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Beth Moore — Praying and Believing God


TOPICS: Prayer

What happens when what comes naturally to others has to come supernaturally to you? I've come just begging you to see a new scriptural paradigm, not cursed are you, girlfriend, blessed are you! Not cursed are you, guyfriend, blessed are you when what takes natural course with someone else means that a miracle has to happen for you.

You've just seen something that is going to mean something to you and mean something to those around you that other people will never even get! Never even get! I've got to tell you I've got a friend that I admire so much, a young woman back in the Houston area who has a son with autism. He, like many children with autism just did not speak and it was one of the ways they knew fairly early on that something was up. He came to two years old, did not speak; came to three years old, did not speak; came to his fourth birthday and still had not spoken.

I'm going to tell you that about four and a half years of age I get a text from her that said, "He said 'daddy' today!" He was four and a half years old and said, "Daddy!" Listen, nobody on the planet has ever had that much celebration take place over daddy.

Nobody! You can't imagine how all of her friends, how all of us just shouted praise to God. Other kids have been saying it all day long, we've not even noticed. But we noticed when this one did! Because somehow what had been a natural course for somebody else had taken supernatural power of God and they said, let his name be praised! Let his name be praised! What seems effortless to some takes a miracle for others.

But I've never met anybody that didn't say afterwards they wouldn't have rather had the miracle! Really, are you going to trade back the miracle for the natural? Really? Truly? Truly? Because when it is all over with you are going to say, I'd rather have had the miracle. I know it is hard to see now, I know it is hard to imagine now but that is going to happen -- that is going to happen for you and it is going to happen for me.

I think it is just so remarkable in the passage that we're told that he is going to name the child John and that that name means "Yahweh is gracious -- Yahweh is gracious." I want you to see something here in verse 14. It says, I had you look at it for just a moment.

14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth,

A joy and a delight. The word joy is the word that you would think it would be. It means joy just like you think it does. But the word for delight is a word that means to just leap and dance and jump up and down for joy!

That's what takes place when you experience a miracle. Anything else might have been thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord! But every now and then, when something that just comes naturally for everybody else comes supernaturally for you and it happens and it is like there is dancing and there is leaping and there is celebrating and you wouldn't trade it for anything!
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