Signs of Revival - A Life of Miracles (notes)

Signs of Revival - A Life of 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 Preparation

I Kings 17:7-13

God tells Elijah to go to Zarephath. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food. Elijah asked her for a drink of water. All she had was a small amount of flour and a little jug of of oil. She and her son were going to eat their last meal and die of starvation. But God sent Elijah.

He says, don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said, but first make me a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

James 5:13-18

Is anyone of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14. Is anyone of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord . 15. And the prayer of faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

16. 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.

Elijah Is Taken Care of By The Lord Through A Widow

I Kings 17:14

For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘This jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil did not run dry…’

Some Time Later

• The son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
• Elijah takes the boy to his room and calls upon the Lord, let this boy’s life return to him! The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boys life returned to him! Takes the boy to his mother.
• She says, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.” Because at his word her son was raised.

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 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”.

Fear Not Verses:

• Genesis 26:24, 46:3
• Exodus 14:13
• Deuteronomy 1:21
• Isaiah 43:1, 44:2
• Daniel 10:12
• Luke 8:50, 12:32

Deuteronomy 29:29

• “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.”
• Lets stay connected to the Vine. Jn. 15

John 15

• Jesus is the Vine, the Father is the Gardener.
• The Father cuts off every branch in Jesus that bears no fruit.
• Every branch that bears fruit He prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
• The Word cleanses us.
• Remain in Jesus and He will remain in us.
• We can not bear fruit by ourselves, we must remain in the Vine, we must stay in Jesus.
• 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.