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Gifts of the Holy Spirit 4
The Working of Miracles
by Pastor John Hamel
This study will
cover the Power Gift called the Working of Miracles.
The Working of
Miracles is a Supernatural power that comes from the God of the Bible
producing signs, wonders and miracles.
This Gift was more
in demonstration in the Old Testament than in the New Testament. But
don’t let that throw you. It still operates today and yes, I have
seen it in manifestation.
Let’s go back to
the definition. I told you this Gift produces
signs, wonders and miracles. This is accomplished as God suspends or
overrides the laws of nature. Once the laws of nature are adjusted to
suit His needs, God moves according to the laws of the Spirit realm through
a human vessel. This is when the Supernatural occurs.
Notice that this
Gift is not called the “Gift of Miracles.” It is called the Working
of Miracles. This is because God actually uses a human being or an
Angel to “work” the miracle. The Gift of Faith is when God moves FOR a
human being. With the Gifts of Healings,
God moves THROUGH a human being or through an Angel. However, with
the Working of Miracles, God actually allows the human vessel or an Angel
TO ACTUALLY WORK THE MIRACLE utilizing His borrowed power for the moment.
By clicking on “The
Albuquerque Fire Pit” you can read how God sent His Angel to
deliver me miraculously from drug and alcohol addiction. In the Bible, Angels frequently worked
deliverances, healings and miracles. (John 5:4; Acts 12:1-11)
Let’s look briefly
at the Working of Miracles being performed through a human vessel.
“[Elisha] took up
also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by
the bank of Jordan;
And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters,
and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and
when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and
Elisha went over.” (2Kings 2:13-14)
Here God actually
allowed Elisha to perform this miraculous feat. The laws of nature
were suspended as Elisha called upon the Lord. Elisha hit the waters
with his cloak and the waters supernaturally jumped back and away to either
side of him. Elisha walked across on the river bottom. This was
no tiny brook, mind you. This was the mighty River Jordan.
The Old and New
Testaments are filled with the Working of Miracles. I have a friend
who has now traveled on to Heaven. His name is Roscoe Ronald Coyne. You can find his
testimony on the Internet. Ronald had his eye surgically removed as a
7-year-old boy. A short while later a tent Evangelist prayed for him
during a crusade. The Evangelist did not know that Ronald’s eye was
missing. Ronald once told me that the Evangelist thought she was
praying for “a chest cold or something.” As a result of that woman
releasing her faith through prayer, God suspended the laws of nature and Ronald
actually began to see through his empty eye socket.
Over the course of
his remaining 43 years on Earth, Ronald traveled millions of miles
demonstrating this startling miracle to millions of individuals.
Untold millions turned to Christ as a result. Ronald demonstrated
this miracle in my Church pulpit on two occasions. I personally
blocked his existing eye with a handkerchief folded six or eight
times. I held it in place with a half roll of adhesive tape. I
did a really good job, too. Like you, I wanted to know that he could
not see through his existing eye.
He proceeded to
read anything and everything brought to him by nearly everyone in those
services – all through an empty eye socket. His plastic eyeball was
sitting on my pulpit. Ronald once told me by telephone that he could
see through that empty eye socket 24 and 7. This was both with and
without the plastic eyeball.
Almighty God was allowing him to see supernaturally with his “spirit” eye.
You may have seen
Ronald on one of his multiple television appearances with Oprah Winfrey,
Phil Donahue, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jesse Raphael and other popular
television talk show hosts. They clamored for his appearances.
He once told me that he told them all, “I’ll come on your program but you
must allow me the privilege of telling people that Jesus Christ has done
this for me. Otherwise, I will not come.” They always agreed to
allow him to freely speak of Jesus Christ.
This precious Gift
called the Working of Miracles is about to be demonstrated in the Earth
unlike any other time in all of human history. When it is, the
multitudes will come running to Christ for salvation.
Satan’s power is
mighty. But our God’s power is
Almighty.
Be Blessed … John and
Barbara Hamel
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