Miracles

Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.

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We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the

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God is good all the time. Yes, Amen.

We praise Him, glorify Him and worship Him for bringing our

sister through surgery. And we thank him because we know

that she's going to get well and he's going to expedite that and

she's going to be back before they're going, oh, we don't know

what's going on, but you're healing the fashion we thought.

So we know God is able to do that very thing also.

He is a God of miracles. He's a God of, of healing.

He's a God of deliverance. He's a God of everything,

everything. Those songs that were sung,

Bless the Lord. He's worthy.

He alone is worthy. Worthy worthy is the Lord God

Almighty, which was, which is and is to come.

Hallelujah. He's going to be here before we

know it, looking and waiting and watching and looking around,

waiting on him to be here. Before I get started, I'm going

to go to the Lord in prayer. And I know there's probably

several prayer requests. People sick.

I know Charlie's got the flu, just different ones that are

sick. So we need to lift them up in

prayer and and know that God is able to heal and deliver and

meet whatever needs that are represented here tonight.

So let's all just pray. Father God, we come before your

throne, Lord, and we just kneel down before you, Father, and we

lift our holy hands up to you, Lord, and we thank you for

keeping the doctor's hands steady and safe when he was

doing surgery on our sweet sister Candy.

Lord. We thank you, Lord, because we

know that you're going to heal her and she's going to heal fast

and you're going to have your hand in the middle of that,

Lord, and it's you're going to stop the pain that she's going

to be going through, Lord. We know there's pain involved,

Father, but you are able to stop that pain and we thank you for

it, Lord. We lift Charlie up because we

know he's sick. Little Cooper, Father, I pray

that you just continue to touch his little body, Father, and

heal him. Lord, we ask that you meet every

need represented here, whether it's physical need, financial

need, whatever spiritual need, Father, that is met tonight.

Father, as we open your word and start worshiping you in truth,

Lord, we ask that you just touch your hearts.

Father, anoint me to speak Your word and let those that hear,

let them hear Your word in Jesus name, Amen.

God is a God of miracles and that's what I want to talk to

you all a little bit about tonight is miracles.

We're going to talk about some miracles now.

You know what constitutes a miracle?

According to Google, it says it is an extraordinary supernatural

event, sign or wonder that defies natural law and is

directly attributed to God's power.

Amen. That's a miracle.

And we tend to throw that word around and use that word a lot,

especially when we're confronted with bad news, especially when

things seem dark and it looks like hopeless situations are

happening, whether it's physical, financial, whatever

the situation is and it looks bad for us, we want a miracle.

I'm believing for a miracle for our son.

So he's stage 4 cancer. The end of October they

diagnosed him. Healthy guy, always been

healthy, the healthiest one of the whole family.

And it's in his brain, it's in his lungs, it's in his lymph

nodes and, and in his muscles. But God, God is able and he's

had radiation, no side effects. He did have a blood clot, but

they got that taken care of and now he started chemo.

Chemo, no side effects praise God for that that's the Lord

because you know everybody's all nervous about that and and he's

still working he's working from home but he's still working and

he's believing that God is able God is going to heal him.

He says if he heals me here, I'm here and I'm healed.

If he takes me home, I'm healed. And that's his attitude.

And praise God for that attitude.

Cause about six years ago he didn't have that attitude.

It was a whole nother attitude he had.

But about four years ago he found the Lord.

He's been walking with the Lord ever since and he prays and

testifies and all that good stuff.

So God's timing is not necessarily our timing.

We could have a better time with this Lord, but it is what it is.

But God is able. God is able to do a miracle.

And I've said that I throw that word around.

I'm believing God for a miracle, you know, and I think we could

probably all say we've thrown that word miracle around.

We're believing God for miracles, especially when things

get bad. Miracles aren't just random

happenings or wonders. They're they're intended as a

sign to point to God's authority and to his presence.

God is presence in the present, in the middle of miracles.

And you know, we always declare we need a miracle.

Well, sometimes we're going to talk about a couple of guys here

that needed miracles, but they didn't go around saying I'm

declaring a miracle. You know, God's Word is full of

miraculous events. I mean, from the beginning to

the very end, God's Word is full of those events.

And however, the thing with miracles is they always seem to

come in a dark time. Have you noticed they're paired

up with with a dark day or a terrible event or something?

That's not what we want. It appears that miracles and

midnight kind of go hand in hand.

