Author: Nathaniel Colt

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Read: 2 Timothy 1:3–5

Think about your family for a moment. Have your parents or your grandparents been Christians for a while? Maybe you are the first person in your family to accept Jesus into your life and are changing your family’s history. There is power in creating a line of believers in your family and in praying for the next generation coming up. Did you know that even today, you can be investing in the future of your family by praying that God will use each member of your family and speak to them in a powerful way? God wants your family to love and follow Him.

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Read: Matthew 21:21–22

When we read these verses, we might think they mean that we can ask God for anything: even if we ask for a million dollars and just believe, it will happen! The truth is that when we pray and ask God for anything, we can trust that He hears us and that He gives us what we need. We can trust that He is God our Father and loves us so much. Although we may not get specifically what we ask for, we know that He will never let us down and that He will give us far more than we need. We can have faith and trust in His goodness. Let’s pray that our heart will line up with what He desires for our life and be filled with trust in who God is.

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Read: Hebrews 11:1–3

God has shown His faithfulness repeatedly in the Bible. Hebrews 11 is a perfect place to go if you need a reminder of Bible people who were faithful to God. Each story shows how people did what God told them to, even when they did not know why. They had faith that God would do what He had said. Each of the examples in this chapter teach us how to live in faith. Has God given you a promise? Are you still waiting for it to come true? Hold on to that promise and be faithful in serving, loving, and growing in your relationship with God. The God of the Bible is faithful to you. Allow your life to be an example of having faith in the Creator of all things.

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Read: 2 Kings 2:9–12

Both Elijah and Elisha had incredible faith. As we read in the Bible story, we can see that God moved in their lives in an incredible way. Just before these verses, God used Elijah to do a miracle when he took off his coat, hit the river, and the water split so the two men could walk across. Elijah was a prophet, meaning he spoke God’s words to people. God told him that he would go to heaven and Elisha would replace him. So, Elisha asked for something extremely difficult: he asked for the supernatural gift of carrying on Elijah’s work with great power. What a big request!

Elisha was bold in his request, and you know what? He received the blessing that he asked for. God gave him this gift! It’s a reminder to us that we can be bold in our requests to God and bold in believing for what sometimes may seem impossible.

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Read: John 6:16–21

Do you have a favorite superhero? If I were a superhero, I would want to have a superpower that no one else has. Maybe I would like to fly or control the weather or have superhuman strength. One of my favorite things about superheroes is how they usually go back to their ordinary life when they take off their suit.

Unfortunately, superheroes don’t exist outside of comic books and movies. But Jesus is better than any superhero. When we read about Jesus with His disciples, there were a lot of things He did that were very ordinary. It can be easy to forget that even though Jesus was fully man, He was also fully God! In the Bible, many of the stories begin with some ordinary event, and then Jesus showed up. Jesus always shows up and saves the day. We see Jesus perform miracles to help others, and sometimes He does them just to show the world how great God is. Read about the miracles of Jesus; it’s a good way to remind yourself just how powerful and mighty God is.

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Read: John 6:9–14

When we read the Bible, our heart is encouraged to learn and know the goodness of God and see the miracles that happened. So many times in the Bible, we can see when Jesus did the miraculous and the crowds were amazed. We can also see times when Jesus used His followers to be a part of a miracle. In John 6, we see how Jesus used a boy and his lunch to feed more than five thousand people. The disciples didn’t see much possibility of a boy’s lunch of five small loaves of bread and two small fish feeding that many people. But Jesus chose to show God’s power through this young boy’s offering of his lunch.

Want to know something cool? God can use you! He can use your gifts, talents, and resources to do a miracle in your life or for someone else! If God can use a young boy’s lunch to feed so many people, imagine the incredible ways that God could use you. The young boy probably had no idea that Jesus would do something mighty with his lunch that day, but he was willing to let Jesus use his lunch to do a powerful miracle.

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Read: Philippians 4:19

What is something you could thank God for when you wake up every morning? Do you know that every day you have a reason to give thanks to God? Sometimes those reasons can be big things God has done. Other times it could be seemingly small things such as having food, water, air to breathe, and a place to call home. Every day contains some amazing miracles from God, but sometimes we forget to look around and appreciate how much He has provided for us. Take time today and think of the things you need every day and how God has provided them for you.

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Read: 1 Kings 17:1–6

God told Elijah that there would be no rain for a few years. Can you imagine? No rain at all sounds impossible! How would people drink and eat? God told Elijah to hide by a small stream of water, and ravens would bring him food. Elijah believed and obeyed God, and he went where God told him to go. And you know what? There was no rain, and birds brought Elijah food, just like God said!

Have you ever had a time in your life when God has told you to do something and you trusted in Him? That is what Elijah did. He knew that God would be true to His word and do what He said. As Elijah camped out, twice a day the ravens brought him food to eat, just as God instructed them to do! That sounds impossible, but it’s true: God is a miracle-working God. Being obedient to do what He tells us to do is one of the best ways to see Him work a miracle.