The Miracle Worker

i have definitely felt moved in the last two to three weeks to focus on the supernatural for this morning's message and the miracle working power of god and at first i focused on the miracles themselves but then within a short while i felt even more moved and led to focus on the miracle worker that's good that's what he deserves things like that right there that's right if i don't see a miracle today and i believe i'm going to but if i don't see one today i'm still going to praise the miracle worker today john chapter 2 and verse 11. this beginning it's the marriage that cane of galilee and the water being turned into wine and the writer says this beginning everybody say beginning please beginning it's a key word here of miracles did jesus in cana of galilee and manifested forth his glory and his disciples believed on him i believe god and john purposefully said this is the beginning of miracles because there are going to be scores of others without knowing i slipped alongside sister hannah in pre-service prayer and asked her to pray for me but a few days earlier god had prompted a scripture during some of her reading from first kings chapter 9 and verse 11 where it talks about solomon giving the king of tyre hiram some cities up there in the land of galilee and of course this was hundreds of years before the miracle of jesus and hiram responded to solomon he wasn't pleased with those towns and here's what he said these towns are worthless these towns are worthless is what hiram said to solomon solomon was trying to be kind and give him a gift and he'd said you have given me worthless in fact hiram named that region kabul which means worthless so this is where the miracle took place the beginning of miracles one of the things that tells us is that god can do a miracle in what somebody thinks is worthless hopeless it'll never happen here it'll never happen here it'll never happen here what a king calls worthless god says that's where i'm going to start the earthly ministry of the anointed one and there is some worthless territory that god wants to start the devil has called it worthless we have surmised that it is worthless but not in god's sight he said that's the territory i speak to somebody today you are the territory for the miraculous of god and then a little later in john chapter 14 now and verse 12 jesus said verily verily i say unto you speaking to the disciples which we can take this for us he that believes on me listen to this if you're a believer in jesus he that believes on me the works that i am doing shall that believer do also i want it to happen i want it to happen for me and for you and greater works than these shall that believer do because i am going unto my father and i am going to leave and put my power in those who remain so that there can be a recognition that god is still in this earth and working god intends for you and i plea please hear me and i know that many of you may have heard this before but it's a it's an old word that needs a resurrection in our life god intends for us to partake of and see and experience miracles so i want to i want to preach today the miracle worker whoa i feel a praise for him right now just focus on him right now i praise you god you're the all-powerful you're the almighty god you have always been and you will always be the miracle worker we thank you o god we thank you in jesus name and you may be seated let your faith loose and let it work today god has always been a miracle worker if you study in the bible the various eras some scholars have broken down the eras of what they've called the era of different miracles as israel was being established as a nation there were the miracles as they came out of egypt and came into the promised land then even during crisis and spiritual idolatry and declining there were miracles by elijah and elisha and the condition of god's people was not spiritually healthy at that time but the miracle worker was alive so it doesn't matter again and there's a reason god is bringing this theme back in the message already it doesn't matter what the circumstances are god is still the miracle worker it doesn't matter how dire the diagnosis and the report is god is still the miracle worker i know you're a believer and if you need a miracle today i'm asking that you engage with god's word you engage in faith engage with an amen and don't worry about well the miracle hasn't happened yet what we're a manning is the one who is the a man the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end we sung at the deliverer the savior and he is the miracle worker

a miracle is a supernatural act caused by the will and the power of god not man's power but god's power it contrasts and even interrupts the way in which life ordinarily functions get ready god wants to interrupt what should normally come back on that report god wants to interrupt the direction of your life and the turn that it has taken in the wrong direction but god wants to interrupt the way you have ordinarily functioned the literal word for miracle in the old testament means a conspicuous token something that is conspicuous means you see it you notice it it is conspicuous in the new testament it refers to force work a strength or the might and abundant power of god what a miracle is is simply this god choosing to override a law that he set in place we can't do that but god to do what he wants that's why i'm preaching the miracle worker today above the miracle because he set the law of gravity in place but one of these days there's going to be the miracle of a rapture and god is going to override the gravitational pull that he put in place but i want to time out you don't have to wait till rapture day for god to override a law that he has written that man has written and i want to tell you no matter if god will override his own law what in the world can he do with what man says with how it's going to work out according to our thinking

