But my burden is to speak to you
about miracles, about miracles.
If you take miracles out of the Bible,
you don't have very much left.
I want you to turn with me to
the Gospel of John, where we have recorded
the first miracle.
That's what it says in my outline.
I have one of these Bibles that has
things outlined, and this outline says the first
miracle at Cana.
Chapter 2.
Whenever I come to Icthys, I always think
of that great wedding that I had the
joy of preaching at.
You, of course, guessed it.
Ray and Jenny.
And I love weddings, especially when I can
preach.
Or receptions.
Dale Rotom preached at my reception.
He preached on Luke 14.33. Except you
forsake all that you have, you can't be
my disciple.
We were a little extreme in those days.
And he told people it was more or
less silly to give any gifts to us
because we'd sell them all to buy Bibles
anyway.
And believe me, there were a few upset
people at that wedding.
Dale's come into tremendous balance since then.
He even got married himself.
But this was a wedding.
And we read.
Let's start right at verse 1.
I keep meaning to bring a modern translation
for reading the Scriptures, and then I forget.
So I've got this old authorized translation, but
you can follow in English.
And the third day there was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee.
Well, that's fairly clear.
And the mother of Jesus was there.
And both Jesus was called and his disciples
to the marriage.
And when they lacked wine, the Americans insist
that's grape juice, at least the Baptists, the
mother of Jesus said unto him, They have
no wine.
And Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have
I to do with thee?
Thine hour is not yet come.
His mother said unto the servants, Whatever he
saith unto you, do it.
That's a good text, isn't it?
Whatever Jesus says to you, do it.
I hope that will be your burden for
tonight.
I was speaking at Swansea University last night.
And a girl came to me and heard
me some months ago at Aberystwyth in one
of these weekends.
And she had the courage to come to
me and tell me that she had a
personality clash with me at this weekend, but
that somehow the Lord was working.
And I'm sure some of you that have
never heard me before, it may only be
a few, you'll have an immediate personality clash,
maybe with my accent.
Maybe something I say, especially if I'd started
with my book reviews, that really always turns
5% off.
I've had actual people, when they're arranging the
meeting, in the letter to me, say, we
feel the Spirit of God leading us to
ask you to limit your book reviews.
Amazing.
That always turns some people off because they
think that's salesmanship.
But, it is normal when we have a
speaker, especially from another country, that his accent
or something he says may, you know, may
turn us off, or the way he speaks.
I speak very openly, very honestly, it's straight
from the heart, but sometimes maybe it's too
open and too honest.
And I'm sure sometimes I need more preparation.
I never get enough time for preparation.
But one thing for sure, the main thing
tonight is not listening to my voice, whatever
accent I have.
It's trying to hear, through my feeble human
proclamation of His Word, the voice of Jesus.
And whatever He says to you, do it.
You don't have to worry about me.
Whatever He says to you, do it.
And it's important, almost, to let the speaker
hide behind the cross.
That doesn't mean God's going to destroy the
speaker.
That doesn't mean we develop some false humility
because God does use people.
This treasure is in an earthen vessel and
we know that every time we preach, sometimes
a little bit of that earth gets in
the way.
Whatever He says to you, do it.
And there were set there six water pots
of stone after the manner of the purifying
of the Jews, containing two or three firkins
apiece.
Jesus said unto them, Fill the water pots
with water.
And they filled them up to the brim.
So they obeyed Jesus.
That wasn't too difficult, was it?
You know, when you're a young Christian, the
Lord doesn't reveal all of your self-life
to you all at once.
You wouldn't be able to handle the sight.
He's very merciful and gracious.
And tonight He may ask you to just
do some small thing.
Probably not going to challenge you tonight to
church planting in outer Mongolia.
If you were converted to Christ last summer.
But He may challenge you to something smaller.
Whatever He challenges you to, do it.
And He said unto them, Draw some out
now, and bear it unto the governor of
the feast.
And they bore it.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted
the water that was made wine, and knew
not from where it was, but the servants
who drew the water knew, the governor of
the feast called the bridegroom, and said unto
him, Every man at the beginning doth set
forth good wine.
