Expect A Miracle!
If you’ve come along to Ivy Church’s Didsbury base you’ll have seen we have a sign that we hang on a cross on the stage that says “EXPECT A MIRACLE” and as Easter approaches and we get ready to celebrate not only the love of the cross but the power of the resurrection it seems appropriate for me to write about miracles. Since we said we wanted to be a supernatural community that’s all about Jesus I have seen an increase in instant or longer term healings. Long-awaited prayers finally getting answered. Quiet breakthroughs. Some loud ones too!
Here’s why: miracles aren’t just for the Bible. They’re for right now.
But here’s the challenge: a lot of us ask for miracles, and when they come… we shrug and move on. “Glad that worked out,” we say, instead of stopping to say, “God did it!”
I want us to learn to recognise, expect, and walk in the miraculous again.
What Is a Miracle Anyway?
The dictionary defines a miracle as an extraordinary event beyond natural explanation, attributed to divine action.
C.S. Lewis described miracles as “an interference with Nature by supernatural power.”
Translation? A miracle is when God does something only God can do.
So Why Don’t We See More Miracles?
Here’s the hard truth: we often miss miracles because we’re focused on what we don’t have, rather than what God already put in our hands. Even if we don’t feel like it’s much, when we put that back in God’s hands – we’ll see what He can do! I don’t mean just putting the problem in his hands either. I have found God may want us to do something before he does anything.
Remember the widow in 2 Kings 4? Drowning in debt, desperate for help… and her miracle began with doing as she was told with the only thing left in her house: a jar of oil.
Her breakthrough didn’t start with something new.
It started with something small but in the hands of a big God, a miracle happened.
God Doesn’t Always Work the Way You Want
You might pray, fast, plead—and still not get what you asked for, how you asked for it.
Why?
Because God’s not a genie.
He’s your Dad (Abba), and like any good Father, He knows best.
Looking back, there are times when I wanted something so much but now I’ll admit, “Wow, I’m glad that didn’t happen the way I thought it should.”
But that doesn’t mean God isn’t working. He’s working it out for his purposes.
Miracles Usually Begin With What’s Already in Your Hands
“What do you have in your house?” – Elisha asked.
We keep looking for magic from above, but God often starts with what’s already below—inside us, around us, available to us.
Faith isn’t about waiting for everything to happen beforehand. It’s about offering what you have- large or small – and trusting God to do more than you can ask or imagine to make the most of it.
Think of Jesus feeding the 5,000. He didn’t pull bread out of thin air. He used a boy’s packed lunch—what someone was willing to give, became the raw material of a miracle.
ACTION STEP #1
Ask yourself: What’s in your hand right now that God could use?
- A skill you’ve been neglecting
- A relationship you’ve been overlooking
- A resource you’ve been underestimating
Pray: “God, I give this back to You. Multiply it.”
God Wants to Work Through You, Not Just For You
We often pray for provision—but what if God wants participation?
No I’m not saying He needs your help. But He wants your involvement. Why? Because faith grows when you move with Him.
You don’t necessarily grow in faith by hearing about or even watching miracles happen.
You grow when you’re part of them.
ACTION STEP #2
Take one faith risk this week.
- Pray for someone boldly
- Give in a way that’s a stretch not comfortable
- Start on that idea God dropped into your heart
Start small. Dream big. Remember the lesson of the widow – God is looking for jars, not stars.
Stop Waiting for More—Use What You Already Have
The widow didn’t just sit there. She went, got busy, borrowed jars, shut the door on the doubters, and started pouring. And the oil didn’t stop until the jars ran out.
The only limit was the number of jars she had.
Heaven never runs out of supply—we just run out of capacity.
Leaders, This Is For You!
Maybe you’re leading a church, a group, a team—and thinking “we don’t have enough.”
Resources feel tight. Options feel limited. But what if the miracle isn’t “out there”?
What if it’s already in your house? That was the key idea in a great book my friend Stephen Matthew recommended to me 15 years ago that has helped me in so many ways. Get it!
Don’t wait for the perfect hire, the perfect system, the next budget bump.
Start with what you’ve got. God multiplies what’s given in faith.
ACTION STEP #3
Pray this today: (One of my most regular prayers, taught me by the late great Dr Tayo Adeyemi
“Lord, increase my capacity for my opportunity!
Help me see what You’ve already provided—and trust You to multiply it.”
Always Remember This—The Greatest Miracle Is Salvation
Yes, healings are amazing. Financial breakthroughs are incredible.
But the greatest miracle is when a sinner like me is saved and transformed into a saint, when a heart changes. A life turns. Someone finds Jesus.
That’s God doing what only God can do.
If you’ve been on the fence, searching, waiting—this is your moment. God brought you to this blog because he wanted you to know His love and live a life full of miracles.
Don’t wait another day. It starts when you say, “Lord, I admit my sins and past mistakes, I believe you died and rose again so I can know you, please lead my life now and always!’
God WILL answer that prayer for ANYONE – and when He does, it’s the greatest miracle of all happening in your life.
Finally
Expect a miracle! God isn’t done doing miracles. He’s just getting started.
But here’s what I’ve learned:
God doesn’t want to just do it for you—He wants to do it through you.
So what’s in your house?
What’s in your hand?
Offer it.
Pour it out.
And watch what God can do.