What If? - A Don't Let Religion Steal Your Miracle

What if? That single question is the hinge between fear and faith. I want to run, but what if I fall? I want to climb, but what if the wall is too tall? What if I give up just before my sea is parted? These are honest confessions of a heart that longs for breakthrough but is stalled by doubt. Today I want to challenge you to move from asking the wrong questions into asking the one question that unlocks the supernatural: What if? What if God just shows up?

The Power of the Question

When we let fear frame our future we ask the wrong questions. The disciples once asked Jesus, “Who sinned that this man was born blind, him or his parents?” Jesus replied: you are asking the wrong question. Instead of searching for blame or cause, look at what God can do. That is the pivot. What if your season of waiting is changing? What if the door swings wide for everything you have been hoping and praying for? What if jumping leads to flying?

“You keep asking the wrong question. Look instead for what God can do.”

Faith opens our eyes to possibilities, fear narrows them. Your miracle will not be birthed from obsessing over the worst-case scenario; it will be birthed from obedient faith to the Word and to the voice that calls you forward.

The Unreasonable Ask Produces the Unreasonable Miracle

Jesus did things that made no sense to the crowd. He spat in the dust, made a clay paste, and told a man to go wash at the pool of Siloam. To the observer it was odd, even offensive. To the man who obeyed it was life-changing. He went, he washed, and he saw.

Obedience in the kingdom is not punishment; it is partnership. God does not need our methods; he needs our yielded hearts. When you obey a seemingly unreasonable instruction—when you respond with a simple yes—God takes that act of faith and multiplies it beyond what you could imagine.

From Preservation to Breakthrough

There is a difference between living to preserve and living to overflow. Preservation asks, “How do I get by?” Breakthrough asks, “What will God do if I trust Him?” If you walk in biblical obedience—obedience that flows out of trust rather than compulsion—you position yourself for miracles that will make your town buzz. The man who was healed did not make a spectacle; he obediently did what he was told. Soon, everyone was talking about what God had done.

When Religion Denies the Power

The Pharisees could not reconcile the miracle with their expectations. They debated whether Jesus could be from God because he did not keep their definition of the Sabbath. Religion can look like God but deny the power of God. Do not let religious thinking steal your miracle. If God asks you to do something that seems unconventional, do not default to skepticism. Instead, test the moment with faith and obedience.

Break the Chains of Doubt

Too often our doubts and fears are the chains that hold us back. Doubt is a thief that whispers you are too late, too broken, or too small. But stories of breakthrough show otherwise. People like Patricia and others moved from passive stuck hope to active producing faith. They pressed forward despite the fear and discovered the thing they were afraid of did not exist. They kept going and the thing they hoped for was produced and the town began to buzz.

We're all hoping for something, but faith is the substance that brings forth that thing for which we've been hoping to manifest.

Recognize the chain. Name the doubt that keeps you stuck.
Respond in a single act of obedience. Do the small thing God asks today.
Expect multiplication. God multiplies small acts of faith into large testimonies.
Are You at Your Wits' End?

At your wits end literally means you have exhausted your human wisdom. Psalm 107 describes those who reel and stagger, who are at their wits end. That is not a condemnation. It is an invitation. When your strength and plans are spent, God steps in powerfully. Gideon was hiding in a winepress, feeling unqualified. God called him “mighty man of valor” and then reduced his army from 32,000 to 300 so that all glory would belong to God alone. When there is no other way but God, mountains move.

“My power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9

If you are exhausted, if your strategies have failed, if your plans have been exhausted—do not despair. That is the place God loves to meet his people. Lay down your self-reliance. Let God have the wheel. Surrender is not giving up in a war, it is yielding as a winner in the kingdom so that God can move and get the glory.

Earthly surrender is giving up in a war and conceding defeat.  But for Kingdom people, surrender is completely yielding in obedience to God, His precepts and the prompting of His Spirit so you emerge as the victor.

Practical Steps to Move from Fear to Faith
Confess where you are. Say it to God: I am at my wits' end.
Surrender your plans. Tell the Lord plainly: Your will, not mine.
Obey one small thing right now. If Jesus says, “Go pray for that person,” just go.
Expect multiplication. Trust that God will turn your obedience into testimony.
Participate in community. Don’t stay a spectator. The body of Christ releases supernatural power when we step in together.
Stories That Encourage: Real Testimonies

Stories stir faith. Think about my neighbor who came home crippled and then started dancing because we had the faith to pray. Recall John's story of the cashier he prayed for who needed a furnace and couldn't afford one.  He prayed, costing him nothing more than 20 seconds and an odd look from the next in line.  She received and others saw it!  Think about a woman who was mocked or doubted, but who obeyed, and the town began to talk. The testimony of the blind man is a model: he did not defend doctrine; he simply said, “I was blind and now I see.” That statement is enough.

So many in our community have been moved into new levels: people who came as spectators and left as participants, those who came depressed and left with a testimony, those who surrendered in a moment and received a whole new territory of blessing. Your story can and should be be next.  Will you surrender?  What if.....?

How God Uses the Ordinary

God often chooses ordinary people and ordinary moments to display his glory. Jesus walked by and used a man’s ordinary obedience to change an entire town. You are that person. When you do the simple things—pray, obey, step out—God takes those moments and turns them into something extraordinary. He is looking for people willing to be catalysts for national change, one saved soul at a time.

Final Exhortation: Respond Today

If you are tired, if you are at the end of your rope, hear me: God can and will step in when you let go of self and invite him to act. Put your strategies, your timelines, and your self-will on the altar. Ask for the wisdom and blueprints that flow from heaven. The invitation today is simple: say, “God, I give myself wholly to you. Your will, not mine.” Let that be your confession. Do not stay a spectator. Take that step of obedience. When you do, expect the impossible.

Faith is not a feeling. It is a decision to trust God and do the next thing he asks. If you will move, God will multiply. If you will yield, God will act. If you will say yes to the unreasonable, you will see the unreasonable miracle.

Stand up. Step out. Break chains. Fly. The door is open. What if it swings wide right now?

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