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Barbara Brown Taylor wrote in Bread of Heaven:
"If your manna has to drop straight from heaven looking like a perfect loaf of
butter-crust bread, then chances are you are going to go hungry a lot."
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When you do not get the miracle you are praying for, you are going to think that God is ignoring you or punishing you or - worse yet - that God is not there. You are going to start comparing yourself to other people and wondering why they seem to have more to eat than you do, and you may start complaining to heaven about that.
Meanwhile you are going to miss a lot of other things God is doing for you because they are too ortdinary - like bug juice - or too transitory - like manna, that fine flaky substance that melted as soon as the sun got hot.
If, on the other hand you are willing to look at everything that comes to you as coming to you from God, then there will be no end to tha manna in your life. A can of beans will be manna. Grits will be manna. Bug Juice will be manna. Nothing will be too ordinary or too transitory to remind you of God. When you go to bed hungry and you wake up to find a fine flaky substance on the ground you will say, "What is it?" and when someone says, "It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat" you will believe it! You will say "Thanks be to God," and start trying to figure out how to eat the stuff.
Much of God's greatest work is in the ordinary.
Source: WallOff@aol.com. In "GospelTalk" email discussion list, 2/11/1999.
Topics/Tags: Manna; Bread; Miracle; God, provider
An atheist was arguing with a minister on the possibility of miracles. Naturally, the atheist kept attacking the minister on his view that miracles were possible.
After arguing for awhile, the atheist finally said to the minister, "Could you, Reverend, give me an EXAMPLE of a miracle?"
The minister thought for a moment, then said, "Certainly, I will give you a great example of a miracle. Now, turn around."
Obeying him, the atheist turned around, and as he did so, the minister aimed a fearsome kick at his behind. "Did you feel that?" he asked the atheist.
"Of COURSE I did!" snarled the atheist.
"Well," said his minister, "it would have been a MIRACLE if you HADN'T felt that!"
Source: unknown
Once, the buildings of Campus Crusade for Christ's international headquarters were threatened by raging brush fires. Bill Bright and his staff and family were forced to evacuate. A group quickly gathered and prayed earnestly that God would turn the 90-mile-per-hour winds that were driving the fire toward the buildings.
Meanwhile, those who were fighting the fire battled intensifying heat and smoke. They were forced to lie on the ground in order to breathe as they sprayed water on the buildings. At about 2:30 in the afternoon they were ready to abandon the fight-- when they observed the flag which was snapping in the wind, and noticed that almost instantaneously the flag began to flap in the opposite direction! The winds had shifted and the flames headed back in another direction.
You'd be correct if you guessed that 2:30 was the exact time that the group of intercessors began to pray for divine intervention!
Source: Bill Bright, "How You Can Pray With Confidence" (1995 Campus Crusade for Christ), pp. 20-21.
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