miracles still happen today just recently sister christy lindsay's friend in arkansas megan summitt 36 years of age diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer had spread to her bladder and to the lymph nodes in her body megan was given around a year or so to live the church here as sister christie requested sent a prayer cloth and then we've had her in our prayer meetings and during services her name has been on the prayer listings she had a surgery on thursday april 13th the result was the tumor is dead the miracle worker stand a minute sister christy she's got tears in her heart in her eyes right now no longer able to find any trace of cancer i'm reading from christie's email not in her bladder not in her lymph nodes they did a bone biopsy it came back negative they are stay standing just a minute christy they are giving her a miraculous clean bill of health and christie's closing words and i quote in the email god is so good if somebody in here would just say those four words today your tomorrow is going to turn around your next month is going to turn up god we tend to focus the human default is to focus on what's bad but the miracle worker is so good god is so good and we are celebrating this victory thank you all for praying and believing and the last line what an awesome god we serve whoo i could see her hands pointing to the miracle worker as she closed that email have you got something you want to point his direction today i feel a praise in here right now on every pew in everybody on every soul there's something to praise god for whoo miracles are called signs a sign points to something or somebody i i just this is for me personally maybe you can glean from it i want to be careful be careful not to worship the sign more than who it points to i want to thank god for that cancer-free report but christie thank you for closing that email with what an awesome god this wasn't about man's prayer cloth that was an action of faith we should do that it's not about the oil that we use it's not about the person that prays and thank god for people of faith and they are engaged in this room right now there are people of faith but all of that points to one and his name is jesus his name is jesus he's the one true and almighty god and miracles do that they always point to jesus when they saw the miracles he did they started praising him it always points to god miracles glorify magnify and exalt the lord

psalm 40 and verse 5 and just before you read it there is there is reason to focus on the miracles and i'll just give you a little context here i'll give you a little backtrack here i was going through this scripture these scriptures looking far words like the marvelous works of god or the wonderful works of god and that may have been where god stopped me said i want you to focus on who it is that gives the miracle psalm 40 and verse 5. many o lord my god are your wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are to us for they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you if i would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbered your wonderful works your thoughts it goes back to you psalm 105 and verse 5 remember his marvelous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgments of his mouth psalm 44 and verse 1. we have heard with our ears oh god our fathers have told us what worked hold on just a minute amber aren't you thankful that our heritage has told us i'm glad for pastors that preach the miraculous power of god i'm glad for elders that believe the power of god and i'm glad for students who are passing this on to younger students our fathers have told us what work you did in their days in the times of old whew they didn't just talk about their works they talked about they talked about your works oh god psalm 77 and verse 11. i will remember the works of the lord surely i will remember your wonders of old what are you going to remember i'm going to remember your wonders oh god i'm going to talk about how you did it yeah i was in the circumstance yes i prayed yes i had faith but i remember your wonders oh lord psalm 111 and verse 4 he hath made his wonderful works to be remembered the lord is gracious and full of compassion he's done those things so we would remember as i was putting the account of christie's friend's testimonial into the notes i thought well pastor just rehearsed that the other night but then this verse said he did that so we would remember somebody if god answered a prayer for you i don't care how small or how big if he's ever healed you if he's ever delivered you and a lot of us can say he has saved me my lord we ought to be on our feet we ought to be lifting our heart and our hand he did it so it would be remembered psalm 118 118 and 17 i shall not die but live and declare the works of the lord the lord hallelujah hallelujah and at pentecost into the new testament acts 2 and 11. cretes and arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of god when they were speaking in tongues like many of you have already today they were speaking in languages that men could understand and they said here's what we're hearing we're not hearing about the church we're not hearing about what's going wrong we're hearing the wonderful works of the lord god almighty and psalm 107 and verse 31 oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness hold on brother michael hold on oh that men would praise the lord that's what we're doing we're answering that right now this about ten about about a minute or so ago you answered that god writing in his word it's the same as him speaking to us and he said oh that men would do what we are doing today praise the miracle worker you're doing the will of god when you lift a hand you're doing the will of god when you whisper a thank you jesus you're doing what he wants to do oh that men would praise the lord for what for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men his goodness his wonderful works

