Signs of Revival - Dedicated for Miracles (notes)

Signs of Revival - Dedicated for Miracles

There Are Various Points of Views When It Comes To Miracles in The Church.

1. Some believe in the miracles of the Bible but don’t believe miracles are for today.
2. Some believe miracles are for today but never see them for lack of faith.
3. Some see miracles occasionally.
4. Some live in the realm of the miraculous on a regular basis.

Where are you? Where am I?

Elijah’s Ultimate Miracle

I Kings 17:7-13

Is when he is taken to heaven on a chariot of fire.

There are only two men in the Word of God who did not see death. Enoch and Elijah.

Jesus conquered death but He first died on the cross.

I call the last church generation the Elijah generation because it is a part of the church who will not see death.

Elijah lived in the realm of the miraculous because he was a man who was in constant communion with God.

The last generation of believers will have a deep passion for intimacy with God.

I Thessalonians 4:16-18

For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we be with the Lord.

James 5:16-18

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. 17. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed and it did not rain on the land for three and half years. 18. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

Miracles Are Still Happening Today

• In the lives of people who have the spirit of Elijah.
• Elijah was a man of prayer and a man of faith.
• These two ingredients are mentioned in the book of James.
• In every revival miracles become common.

Miracles

• Prophecy fulfilled, signs and wonders and visions and dreams are being accomplished by God’s people in many places on the planet today.
• Are for us today just like they were for Elijah almost 3,000 years ago.
• Can happen on a regular basis if we will have a relationship like Elijah had with God.

Elijah

• Walked with God and talked with God, and when there was an impossible situation Elijah believed God and God came through each time.
• Was a man of prayer and a man of faith.
• Is still considered one of the greatest prophets of all time.

Can miracles still happen?

1. It all depends on our level of relationship with the Lord and if we believe His Word.
2. Are we going to step out and believe what God has told us about miracles.

What Is God Saying To Us Today?

• Faith and fear work in the way but in opposite directions. Fear goes away from God while faith brings us closer to Him.
• How many times did Jesus say, “Oh ye of little faith,” or “Fear not.”

How Fear & Faith Work:

• Fear eats away at faith.
• Fear attacks faith.
• Faith rips fear from our hearts.
• Faith attacks fear.
• This is why Jesus said, “Fear not”.

Events

1. Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord.
2. Obadiah took a hundred of the prophets and hid them in two caves.
3. He supplied food and water for them.
4. Elijah met him and Obadiah bowed down to the ground before Elijah.
5. People believed Elijah was transported by the Lord to different places.

2 Kings 2:16

• Perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has left him on some mountain or in some valley.
• Philip was transported by the Holy Spirit after leading the Ethiopian Treasurer to Jesus.
• Throughout church history people have been transported by the Spirit from one place to another.
• This is a miracle that can happen again.

Obadiah

• Was the chief of staff to king Ahab yet he was a Godly man.
• There are still Ahabs and Jezebels today and there are Obadiahs who are in key positions who are making a difference in their lives.

John 15

• Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, if we remain in Jesus and He in us we will bear much fruit.
• Apart from Jesus we can do nothing.
• If we do not stay connected to Jesus we will be cut off.
• If we remain in Jesus & His Words remain in us, whatever we ask will be given to us.
• This brings glory to the Father, that we bear much fruit showing we are followers of Jesus.

The Name

• Elijah means God is Jehovah.
• We are called followers of Jehovah-Jesus.
• As the Father loved Jesus, Jesus loves us. We are to remain in His love.
• If we obey His commands (to love each other) we remain in His love just as Jesus obeyed the commands of His Father and remained in His love.
• This causes the joy of the Lord to be in us.

What Elijah Teaches Today:

• We can walk in the realm of God (miraculous) by staying connected to Jesus.
• We can see the greater works Jesus said we would see.
• We can be modern day Elijahs.