Ever wondered how faith can lead to incredible miracles? The Bible is filled with amazing stories that show us the wonders of God through acts of faith. From parting the Red Sea to healing the sick, these miracles remind us that belief can change everything. In this blog post, we will explore some of the most inspiring miracles in the Bible and how they can encourage us in our own lives. Join us as we discover how faith and miracles go hand in hand, revealing the amazing power of God in our everyday experiences. He who was, who is, and who will always be.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is everything to every generation past, present, and future. These people before Him had their day, why not you?
Abraham: Age is only a number
Abraham’s day came just when he clocked a hundred years. This was exactly twenty-five years after the divine promise. He never wavered “because he considered him faithful who had made the promise.” Abraham rejoiced at the birth of Isaac, the son of his old age. Deep in his heart, he must have uttered: This is my day!
It has been stated that life never grows old. Age is not the flight of years but the dawn of wisdom and maturity. The middle ground between wisdom and maturity is patience (calmness). Patience helps us understand that God’s Word/Promises can never be circumvented.
It is said that God gives his very best to those who choose Him. The leave psalmist writes about those people: They will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will thrive in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green (full of sap, still strong) proclaiming “the Lord is upright; He is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in Him”
(92:12-45), your day is hanging not on time, not on age but on God.
2. Daniel: Refused to be frustrated
Daniel’s day came twenty-one days after the prince of Persia made war against his prayers and petitions. On that day, the angel of light, the messenger of good tiding, brought him a heavenly package. He said:
“Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come to respond to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me… Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come” (10:12-14).
The prince of Persia represents an organized wickedness both in high and low places. He is an enemy of progress who is satisfied with your being on the lowest level. He is the suppressing, supplanting, and hijacking spirit who wishes away blessings and fights to prevent heavenly favours coming your way. But remember, if God is for us, no one can be against us, and not even the gates of hell can ever prevail against us. Your destiny can and may be delayed but not altered. One day, just one day, the dawn from on high shall break upon you.
3. Tobit: Hang on, help is on the way
Tobit’s day came after four years of blindness and total darkness. He felt and experienced the night soul as he thought God had abandoned him. But it was not so. Some great thinkers have come to note that a life in tune with God has notes of sadness as well as Gladness. These are moments that should bring us closer to God.
This great preacher has this inspiration: There is no time of day or night, no place on land or sea, that God, whose eye does not grow dim, is unaware of. God was aware of Tobit’s plight, and help did come his way. This is your day. Because God is bigger than all your problems.
4. The Brood Woman: The Touch of Faith
The woman with the issue of blood had her day twelve years after doctors had tried their expertise on her, duped her of so much money, and declared her incurable.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the Care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. Whoa, she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and .touched his cloak because she thought, if I just touch his cloth, I will be healed (Mk. 5:24-28).
Blood is the symbol of life, strength, nourishment, and well-being. That this woman was bleeding incessantly means she was wasting away nutritionally, and as a woman, she could never be delivered of a baby. Before Jesus, she spoke to herself. She mustered courage and drew power out of Jesus. Yes, a simple dose of faith combined with a simple touch of faith dried up the many years of bleeding and discomfort. How long is not the question, but how ready are you to experience today’s anointing? Jesus can cause today to be your day!
5. Lazarus: Grave Denied
Lazarus’s day came after four days of dwelling in the land of the dead. For his sisters, all hope was lost. Jesus did not come. He did not respond speedily to the invitation about his sick and dying friend. Even if he did come, Lazarus was dead.
Decomposition has begun. But Jesus did come; he did not explain his delay. Nevertheless, he insisted that day was Lazarus’s day. When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go”.
Only Jesus can balance the equation between life and death, joy and suffering. When he does, the result is testimony.
6. Naamon: Treasure in Cray.
God has treasures of all kinds in store for every one of us, but he stores them in clay. He gives us our opportunities, and it is only for us to keep our eyes wide open to recognize them. Yes, God does not offer gifts on a platter of gold but rather offers gold on a platter of clay. It takes character to see beyond the wrappers. It takes virtue to accept it. And it takes humility to unwrap it.
Naaman’s opportunity came unexpectedly from the mouth of a young slave girl. He did not put it off as childish talk. Naaman was a Syrian army commander. A man of note. Despite his pomp and pageantry, he was a leper. He was ordered by the prophet Elisha to go and bathe seven times in the River Jordan. This was a divine prescription.
Naaman almost lost his opportunity, his day, because of impatience and pride. He thought miracles must always be instantaneous. He thought the treasure of healing and cleansing must be dished out and handed out on a platter of gold. He thought his Wealth and farhe would bring him immediate attention. God always wants us to do something.
But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel? So he turned and went off in a rage” (II Kgs. 5:11-12).
