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ome folk–when they talk about the Bible–they speak of it in past tense. There was the day of the flood, the day of the Exodus, and they sort of make it a day when God worked miracles as if to say that He can't do that anymore.

I have always believed that there was never a day of miracles, but rather a God of miracles.

The wisdom of Solomon speaks to us from Ecclesiastes 3:1, and he says, ‘To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

It is not that we do not have faith. It is that we have faith on our calendar. And when God does not perform the miracle when we think it ought to be performed, we release God from doing it as if He needs us in order to give Him permission to be God.

What we have to do is get off of our calendar and get on His. In other words, our faith has to continue through the wait.

So often, we try to help God out with our religious speech by saying things like, well, I guess God didn't want to do it. So, Lord if you don't do it, it is okay.

No. Don't let God off the hook because God is not a man that He should lie. Has He not said it, shall He not do it. Has He not spoken it, shall He not make it good. Whatever He promised you, He's good for it no matter how long it takes.

You have to keep the same faith and the same expectancy. When folk tell you it is over, throw in the towel, you have to say, no, I'm still waiting on God. I'm still believing God. It's kind of like Hannah. Hannah wanted a child and Hannah couldn't have a child. And I think the most disturbing part of that whole story is in the verse where it says, “And her adversary provoked her sore because the Lord had shut up her wound.”

It's amazing that Jesus has given us power over all the works of the devil, but when we pray and things don't happen, we blame the devil. Maybe it's not the devil. Maybe it's God holding it up.

Well, preacher, why would God hold it up? I'm glad it up because your attican't hanto give us. for where to the and everywould know what Hannah was praying for year after year until one day her husband

True Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

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Rev. James A. Perkins

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Antioch Church of Long Beach

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Senior Pastor Wayne Chaney, Jr.

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She said, ‘Honey, I know you are a good man, but you're just not the answer to my prayer. And if God did it for Sarah, I'm not as old as Sarah. She was 100’.

In Luke 1:18, upon an angel telling him that his wife is about to give birth, Zacharias says, ‘Lord, how you going to do it, because I'm old and my wife is well stricken in years?’ But what I love about what God does is that He says she's going to bear the child and everyone that knows you will know that it was God that did it. It's not going to be physically possible for you to say you had anything to do with it. The only way Elizabeth is going to have a child, it's going to have to be a miracle.

That's what I'm trying to promote this morning that God is a miracle worker. I know God is able because He's the same yesterday, today and forever.

A few years ago, I changed the way I prayed. I used to think I had to earn the favor of God. So, evaluating all the mistakes I’d made, I would try to base my prayer on what I deserved or what I felt God owed me until one day the Holy Spirit hit me upside the head and said stop praying that [way] because you deserve hell. So, I changed and started praying for what I didn't deserve.

We know God can, but doubt comes in when we try to figure out if He will. I've come to tell somebody that today is your first day of your season of the miraculous. So, start praying for those things that folks said you can't have…those things that people said time has passed you by.

I John, 5:14 teaches this, “And having this confidence that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if He hears us, then we know that we will have whatever petition that we have made of God.”

The key is did He hear me? If God heard you, then you qualify. And because with God, nothing shall be impossible, I can now take the limit off of God because I'm no longer praying for what I deserve, but I'm praying based upon God’s ability. And if He's able to create a world in six days and the world is still here…

Remember in the ninth chapter of John, Jesus was on His way and they saw a blind man and the disciples asked Jesus, ‘Who sinned–this man or his parents?’ And Jesus said, ‘Neither one.’

We associate misfortune with sin. We feel as if something has to be wrong with the individual in order for wrong to happen to them. Jesus said neither this man nor his parents sinned. The reason the man’s sight was taken at birth was because of the hour where Jesus would heal the man. The man might have been around 40 years old, but God doesn't have a problem waiting 40 years to give you your miracle.

I'm talking to somebody that has faith with some gray whispers on it. Don't you dare stop praying now. Don't you let some religious person talk you out of the miracle God’s been waiting to give you during this season for

Christ Second Baptist Church 1471 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ave. Long Beach, CA 90813 (562) 599-3421 • Fax: (562) 599-6175 • www.csbclb.org

Rev. Welton Pleasant II, Senior Pastor

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Wed Youth & Young Adult Ministry: 7pm with God all things are possible. In other words, it's not too late.

My grandmama used to sing a song ‘Just keep on praying for the Lord is nye. Just keep on praying. He'll hear your cry. For the Lord, his promise and His word is true, just keep on praying, He'll answer you.’

Just keep getting up telling God, I know you're going to do it.

And not only am I praying for me, but I'm praying for my sister and my brother. I'm praying that God would work a miracle for them because the enemy will make you jealous of your brother and your sister and have you saying, ‘I don't know why God’s blessing them and he hasn't given me what I want’. But just keep on praying. God has something bigger and greater.

Throw your head back and say, God, I expect a miracle in this season. Not a random miracle, but something I've been praying for. I want you to bring my daughter home, bring my son home, save my family. Deliver my kin fork. Give me the job you said you would. Give me the prosperity you promised.

God has ordained this season to be a season of miracles…a season for God to break through barriers. I don't have to accept what the enemy says.

What I’ve discovered is that folk will come to church for various reasons. Some don't necessarily come with expectation and you can fill the house with what I call miracle blockers. They're not going to get nothing and they block you.

Mark 2 tells the story of four friends who came to the house. One was a paraplegic laying on the couch and they had a deal. We’ll carry you to Jesus, they said, but you walk back. That was the deal. The presence of the Lord was there to heal, but when they got to the house [where Jesus was], they couldn't get in the front door. They went to the windows and couldn't even climb through the windows.

But they didn't say, ‘Well, we tried. Maybe we can catch Him in the next city.’ No, the deal was we carry you here, but you walk back. Then one of them did what all of our faiths should do. They looked up. There was no crowd on the roof. So, without permission they said, we'll work that little detail out later. They carried that man up to the roof and started tearing the roof off.

That's what your faith ought to do today. Start tearing the roof off. And when they lowered that man down through the roof, Jesus was sitting in the middle of the room. He looked up and the Bible says, ‘And seeing their faith, Jesus turned to the helpless man and said, ‘Arise, take up your bed and return to your own house.’

When you move in the direction of your faith, it manifests that you believe God.

I pray that this word has fallen on fertile soil, that it should bring forth fruit that should remain. This is our season for the miraculous. It's happening right now.

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Tim & Leshia Brooks

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Grant AME Church of Long Beach 1129 Alamitos Av. Long Beach, CA 90813 • (562) 437-1567 grantamelb@aol.com

Rev. Dr. Michael W. Eagle, Sr.

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