When Miracles Happen - Tell People!
Selected Scriptures
Psalm 119:111 NASB
I have inherited Your testimonies forever, For they are the joy of my heart.
I think I may push it a little further and say what he [God] has done
once is a prophecy of what he intends to do again.... Whatever God has done...is to be looked upon as a precedent....
~Charles Spurgeon, “The Story of God’s Mighty Acts,” The Spurgeon Archive
1. Testimony gives praise to God
2. Testimony gives people hope
3. Testimony gives us supernatural courage
Psalms 78:9-11 MSG
The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth, ran off when the battle began. They were cowards to God's Covenant, refused to walk by his Word. They forgot what he had done — marvels he'd done right before their eyes.
4. Testimony teaches others how to receive from God
Mark 3:9-10 NIV
Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him.
Luke 6:19 NIV
and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
Mark 5:25-29 NIV
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
Mark 6:53-56 NIV
When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there. As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went — into villages, towns or countryside — they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched him were healed.
5. Testimony makes God’s work real to us
Psalm 66:5-7 ESV
Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him, who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations—