And when men are well drunk, funny kind
of grape juice, then they, that which is
worse, but thou hast kept the good wine
until now.
And here's the key verse for this particular
thought I have.
This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana
of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory, and
His disciples believed on Him.
After this He went down to Capernaum.
He and His mother and His brethren and
His disciples, and they continued there many days.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank You that You are a
God of miracles.
And we believe that even tonight, You want
to perform miracles in this meeting.
We believe there are people with special needs.
And we know, Lord, You want to reach
and touch those needs.
There may be some, Lord, who are ill,
and You want to touch them.
There may be some who need healing for
damaged emotions, and You want to touch them
and heal them, make them whole.
Lord, this seems like a rather strange demonstration
of Your power, changing water to wine.
Don't seem to have that so much today.
But we acknowledge, Lord, that You are sovereign,
and You will do that which pleases You.
And Father, we ask You to speak to
us tonight about miracles, and about the miracles
You want in our lives.
For we pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Praise God for His miraculous working power.
I had the joy when I lived in
India, of working with Bhakt Singh of India.
And after the meetings, usually very quietly, we'd
go off and pray for those who had
special problems or illnesses.
And what a mighty way, what a mighty
way this man was used to perform miracles.
You know, he's well past 80.
I was just looking at a photo, the
most recent photo probably in England, of this
saint of God who's instrumental in planting over
four or five hundred churches across India.
A number of states have not been affected
by this, in case you think that it's
all, you know, taken care of out in
India.
It's mainly localized to church growth areas.
But what amazing miracles these people have had.
I remember when God led a group of
them praying they needed water.
It's a little bit like this Cana miracle.
And the Lord led them in a miraculous
way where to drill, in a place where
no one ever expected you could ever find
water, and guess what they found?
It wasn't Coca-Cola, I can assure you.
Water.
And I could keep you here all evening
if I started talking to you about the
miracles I've had the joy of hearing about,
in some cases seeing, in many, many different
lands around the world.
But I know that there are people who
can speak about these things far better than
I can, and who have experienced more, especially
in some of these healing miracles than I
perhaps have experienced.
In fact, to be quite honest, I've had
some of my greatest embarrassments in praying for
the sick.
I remember being in Indonesia.
If there's ever a land where they emphasize
miracles, it's Indonesia.
They even, in some cases, create them when
they don't happen, especially in the books they
write.
But I was out in Indonesia, and the
ship Lagos was called the Miracle Ship.
Oh, mercy, when we called it the Miracle
Ship.
And we sailed into Indonesia, I remember it
was 1971, and I flew out there just
for some ministry, and we were having a
huge rally, a couple thousand people there.
And, of course, the miracle preacher from the
Miracle Ship was there.
And after I preached and gave the invitation
for salvation, and quite a few people came
to the Lord, of course, people started coming
to me for prayer for their various illnesses.
And they brought to me one of the
most difficult, paralyzed persons in the island.
Almost every healer in Indonesia of any importance
had had a go at this character.
And I was really very young yet in
the ministry, and they brought this very, very
crippled man.
I have prayed for him ever since.
That was 1971.
I got his picture.
And they thought, of course, George Ferrer is
just, you know, just let him pass by
my shadow and zap!
And I was scared silly.
But I said, look, let's pray.
I found one or two others who looked
like they had a little more anointing than
I did, and I tried to get away
because the crowd was following.
And you know, often the crowd hinder what
God wants to do.
Because when these healings take place, when there's
often a great crowd all watching, that immediately
goes in the newspapers.
Immediately you have another great Christian hero born.
And believe me, crazy things happen.
Anyway, we prayed for him and laid hands
on him, and nothing happened.
Now, I know that isn't the kind of
testimony we like to hear.
Forgive me.
But nothing happened, so I can't tell you
something happened.
But I'll tell you, one thing happened in
my heart.
It was broken for this man.
And many others like him who have been
prayed over, sometimes by more than 100 people,
and have never been healed.
