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The Spiritual Gift Called The Working Of Miracles
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The Spiritual Gift Called The Working Of Miracles

This study is part of a more extensive series on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I wanted to make you aware of this entire resource before getting started.

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The Gift Of Working Of Miracles

Today we are going to look at the spiritual gift of working of miracles. The gift of miracles is a unique gift because it has no boundaries.

What I mean by that, is that the very nature of this gift supersedes natural laws and thinking. It is indeed the gift that can be explained in no other way than it was a miracle.

Now, other gifts are miraculous like extraordinary faith and the gift of healing, but operating in the working of miracles goes beyond these other two gifts and changes impossibilities into possibilities.

This gift is probably the least seen gift in the modern church. I am not sure why this is other than it is perhaps the least expected of all the gifts.

I think that we are so used to working things out, looking to science or reason for the solutions that we forget to look to God for miraculous answers at the time. There is no scientific explanation of Bible miracles.

I also believe that this is why there are more reports of miracles happening in nations and cultures that are not based on western civilization, and its reliance on reason.

So if nothing else, I hope this Bible study on the gift of miracles will at least get you to entertain the possibility that God does have available for the church even in the west, the gift of miracles.

The Gift Of Miracles Shown Through Jesus Miracles In The Bible.

Since the definition of the gift of working of miracles is a gift that supersedes the laws of nature or physics or rational thinking, then the first miracle that I think of when looking at the life of Jesus is the water being turned to wine at the wedding at Cana.

In John’s gospel chapter 2, we have the story of Jesus attending a wedding where they ran out of wine.

Now without getting into a theological debate as to whether or not Jesus made real wine or grape juice, the fact remains that water was turned into something other than water. He didn’t use fruit concentrate or powdered flavoring, but He turned it into wine, and it was better than the wine that was served first!

This is a miracle that supersedes the laws of nature and physics. Water cannot be changed into another substance just by filling water jugs and serving it. There was a miracle that happened here. It was one of the real wonders of God.

The next instance I think of is where Jesus walked on water.

In Matthew’s gospel chapter 14, we have the instance where Jesus told the disciples to cross over the sea of Galilee ahead of Him. Around dawn, he comes strolling out to them, walking on water.

This freaked the disciples out, and they thought it was some type of ghost. Jesus tells them not to be afraid, and Peter’s response was, “If it is you, Lord, bid me come.” So Jesus said come! Not only did Jesus walk on water, but Peter did as well.

Now we all know the story of how Peter got his eyes off of Jesus and on to the wind and the waves and started to sink.

However, don’t be too hard on Peter. How many of you have walked on water?

I have a theory about walking on water. You have to move your feet very fast!

The Gift Of Miracles In The Early Church.

I always give you examples of spiritual gifts, not only in Jesus but also in the early church, so you can see that it wasn’t just some divine attribute that Jesus had that allowed Him to do these things.

The divine attribute of the Holy Spirit enabled both Jesus and ordinary people like you and me to operate in these things.

There are many examples of the working of miracles in the early church. The first one I want to show you is located in the book of Acts chapter 8.

Philip, a guy who had been chosen to wait tables, was out evangelizing. He was having many signs and wonders done at his hands. God tells him through an angelic visitation to meet a guy from Ethiopia and share with him the gospel.

Philip does so, and the Ethiopian man accepts Christ. As Philip is baptizing this man, as He comes up out of the water He disappears and then reappears in the town of Azotus.

Gene Roddenberry was not the one to first think of transporters. God did! Lord beam me up!

The next instance that comes to mind is when Paul in Acts chapter 20 got a little long-winded and preached until midnight, and a boy fell asleep in a window and fell out of it three stories to the ground.

He died instantly. However, Paul threw himself on the boy, wrapped his arms around him, and proclaimed He is alive. The boy came back to life.

Once again that supersedes the laws of nature and physics. It was not healing; it was a resurrection.

There are many more examples of miracles in the Bible. Too many to make a list of miracles in the Bible that will fit in one article.

The Gift Of Miracles In The Modern Church.

There are still miracles happening today. I remember the story told to me by an old Pentecostal pastor named Rev. Archie Hicks, who while traveling from one town to another to become the pastor of a church ran out of gas.

He and his wife and kids were poor people living by faith in what God provided for them. They had no money and had over 100 miles to go. All they had was a gallon of water.

Rev. Hicks poured that gallon of water into his gas tank started the engine and drove to the town they were traveling to be the new pastor.

I talked to another old-time Pentecostal preacher named Brother Garman. He and some others who had witnessed this miracle recalled on many occasions a visible force would tug on his suit jacket sleeve leading him to those that needed to be prayed for. I heard this verified by more than one person who was there.

In my own life, I view what transpired with the events that allowed me to return to pastoral ministry as somewhat of a modern-day miracle.

I waited eight years for God to open the doors for a divorced and single man to once again be in pastoral ministry.

As most of you know, there is not much demand for divorced pastors, let alone one who is single and cannot provide the church with love and nurture that a pastor’s wife does typically.

So when I received the call to come and be the pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Pine Haven Wyoming, that was a miracle that superseded the odds of human nature and rational thinking.

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Pastor Duke Taber

All articles have been written or reviewed by Pastor Duke Taber.
Pastor Duke Taber is an alumnus of Life Pacific University and Multnomah Biblical Seminary.
He has been in pastoral ministry since 1988.
Today he is the owner and managing editor of 3 successful Christian websites that support missionaries around the world.
He is currently starting a brand new church in Mesquite NV called Mesquite Worship Center, a Non-Denominational Spirit Filled Christian church in Mesquite Nevada.