And in the middle of our darkest hour, in the darkest time, we

want a wonder, unexplainable event to happen.

And we're looking for that. So exactly how do we get a

miracle? Well, glad you asked.

I'm going to talk to you about a couple of guys that got some

miracles and like I said, it's all through scripture, but I

just going to pick out a couple acts 16 and 25.

If you want to turn there you can.

If you don't, you don't. It's OK because I've got a few

more acts versus we're going to. But Acts 16 and 25, it says.

But at midnight, Paul and Silas, you're probably all very

familiar with this. We're praying and singing hymns

to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake quake, so that the

foundations of the prison were shaken.

And immediately all the doors were open and everybody's chains

fell off. We're loosed my version on their

way to a prayer meeting that morning, Paul and Silas, they

probably never expected to wind up in prison, in a stinky

prison, chained up. Nonetheless, not only chained up

in a stinky, smelly prison, they were beaten.

They had been beaten and and it was a bad day and they didn't

expect that when they were going to prayer meeting.

We might learn something from this, but nevertheless, when the

clock struck midnight, they were in chains, battered, bloody,

because they had rebuked a woman, a demon out of a woman.

That's all they did. Woman was going around, you can

look the story up. Woman was going around saying,

oh, these are men of God. And every time they started to

speak and preach, this woman would pop up and start

hollering, oh, these are men of God.

These are men of God interrupting what they were

trying to do. So they turned around and

rebuked her. The demon had to leave and the

guys that were making money off of her demon didn't like it.

So they went to the authorities that be and they said do

something with these guys. So they did.

They beat him up, threw him in prison.

They were probably unable to sleep because of the pain and

the awkward position. Can you imagine being chained

up, not being able to roll over or anything like that?

But Paul and Silas chose to praise and pray instead of doubt

and pout. So that was their thing they

chose to do. And as they sang praises from a

hopeless situation, from a prison cell, something began to

happen in the heavenlies. Now I'm going to give this

scripture to you. You don't have to turn here.

But in Zephaniah 3 and 17 it says, the Lord your God, in your

midst, the mighty One will serve, will save, He will

rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with his love,

and he will rejoice over you with singing.

What? Wait, God sings, Yes, he sings

over you. He's he's quieting you with his

love to me, that's such a mother I see.

He's quieting you. He's rejoicing over you and he's

loving on you and he's singing over you.

Imagine, if you will, Paul and Silas in prison and they're

starting to sing and they're praying and singing and

worshiping the Lord and sitting in the throne of heaven while

resting his feet on the foot still of the earth.

If you just give me a, let me have some leeway here.

God begins tapping his foot to the song they're singing and

he's hearing them sing their song.

And when God starts singing, things start happening.

Earthquakes start happening, Deliverance comes and God's

singing over you the whole time while you're worshiping God,

he's worshiping too. He's singing over you.

So praise releases God's power, and prison doors are no match

for Him. I want you to think about this,

and I don't want you to imagine and think that I'm just talking

about the physical prison. There's a lot of different kinds

of prisons that people need to be delivered from.

So there's a lot of things that's happening in your life

that maybe there's needs to be a little deliverance.

Maybe I don't know what it is, but there's things.

But when we start praising God, God's power is released and

those prison doors of deliverance can and will be

open. It seems every time God opens a

prison door and acts, it was in the middle of the night.

Now another story, and this is I love this story.

I wish they'd make a movie of it.

They may have, may do, I don't know.

Acts chapter 5 verse start with verse 17.

Acts 5 · chapter mention

We're going to read it and we're going to go all the way through

it. Acts 517, it says.

Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him,

which is the sect of the Sadducees, and they were filled

with indignation, laid hands on the apostles, and put them in

common prison. But at night an Angel of the

Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said, Go

stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this

life. Now the devil thought that he

had finished the revival. Thank you, brother.

Awesomeness. The devil thought he had quieted

down the little revival that was going on 'cause they were

preaching. They were in the these guys at

this point. They were standing in the middle

of the street preaching. They didn't like it.

Sad, you see. Sit, shut them up, lock the

preachers, throw away the key, but God owns the key to all your

prisons, all your problems. God owns the keys to all of

that. We just sang beautiful songs

about how God loves us and how we love him and he never fails

us. He's always with us.

We sing that, we hear that, but He does that.