That's a bit amazing, isn't it?
You know, in America, we have one church
with now over 70 dead.
Because they took an extreme view that everybody,
no matter what, no matter what the circumstances,
should be healed.
And they became fanatics in this particular area
of the miraculous.
A lot of the parents were taking this
man to court, and in the process, he
suddenly, at a relatively young age, died.
Strange things happen, don't they?
So I'm not going to speak to you
about miracles of healing, because I know you've
had books on that subject.
We've had John Wimber, and we've had many
messages on this.
I want to speak to you about what
I consider the seven neglected miracles among God's
people today.
And I hope that you'll pray about this.
I hope that you'll search the scriptures.
You may feel that I'm misusing the word
miracle.
Okay, you can use some other word.
But after 30 years of trying to see
these seven things take place, pretty well day
and night for 30 years, I'm convinced it
takes a miracle.
I'm sure all of you, or most of
you, are already interested in these seven areas.
But some of you may not be doing
so well, too well, because you don't realize
that it's going to take a miracle for
you to see a breakthrough in one of
these seven areas.
Seven neglected miracles.
What's the first neglected miracle?
The miracle of stability.
Do you know that word?
Stability.
There's a verse, 1 Corinthians 15, 58, which
I memorized many years ago.
Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work
of the Lord, knowing that your labor is
not in vain in the Lord.
We are the generation of instability.
We have more people who one minute seem
to be just glowing for God and accomplishing
great things for God, and the next minute,
and maybe a year later, you can't find
them.
Now if you think I'm just making this
up, just stick around Britain for 20 years.
I've been here for 22 or 23 years.
It's become my home.
And I have watched the people come and
go.
I've watched whole churches come and go.
I've watched revivals, at least on a small
scale, come and go.
I've watched Christian leaders come and go.
I've watched miracle workers come and go.
And I am convinced that one of the
greatest miracles that God can ever work into
your life is a miracle of stability and
stickability.
So that you're not only here now praising
the Lord, which is so wonderful and so
important, but you're here 20 years from now
praising the Lord.
God convicted me many years ago that in
my ministry there were too many short-term
results.
In fact, He convicted me of that when
I was 18.
I was considered the great youth evangelist in
my home area.
At 18, I was preaching to great crowds
of people.
I went back to my high school where
God was working a mini revival through the
prayers of that elderly lady who prayed O
.M. into being in the first place.
I preached to about 600 people and I
gave an invitation and about 125, many of
them weeping, came into the cafeteria for counseling
and to be saved.
And of course, this made an enormous impact
on this area.
Immediately, I had more places and opportunities to
speak than I could handle.
I got the names and addresses of all
those people and I followed them over all
of these years.
Most of them are not going on for
God today.
Most of them.
That doesn't mean it was not a legitimate
work of the Holy Spirit.
After all, I was only 18.
God doesn't destroy the human factor.
And it was from that high school that
Operation Mobilization was born and that has spread
all over the world in direct fulfillment to
the prayers of that very godly woman who
sent me a Gospel of John and prayed
me into Heaven in the first place.
A story maybe I'll tell at some other
occasion.
And I was convinced at 18 years of
age that somehow there must be a tremendous
emphasis on follow up, on discipling people, on
giving yourself to people, on loving people, phoning
them, writing them, visiting them, encouraging them, laying
down your life for them.
I remember my first year at college.
When I arrived at college, I was warned
about a fanatic named Dale Roton.
Dale Roton to me is the greatest example
of stability I've ever had in my Christian
life.
I'm sure there are others, but for me,
he's the greatest.
He discipled me.
He baptized me.
He brought into my life the emphasis on
Scripture memory.
He helped deliver me from a lot of
other crazy things.
And we've been together in the work of
God 28 years.
The name of George Verwer, perhaps through books,
perhaps because I'm a big mouth, is well
known in some places.
The name of Dale Roton is not.
But he has been the anchor of Operation
Mobilization.
I have failed many, many times.
I have shot off my mouth.
I have hurt people.
I have sinned against God.
I have fallen in many ways.
