God Says These Are His

​Exodus 3:20 - "So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go."  NASU 

• Miracles Belong To God 

In our text today God is speaking with Moses. He tells Moses to go to the Pharaoh and tell him you want to take a three day journey into the wilderness and worship your God.
 
God also tells Moses the king of Egypt will never permit this to happen.
 
Therefore, because of Pharaoh's stubbornness God will strike Egypt with "miracles" to persuade him to let the Israelites go and worship their God.
 
God had previously gotten the attention of Moses by speaking to Him from a burning bush that wasn't consumed, then he told Moses to throw his staff on the ground and when he did it turned into a snake, then he had him pick the snake up by its tail and it turned back into his staff.
 
By these miracles God was using them to help Moses believe in what God was going to accomplish with him. What miracle(s) is God doing in your life to get you to help Him accomplish His goals through you? 

• Why Does God Use Miracles? 

I know as a believer in God that He can work a miracle(s) but some times I am not sure why He would want to do that. Well, here is the answer incase anyone was thinking like me.
 
Exo. 3:7 - The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.
 
God saw their affliction, had heard their cries and was aware of their sufferings. God hasn't changed. He is the same today, tomorrow and forever.
 
James 1:17 - Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
 
James is telling us that God doesn't change and with Him there is "no variation". He is not one way today and something different tomorrow.
 
God uses miracles to help His children who are in need, being afflicted or suffering. 

• Some Of God's Miracles 

1. Creation - Heb 11:3 - By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
 
God created this world by speaking it into existence. In Latin this is called "ex nihilo" which means "out of nothing" and that is how God created the world "out of nothing".
 
God created everything on planet earth. He created every type of vegetation, (trees, flowers, and plants), all land and sea animals, the sun; moon and stars and lastly He created man after His own image.
 
All of this was done by His miraculous power.
 
2. He did 10 miracles at the Exodus. He changed the Nile River into blood, frogs, gnats, flies, livestock, boils, hail, locust, darkness and the death of the firstborn were all used miraculously
 
You can read in Exodus 7-11 for more information on God's use of miracles at the time of the Exodus from Egypt.
 
3. Balaam's Donkey Talks: Numbers 22:28 - And the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"
 
God miraculously permits Balaam's donkey to speak to him. What an amazing story. If it weren't for his donkey he would have been executed by an angel of God.
 
Has God ever spoken to you with someone you would have considered a very unlikely source? 
 
4. New Testament Miracles: The very first miracle in the NT scriptures is Jesus turning water into wine. The greatest miracle according to me is the "resurrection of Jesus Christ" without this miracle we are all still enslaved by our sins.
 
Jesus healed the blind, deaf, lepers, paralytic, fed 5,000 people with a few fish and a few loaves of bread, and raised the dead. 

• Do You Believe In Miracles? 

Most people remember Al Michaels' commentary near the end of the 1980 Olympic Hockey match between the Soviet Union and the USA with the USA winning 4-3 and 5 seconds left Michaels' ask the question "Do you believe in Miracles?" and then answers his question with a "Yes".
 
I would like to ask you the same question. Do You Believe In Miracles?
 
We serve the same God that has a reputation for doing miracles. Why wouldn't we believe in miracles?
 
Are you in need of a miracle?
 
Then do like the Israelites and many others have done and pray for one.
 
Think About These:
 
Don't just believe in miracles, depend on them.
 
For every mountain, there is a miracle. - Robert H. Schuller
 
People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for one.
 
Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago

Minister of God's Word