Matthew 11:4-5 NKJV Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: (5) The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
According to the Book of Acts, the miracles that Jesus did were good.
Acts 10:38 NKJV how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
The miracle working God of the Old Testament is still a miracle working God today!
Psalms 77:14 NIV You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.
Psalms 77:14 TLB You are the God of miracles and wonders! You still demonstrate your awesome power.
Job 5:9 NLT He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.
Jeremiah 32:27 NIV “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
To begin to see and understand God’s miracle working power, there are some things about Him we need to understand:
John 4:24 NKJV God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
You cannot worship God just in the outward sense because God is a Spirit and you must make a spiritual connection with Him by worshiping Him in the spirit.
God is not a physical being at all, although He is very real.
God created this natural physical world out of the world in which He lives called the spirit world.
He created this world out of His Word.
Hebrews 11:3 NKJV By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
If I limit my scope of my understanding to the natural realm, I can never really begin to understand God or the realm in which He lives.
1 Corinthians 2:14 TPT Someone living on an entirely human level rejects the revelations of God’s Spirit, for they make no sense to him. He can’t understand the revelations of the Spirit because they are only discovered by the illumination of the Spirit.The natural man says, “I will not believe in it unless I can prove it by feeling it, seeing it, etc.” He says, “I have to prove it in order to believe it.”
There is a spiritual world that the natural man cannot understand.
The power of God has superiority over any of the natural laws that are in operation on the earth.
Romans 8:2 NKJV For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
The very first thing we see that Jesus did in the Gospels, was to show His superiority over the natural.
John 2:1-10 NKJV On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. (2) Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. (3) And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” (4) Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” (5) His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” (6) Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. (7) Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. (8) And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. (9) When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. (10) And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
Jesus had never worked a miracle up to this point so Mary probably was not expecting a miracle. But He was full of wisdom and His mother knew that He could solve the problem.
Water pots were at a minimum of 20 – 30 gallons. We are talking about close to 180 gallons of water and it took quite a while to fill them up and the pots were very heavy. This took a lot of work.
We think it would be easier to turn the water into wine because it is a liquid but that is not true. Jesus could have turned air into wine as easy as it was to turn water into the wine.
Jesus had them fill the water pots because He wanted them to be involved in the process of God’s power showing up to change the situation.
God could do everything that He ever wanted to do without us because He is God and could leave us out.
He chooses to bring us into the process and let us have a part in what is going on.
God wants to work WITH us in His plan in the earth but He must have faith to work with for that to happen.
Faith is the invitation we give God for Him to move in our situation the way He wants to and we need Him to.
John 2:11 NKJV (11) This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
Notice in verse 11, it says that because of this miracle, His disciples believed on Him and it was because they were involved.
Matthew 18:2-4 NKJV Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, (3) and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. (4) Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Little children intrinsically trust that they will be taken care of. This is the way that we should be in our faith in God.
Jesus was showing us that we must approach the Kingdom of God as a little child believes without any hesitation and question.
Why is faith such a big deal to God?
God wants to work with us all through faith to be able to get His power over into our lives so that He can make the difference He wants to make.
Hebrews 13:8 NKJV Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus is the same miracle working Jesus today, that we read about in the Bible. He has not changed and will never change.