Oh, not the big scandalous ways that you
could write up in the Gospel Gazette.
By his mercy.
Maybe because of his love for OM and
his desire to preserve our testimony.
But in ways that are truly sinful to
God.
Maybe I shouldn't mention his name.
We need people like Dale Roton.
Somebody once asked Dale, What's your secret?
Because he's got that consistent life.
He pioneered our work in Turkey.
He pioneered our work in the communist countries.
He's now overseeing the ministry of both ships.
Very quietly, behind the scenes, almost hard to
even find the character.
And somebody says, What's your secret?
You know, what's your secret?
Have you had a triple-decker crisis experience?
Have you had a miracle in the treetop?
You know, because many people know my treetop
miracle experience when God gave me the name
Operation Mobilization after my fiasco in the Soviet
Union.
Some of you know my good friend, God's
smuggler, Brother Andrew.
This evening you've got God's bungler, Brother George.
That's me.
I also went to the Soviet Union due
to my own stupidity, lack of wisdom, discernment,
and a few other problems.
I got arrested on the second day by
the Soviet secret police and accused of being
a spy.
An American spy.
Strange, since I'm an American.
They treated us well, though.
They even gave us a submachine gun escort
back to Austria.
And it was there in the mountains that
God, at the top of a tree when
I was praising the Lord and singing, I've
always been a bit hyper, these words came
to me, Operation Mobilization.
Somebody asked Dale, What crisis experience has kept
him going all these years?
And he just said in his very phlegmatic,
nonchalant way, He says, Well, I read my
Bible.
I read my Bible.
You know, some of you are never going
to have stability in your life.
You're never going to have it until you
become more serious about God's Word.
I take surveys all over the country.
Last night, Swansea University.
How many of you have not yet read
the Bible through even once?
Seventy-five percent raised their hand.
Let's do it here.
How many of you, young Christians, you're all
excused if you're less than a few months
in Jesus, but how many of you have
never yet read the Bible through once?
Just be honest.
It's good.
About 40 percent.
That's certainly encouraging compared to some of the
places I go to.
Why don't you make a decision tonight?
Maybe this is why the Lord brought me
here tonight to decide to read the Bible
through once in the next year.
If you're illiterate, give yourself two years.
First year, you learn to read.
Second year, you read the Bible.
But, you know, I love, I love, to
me, the greatest invention since sliced bread is
the Walkman.
And if you can't read, you can listen
to the New Testament, the whole New Testament
on tape.
I have some with me in case you
want a second.
In fact, you can read and listen at
the same time.
The miracle of stability.
Why can't we get more missionaries and more
people overseas who can dig into these unreached
areas and plant churches and stick when there's
no response, when there's jail, when there's heartache
and illness and trial?
Why can't we get more people of that
caliber in the 20th century?
Because we haven't experienced this ongoing miracle.
This isn't a one-shot miracle.
I picked up a book some time ago.
I haven't finished reading it.
How to Maintain Your Healing.
Seems a lot of people get healed and
then a week later they lose it.
Now they've got a whole book.
How to Maintain Your Healing.
Good.
Maybe I ought to write one.
How to Maintain the Miracle of Stability.
You might have a crisis tonight.
If you come to the cross, you let
God fill you afresh with His Holy Spirit,
that's a crisis to me in any man's
book.
But if that crisis is not followed by
a process, you'll be another evangelical abscess.
I wonder if you dare to believe God
for a miracle of stability in your life.
That ongoing reality and stability that will keep
you praising God, serving God, running in God's
race every day, every day of your life
from now until you get to Heaven.
Doesn't that sound exciting?
Do you know a lot of people that
are like that who are past 50?
Not so many.
You may not realize that.
But as people get into the 40s and
50s and 60s, many of them drop out
of the race.
Many of the marriages break up.
Many leave the ministry.
And people like myself, Roger and Ray, as
we travel, we're counseling these kind of people
all the time.
And I tell you, it causes us more
than ever to want the miracle of stability.
Secondly, the miracle of spiritual balance.