Verse 21 And when they heard that, they being the same guys

that was in the prison, when they heard what the Angel said,

this is what this is saying. The Angel told them says go

stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this

life. And when they heard that what

the Angel told them, the same disciples entered the temple

early in the morning and taught, but the high priest and those

with him came and called the council together with all the

elders and children of Israel and sent to the prison to have

them brought. So the high priest, he was going

to have a trial. He was going to bring them to

justice. He was going to shut them down,

quiet them up, stop their preaching.

It's so funny though. But verse 22, when the officers

came and did not find them in prison, they returned and

reported saying, indeed, we found the prison shut securely

and the guards standing outside before the doors.

But when we opened them, we found nobody inside.

I love that. That's just hysterical.

And now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and

the chief priest heard these things, they wondered what the

outcome would be. So no one, oh, sorry.

So one came and told them saying the men you put in prison are

standing in the temple and teaching the people in the hell.

I just felt, well, I've got a warped sense of humor, but I

think it's funny. I mean, here they are the high

priest going to shut them down for for preaching to the people.

They throw them in prison and the Angel comes in.

Boom, they're out. He even shuts the door and lets

it locks it back. It's funny.

And then the power that be he says, go get them, break them

here, make them stand in front of us.

And the guard goes door was locked, but nobody in there.

I love it. God has a great sense of humor.

Don't you think that God has a here the the big macho soldiers

standing outside the prison thumping their chests, rattling

their swords and flexing their muscles, probably talking about

what they would do to those apostles and the disciples

talking about them. And you know, I mean, I know if

y'all watched movies that like that and if they tried any funny

business, they were going to do this, that and the other thing

to them. And all the while the cell was

empty. God is a great God.

He is such a wonderful sense of humor.

But that was a miracle. That was a miracle.

Not necessarily what we consider today as a miracle, but that was

a miracle. It reminds me of another story.

Remember the story where the women went to the tomb and it

was still dark outside and they went to the tomb.

The high priest had posted all his guards.

All his guard was posted outside the tomb.

They sealed the the the stone in front of the tomb.

They did all of that stuff. But when she got there, the tomb

was empty. God, That's God.

There is no spiritual prison cell that can hold you down.

That ain't no grave going to hold this body down.

Period. You know, we just need to

understand that, that no spiritual prison cell can hold

you back. I've talked to somebody and they

say I feel like I'm a prisoner in my own home.

I pace the floors like a wild animal because I'm afraid to get

out of the house. That's a prison.

But that God, God can deliver them from that.

God is able to do that thing. And did they, what did they?

I mean, they sang and prayed, huh?

That's all they did. They didn't jump through hoops.

They didn't run around screaming.

They just sang in praise, worship God.

They wasn't even threatening to. I'll get you when we get out of

here. You know how people do that, you

know, and prisoners, you've seen those prison stories.

Romans 831 tells us a different story.

It says when they, when, What then shall we say to these

things? The stuff that happens to you,

it's what he's talking about, the stuff that's happening in

your life. What are you going to say to

these things? If God is for us, who can be

against us? Exactly.

These are the things that you need to say when the enemy is

trying to keep you caged up, trying to keep you in that habit

that you have, trying to keep you caged up from whatever life

wants to give you. What if God's for me, who can be

against me? He who did not spare his own

son, but deliver him up for us all, how shall he not with him

also freely give us all things? He will deliver you.

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect?

I love that verse. Who's going to bring a charge

against God's elect? That always takes me back to

Revelation and Tribulation time. We as Christians, and I wasn't

going to say this, but I'm saying it as Christians, we kind

of get scared when we start talking about tribulation.

It's gonna be bad. It's gonna be bad.

But God tells us in his Scripture and Revelation that

he's got us sealed up. He's got us sealed.

And then this Scripture says who shall bring a charge against US,

against God's elect And, and Scripture says that his elect,

you can't touch him during that time.

Look it up. I taught you all on it here a

while back. God's elect, he said I got them

sealed up and nobody's going to bring a charge against it.

It is God who justifies, who is he who condemns It is Christ who

died and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right

hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

So we've got Jesus praying for us, whom shall separate us from

the love of Christ. Shall tribulation, shall

distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword.

So nothing as it is written for your sake.

We are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the

slaughter. Yet in all these things we are

more than conquerors through him who loved us.

We need to understand that when we're in a situation and it

seems horrible, horrible, horrible situation, and you go,

go to Romans 31, tell the devil that, tell him that.

You know, I want to encourage you tonight.

God can take the key to your prison cell and he can send an

Angel right there in the middle of the night to you for

deliverance. I don't know who this is for.

