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God has ordained good events and conditions for us. He’s ordained certain people and resources and positions and the blessings we are to receive. However, just because He has ordained them doesn’t mean they will happen no matter what. He has to have our cooperation of faith.
If we don’t believe, we interfere in what He’s doing. Our miracles get interrupted. If we want to see the miracle, don’t interrupt the process of what God is doing by doubting.
Here’s something that can help you picture how a miracle goes through a process in your life. A boy was playing outdoors one day and found a caterpillar. So he took it home, got a big jar, and put plants in there for the caterpillar to eat, and a stick for it to play on. He was fascinated each day watching his new pet.
One day the caterpillar went up the stick and started acting in a strange way. So he asked his mother what was going on, and she saw right away it was creating a cocoon. She said to him that it was starting the process of becoming a butterfly.
The boy watched each day as the process of this miracle was taking place. Then after a while, a small hole appeared in the cocoon. The butterfly started to make its way out of it. But the boy noticed how hard it was. It was taking time. The progress wasn’t going fast enough.
He decided he could help by getting a pair of scissors and cutting the cocoon to make the hole bigger. Now that the butterfly was free, it came out. But its wings weren’t formed and its body was too big. The process had been interrupted. What was meant to be, a beautiful thing, could not finish being formed because the miracle was stopped.
Your miracle is in the cocoon. Inside there, formation is happening. Don’t interrupt the process. Allow what was meant to be to happen. Allow the miracle to proceed.
Of course, it may not appear nice at first. What the boy was seeing appeared to be difficult and not pretty. This is why he cut the cocoon. The conditions you see right now may appear difficult, not very pretty. And that’s what can affect your faith.
But what does God’s Word tell us about that wait-time and what’s happening? Galatians chapter 6 says that if we won’t grow weary in our courage and faint in our faith, and we keep doing the right thing by God’s direction, then at the appointed season we shall reap.
Don’t go around using scissors of doubt to cut a hole into the cocoon. Allow God’s timing to cause that process to finish. That’s when we reap the miracle.
Even when the process appears bad, we continue to believe. A Partner in this ministry wrote to us and tells about the miracle process her brother experienced. She describes how her brother appeared when he was sick. But you see even though his appearance was hard to view, she had to see it as the cocoon that he was coming out of and into a miracle.
Some of the conditions we see are hard to look at, so if we don’t see them as the process of a miracle, it can destroy our faith. That in turn will interrupt the miracle. You’ll see what I mean when you read these words.
She said, “I have a praise report. My brother was diagnosed with leukemia. He was so thin you could see his ribs. He couldn’t walk up my mother’s four steps into the house. [He was] bleeding from his bowels. But praise God on August 26, 2023 10:53 AM, my brother called me and told me the doctors ran tests and they could not find any trace of the leukemia. Completely gone from his body. God has healed my brother. I thank God for healing [him] from leukemia cancer. God is so good!”
He is healed now, but just think of how hard it was for his family to see him when he was so thin they could see his ribs. He couldn’t even walk up four steps. He was bleeding. I’m sure he was weak and it would be easy to be discouraged. But! We cannot go by what we see on the outside.
Remember the cocoon doesn’t appear pretty. You can’t go by that. Something is happening on the inside and one day it will burst out and it will be beautiful. What you’re seeing in your life may be hard to view, but just keep thinking about what’s happening. The miracle is processing. It’s forming. It’s coming!
Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I’M ABOUT TO SEE MY MIRACLE!”
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