47 years ago brother and sister donald hanscom they were missionaries in pakistan lahore pakistan they most recently served our north american missions and they are still evangelizing and serving in ministry their eight to ten year old son whose name was don david he and a neighbor friend costa attempted to climb under the flat roof of their home houses were built there very tall and slender to make room for other houses there was a stairway inside because people would go to the roof especially in the heat of the summer and they would sleep there they would do other things on that roof but brother and sister hanscom kept that door locked so that the children would not go up there and play and then get hurt but brother and sister hanscom mr hanscom was out for a few minutes for the hanscom was at the school teaching some of the leaders that were there so don david and his friend costa climbed up the gutter and just as don david began to the costa reached the top of the roof and just as don david put his leg up to go over the parapet that was there he lost his footing he began to fall it was over the front of the house where the driveway where there was a garage and the driveway there was a short concrete roof there and he fell and landed on his left side on that overhang roof and then that flipped him and he fell further down to the pavement and fell on the right side of his head the house helpers picked him up his limp unconscious body brought them into the house and by this time sister hanscom was there they laid don david on the lap of that mother and she began to inquire what had happened a neighbor a muslim neighbor who was up on his roof doing his prayers god knows how to order things noticed and he ran down he heard the younger neighbor boy crying he went down they took little don david into sister hanscom she sent for brother hanscom the neighbor took them to the first hospital brother hanscom joined him there he said when i ran into the emergency room i found my only son laying there gasping for breath the hospital staff was giving him oxygen to help him breathe the doctor on duty dr chadri immediately commenced to tell me this is a hopeless situation pastor and your son has no chance of surviving this accident it was too serious i said to him the hope of a father we're going to take him back to canada that's where they had previously lived we're going to get him into a good hospital and he will be all right i'll never forget his response brother hanscom said he put his hand on my shoulder look me straight in the eyes says you will never get your son out of the airport alive it's too serious that doctor said there's a neighboring hospital it's a general hospital there's a neurosurgeon there i recommend that you take your son there and they did don david when he would stop breathing brother hanscom would pray breathe in jesus name breathe i wouldn't call that a theological discourse but i call it belief in the miracle worker breathe in jesus name breathe don david would gasp for his breath brother hanscom wrote it seemed we were praying for every breath he breathed they took the x-rays and brother hanscom said at first i thought they were showing us the wrong x-rays our son had a massive fracture went from the front side of his forehead all the way back to the base of his skull on the right side of his head it was shattered like a broken eggshell we were also informed that the ear bone was broken and his brain was pressing out through his right ear later we read the medical report and the report confirmed extensive loss of brain matter they had to drill in to that skull to allow for the expansion and the swelling of that brain because of the injury the doctor finally told them this is to hanscom medically there is nothing else we can do and i paused there because there are situations that are represented in our lives where people maybe even us or maybe even others have had to say there is nothing else that can be done he remained in that state of unconsciousness for three days leaping ahead in his testimony he said this he said later for all of this had passed we were deputizing in ohio a lady in the church related to him she said i was in my kitchen in the morning washing dishes when the lord impressed upon her to pray she finished the dishes and said lord i need to go downtown to take care of an errand and when i get back i will pray as she stepped into the garage to leave she took hold of her car handle thank god for sensitivity church be sensitive to the voice of god she said when i took that car handle in my hand i heard the lord speak to me if you don't pray now he's going to die she had no idea who this was she had no idea the incident had happened she said i i immediately went to prayer not knowing exactly what the need was she learned later it was the same day and at the same time we were going through this situation with our son's accident in pakistan another sister in the church told brother sister hanscom later my husband and i were sitting in our living room when the telephone rang my husband answered the phone on the other end of the line an operator answered and there was a call coming through from pakistan he said we don't know anybody in pakistan you have the wrong number you must have the wrong number and then he heard a voice speaking in a foreign language and he like many of us would do quickly hung up the receiver and looked at his wife and said this is so strange here's what he said maybe the lord wants us to pray for somebody in pakistan they immediately went to prayer they looked back when they heard this story later on they knew nothing of it they calculated this was the same time and day of our tragic situation in pakistan where we so desperately needed desperately your miracle if it's desperate today god sees it the miracle worker is able our wonderful pakistani saints in the church gathered in the compound of the hospital had prayer meetings that went on day and night for three days four days went by and our son was still living the doctor was greatly amazed he had given us little or no hope of his survival however on the fourth day following the accident it appeared to the doctors and to us that the end had come my wife when she was given the news ran out of the ward mamas you'll identify with this i can't bear to see my boy die desperation in the voice of sister sandra hatscombe there was no pulse they could find no pulse there was no breath his lips began to turn cold and purple in desperation brother hanscom wrote to me he said i picked my son up in my arms i fell to my knees in that hospital ward before dozens of people didn't care who heard it i began to cry out loudly to jesus calling for his mercy and for the healing of my son as i prayed suddenly someone tapped me on my left shoulder i turned and looked up into a face of a stranger a gentleman he didn't say much he didn't give me his name he simply said god has sent me to pray for your son he reached over and placed his hand on the forehead of my little boy and he began praying in one of the dialects the urdu dialect of the pakistani language when that man prayed my son opened his eyes he began to speak and the first words out of his mouth were daddy i'm sorry i climbed up on the roof nurses were standing nearby and tears were streaming down their faces my wife heard don david laugh she was a short distance away and when she heard his laugh and then heard his statement and voice she came back into the room and she was crying with joy i turned to get acquainted with the man that prayed he was nowhere to be found i ran outside i searched the hospital compound but couldn't find him anywhere to my knowledge i have never seen this man again i am convinced we had an angelic visitation that day thank you jesus for sending an angel thank you miracle worker for doing a miracle ah and i feel i feel them in this room today i'm gonna tell you what i feel i feel like one on either side of me i just feel like holding their hand he's still the miracle worker

