Sermons

As we learn to know God more and more, we will grow in faith and understanding more and more. When we work to know God, we know how things grow, we are able to give, and and we find that we can grow even more. There is always more to know about God, and we have the joy to know him better and better and better!

In this message, we read a miracle of Jesus providing for his disciple’s needs. We too can trust Jesus as our savior and provider, knowing that wherever He leads us, He will also provide. Our part in trusting means we keep the right motives, engage with the assignment God has for us where we are, and take care of what God has given us.

As we read this miracle of Jesus’s in the last message of this series, we reflect on the connection between leprosy in the Bible and our own sinful natures. Both begin from within, cannot be hidden, and separate us from others. But, Jesus overcame both leprosy and sin for us. We can have faith that Jesus is willing to help us in the process and command to “be clean!”

Just as Jesus restored sight to a blind man in the Bible, Jesus can restore our vision for the future today. Without vision, we get distracted and lost, blocked by sin. Jesus can give us hope, vision, and purpose again.

When we feel lost or in need, we must come close to God. If we stay consistently obedient to what God has called us to do, even if it feels mundane, God will bring us to an even greater outcome.

Jesus is willing to go to extreme measures for you. Through the miracles he performed, we can see that death does not have the final say, our stories are not finished, and that Jesus still does miracles in our lives and world today.

We will always face storms, whether our own lives feel tossed around or the world around us feels like a swirling mess. If we follow Jesus, we can have confidence that the storms we face always have a purpose. Storms will strengthen us, grow our faith in Jesus, and give us opportunity to seek surrender and see miracles happen.

In this series, we’ll be talking about a handful of the miracles that Jesus did and what we can learn from them. There are 2 things that miracles are meant to show us: that Jesus is God, and what is possible for our lives when we live completed submitted to the Holy Spirit.

When the miracles we hope and pray for don’t happen, how can we trust that God still can? Remember the truths of who God is, what He has already done, and have faith to try again.