WHEN YOUR MIRACLE DOESN’T HAPPEN

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Written By StevenJBarker

WHEN YOUR MIRACLE DOESN’T HAPPEN

Modern Day Miracles, Part 4 | March 30, 2025

Gabe Kolstad | @gabekolstad

 

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 

Why are you so far away when I groan for help?    

-Psalm 22:1

1. Don’t blame YOURSELF

7 So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. 8 Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. 9 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.     -2 Corinthians 12:7-9 


2. Meet your GRIEF with GRATITUDE

8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”    -Isaiah 55:8-9

16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.    -2 Corinthians 4:16-18


3. Don’t stop BELIEVING

17 Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! 19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights. -Habakkuk 3:17-19

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.    -Romans 8:28

 

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