We don't have the time, but if you
can write down.
Some of you are taking notes and that
excites me almost right out of my shoes.
Ephesians 4, 15 and 16.
In fact, read the whole chapter.
Ephesians 4.
Memorize it.
How many of you memorize Scripture regularly?
You know, one verse a month.
We don't want to lay any heavy guilt
trips on you.
One verse a month.
You raise your hand.
This young man praises the Lord.
Several other people.
Roger and Ray, raise your hand, thanks.
But that's another thing that helped me so
much when I was a young Christian.
I had a lot of problems, 10 major
problems, 20 minor problems, and some I hadn't
even discovered yet.
It's good when you're first converted, you don't
discover all your problems at once.
The Lord waits.
Very gracious.
I learned the hard way that it takes
a miracle.
It takes a miracle to see spiritual balance
especially in the life of characters like me.
Temperaments like mine.
Plus, together with my other problems, I have
a very deep cynical streak.
And through visiting Cambridge now, every year for
the last 20 years, this skill has increased.
Cynicism.
They give you advanced courses there at Cambridge
in cynicism.
I've seen cynical Cambridge students reduced, for example,
Americans to nothing within a quarter of a
minute.
And I had also a very real negative
streak.
And some of my original Christian faith was
quite negative.
Some negatives, of course, are from God.
Some I had were not.
If God hadn't performed a miracle of spiritual
balance in my life, and in turn in
the movement of OM, we might today be
a cult.
That's right.
You think that can't happen to you.
But the church and history proves it can
happen.
The miracle of spiritual balance.
Balance is not compromise.
Not mixing the world and the church.
That's not what I'm talking about.
Balance is letting one strong truth, like the
truth about forsaking all, Luke 14, 33, be
brought into balance by other truths, like those
words in Philippians that say God will supply
all your needs according to His riches and
glory in Christ Jesus.
If I had the time, I could share
a hundred areas from God's Word where, as
Christians, we have to continually work for balance.
I wonder if you'd pray with me tonight
for a miracle of spiritual balance in your
own life, because some of you know, some
of you may not be aware yet, but
some of you know this is your greatest
need, to find balance in what you say,
in what you think, in your use of
time, in the divine factor and the human
factor.
You see, when the Holy Spirit fills us,
He doesn't destroy the human factor.
It took me a long time to learn
that.
And the hurt I inflicted on my own
wife in the process of understanding the human
factor, and that this treasure is in an
earthen vessel, is a story that perhaps we
won't depress you with tonight.
I wonder how many of you are married.
Any of you married people here?
Raise your hand.
Married people.
Wow, you didn't look married when I first
came here.
I guess it was the lights.
How many of you have ever thought, you
know, just, I know you're serving the Lord
and you're so busy, but in an off
moment you've thought about the possibility of marriage.
Any of you have thought about that?
Most of you have not thought about it.
Too tired to get your hand up.
You know, I'd love to talk to you
about marriage.
It's perhaps my favorite subject, because mine is
a testimony of many failures in God's great
victory.
We're going to get to that, perhaps, in
a minute.
But marriage is one of God's graduate schools.
And if you're extreme, one thing you don't
want to do, get married.
Unless you want to come into balance.
Because extreme people have a way of blowing
marriages right into pieces.
The miracle of spiritual balance.
Do you know that miracle?
Is that a reality in your life?
Is that a reality in your heart?
Then, that is something to be very, very
encouraged about.
And then, number three, the miracle of moral
purity.
I brought a book with me, because I
don't have time to speak much about each
one of these miracles, called Living With Your
Passions.
Now, we're all living with our passions, right?
Some of us, at times, may not be
doing so well.
This is the best book I know on
the subject of sexual purity.
It comes from the States, by a man
of God.
I saw the publisher last week, and he
said it's selling so well, they're going to
produce a British edition, and anglicize it.
That's good.
But you may want to get it before
that.
Living With Your Passions, and your parents, Freudian
Slip, a Christian guide to sexual purity.
I've received about 14,000 personal letters as
a result of one of my earlier books,
a book called Hunger For Reality.
