As Christians, we should realize that the God we serve and
who is also our father is a God of Miracle. He specializes in working miracle.
We are suppose to be expecting miracles in our day to day life.
From the book of Genesis down to Revelation, we see God
miraculously providing for the needs of people.
In this article we look at some miracles of provision of God
for people
1. Well water in
desert for Hagar and her son: In Genesis 21:15- 19
Gen 21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and
she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Gen 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she
said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Gen 21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the
angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth
thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Gen 21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine
hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Gen 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well
of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad
drink.
Hagar was expecting to her
son to die, because the she had to water again to give her son, but God stepped
into her situation, opened her eye to see the well of water. That was a
miracle. I believe that the Lord will also open your to see where your miracles
lies
2. Divine provision
for the Jacob and his family during the period of famine. This is event
might look natural and nothing spectacular about it. But it was a miracle of
divine preservation and provision for the Jacob and his entire family and race.
Psa 105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the
land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Psa 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who
was sold for a servant:
Psa 105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was
laid in iron:
Psa 105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word
of the LORD tried him.
Psa 105:20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go
free.
Psa 105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of
all his substance:
Psa 105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and
teach his senators wisdom.
Psa 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob
sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psa 105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made
them stronger than their enemies.
The Lord had sent Joseph ahead of Jacob and endued him with
wisdom before pharaoh on how to deal with the famine that is coming upon the
whole world at that time. Hear what
Joseph says to his brethren, and then we realize that God is a God of fore-knowledge
Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Gen 50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish
you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
3. The Ram
for the Sacrifice: The Lord had demanded that Abraham would sacrifice
Isaac, his only son to him. Abraham obeyed the Lord, At mount moriah, Abraham
had tied his son Isaac and was about sacrificing him to the Lord, then a voice
from heaven came to Abraham that He should sacrifice no longer Isaac but the
look behind him that we would find a ram caught in a thicket, which he should
use for the sacrifice. This is a miracle, a miracle of divine provision
Gen 22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out
of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Gen 22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son
from me.
Gen 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and behold behind him a ram caught in a
thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for
a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Gen 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh:
as it is said to this day, In the mount
of the LORD it shall be seen.
We will continue looking at this topic in the next article
