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"Expect Miracles"

S.E.E.D. For Today

Scripture: "God kept releasing a flow of extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul.....people took Paul's handkerchiefs and articles of clothing, even pieces of cloth that had touched his skin, laying them on the bodies of the sick and diseases and demons left them and they were healed." Acts 19:11 (TPT Bible)

Explanation: Ephesus was a large and important city on the west coast of Asia Minor where Paul founded a church. It was a very economical city being the trade center of that day. It's population was about 300,000 and was known for it's culture and the religion. The temple of Artemis was ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Artemis was known as the moon goddess, the goddess of hunting and the patroness of young girls. Ephesus became famous for superstition, the dark arts, a cesspool for the occult, magicians, witches, clairvoyants, con artist, murderers and perverts. Paul comes in and aggressively and persuasively preaches about the Kingdom Of God, this advance preaching and teaching of the Gospel was accompanied by unusual miracles, not of the ordinary.

Exercise: Ephesus was a wicked spiritually charged city, in it the hearts of the people were changed by the message of the Gospel. A special miracle working power began to move through the man of God. These miracles were of a creative nature of which God's power and Spirit did the work. There was a continuous action of healing and deliverance an unending flow of miracles. I know that many of you reading this today may be looking for miracles to occur in your circumstances and I am here to tell you to expect one. Exercise your faith in the matter and expect God to do the extraordinary, not just the ordinary. Raise your expectations, God knows how to reach His people in every unique situation. The same power that worked through Paul is the same power that will work through you.

Devotion: Lord I give my life to You and make myself available for Your use. God step in and manifest Your divine intervention in our human affairs. I pray for Your word to have an effect on my life in such a way that by Your power in and through me there will healing from diseases, healing in the mind, deliverance from strongholds and demonic forces, touch the emotional pain, renew and restore. Let there be a continuous flow of miracles surpassing all known human or natural powers. Let all those who see the miracles being wrought in my life extend to the lives of others, In Jesus Name Amen.

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