Picture of Moses parting the Red Sea came in an e-mail - Author unknown
Miracles - to change the principles of nature or science; Miracles bear witness that God is real; When people see miracles happening, they are amazed and listen to the person who is performing them. Elijah, James and John could call fire down from heaven. The Beast in Revelations performs miracles and deceives many. Be a fruit inspector so you will know who is of God and who is of Satan.
Dictionary: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs; an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment; a divinely natural phenomenon experienced humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual law
Example: The gift of Miracles is easy to use accidently - if you have this gift, you have to be very specific in what you say or pray. It also helps to know you have the gift. For years I did not know I had the gift - I just thought God answered more prayers for me than normal. I would speak and things would happen. It would freak my husband and other people out; but my kids thought it was normal. After they left home, they realized it was not normal. They thought miracles was just a normal way of life. They did not know that Mama was just accidentally causing things to happen. Some of the ways I have used the gift are: God Multiplied the Chicken, provided fish and multiplying potatoes, Stopped the Rain & flushed our Flood, dissipated Hurricane Gustav (I told my Daughter what happened with Gustav and she said, "Mother, quit controlling the weather." I had to explain to her that it was not just me this time and I prayed first); accidentally found water, a 120 lb girl could not lift a 99 lb girl off a bus seat (turning the other cheek), I used the vacuum cleaner with it unplugged, caused a flood, caused a hail storm, cast out demons. Since I realized I have the Gift of Working Miracles, I am way more careful using it. We can control our Gifts and we should be careful to only use it as God leads us. If we walk in love (walk in the Spirit), we will always use the gifts correctly.
Working Miracles
Acts 8:6-7 And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.
Acts 8:13 Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.
Acts 19:11-12 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
1 Cor 12:10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Cor 12:28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.
Heb 2:4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
2 Ki 1:12 So Elijah answered and said to them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men." And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
Luke 9:54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?"
1 Cor 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
Rev 13:11-17 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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