Conditions For A Miracle

Conditions for a miracle

Luke 5:1-12

Introduction- Good Morning online Church- Glad that you have joined us.

Please turn to Luke 5:1-12 on your apps or your Bible

Prayer-

Most miracles happen when you least expect it. Right? You are somewhere and before you know it something out of the ordinary happens. If it was planned and you could explain how it happened, it would not be a miracle.

Jesus caught Peter by surprise and before he could explain it, the supernatural happened.

I believe a lot of us miss miracles because we are not even looking for them, or we take them for granted and don’t even recognize them as miracles-

Let’s define a miracle/ Webster

A surprising and welcome event that is not explainable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.

A highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment that brings very welcome consequences.

Let’s narrow that definition as a believer…we believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, not a generic divine agent still does miracles. Even if he doesn’t do what we thought when we thought he should, He is still a miracle working God.

Jesus In The Boat Of Your Life

For me a miracle is being in a right position for the Lord to do something new and extraordinary in your life/\. You did not make it happen, you just put yourself in a position for it to happen. In the case of Peter- He got into the boat and he got into the water. The rest was up to Jesus for Him to do what He desires.

Jesus is always looking for a heart, a life, a ministry, a business, a family, a church, a nation to enter into. When Jesus got into Peter’s boat, Peter didn’t shut or shove Jesus out of his boat, he allowed Him in.

Allowing Jesus into his boat, gave Peter a life-changing encounter with Jesus. (SermonCentral)

What happens when Jesus is allowed into our lives?

He (Jesus) does a new thing

When Jesus entered Peter’s boat, something new happened.

A new thing is God changing a present situation or condition.

It is God changing the way things are or have been for you.

Before Jesus entered Peter’s boat, this was Peter’s condition: he had “toiled all night and caught nothing”.

It was all about what he had done and what he had accomplished.

He had put in much effort, but there was no result, there was nothing to show for all his toiling.

When Jesus entered Peter’s boat, the situation changed. The report concerning his fishing changed from we have caught nothing, to we have a great number of fish that our net can’t even contain them.

A new thing is God showing up in something you have been doing for years and giving you a totally new experience. That night wasn’t Peter’s first night fishing, but it was the first time in all Peter’s years of fishing that he caught this number of fish.

They estimate that they caught 1 ton of fish- which was what they usually caught in two weeks.

What Peter saw and experienced that day, was a totally new experience for Peter in his fishing career.

For Jesus to do a new thing in our lives, we must make ourselves available.

We all desire and pray for something new; for a turnaround for good in our lives, but are our lives available for the Lord? Jesus entered Peter’s boat because He was looking for a boat to use. “Then He got into one of the boats which was Peter’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat” (Luke 5:3).

Whatever we give to God, He will use for His glory.

God is a Master at taking the ordinary and using it for the extra ordinary.

He took Peter’s boat and used it as a pulpit.

He took Moses’ rod and used it to perform great signs and wonders in Egypt (Exodus 4:1-4, Exodus 6:8-9, 14-21, Exodus 8:5-6, 16-17, Exodus 9:23-26, Exodus 10:13, Exodus 14:15-16).

He took David’s slingshot and used it to bring down and destroy Goliath (1 Samuel 17: 40, 49-50).

It is the devil that enters into a place, takes something or someone and spoils, scatters and destroys that thing or that life (John 10:10). But when Jesus is in something or someone, He takes that thing or person to reveal God’s glory, to demonstrate the awesome power of God.

After Jesus finished using Peter’s boat to teach, the miracle working power of God was shown in a miraculous catch of fish. We want the miracles, we want a new thing, but we are not ready to make our boat, our home, our business, our time, our talents, skills and abilities available for God’s use. (SermonCentral)