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LINDSAY ROBERTS

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DAILY GUIDE TO MIRACLES from Oral Roberts Ministries
Thursday, August 2st, 2007
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THE REALM OF THE MIRACULOUS
Lindsay Roberts
Part 2 of 2 Parts
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"Jesus lives where we live. He understands the practical, everyday events and necessities of our lives. In the story of feeding the 5,000 He knew there was a problem-all those people were hungry. But providing dinner for a multitude didn't worry Jesus. It didn't bother Him that these people hadn't eaten all day or that they were miles from any town, because He was looking to God as His Source. The Bible says, When he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves (Mark 6:41).

Jesus didn't look to the crowd, the disciples, or the little boy who gave the bread and fish. He didn't look at the fact that He had 5,000 hungry people on His hands and no food. He looked to heaven, and a miracle happened! Verse 42 says, And they did all eat, and were filled.

Now logically and naturally speaking, everyone knows that five loaves and two fishes are not enough to feed 5,000 people. But when Jesus took the little lunch and looked up to heaven, He stepped out of the logical, natural realm over into the realm of the miraculous. I believe that when you and I put our eyes on God as our total Source of supply, we can also step over into the realm of the miraculous!

Yes, we have to do your part. As we first seek the kingdom of God and His will, then we do our part and get out of our humanness over into God's realm. He can increase what we offer Him, just like He did the loaves and fishes, and miracles can happen!"

ON DOCTRINE NOTE:
Continuing into Part 2 of her article on the Feeding of the 5,000, Lindsay Roberts makes some interesting comments regarding the source of the miracle that Jesus performed. Her claim is that God was the source and Jesus was only the conduit, based on Mark 6:41, ". . . and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food . . ," (NAS). In effect, she is saying that Jesus Christ had to move from the natural world of His humanness into God's realm of miracles, in order for the miracle to occur, as if Jesus was not already in charge of the world of the miraculous as well as that of the natural. Apparently, if Jesus had not looked toward heaven during his prayer of blessing, then no miracle would have occurred. Her comparison is transparent, because, if Jesus had to move from the natural world to the world of miracles, then how much more does that apply to human beings who must do the same?

Supposedly the little boy gave what he had, which was his "lunch," and God had to respond to that act of faith and brought about the miracle feeding of the 5,000. Since Jesus became the pawn in the issue between God and the faith of the little boy, Jesus was given the power by God to effect the miracle because He looked to heaven, which Lindsay Roberts takes to mean that, "He was looking to God as His Source." However, the Scripture states that prior to Jesus asking the disciples to search for food among the crowd He had already made a decision, "This He was saying to test him (Philip), for He Himself knew what He was intending to do," John 6:6 (NAS). Word of Faith theology, which is what Lindsay Roberts represents, would explain that difficulty by saying that Jesus Christ was simply applying His faith toward what He wished to be the outcome, however He did not give anything in order express that faith. In Word of Faith theology, even God has to express faith, and used His faith to create the heaven, earth and human beings,
Scripture says that God called those things that were not as though they were. In some mysterious way that's described as believing by faith. God saw something that was not. It existed in His faith and was as real to Him as if it were already there. And what did God see? He wanted somebody He could love, and He saw man, who did not exist, as if he did. And God called man's body out of the ground and his spirit into being.—Oral Roberts, The God-Kind Of Faith

So, how does a person move into the world of the miraculous? If God had to use faith to be a Creator, and Jesus Christ is also said in Scripture to be The Creator, then Lindsay Roberts explains, ". . . dare to take a step of faith and give what you have." Eventually the issue will always return to giving: not giving a person's lunch, but giving their "best seed" or the biggest offering that a person can possibly give. To whom or what should the person give? Well, of course, in the case of Lindsay Roberts, it is the Oral Roberts Ministries, of which she is an integral part and recipient of the benefits of those "Seed Faith" offerings.

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