Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

When you look at the Bible, it’s very clear that the entire book and the stories therein are not ordinary. The opening book of the Bible starts off telling us that in the beginning the divine creator God, through the word, created everything we see and know today as the world we live in.

So, the very foundation of our existence is built on an entirely miraculous event. By the power of God all things came to be. And as we go on to journey through the scripture you would find that the men God worked with wielded the supernatural regularly.

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭4‬:‭2‬-‭5‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
2 S‬‬o the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”

3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand),

5 “that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

When Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt, God mentored him in the supernatural, teaching him how to use the staff to effect miraculous results. To initiate the plague of hail and locusts, Moses used his staff. And by the time they got to the Red Sea, God was already expecting that he knew what to do to effect a miraculous result. He needs to use his staff!

The same example can be seen with time, like Joshua who raised his hands in battle to command the sun to stand still; Elijah who called down fire from heaven; even the children of Israel after marching round the walls of Jericho, seeing them fall flat before their eyes. Miracles are not scarce in the sorrows of the Bible.

Furthermore, when we look at the New Testament, this truth only seemed to become more and more apparent. The God man, Jesus, came on the scene and performed miracles that humans had never witnessed before.

John‬ ‭9‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
6 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.

7 And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

Jesus opened the eyes of a man who was blind from birth. This had never been done before! And there were many instances like this. He turned water to wine, walked on water during storms, regenerated deformed limbs, healed the paralyzed! There was no doubt that he wielded the power of God with mastery! However, there is a subtle temptation to think, all these were possible solely because he was God. But he then goes on to say this

John‬ ‭14‬:‭12‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
‬‬12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.”

So, Jesus says that this miracle-working ability is not merely a perk of being divine but is available to anyone who believes in him. In fact, he said “greater works than these”, meaning however great the miracles you’ve seen are, you have the ability in Christ to do greater works! And the apostles didn’t disappoint in setting that example for us.

PETER
Acts‬ ‭3‬:‭4‬-‭7‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.”

5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

‭‭Acts‬ ‭5‬:‭15‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
15 so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them.

PAUL
Acts‬ ‭14‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
8 And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

9 This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

10 said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.

Acts‬ ‭20‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
9 And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

10 But Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, “Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him.”
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THE OTHER APOSTLES
Acts‬ ‭5‬:‭12‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
12 And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.

Not a chapter in Acts would go by without an account of some kind of supernatural occurrence or the other. It was something embedded in their walk with God and ministry in general in the early church. It was common to see it! And the same must be said of us. We cannot live below the standard of what scripture says. If the Bible preaches it, we ought to see it often.

Mark‬ ‭16‬:‭17‬-‭18‬ ‭
New King James Version‬‬
17 “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Signs ought to follow us! It ought to mark us! Not just once in a while, but in our everyday walk. In the New Testament church, the miraculous has been made common amongst all those who believe, so we must bear the testimony of that truth.

We house the spirit of God, the supernatural and the natural overlap in our bodily temple. Meaning that everywhere we go, we carry the realities of heaven; wherever we step, there must be evidence of supernatural influence. You need to exercise your ability to walk in the supernatural because it has been made common. It’s our everyday reality.

So, stretch forth your hands to heal the sick, speak to mountains and watch them move, cast out devils from every space they occupy. Dream dreams, see visions. Freely you’ve received, so freely give.

Prayer point
I walk in the miraculous every day, I live in the reality of my capacity to see and work miracles by the power at work in me. My life will bear witness to what scripture calls me to be!