14,000 letters.
I've read almost every one of them, from
all over the world.
And so many of the people who have
written, have said their problem, their struggle, is
in this area of sexual purity.
Wherever I go, any Christian union meeting, any
pastor's conference, almost any meeting, if I touch
on that subject, there's a queue of people
writing or wanting to see me, to pray
for a miracle in their life.
Now, this was the greatest struggle in my
Christian life.
And I just testify, because our time is
going, that if God can keep a character
like me, and he's kept me 30 years,
not without struggle in the mind, not without
failure in the mind and the eyes, and
that's wrong, and it's sin, and I repent
it.
And if God can keep a character like
me for 30 years, and keep my marriage,
we've just had the 25th wedding anniversary, then
I know there's hope for everybody here.
You may think I'm some special Christian leader,
leading Operation Globalization and the great spiritual invasion
across the world, but I can tell you,
I am one weak, struggling follower of Jesus
Christ.
But I know he's keeping power, and I
believe the greatest miracle I have experienced is
the miracle of Jesus healing in the area
of impurity.
At 16, I was a pornoholic.
I had started out in my little do
-do-do bum-bum with four years of
age with my eye on women.
By 16, there were 32 different girls in
my life.
Praise God, fortunately that was the age of
romance.
I wasn't jumping in bed with all these
girls due to fear.
But Jesus Christ came into my heart, and
he performed a miracle.
He gave me a new mind.
A mind that can think pure things.
That even can look at the most attractive
sister or woman in the world and think
pure things.
That is a miracle.
At least for some of us.
And today, if there's any miracle we need,
it's that.
Some of you are praying that the Lord
heals this illness.
I know people that go to healing meetings
and ask special prayer for their corns, and
special prayer for ingrown toenails.
I've seen people pray for almost everything.
You know, people laying on hands and praying
that hair will grow in their heads.
It's cheaper to buy a wig.
No, it isn't actually.
It's expensive.
Somebody was saying something about Tony Compallo in
that area.
But the miracle of moral purity.
Do you have it?
Are you experiencing it?
Are you living in the light of it?
Paul wrote to Timothy, and he said, flee
youthful lust, which war against the soul.
And then, fourthly, the miracle of ongoing reality.
You know, God is real.
He's real.
He's more real than this wooden platform.
And we can fellowship with God.
We can worship God.
As a young Christian, I started the habit,
which I kept to this day, of going
out for half days of prayer, and being
alone with God in the woods.
And I, myself, have experienced God as much
alone as I have in corporate worship.
God is real.
This is why we push the books of
A.W. Tozer, because he is real.
He emphasizes knowing God.
Have you read any of that man's books?
If you can read one of his books
and not be challenged to the depth of
your soul, you write to me, and I'll
send an apology and twenty-five free books.
A.W. Tozer is a witness, is a
living testimony.
I've talked to men who knew him personally,
that God is real, not just tonight, not
just when you're riding on the crest of
a wave of blessing, or recent conversion, or
recent filling with the Holy Spirit.
He's real.
Right to the end.
That, to me, is the neglected miracle of
our day.
Ongoing reality.
Running the race right to the end.
When it's tough and it's rough, and you're
rejected, and things go wrong, and you're in
prison.
Don't think for a minute God isn't going
to let some of those things happen to
some of us here.
The miracle of ongoing reality.
And fifthly, the miracle of a happy, holy
marriage.
There's hardly a church that is not wrestling
intensely with a divorce problem.
You're a relatively young fellowship, though you've proven
yourself for good enough years, at least in
my book.
But I know that today Satan's attacks often
are on the home.
On the marriages.
And the marriages of men who have experienced
the Baptism of the spirit the fullness of
the spirit the gifts of the spirit healings
men who walked high and mighty power for
God There are hundreds of them today whose
marriages have broken up if we count the
United States Where the battle seems to be
a little fiercer than here If I gave
some of the names you might fall off
your chair.
