like to share one you can. or post one in the chat for those that our watching.

One that comes to mind for me is the miracle of how fast our house sold in the state when we were coming up here. We put the house on the market January 1 and it sold with in a month or so. God had his hand on it the whole time.

Miracle happen all round us. Something we do not under why we do not see a miracle when we ask for it. When we been praying for it.

John 6:1–14 CSB

1 After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias). 2 A huge crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was performing by healing the sick. 3 Jesus went up a mountain and sat down there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near. 5 So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat?” 6 He asked this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks he distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 When they were full, he told his disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.” 13 So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten. 14 When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This truly is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

The miracle

Often when we read the story of Jesus feeding the multitudes by multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish, we focus on the fact that Jesus used a small boy’s generosity as the starting point of a miracle. This is true, of course.

But there is someone that is often over looked. Andrew played a key part in this story but we hardly talk about him.

Philip missed the miracle

We talk about Philip lack the belief that Jesus could do anything about feeding so many. He missed what Jesus could do. Even after have a conversation with Jesus he still missed it.

Andrew sees the boy

Jesus’s attention was turned toward Andrew when he pointed out the boy’s supply. Both Andrew and the boy were invited to participate in Jesus’s miracle of feeding thousands of people. What an honor to be included in a miracle.

Do you think that Jesus could have done the miracle without Andrew saying anything. Yeah he could. You see Jesus showed that anyone can be part of the miracle at anytime.

God’s miracles can affect many

The miracle of feeding the multitudes is an example of how one act of God affects so many people.

In this case, the disciples and the young boy had an up-close view of Jesus’s work, while each of the people who were fed benefited from the miracle. Imagine all of the scenarios of those in attendance. They had followed Jesus for some distance, but without their own food. Were they so focused on hearing what he had to say that they had failed to pack food for the day?

If so, their willingness to go without nutrition to hear his messages turned out just fine! Jesus provided abundantly for all in attendance. In addition, in miracles we observe Jesus perform, are we aware of the ripple effects? When one person says yes to Jesus’s offerings, unknown numbers of others are affected.

Some times we do not feel like we have much to give. That there is no way that Jesus can turn our mundane stuff into some type of miracle.

How did God take our mundane things and turn them into miraculous things?

The mundane wood chip is a good example of example of an insignificant thing causing a positive ripple effect. Wood-chip gardening is becoming popular with small farms and home gardeners. With a several-inches-thick layer of wood chips, the soil retains more moisture and becomes healthier and more capable of successfully growing good food. Wood chips, the castoffs from a tree, are becoming such a valuable commodity that people get on waiting lists to receive a truckload. Layering on wood chips seems ordinary and unnecessary.

Just like the wood chip that are leftovers. Whatever you have to offer God can be used in a miracle.

The real question is

Are you willing to see a miracle happen?

Miracles of God, such as the feeding of the five thousand, provide opportunities to be part of what God is doing.

We should remain watchful for opportunities to be used by God in a miraculous moment. They happen all around us. We just have to be willing to watch for them.