jesus did miracles over nature he did miracles over health he did miracles over demons he did miracles over death god has a miracle for that relationship i've seen some miracles in the last two months god healing hearts and healing relationships there is nothing too hard the elements of a miracle as far as we're concerned are if there's a need if there's an expectation hallelujah that lame man in acts 3 you could argue he was expecting the wrong thing silver and he wanted money but i got to give him credit at least he came expecting hallelujah at least he came expecting this isn't just another sunday morning service this isn't just another message this isn't just another bible story if you will expect it and if you have a need man's extremity is god's opportunity and you don't have to have special words all you got to say is breathe down david in jesus name breathe don't worry about how your prayer sounds don't worry about how short or how long it is but you can pray it in the name of jesus and a healing can hit your leg i was having severe knee pain and i was watching a message by brother jeff arnold preaching and all of a sudden in the middle of that message all of a sudden i felt the presence of the lord and all of a sudden the pain left that knee that was a few years ago i have not suffered with that i was sitting in the living room chair god doesn't matter where you are right now somebody online somebody in the back of this building somebody in the center of the building somebody it does not matter where you are god just come with a need and come expecting sister elizabeth garcia was healed crumb sister elizabeth crum was healed this past friday night she had suffered from a frozen shoulder she could not lift her arm or her hand even to comb her hair but god immediately touched her body on that friday night and she can't be here right now because she's with brother jim and brother jim god wants to touch you and take care of whatever it is he's a healer he's a healer he's a miracle worker i want folks to go away from abc's then that looked like pentecost to me sister sue during bible class we heard go brown brother round hallelujah whoa during bible class you disturbed us sometimes we need disturbing don't we we need a shake-up and when i heard that i thought you know i've heard kids playing out in the yard and i've heard our nursery citizens every now and again in here first thing to do was to pray for the poor worker that was in there but you know what i said when i heard those kids in the yard sounds like kids to me you know what i said when i heard that prayer sister sue sounds like an apostolic church to me sounds like people that believe in the miracle worker all you need if you have a need presented to god expecting to do it and then pray pray prayer is not trying to wrestle god's unwillingness prayer is laying a hold of god's willingness he wants to do the miracle today pray believe and use that name of jesus

i'm stopping right here on that great and high and holy name you have a need you have expectancy uh pray hallelujah believe god touch the name of jesus praise god there's no reason to go away from here empty-hearted there's no reason to go away from here feeling discouraged or depressed god wants to begin the work today this is the beginning of miracles would you stand and as you go up would you let a praise go up right now would you let it go to the miracle worker let it go to the miracle worker yes yes yes hallelujah go ahead church go ahead use your voice there you go use it god deserves this he's always worthy whoa beautiful beautiful hololook they began to praise the lord and he sent ambushments and they won a great victory three armies were aligned against them they were surrounded oh yes they're going to begin to sing in just a moment and either before or after singing don't hesitate they say this mountain can't be moved they say these chains will never break but they don't know you like we do don't be taken in by the deception of this world for the hands come sister hanscom they heard from wonderful doctors and we believe in doctors and we believe in medical science but there comes a time when man reaches as far as he can reach there's a time when parrots reach as far as they can reach for their lost son or daughter they reach as far as they can but others don't know him like we do we've heard there's no way through we've heard the tide will never change we've heard it's always gonna be this way i reject it i resist it i rebuke it in the powerful name of jesus in your miracle working power they haven't seen what you can do there is power in your name somebody say that name so much power in your name that's right don't be ashamed of it say it say it in jesus name and then the appeal move the immovable that's expectancy expecting to move what has been immovable break the unbreakable god we believe we believe for it from the impossible we will see a miracle i'm not telling you you have to have great faith today i'm just telling you you have that faith in the miracle worker today see you he said that's it go ahead respond nothing too hard there is anointing on you to pray right now go ahead believe god we can leave god we believe god we will be yes we knew make me god when there seems to be god god you me uh god we you said i believe you said it is done you said i believe you said it is is i believe me for deliverance is see i found no other way i put my we trust god is god we believe so we're just staying right here there's miracles happening all throughout the room if you want to be a part of what i just ask you to step out of where you are and go lay hands on someone who's seeking a miracle and seeking a miracle worker if you need to leave that's understandable we're so thankful you came today but we're going to continue to seek after this miracle worker today would you if just be sensitive right now and go and pray with someone who's seeking the lord and seeking jesus this morning we thank god for what he's doing