I had somebody in mind. I always do when I'm doing a

message, I always have somebody in mind and they never show up.

That's just how it works. But God has the key to your

prison cell, so I know this is for somebody.

And if the Angel of the Lord shows up in the middle of your

prison cell, let him bring you out.

Don't hold on to the doors of that prison.

Who would do that? People do it all the time.

They're afraid. They don't know how to live

without being in that environment, in that prison,

whatever that may be for whoever it's let them bring you out.

Don't hold on to the door. Well, I won't out, but I don't

want to let go, Bob says. I shouldn't roll my eyes, but I

do. Sometimes we get to liking the

prison that we're in. People like, they like the

attention. Oh, poor thing.

They like the anguish. It makes them feel comfortable

because that's all I've known. They don't know any different.

They like the they like the whining.

They like it. It makes them feel comfortable.

So when the Angel of the Lord comes to deliver you out of this

situation, don't go back in it. Don't go back there.

That's what God's trying to tell us here in Acts 12, one through

616. We're going to read all of that,

but it's another account of a miraculous midnight prison

breakout. Passover King Herod had just

killed James, and he had Peter in jail so he could kill him

next. That was the intent of Herod's

heart. He was going to kill them both

because they were preaching the gospel.

Now I'm going to open my Bible because I didn't write it down.

I didn't cheat. Take me a minute.

Acts 12. That's what I said, right?

Keep me on my toes one through 16 since now after that time,

Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the

church. Any any of that going on today?

Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword, and

because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further

to seize Peter also. Now it was during the Days of

Unleavened Bread, Passover is what it was.

So when he had arrested them him, he put him in prison and

delivered him to the four squads of soldiers to keep him in

tending, to bring him before the people after the holiday, Easter

time, we call it Passover. Peter was therefore kept in

prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the

church man. We had a great little prayer

meeting Sunday night. Here we was praying for our

sisters, more than one. We prayed for candy, we prayed

for Miss Linda, we prayed for several other people, constant

prayer by the church. And when Herod was about to

bring him out that night Peter was sleeping so funny with two

chains between two soldiers, and the guards before the door were

keeping the prison. Now behold, an Angel of the Lord

stood by him, and a light shone in the prison, and he struck

Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, Arise quickly, get

up man. And his chains fell off his

hands. And then he the Angel said to

him, get your clothes on, gird yourself and tie on your

sandals. So he did and he said to him,

put on your garment and follow me.

So he went out and followed him and did not know that what was

done by the Angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

When they were past the 1st and 2nd guard post, they came to the

iron gate that leads to the city which opened for them, went out

into the town, and when they went out and went down the

street, and immediately the Angel departed.

And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know for

certain that the Lord has Cynthia's Angel, and had

delivered me from the hand of the Herod and from the

expectations of the Jewish people.

So when he had considered this, he came to the House of Mary,

the mother of John, whose surname was Mark, where many

were gathered together praying. And as Peter knocked on the

door, knocking on the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda

came to answer. When she recognized Peter's

voice because of her gladness, she did not open the gate, but

ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate.

But they said to her, You're beside yourself, girl.

Yet she kept insisting that it was so.

So they said it is his Angel. Now Peter continued knocking,

and when they opened the door, they saw him and they were

astonished in this crazy. They prayed for Peter's

deliverance, they prayed for healing, they prayed for

deliverance. They prayed for lots of

different things. And when you get the miracle,

the miracle is like, maybe not, maybe not, maybe that wasn't

God. But prayer is the other

ingredient. Praise and prayer are the two

ingredients that it takes to receive miracles.

OK, Faith, prayer and praise. OK.

Paul and Silas prayed and saying praises to God.

Peter was asleep while somebody else was praying for him.

I love that image. You know he was he was chained

between two big old guards and two were outside the gate.

Herod wasn't making any taking any chances this time.

He's going. I want, I want to make sure he's

there. He's not getting away this time.

So he didn't want an Angel to outsmart him.

So inside and outside he was had.

Guards everywhere. But soldiers and sails are no

match for God. There's nothing too big for our

God, period. Here comes the Angel of the Lord

again. The Angel turned the light on.

It said that light came on and Peter was sleeping so soundly he

didn't even move. I love that he was confident in

God. That's what he was.

He was confident. The Angel had to nudge Peter to

wake him up. Hurry up, get your clothes on.

Get your shoes on, man. We're going to get out of here.

