Suspect your logic, expect a miracle

Uni-verse 258/10,000 For better through verse

Heb 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?


God confirms the Word with signs, wonders, miracles and gifts. An example of a sign is Gideon's fleece that had moisture gathered all around and was itself dry the first time and the next time he asked for a sign, it happened the other way around. Yes,we can expect and ask for a sign from God. Last year, a prophet spoke the word, " ViBGYOR" and then, we ended up seeing five different types of rainbows over a period of time. Signs, wonders, miracles and gifts are part of the language of God's communication. It is His way of saying, " Hey, I am here in this situation, I am in control, I do care for you. Nothing is too difficult or impossible for me." If we are not listening with our spiritual eyes and ears open, we might well miss our miracle. Miracles might seem to us mortals to be something extraordinary but to God it is His natural and normal way of doing things. It is also useful to meet human needs, expand faith and to break the hard ground of past conditioning of disbelief and doubt.

God also bears witness to His presence in our mortal and otherwise mundane existence with extraordinary wonders and miracles. I never expected to be presented to Queen Elizabeth II. The probability of it happening is one in a billion. But, the Lord enabled me to be awarded with the inaugural British Gurukul Scholarship for Excellence and Leadership and as an honour, those selected were lined up to receive her in Delhi in 1997. I chose to use the occasion to present her a Bible. On the first page I wrote," The first time you visited India I was new born but now much water has flown down the Ganges and the Thames. May the Lord, the King of Kings bless your Majesty." Those few words written became the seed of another miracle. On the Queen's Golden Jubilee five years later, the Lord enabled me to be awarded the 15,000 sterling pound inaugural Queen's Award for Innovation in Police Training and Development. While studying in the London School of Economics, the Lord delivered a burglar into my hands for His glory. The black security guard who had seen what had happened told me," There is no one like you in the whole city of London." What he did not realize was that it was not my doing but it was the Lord's doing. From a petty thief to the Queen, the Lord had left His stamp and signature.

Last year, as a family we were planning to travel to Dalhousie for a holiday. My batchmate in Delhi told me," Why are you going now? It is raining badly" The television had also announced the forecast of rain for 48 hours over the whole region. I replied, " God can change the weather by tomorrow." The next morning when I woke up, instinctively, I parted the curtains to perceive absolutely clear skies. It began to rain only after we left Dalhousie. The Holy Spirit gives diverse gifts for the common good: the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, healing gift, miraculous powers, prophecy, discernment of spirits, gift of speaking in tongues and the interpretation of tongues. The important sub-clause to this promise of signs, wonders, miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit is that they are all given according to the sovereign will of God. He determines in His wisdom and grace to whom and when and in what proportion it should be given. But, scripture says that instead of disbelieving the operation of these gifts in contemporary " scientific" times or disregarding the significance of supernatural gifting in our natural lives, we eagerly desire these great gifts in order to bear witness to the extraordinary working of God in our lives in our times. God does enjoy the sight of our jaws dropping and our hearts missing a beat at the awesomeness of His power.

Prateep V Philip