“Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.” John 20:30-31

More Miracles

I recently read today’s verse that I’m sure I’ve read before, but it hasn’t struck me like it did this time.

I’m so grateful for the record of the miracles of Jesus… and I’ve sometimes thought there must have been many more. I wish we knew all of them. But the miracles didn’t stop when Jesus died. There are miracles coming from the Father and the Son every day. I’m so grateful we serve a miracle-working God!

I feel fresh boldness and courage rising in my heart to ask Him for present day miracles. I ask Him daily for His miracle-working power to be released in a number of situations. It seems like every direction I look, there are situations that need miracles. So much pain, sickness, turmoil, and need. It must break the Father’s heart to see His creation, His children in such distress!

I’ve had a front row seat to some miracles in my lifetime. Sometimes I had great faith in asking God to move. At other times I had pretty much no faith, but I still asked. The thing is—it’s not dependent on us! It’s God’s power at work—our part is to ask.

I saw a YouTube video recently called Battle at Kruger. I’d seen it before, but not for awhile. It’s been viewed almost 83 million times, so you may have seen it. Spoiler alert—I’m going to describe it, but you may still want to watch it.

There’s a herd of majestic Cape Buffalos with a young buffalo among them—and some lions are watching, waiting to go for that baby for their dinner. The Buffs get quite close, and the lions go for it… grabbing the baby, chasing it into the water nearby. The lions have hold of the baby and are trying to drag it out of the water when two crocodiles try to steal their dinner. They wrestle and the lions win. They drag it out of the water, and are crouching over it… when here come the WHOLE herd of buffalos!

It’s such a powerful moment. I got goose bumps. Someone on the video said there were a hundred of them. I don’t know for sure, but there were a lot. A massive wall of them came towards the lions, at one point throwing one of the lions in the air. Lions are known as the king of the jungle, but they were no match for this massive herd of powerful buffalos.

I sat thinking after I watched the video—and had the clear impression—that’s what God does for us. We may be in a difficult battle, it may look like we’ve lost, we may have been fought over by various predators… but then the mighty army of God comes to our rescue—in full force, in power, in might! It truly felt like I’d watched a spiritual battle… and I felt like rejoicing. I identify with the baby buffalo; the army of God has come to my rescue in difficult times over and over again. I’m so grateful to Him.

I love lions—but in this video I was cheering for the Cape Buffalos. The visual imagery of their “win” was powerful! And it built fresh faith in my heart to pray for victories, for miracles.

“How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions” (Psalm 35:17).

Lord, no matter how dire our situation, no matter how big our need, no matter how great a miracle we need—You are able!