Imagine you are an employer, looking to hire someone who can solve some of your business challenges. What is the first step you will take to understand what the potential candidate is capable of doing?  I hope you’d agree that a review of the person’s resume will be a good place to start. In reviewing the resume, it would make sense to take note of the candidates’ key accomplishments. In addition, if you decide to interview the person, you would want to know more about how those key accomplishments were achieved.  In the job interviewing world, it’s called “behavioral based interviewing”. It is based on the theory that past performance is a good predictor of future performance/success. Similarly, if you want to understand the best way to achieve a goal, one of the reasonable first steps would be to understand how the same goal has been achieved successfully in the past. 

I would therefore argue that to understand how to experience miracles in our lives, a reasonable place to start is to study how Jesus performed miracles while on earth and discover how we can apply it to our lives. It’s interesting that the process was very consistent. “Jesus Said; They Obeyed; The Miracle Happened”.  Let’s go through a few examples of Jesus’ key accomplishments.

The First Miracle:  Jesus Turned Water into Wine (John 2:7-9)

Jesus gave instructions to the servants at the wedding: Fill the water Posts with water. The servants responded by doing exactly what he asked them to do. Jesus gave a second instruction: Draw some out now and take it to the manager of the feast. The servants obeyed.  In verse 9, the manager of the feast tasted what he was given and it had tuned into wine and the celebration continued.

The Royal Official of Capernaum’s Son gets healed (John 4: 46-53)

Jesus responded to the royal official’s prayer saying: Go in peace, your son will live. He responded by believing the words of Jesus and headed home believing it was done as Jesus said. Before he got home, he got news that his son was better and even more importantly confirmed that the change stated when Jesus spoke the word. 

The man by the pool of Bethesda gets healed (John 5:3-9)

Jesus said to this man: Get up! Pick up your bed and walk. The man instantly became strong enough to pick up his bed and he walked as he was commanded.

Jesus feeds 5000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 small fished (John 6:1-14)

Jesus here instructed his disciples to: Make all the people sit down, he gave thanks, then distributed the bread and fish to the disciples for them to do likewise to the 5000.  The disciples obeyed him, and the 5000 had more than enough and the people were satisfied and there were lots of left overs.

Jesus heals the man who was blind from birth (John 9:6-7)

Jesus spread mud made with his saliva on the man’s eyes, and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. The man responded by obeying his and came back seeing.

Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead (John 11:39-44)

After Lazarus had been dead for four days, when Jesus got to Lazarus’s tomb he said: Take away the stone. They reluctantly did as they were concerned about the odor from his decayed body.  He then commanded Lazarus to come out from the tomb and He did. The dead man rose.

The disciples experience a miracle while fishing (John 21:3-6)

After Jesus rose from the dead before ascending into heaven, the disciples went to fish, led by peter. They fished all night and caught nothing. Jesus showed up on the scene and said to them: cast the net on the right side of the boat. They obeyed and the catch was so big that were not able to haul it.

Here are just a few examples of Jesus’s key miraculous examples. The most important and visible one is the miracle creation of earth. In Genesis 1, we see that each aspect of creation stated with the spoken word of God. “Let there be” and “There was”. To experience the exceedingly abundant things God has in store for us in this season, it must start with what God said to us. Whether it is spiritual requests, material requests, healing, peace, it’s all in his word speaking to us. We cannot ask and receive what He has not spoken to us. We do this by studying His word and getting insight on what he has to say about our specific situation, then obey the instruction(s) by first believing his word and taking action in the direction of what he directs us to. By the grace of God the result of our believing his word, speaking it and acting on it will be amazing miracles where things that seemed impossible are now possible. When we do this, I believe we will begin to truly walk in his foot prints and experience the manifestations of Jesus in and through us.