And he's like, OK, OK. Can you imagine being woken up

like that Angel nudging you? He was so calm and had so much

confidence in God that he went to sleep snoring away and he

walked along following the Angel.

He thought the situation was a dream or something.

And all of a sudden he looked up and realized he was at the House

of Mary, the mother of John Mark.

And he heard the prayer meeting going on.

He heard what was happening in the house and he decided he'd go

in and say I'm out. God delivered and they go, I

don't know. Is that you?

Not really you. So you know the prayer warriors

praying and groaning for Peter and when God does this midnight

miracle, they don't even believe it.

Sometimes people are like that. We are so quick to believe the

negative but we need proof to believe the positive.

I've got a situation. I'll share some dirty laundry

with you. I don't know any of y'all's

dirty laundry yet so y'all need to help me out with that.

We had a son who had done some bad stuff and was on his way to

prison for a while good while and Bob and his ex-wife and

stepfather, Ryan's stepfather, they were going to court.

They were driving their way and they were talking about the

situation, how bad it was, how horrible it was.

And then the stepfather, he was not when father-in-law, he said,

well, unless you know somebody higher up, you know, looks like

he's going to come down for a while.

It triggered Bob. You go.

I just happen to know. So they went into the they went

into the courtroom waiting their turn.

They had this woman in there and she was persecuting this poor

guy that was there. It was a court appointed

attorney. And so they were just, you know,

reaming him in out one side down the other.

So then they said it would be at least three to six months first

backup, three to six months. He'd be in jail before his his

trial. He ever went to court date.

We prayed it was like 2 weeks, just all of a sudden his, his

documents fell on top of the judge's desk.

God. And so we're Bob's sitting there

and he said the his, his ex-wife and and Ryan's stepfather was

sitting on one end of the bench. And Bob said, I'm down here all

by myself and he said, I'm praying and he says, God, your

word tells me you won't put no more on me than I can bear.

And I don't think I can bear to see my son persecuted like this.

I can't see bear to see my son taken to jail and going to

prison for like this. I can't bear it.

All of a sudden there's a knock on the door and the little court

appointed attorney, she said come back at 3:00 and take him

home. That's God.

That was a miracle. I had to share that with you

because miracles, we always think of healing when we see

miracles. God is able to do exceedingly

and abundantly more than we could think of and ask, don't

y'all think any worse about me, about my boy, 'cause it's the

same boy that was stage 4 cancer and now he's serving God.

So don't y'all dare say anything negative about that, my boy.

But Hezekiah was one of those people.

If you look at the I don't, you don't have to turn there, But in

the book of Hezekiah, he believed that he was going to

die without a miracle, without any sign or anything.

He was told you're going to die and then he would say, well,

you're not going to die. And he says, well, I'm not going

to believe that until the, the the sundial moves back 10° and

then I'll believe that I'll be healed.

So it didn't take anything for him to believe that he was going

to die, but he had to have a miracle to believe he was going

to live. We are just like that.

We worry and we walk the floors and we pace the floors and we

cry out to God and we forget that we have he is in control.

God is in control. You may be in a dark prison cell

and think that God has forgotten all about you.

In fact, you may be really familiar with that prison cell

because you've been in there a while.

Maybe you've been there a little while and made a little nest

over here and kind of get a little comfortable with it.

No, but I have come to tell you that God is going to turn a

light on. So wake up, get dressed, put

your shoes on. God is going to deliver you.

He's going to get you out of that prison, whatever it may be.

He's going to get you out. God likes to show up when it's

in the darkest time. God's not afraid of the dark.

He's just not at the stroke of 12 in your life.

Remember, remember the words look at your Bible read the word

of God. A a good one to read is is

Psalms 1/19/62. I wrote it down here at

midnight. I will rise and give thanks to

you because you're righteous judgement.

Another one that we can remember and when the enemy comes in and

it looks like you're in a dark hole, like you're in a really

dark place, is Psalms 139 and seven.

Y'all know this? I'm going to let you think about

it. Sorry.

Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your

presence? We just sing about that.

If I sin to heaven, you're there.

If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there, the

psalmist talking to God, you're there.

I can't get away from you, God. If I take the wings of the

morning and dwell into the uttermost parts of the sea, even

there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold

me. This is God holding you.

This is God, the miracle working God.

If I say, surely the darkness shall fall on me, even the night

shall be light to me. I love that part.

Indeed. The darkness shall not hide from

you. But the night shines as day.

