But what do you do when that miracle does not come, month after month and year after year? Often we get discouraged and ask ourselves, "Are we praying right? Do we not deserve the miracle? Is the lack of a miracle mean something is lacking in me? Why isn't God listening to my cries for a miracle?"
All these cries and many more, I have asked myself and it is during that weakness the Satan jumps in and places doubt in my mind that I don't deserve a miracle. It is those times that I just cry and ask for the Holy Spirit to come rescue me. You know what? He does. No miracle but an inner peace.
In these times while I am waiting on a miracle I have learned that the miracle may require other people praying for the same miracle in order for God to be working in a miraculous way.
We came to the mountains 13 years ago and encountered so many people far from God that we felt that God was calling us here and began praying for a miracle of a church that wanted to be different. WE did find people of liked minds and so we just prayed. Soon a family moved here from NC with the same passion, the another family from WV and others from other locations with the same passion and heart for God to move.
The miracle is happening over time but there are some more pieces that the Lord must need to put together before this miracle becomes a reality.
A building was vacated in our community in 2006 and Lynnette and I began to pray that this would be a great location for a church. In 2012 a sermon series called "Ripple" talked more of our prayer for a miracle. Series - RIPPLE Every week now for a year I have walked around this building and drew a circle in front of the front door where people would enter and I stand inside the circle and pray.
The reason for this blog is for you to know that God IS in the miracle business but it has to be in His time and know that the miracle will be better than you could every pray. It may not be instant but be patient and know that we will never be able to say we had anything to do with it when the miracle happens.
But that's what Miracles are all about anyway!
