BBD 03.11.21 Miracles (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

11 March 2021

Miracles

One of
His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, ‘There is a lad here
who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so
many?’ Then Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was much grass in
the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took
the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples,
and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as
they wanted. - John 6:8-11.

For
years skeptics have been trying to throw doubt on the miracles recorded in the
Bible. There have been attacks on everything from the crossing of the Red Sea
to the virgin birth. It is somewhat surprising that these attacks have been
largely unsuccessful. The Harris Poll of July 1998 found of adults in the
United States 86% believe in the occurrence of miracles. 90% of Christians, and
66% of non-Christians believe in miracles. Why does faith in the
miraculous persist? A Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey
Research Associates in April of 2000 reveals the answer. When those surveyed
were asked whether they personally had ever experienced or witnessed a miracle,
48% said they had. Amazing! Almost
half the people in the United States say they have experienced or witnessed a
miracle. No wonder the skeptics have had a hard time casting doubt
on the miracles of the Bible.

Even
the disciples of Jesus had a hard time believing in the miraculous. The
disciples wanted to feed all of those people, but they could not even begin to
buy enough food with the money, they had available. They probably thought it
was reasonable to look among the people and see if there was enough food that
had been brought that could be shared. They had no idea that Jesus could take a
few loaves of barley and a couple of little fishes and feed thousands of
people. They were still having a hard time believing even after the twelve
baskets of fragments had been gathered up.

We may
believe in miracles, but usually we believe that miracles happen more often in
the lives of other people. It is when it comes to our own lives that we
are the most skeptical of the miraculous. God can do it in other
people’s lives, but we have a hard time believing He can do it in our life. We
pray for rain but we have a hard time carrying an umbrella around after we
do. Do miracles still occur today? Yes, half the people in the
USA believe they have experienced one or seen one.

Can
something miraculous happen in your life? Possibly, but it may depend on your definition of a miracle. The
fact that my heart continues to beat thousands of times every day sending life
delivering blood through my veins and arteries is in the category of the
miraculous for me. The truck that didn’t run over me or the car I didn’t run
into is certainly miraculous when I consider how close, I have come to being in
terrible accidents.

The
fact is that miracles still happen when it is God’s will. If our prayers are in
accordance with God’s will for our lives you can count on a miracle happening
in your life. In 1 John 5:14-15 we are told, "Now this
is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His
will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.” So, go ahead and pray for the impossible, the
impracticable, the fantastic, and the miraculous - it’s
okay to do so. God would have us to come to Him with confidence
knowing that we can pour our hearts out to Him. If we happen to ask for the
wrong thing, He’s not going to zap us with a lightning bolt. He wants us to
know that He is still God, and He loves us. His
door is always open waiting for us to enter in. I believe that is a
miracle in itself. Look around today and it may be that you will see some
miracles too.

Copyright © 2002 - 2020. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright,
Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hillary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

11 March 2021

Miracles

One of
His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, ‘There is a lad here
who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so
many?’ Then Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was much grass in
the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took
the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples,
and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as
they wanted. - John 6:8-11.

For
years skeptics have been trying to throw doubt on the miracles recorded in the
Bible. There have been attacks on everything from the crossing of the Red Sea
to the virgin birth. It is somewhat surprising that these attacks have been
largely unsuccessful. The Harris Poll of July 1998 found of adults in the
United States 86% believe in the occurrence of miracles. 90% of Christians, and
66% of non-Christians believe in miracles. Why does faith in the
miraculous persist? A Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey
Research Associates in April of 2000 reveals the answer. When those surveyed
were asked whether they personally had ever experienced or witnessed a miracle,
48% said they had. Amazing! Almost
half the people in the United States say they have experienced or witnessed a
miracle. No wonder the skeptics have had a hard time casting doubt
on the miracles of the Bible.

Even
the disciples of Jesus had a hard time believing in the miraculous. The
disciples wanted to feed all of those people, but they could not even begin to
buy enough food with the money, they had available. They probably thought it
was reasonable to look among the people and see if there was enough food that
had been brought that could be shared. They had no idea that Jesus could take a
few loaves of barley and a couple of little fishes and feed thousands of
people. They were still having a hard time believing even after the twelve
baskets of fragments had been gathered up.

We may
believe in miracles, but usually we believe that miracles happen more often in
the lives of other people. It is when it comes to our own lives that we
are the most skeptical of the miraculous. God can do it in other
people’s lives, but we have a hard time believing He can do it in our life. We
pray for rain but we have a hard time carrying an umbrella around after we
do. Do miracles still occur today? Yes, half the people in the
USA believe they have experienced one or seen one.

Can
something miraculous happen in your life? Possibly, but it may depend on your definition of a miracle. The
fact that my heart continues to beat thousands of times every day sending life
delivering blood through my veins and arteries is in the category of the
miraculous for me. The truck that didn’t run over me or the car I didn’t run
into is certainly miraculous when I consider how close, I have come to being in
terrible accidents.

The
fact is that miracles still happen when it is God’s will. If our prayers are in
accordance with God’s will for our lives you can count on a miracle happening
in your life. In 1 John 5:14-15 we are told, "Now this
is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His
will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.” So, go ahead and pray for the impossible, the
impracticable, the fantastic, and the miraculous - it’s
okay to do so. God would have us to come to Him with confidence
knowing that we can pour our hearts out to Him. If we happen to ask for the
wrong thing, He’s not going to zap us with a lightning bolt. He wants us to
know that He is still God, and He loves us. His
door is always open waiting for us to enter in. I believe that is a
miracle in itself. Look around today and it may be that you will see some
miracles too.

Copyright © 2002 - 2020. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright,
Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hillary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org