Neglected Miracles — George Verwer

The First Miracle at Cana

But my burden is to speak to you about miracles, about miracles. You take miracles out of the Bible, you don't have very much left. I want you to turn with me to the Gospel of John, where we have recorded the first miracle.

That's what it says in my outline. I have one of these Bibles that has things outlined, and this outline says the first miracle at Cana. Chapter 2. Whenever I come to Icthys, I always think of that great wedding that I had the joy of preaching at.

You, of course, guessed it, Ray and Jenny. And I love weddings, especially when I can preach, or receptions. Dale Rotom preached at my reception. He preached on Luke 14, 33. Except you forsake all that you have, you can't be my disciple.

We were a little extreme in those days. And he told people it was more or less silly to give any gifts to us because we'd sell them all to buy Bibles anyway. And believe me, there were a few upset people at that wedding.

Dale's come into tremendous balance since then. He even got married himself. But this was a wedding. And we read, let's start right at verse 1. I keep meaning to bring a modern translation for reading the Scriptures, and then I forget.

So I've got this old authorized translation, but you can follow in English. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Well, that's fairly clear. And the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.

And when they lacked wine, the Americans insist that's grape juice, at least the Baptists, the mother of Jesus said unto him, They have no wine. And Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?

Thine hour is not yet come. His mother said unto the servants, Whatever he saith unto you, do it. That's a good text, isn't it? Whatever Jesus says to you, do it. And I hope that will be your burden for tonight.

I was speaking at Swansea University last night. And a girl came to me and heard me some months ago at Aberystwyth in one of these weekends. And she had the courage to come to me and tell me that she had a personality clash with me at this weekend, but that somehow the Lord was working.

And I'm sure some of you that have never heard me before, it may only be a few, you'll have an immediate personality clash, maybe with my accent. And maybe something I say, especially if I'd started with my book reviews, that really always turns 5 off.

I've had actual people when they're arranging the meeting, in the letter to me, say we feel the Spirit of God leading us to ask you to limit your book reviews. Amazing. That always turns some people off because they think that's salesmanship.

But it is normal when we have a speaker, especially from another country, that his accent or something he says may turn us off, or the way he speaks. I speak very openly, very honestly. It's straight from the heart, but sometimes maybe it's too open and too honest.

And I'm sure sometimes I need more preparation. I never get enough time for preparation. But one thing for sure, the main thing tonight is not listening to my voice, whatever accent I have. It's trying to hear, through my feeble human proclamation of His Word, the voice of Jesus.

And whatever He says to you, do it. You don't have to worry about me. Whatever He says to you, do it. And it's important almost to let the speaker hide behind the cross. That doesn't mean God's going to destroy the speaker.

That doesn't mean we develop some false humility because God does use people. This treasure is in an earthen vessel and we know that every time we preach, sometimes a little bit of that earth gets in the way.

Whatever He says to you, do it. There were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus said unto them, Fill the water pots with water.

And they filled them up to the brim. So they obeyed Jesus. That wasn't too difficult, was it? You know, when you're a young Christian, the Lord doesn't reveal all of your self-life to you all at once.

You wouldn't be able to handle the sight. He's very merciful and gracious. And tonight He may ask you to just do some small thing. Probably not going to challenge you tonight to church planting in outer Mongolia, if you were converted to Christ last summer.

But He may challenge you to something smaller. Whatever He challenges you to, do it. And He said unto them, Draw some out now and bear it unto the governor of the feast. And they bore it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not from where it was, but the servants who drew the water knew, the governor of the feast called the bridegroom and said unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men are well drunk, funny kind of grape juice, then they, that which is worse, but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

And here's the key verse for this particular thought I have. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth His glory and His disciples believed on Him. After this He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brethren and His disciples, and they continued there many days.

Praying for Miracles and Acknowledging Their Limits

Let's pray. Father, we thank You that You are a God of miracles. And we believe that even tonight You want to perform miracles in this meeting. We believe there are people with special needs and we know, Lord, You want to reach and touch those needs.

There may be some, Lord, who are ill and You want to touch them. There may be some who need healing for damaged emotions and You want to touch them and heal them, make them whole. Lord, this seems like a rather strange demonstration of Your power, changing water to wine.

Don't seem to have that so much today. But we acknowledge, Lord, that You are sovereign and You will do that which pleases You. And Father, we ask You to speak to us tonight about miracles and about the miracles You want in our lives.

