Desperate for a Miracle? Here’s the Guaranteed Way to Receive One Through Faith

Excerpted from Activating the Nine Gifts of the Spirit.

Do you believe Jesus is the Son of God? Then you’re special to God.

You’re a member of His Church. You have a right to anything that’s in the Bible, and the gift of working of miracles is in the Bible! Do you want Jesus to perform a miracle for you? Just say, “Jesus, I believe You’re a miracle worker. I believe God’s power is available to perform a miracle for me.”

God doesn’t work on maybes. God works for believers. At a time when things get desperate, you can’t get shook up. You’ve got to stand with patience and steadfastness and say, “God is a miracle worker for me. If I need something, He’ll give it to me.” You have to say that. You have to believe that. If you don’t, you’ll never see a miracle.

Now concerning spiritual gifts brethren, I would not have you ignorant (1 Corinthians 12:1).

Look at that, Church! God doesn’t bless ignorance! As long as you remain ignorant of the gift of working of miracles, you’ll never have one. Get it out of your mind that God won’t perform a miracle for you because He will. In fact, before you die, you will need God to perform some miracles for you. But just because you need it doesn’t mean you’ll ever get it. Most Christians don’t, you know. But if you believe it, God will perform it for you.

I was teaching one night at a church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was a missionary church with a couple of thousand people there. I was teaching, when all of a sudden, about 15 rows back, five or six people stood and began to talk excitedly.

“What’s happened back there? What’s wrong?” I asked. “A crippled girl just got healed!” they said.

I saw a little girl standing up. The Spirit of God was all over her. I said, “Come down here!”

When I said that, she just walked out and walked down there. I had no idea that she had come on crutches. I didn’t know her high school brother helped her get in there. I didn’t know anything about it at all. Nobody had prayed for her. She came walking down the aisle crying and trembling and looked perfectly normal to me.

Right beside her was a boy who looked to be 16 or 17 years of age walking beside her looking at her legs. He was yelling, “This is my crippled sister. I helped her get here. I helped her get out of the car. Folks, I’m telling you, this is my crippled sister. I helped her get in here.” He was so astonished at his sister’s legs being stretched out.

I said, “Come up here, honey! Just tell the congregation what Jesus did for you. What happened to you?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “I was crippled when I came here. This is my brother, and he helps me get out of the car and in places. I was just sitting there, and all the sudden my legs began to turn warm. Then, it wasn’t very long until they began to turn hot. When that happened, I felt strength come into my legs. I reached down and pushed myself up. When I did, both legs went completely normal. They straightened out totally! Then, I just stood up!”

Everybody around the church knew that girl was crippled. They’d known her for a long time. All the sudden, she was standing there, tears flowing out of her eyes. It kind of shakes people up. She was walking just as normally as anybody else. God made both legs completely normal. That’s a miracle!

Elisha’s Faith

In the Old Testament, Elisha believed God would perform a miracle for him, and God did.

And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and the iron did swim (2 Kings 6:1–6).

Look what the man of God did. If you’re a born-again man or woman of God, you have the same rights. God put things in the Bible for you to believe for yourself. The Bible works for you.

And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place  (2 Kings 6:6).

Now by the mind of the Holy Spirit, Elisha cut a stick, threw it into the water, and the ax head floated to the top. Some people know God’s power can reach down to the bottom of the Jordan River and make an ax head come to the top of the water floating. But if you’re like most people, your mind is telling you right now, I can’t believe that. Of course, your mind can’t believe that, but you don’t believe the Bible with your mind.

The Bible says:

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them . . . (Corinthians 2:14).

Let me add something to that. Neither can he enjoy them.

And the iron did swim. Therefore, said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it (Kings 6:6–7).

“Do you mean God just raised it up off the bottom and let it float where they could just reach out and get it?” That’s right! Why? They were building a house and only had one ax. It fell in the water, and they were desperate.

I want you to see that Elisha didn’t get shook up. He had faith in the miracle-working power of God. He just cut a stick, threw it there in the water, and the ax head started swimming.

Your mind is asking, Why did he cut a stick? I don’t know. Why did Jesus put the mud on the blind man’s eyes and tell him to go wash it off? I don’t know. There’s no use trying to figure it out! You can’t understand why God does things. He just does them.

God has His own ways of doing things. He takes believers step by step. If you aren’t willing to take the first step and do what He tells you, then you’ll never enjoy the big things of God. You will never enjoy the victory, and you won’t see many victories either, because you’re trying to figure God out in your mind. The natural man doesn’t understand the things of God. When you’re dealing with God, you’re dealing with supernatural power. You’re not dealing with the natural. You’re dealing with God Almighty Himself.

The Working of Miracles

In one of my services in 1983, the Lord gave a little girl new feet.

The doctors said she could never walk, but she walked that night!

Her parents were a Church of Christ couple who had never been to a service like that one before in their lives. They came only because somebody had nerve enough to give them a set of my tapes.

The father had said, “I believe if I could get my daughter in front of Norvel Hayes, God would heal her.” He believed it before he ever came. Then he heard I was coming to the church, so he brought his daughter, and God gave her new feet. That was a miracle. The little thing just walked all around there.

Another great miracle of God happened in that same meeting. A couple in the congregation had a child who was going to have a kidney transplant the next morning. When they saw God’s miracle, they said, “If God would give that little girl new feet, why does our 12-year-old son have to be cut open and have a kidney transplant? God could give him new kidneys!”

They went to the hospital, took the child, and brought him into the service down front. I walked over and laid hands on him, asking the Lord to perform a miracle for him and give him a new kidney. The couple took their son back to his hospital room.

The next morning, the doctor took another x-ray before the operation. The nurse walked into the room and asked the parents, “What’s happened to this child?”

“What do you mean?” they asked.

“This child does not need an operation. He has two new kidneys!” she said.

That’s the gift of the working of miracles. The Spirit confirmed the Word with signs and wonders.

Prayer

Thank You, Jesus. You are a miracle worker. The Word is true. The truth shall bring me a miracle, if I believe it. And I believe it. It’s a gift, free from heaven, to the believer. It’s an amount of power that explodes and comes and does the impossible.

Thank You, Jesus, for 1 Corinthians 12. I receive my miracle in Jesus’ name. Thank You, Jesus, for my miracle.