REPEATING MIRACLES

MEMORISE: ‘We will rejoice in thy salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all petitions.’ (Ps 20:5)
READ: I Samuel 17:34-37

Our God is awesome. He is the Almighty, the One who has all power in heaven, on earth and beneath the earth. There is nothing too difficult for him to do or undo. If you know God well enough, you will understand why it is easy for him to do what he says he will do. In life’s journey, we find a recurrence of similar events. Although their configuration may be slightly different, their essence is the same. For instance, the children of Israel were confronted with death and destruction by invading enemies. This happened over and over again. Sometimes the same enemies resurfaced at a later date. At other times it was a new enemy.

God gave them victory again and again; in fact, each victory became an assurance for the next. But whenever the children of Israel forgot their past, they quaked before their enemies and sometimes were defeated. This was due to forgetting the secret of their victory the previous time they had been attacked. David faced death when he was attacked by a lion and a bear respectively. Each time, he trusted in God and God gave him the victory. When he was to face death again through Goliath, in 1 Samuel 17:37: ‘David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.’

God, true to David’s words, gave him victory over Goliath. It is the same with us today. Anything God has done before, he can do again, irrespective of its configuration. God divided the Red Sea for Israel to pass, under the leadship of Moses on their way out from Egypt. Later, under Joshua, God parted the river Jordan before Israel. Much later, in 2 Kings 2:7-14, Elijah and Elisha parted the river Jordan with God’s anointing on them. God asked Joshua to erect 12 stones as a memorial to the miracle he did for them, for the remembrance of future generations (John 4:8-9).

If God has healed you before of a headache, he can heal you again of any other ailment. If he has delivered you from one enemy, he can deliver you from many enemies. Anything he has done before in his Word, and in our time for anyone else, he can repeat in your life. Call on him.

ACTION POINT
List situations in your life that require God’s intervention. List similar situations when God intervened in the past. Ask God to intervene again.