The darkness and the light are both alike to you, God, dark

doesn't mean anything to God. It's us we think about.

Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know what to do. I want to, I don't want to name

off anything but what the things that people do sometimes and

they're just, I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do. You know, God's just going to

leave me alone. He's just, he's got me in this

situation. It looks bad.

It looks bad, brother looks bad. Can't, can't snap my finger.

Thank y'all but God. But God steps on the scene, he

sends an Angel, he's tapping his foot, you're praising God and

God is up there tapping his foot.

Earthquake is going to come and he's going to break the chains.

That's got you bound. I love that picture, that image

that you see when you see read that scripture and God is just

singing over you and he's tapping his foot and you know,

earthquakes happening, chains fall off.

And I let Peter was so confident in God that he was snoring.

Angel had to go. Hey, you, hey, hey, wake up.

I got it's chews on, it's clothes on.

We're out of here. Isn't that a great image?

A miracle nonetheless. When God does a miracle, we need

to understand that it might not look like we think it's going to

look, but it's going to be a miracle nonetheless.

So, you know, in the middle of the night, instead of agonizing

over the problem, we need to remind ourselves that God is in

control. Lift our praises to the Lord,

you know, from the lowest part of whatever prison we have.

Kids sick? Lift your praises to God.

Lost your job? Lift your praises to God.

Financial problems, Nothing for God.

There's nothing too big for my God.

No, no, no, no. I used to work with service,

with that every time, everything we'd pray.

And do you believe it? Yes.

People healed, people delivered, people saved.

God is going to rejoice with you when he starts singing Lookout.

An unexpected supernatural event is going to take place, and it

may have an earthquake involved. Foundations will be shaking.

Prison doors are going to fly open.

All of these things are going to happen.

Chains loose. If you need a miracle, it might

just happen at midnight. All is lost.

You might be saying tonight, like Psalms 32.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from

trouble. You shall surround me with the

song of deliverance. Selah The.

Word Selah means. Think about it.

That's what he's saying he's saying.

Think about that in my words. God, you are my hiding place.

God, you preserve me from the trouble.

Lord, you surround me with songs of deliverance.

So when we need a miracle, we just praise God.

If you can't think of a song to sing, open up psalms.

Sing one of those out. Keep looking because miracles

happen usually around the time it's darkest, usually at the

darkest time. I just wanted to encourage

y'all. I don't know who's going through

stuff. I know we are.

Everybody is everybody. Stuff happens but God.

But God, God was able to deliver.

He's able to make a way. Whether I'm in chains and

there's a guard on each side of me and there's guards outside

the door and the Angel has to come and wake you up.

And then they go in and. Where's that prisoner I?

Hate to tell you but. He's gone.

Can you imagine? Would you like to answer to the

Herod about I love God's sense of humor, and He has a sense of

humor when He does miracles. Those were miracles.

I mean, we think of all the miracles when Jesus walked in

and from Galilee and he sends the word and heals the the man's

son. He just spoke the word and he

says, go on, go home. Your son's, your son's alive.

He touches the casket as the funeral possession goes by and

the woman is like, you know, weeping her guts out, sorry,

weeping her guts out. She just lost her baby.

He's in the casket. They're walking to the cemetery

and God just walks by and touches and says get up boy, my

version get up and he gets out of the casket.

Miracles happen all the time. We are a miracle.

Your. Salvation.

Is the. Greatest miracle?

Of all can take a low down. Sorry, no good.

I'm talking about me. No good person.

Done a lot of stupid. Stuff and God will turn you

around and next. Thing you know you're preaching.

His word. This is a miracle.

This is a miracle. That's God.

That's a miracle right there. My brother, He's a miracle.

Sorry, he's. A miracle, you're all.

Miracles. But God, brother, you're a

miracle. You're alive.

You've been shot. How many times?

Three times shot. What's it called?

Ricocheted in his body. Miracles.

We need to. Give God more glory.

For the miracles, that's why we praise him and worship him.

And I'll stop, I'm done. Let's stand and we'll we'll be

dismissed. But think about it.

Prayer and praise is what gives you miracles.

That's what they did. And in the middle of the night,

God shows up and he shows out. That's Godfather.

We thank you for your word. We thank you that you encourage

us through your word that even though it may look dark, Lord,

that you're already going before us, that you can turn the light

on in the darkest moment, Lord. And I thank you for that.

Thanks for listening to the Cross.

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