My Miracle Is In Your Hands

Summary

Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon's captions — published in summary form; watch the full sermon at the source.

"Sir, I have no man"

He gives honor briefly — "to your wonderful pastor and his wife and their kids. I love them so much. Such incredible leaders, and he is such a powerful voice in my life" — welcomes a new friend, Tyler, whom he met over a long Bible conversation at a coffee shop a few weeks before, and turns to the first text: "The book of John, chapter number five and verse number one. Actually, I want to start with verse number five. The Bible says a certain man was there — John 5 and 5 — 'a certain man was there which had an infirmity for 38 years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, He saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered Him, Sir, I have no man.'" The preacher leans on the answer: "Well, not the answer you would expect for why this man had not received his miracle. He said, 'The reason I have not received my miracle is I just can't get nobody to help me. He said, when the water is troubled, to the time in which the miracle is getting ready to happen, I don't have anybody that is willing to give me a hand and help me do what I cannot do for myself.'" Then the second text, Mark 2:3-5: "And unto Him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when they could not come nigh unto Him for the press, they uncovered the roof where He was. And when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith — would you say, their faith? Would you really say it? Their faith. Their faith. When Jesus saw their faith, that was the moment that it all turned around. He was not only looking at the faith of the one that needed the miracle, hallelujah, but He was looking at the faith of all those that were around him."

Scriptures: John 5:5-7; Mark 2:3-5

The subject, and the service turns to prayer

The message was not the one he planned: "I had every intention today of going in a different direction. Hallelujah. But I'm telling you, I was laying behind this wall today, praying in the Holy Ghost, and I felt the Holy Ghost nudge me and push me, that there were miracles that He wanted to do in this house tonight." Hands go up all over the house for miracles "in your body, in your mind, in your family, in your finances, in your marriage," and then for the helpers: "If you're here and you're willing to help somebody push beyond where they've been before, and you're willing to push beyond your flesh and push beyond what you want and your desires, I want you to lift up your hands." The subject: "I want to preach to you for just a little while. My miracle is in your hand. My miracle is in your hand." And at once the sermon becomes corporate prayer — neighbors joined hand to hand — with the teaching carried inside the exhortation: "Just like you don't want to do something for somebody that can never be happy for somebody else, I'm telling you, it's the same true with God. When you hear about other miracles, and you hear about things that God did for other people, but you can't ever rejoice because it's not you — don't be surprised if it does not happen... I'm not just believing for me. I'm going to believe for my brother. I'm not just believing for my family. I'm believing for yours... Don't hold me back from my miracle. Don't hold me back from my breakthrough. You can unlock a miracle by getting in the Holy Ghost." The key he names: "One of the greatest ways you can unlock a miracle for yourself is to quit being selfish... I can't tell you the times I come to church and I needed a miracle and I needed a breakthrough, but I would get my hands on somebody else and I'd start praying. And I'm telling you, there is such a thing as a splashover blessing. And as they started getting blessed, I started getting blessed. As they started dancing, I started dancing... Why don't you try it in this house right now? Get your hands on somebody in this house. I'm telling you, as you pray for them, the Spirit prays for you. He maketh intercession according to the will of God."

The man with broken ribs

His illustration is a Tuesday midweek service in Tulsa a couple of years before: "There was a man there that needed a miracle that Saturday. He had fallen on a ladder and had broken two of his ribs. He wasn't planning on coming to church on that Tuesday midweek, but his sister, who had been addicted to nicotine for years and years, told him that she was wanting to go to church that night. He pushed beyond what his flesh wanted to do. Boy, he was hurting. He was in pain. And he drugged himself to church on that midweek. All of a sudden, as the altar call was open, that man — when he come in, he was limping and he was hurting and he was holding his side. Found out later he could not even lift his hands higher than his shoulder. But I'm telling you, I watched as his sister come up to the front and begin to pray. That man followed her up there, and you could tell he was moving slow. He was hurting. He was in pain. But all of a sudden, he got his hands on her back and he started praying for her. And I'm telling you, as she's starting getting touched, all of a sudden that man who couldn't even lift his hands, they went as high as he could get them, and he took off running. You say, 'What happened?' I'll tell you what happened. That's when a man stops looking at himself and says, 'I'm going to help somebody else.' That's how you unlock your miracle, sir. Can you believe for your brother?" From there the whole room is the altar call: "I want to be sensitive tonight. I want to do what God wants. I don't care if I don't preach tonight... You better not be holding somebody back from getting their miracle. You could be the key. How many times have you felt that nudge — get out and pray with them, step out and do something — but we learn how to push it aside. I wish you'd yield to it tonight... You want them to believe for you. Why don't you believe for them right now?... I come to this service tonight to watch somebody get a miracle. You ought to step out if you need it tonight. I said, you ought to step out in faith. Don't stay in your pew. If you need a miracle, I want you to step out of where you're at. I'm telling you, God's in the business of doing it. He come to work for you. He come to heal you. He come to restore. He come to fix you."