The BIG Picture (Study)

What is the greatest miracle that one can give to another? Is it the opportunity to heal their bodies? Is it the ability to bring them wealth? Is it the capacity to change their circumstances? While the above sounds noble and life-changing, they focus on the physical needs and ultimately are only temporary remedies . It will help the recipient for that moment, but no matter how much health, wealth or good circumstances come their way, it will only get them trusting in the provision instead of the Provider . There is something greater than physical blessing and more precious than temporary increase. It’s the gift of hope. Hope brings escape from desperation! Hope awakens faith. Hope energizes the spirit and lifts one above impossibility.  Hope is a miracle of the heart. It's connecting one to the Provider .  The greatest miracle that one can give to another is not temporal. It’s of the heart!

Q-A: What Happened to the Miracles? Today, God's focus is not on miracles that accommodate the flesh. God wants us to have faith in His Word and in His Son.. Signs, miracles, and wonders were significant in Israel's program. It was a covenant God made with them! Exodus 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. Jesus said in John 4:48 "Except ye [Israel] see signs and wonders, ye will not believe". Paul himself writes in 1 Corinthians 1:22, "For the Jews require a sign, ..." , (Also see: Matt.12:38; Mark 8:11; John 2:18; 4:48 ). I've always wondered why Jews need signs and why signs and wond...

Hardships, Trials, Illness, Persecutions, Tragedies, Why? Today, the rules of the grace dispensation do not focus greatly on the physical and the external. God's focus is on our spirit and He is working on our inner man... In the dispensation of Grace, God has changed a lot of the details of life, or the rules of living , as opposed to those for Israel under the law. We do not live in the law dispensation, so we cannot expect to experience life in the same way that we read in the Old Testament or the Gospels. We also cannot expect God to respond to us today as He did in the old ways under the law. Where the old ways were focused on the external , the way of grace puts focus on the internal . Under the old law dispensation, Jews r...