His pride and anger did not allow him to see the treasure of healing in the clay of the waters of Jordan. He had his prescriptions and terms. However, his day did dawn only when he bowed and followed the divine prescription and bathed seven times in the waters of Jordan.
7. The Israelites: Covenant Remembered!
The Lord remembers his covenant forever. The Israelites had their day after four hundred and thirty years in Egypt – that land of slavery and torture.
The length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.
Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night, all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honour the Lord for the generations to come (Ex. 12:40-42).
Their freedom bespeaks the freedom of the children of God from servitude, bondage, and shame, this is your day of liberation. This is Liberty Day.
8. The Sick Man: Patience Rewarded!
The sick man at the pool of Bethsaida had his day after thirty-eight years of lying at a place and waiting in vain for a miracle to come his way.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” Sir, the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me. For thirty-eight years, he believed and hoped that one day, his chance would come. Surely, Jesus made that day possible.
9. Bartimaeus: Response to Mt. Timothy (Mk 10:48).
Bartimeus, the blind man by the roadside, also had his day. I le has grown used to sitting at the roadside. Lie has blended thoroughly with his environment. Unknown to him as he look his position in his usual spot in the early hours of the morning -this was going to be his day.
Jesus came along with the roaring crowd. When he heard who was passing by, he shouted with all that is in him: “Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.” That shout was the shout of faith. That shout was his declaration of faith in the Person of Jesus. That shout was the response of faith to his environment. He gave power to his voice. He added voice to his shout. It was enough to stop the master in his stride. And Jesus never stops for nothing. That shout was the shout of destiny -Bartimaeus could see again. He saw Jesus and became a happy man. This is your day! You, too, can see again.
10. The Woman Bent Double: Hope Never Fairs!
For eighteen years, the demon that possessed her never allowed her to stand upright. On this particular day, Jesus came to the synagogue where she had worshipped all these years. It never touched her or crossed her mind that her day had come -her day of divine encounter/visitation.
Sea of worshippers gathered in the synagogue, yet Jesus singled her out. He saw and counted her many years of pain and agony. He did three things.
– He spoke to her condition, for he can help: woman thou art loosed from thy disability.
– He touched her, for he can sympathize.
-He healed her, for he can save.
The spirit left her; she straightened up and began to glorify God.
11. The Man Born Blind Conditioned For Glory!
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind. His disciples asked him ‘Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents’ sin?’ Jesus answered,
“His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents’ sins. He is blind so that God’s power might be seen at work in him” (Jn. 9:1-3).
This man from the cradle has never seen the light of the sun, the bright and beautiful things of life, and the faces of those who gave him life. NOW, having come of age, he must carter for himself. Hence, he took to begging at the roadside. People gave to him out of pity for they noticed his condition. They, no doubt, made his day. But not so much for he always comes out again and again/next day -it was to be so until Jesus made his day.
Jesus spat on the ground, made a paste with the spittle, and put this over the eyes of the blind man: Go and wash in the pool of Siloam. So he went and washed and came back able to see (Jn 9:6-7). From that day onwards, he became a worshipper and ceased to be a beggar. This is your day. Today, you will see the power and the glory
12. The League of Leila’s: The Brotherhood of Suffering!
I came across the information that somewhere in the South of Africa, albinos are of a caste. They are seen as taboos and discriminated against. It is widely believed that albinos do not die; rather, they disappear. These societal attitudes towards them made them form a forum. They want to be heard out; they want to plead their cause.
Having formed this forum, they turned to the government and the international community for help. This was almost the same situation the ten lepers found themselves in. They were driven out of the community on account of their uncleanness. They had no leaders to whom they could turn to and no one to cry to. The religious leaders were serving the interests of the community. There was neither the government nor the international community to appeal to. Their case was a hapless one, or so it seemed. Gradually, they came together and formed a colony.
They could draw solace from one another. They could cry and lament on each other’s shoulder; and by so doing, provide basic human warmth.
This was equally the situation of the one leper except that he had no neighbours. God was watching them from above. He heard their cry; he noticed their sentence of isolation and felt their ostracism. Then, Jesus came their way.
They stood at a distance and made this life or death appeal. “Jesus, master have Pity on us”. Immediately, there was a divine touch that dry cleaned them and left them as clean as snow. Indeed, it was a day of many favours, and the number of the favoured was limitless (numberless).
This blog post is all about the incredible miracles found in the Bible and how they show the power of faith. We explore stories like Moses parting the Red Sea and Jesus healing the blind, reminding us that with belief, anything is possible. Each miracle teaches us valuable lessons about trust, hope, and the amazing things God can do in our lives. As we reflect on these inspiring moments, we see how faith can help us overcome our challenges and find strength in difficult times. Join us in discovering that when we believe, we open the door to endless possibilities and the wonders of God.