I'm not going to do that To me,
this is a miracle we should pray for
and if you're having difficulty in your marriage
I hope you've got enough courage to seek
counsel and to ask for prayer and experience
ongoing Counsel, it's not all just spiritual things
I believe a lot of somewhat spiritual people
make a lot of practical mistakes in their
marriage In our movement, we have been long
on zeal and short on wisdom A.w.
Tozer's said the greatest gift needed in the
church today was discernment and we need that
in our marriage To know the balance between
time with our wife and time in the
ministry the balance in all the other areas
that I know you've read something about and
then the miracle the sixth miracle and You'll
surely some of you say now that's not
a miracle.
You're really stretching things to get your point
across Forgive me Seems to me God repeats
quite a few things as well like love
your neighbor as you love yourself Why does
he give that nine times in the Word
of God?
I mean, does he think we're thick?
Of course, God doesn't think we're thick He
knows we are The sixth miracle the sick
we haven't allowed any time for clapping the
sixth miracle is the miracle of listening and
learning Now, let's take a little survey How
are you doing in the area of listening
from 1 to 10 10 is a good
listener who hears what people are saying?
Absorbs it and and you know, it gets
in how many you know Storing from 1
to 10.
How many tens do we have good listener
according to James chapter 1?
You need to be a good listener 10
9 8 7 6 humble crowd 5
4 That's me 3 2 1 You know,
it's harder to listen than it is to
speak and I feel that many of us
as God's people It's been an absolute sin
at times in my life.
We don't listen to people And some of
us husbands here.
I am guilty again.
We don't listen to our wives We don't
really hear what they're reaching out trying to
say to us I don't know how many
times my poor wife been trying to say
something to me My mind has been wandering
off in China or India or the next
million tracks or some other thing and she
says are you listening?
Oh sure.
Sure What am I talking about you're talking
about something yeah, right I Will tell you
in characters like me It takes a miracle
to listen and to learn to keep those
L plates on after you get powerful Spiritual
experiences after God uses you to bring thousands
of souls to Jesus Christ after God uses
you in apostolic ministry You're still a learner.
You still walk humbly before God if that
isn't a miracle we need in Britain today
then I'm an ET combined with a giraffe
and Then the seventh Miracle the seventh miracle
the eighth is that Verwer keeps to his
time The seventh miracle is the miracle of
Perseverance we won't stress that Because it's linked
in with the other six and perhaps it's
almost the same as number one, but I
long for this I don't know if you
pray for operation mobilization.
I don't know if you pray for me.
Some of you are no pray for me
Pray that we would persevere For some of
us it's getting rougher it's getting tougher We've
seen a lot.
We haven't had all of our prayers answered
for Turkey and Afghanistan for Mongolia for India
were over committed the opposition is great and
We walk daily the miracle of perseverance I
Know that's God's plan for you as well
Paul said I buffered my body That's strong
language, isn't it?
I buffered my body and bring it into
subjection Lest after preaching to others I become
a castaway.
That's pretty clear We are called brothers and
sisters to run right to the end and
for those of you that have just entered
the race.
I just closed by saying I've known something
of these seven miracles in my feeble life
and if I can know something Then you
can as well These miracles take place not
in the absence of fear and struggle and
doubts But they take place Through as we
battle through and daily commune with God and
daily are filled with this Holy Spirit And
it's the will of God for every one
of us To know these seven neglected miracles
in our own life, but God won't force
them on you It's up to you ask
and you shall receive seek and ye shall
find knock and it shall be opened unto
you That which you're really aiming at in
your Christian life That is what you will
get.
I want to aim at those seven things
With all my being whatever else the Lord
wants to do saving souls healing people churches
being born nations taken for Christ Thousands coming
back to Christ fine.
I'm willing for anything but without those seven
Neglected foundation miracles in my life.
I'll be one more scandal in the work
of God Let's pray for a miracle, let's
pray father.
We thank you for your mercy That you
have been so patient with us over the
years when we failed in some of these
areas We played games in some of these
areas.
We've allowed the enemy to deceive us We've
got off balance or we've been neglected negligent
of your word or of the disciplined life