Marko Selkomaa

In Luke 5:17-26 and Mark 2:1-12 we’ll find the story of a paralytic healed by Jesus. The paralyzed man had four friends who wanted to help him by bringing him before Jesus.
In this story we can find the main ingredients of a service where miracles happen by Jesus.

Component # 1 The Presence of Jesus

Mark 2:1″…it was heard that He was in the house.” In present terms this means that we are after the living, tangible, manifested presence of God. This is the ultimate reason of why we gather together and He has promised that He is with us when we gather in His name.

Component # 2 The Presence of The Word

Mark 2:1 “He preached the word to them.” He preached because the word builds up faith in people’s hearts. He preached beacuse the revelation is being imparted through the word. He preached because God’s word is living and active and more powerful than any two edged sword and has a life-transforming power in it. Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of God.

Component # 3 The Presence of The Miracle-working Power of God

Luke 5:17 “And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.” There was the word and there was the anointing to heal and perform miracles – that is a beautiful balance. We need to be sensitive for the flow of the Holy Spirit and we need to distinguish what the Lord wants to do in different settings and services. Sometimes there is the anointing to prophecy and see visions. Sometimes there is the anointing to heal. Sometimes there is the anointing for inner-healing, comfort and consolation. Sometimes there is time for impartation of God’s fire. Sometimes it can be that all these components are present in one service.

The key is that we as ministers of the Gospel have to exercise our faith and dig deeper to the wells of the miracle anointing of the Holy Spirit. We need to have the full manifestation of the Living Christ in the midst of us but it takes somebody to be willing to receive, believe and obey to see miracles today. Are you one of them?

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I just got this from my friend Mikko:

“Most of my life I’ve made the mistake of believing God for too little.
For the rest of my life, if I have to make a mistake, it’s going to be believeing God for too much.
But how can you believe an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God for too much, especially when He himself says,
‘Everything is possible for him who believes’.” -Jack Deere