For we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God for His miraculous working power. I had the joy when I lived in India of working with Bhakt Singh of India. And after the meetings, usually very quietly, we'd go off and pray for those who had special problems or illnesses.

And what a mighty way, what a mighty way this man was used to perform miracles. You know, he's well past 80. I was just looking at a photo, the most recent photo, probably in England, of this saint of God who's instrumental in planting over 400 or 500 churches across India.

A number of states have not been affected by this, in case you think that it's all, you know, taken care of out in India. It's mainly localized to church growth areas. But what amazing miracles these people have had.

I remember when God led a group of them praying they needed water. It's a little bit like this Cana miracle. And the Lord led them in a miraculous way to find where to drill in a place where no one ever expected you could ever find water and guess what they found.

It wasn't Coca-Cola, I can assure you. Water. And I could keep you here all evening if I started talking to you about the miracles I've had the joy of hearing about, in some cases seeing, in many, many different lands around the world.

But I know that there are people who can speak about these things far better than I can and who have experienced more, especially in some of these healing miracles than I, perhaps, have experienced. In fact, to be quite honest, I've had some of my greatest embarrassments in praying for the sick.

I remember being in Indonesia. If there's ever a land where they emphasize miracles, it's Indonesia. They even, in some cases, create them when they don't happen, especially in the books they write. But I was out in Indonesia and the ship Lagos was called the Miracle Ship.

Oh, mercy, when we called it the Miracle Ship. And we sailed into Indonesia. I remember it was 1971 and I flew out there just for some ministry and we're having a huge rally, couple thousand people there.

And, of course, the miracle preacher from the Miracle Ship was there. And after I preached and gave the invitation for salvation and quite a few people came to the Lord, of course, people started coming to me for prayer for their various illnesses.

And they brought to me one of the most difficult, paralyzed persons in the island. Almost every healer in Indonesia of any importance had had a go at this character. And I was really very young yet in the ministry and they brought this very, very crippled man.

I've prayed for him ever since. That was 1971. I got his picture. And they thought, of course, George Ferrer's just, you know, just let him pass by my shadow and zap! And I was scared silly. But I said, look, let's pray.

I found one or two others that looked like they had a little more anointing than I did. And I tried to get away because the crowd was following. And, you know, often the crowd hinder what God wants to do.

Because when these healings take place, when there's often a great crowd all watching, that immediately goes in the newspapers. Immediately, you have another great Christian hero born. And believe me, crazy things happen.

Anyway, we prayed for him and laid hands on him and nothing happened. Now, I know that isn't the kind of testimony we like to hear. Forgive me. But nothing happened so I can't tell you something happened.

But I'll tell you, one thing happened in my heart. It was broken for this man. And many others like him who have been prayed over sometimes by more than 100 people and have never been healed. That's a bit amazing, isn't it?

You know, in America we have one church with now over 70 dead. Because they took an extreme view that everybody, no matter what, no matter what the circumstances, should be healed. And they became fanatics in this particular area of the miraculous.

A lot of the parents were taking this man to court and in the process, he suddenly, at a relatively young age, died. Strange things happen, don't they? So I'm not going to speak to you about miracles of healing because I know you've had books on that subject.

We've had John Wimber and we've had many messages on this. I want to speak to you about what I consider the seven neglected miracles among God's people today. And I hope that you'll pray about this. I hope that you'll search the scriptures.

You may feel that I'm misusing the word miracle. Okay, you can use some other word. But after 30 years of trying to see these seven things take place, pretty well day and night for 30 years, I'm convinced it takes a miracle.

I'm sure all of you or most of you are already interested in these seven areas. But some of you may not be doing so well, too well because you don't realize that it's going to take a miracle for you to see a breakthrough in one of these seven areas.

The Miracle of Stability

Seven neglected miracles. What's the first neglected miracle? The miracle of stability. Do you know that word? Stability. There's a verse, 1 Corinthians 15, 58, which I memorized many years ago. Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

We are the generation of instability. We have more people who one minute seem to be just glowing for God and accomplishing great things for God, and the next minute, and maybe a year later, you can't find them.

Now, if you think I'm just making this up, just stick around Britain for 20 years. I've been here for 22 or 23 years. This has become my home. And I have watched the people come and go. I've watched whole churches come and go.

I've watched revivals, at least on a small scale, come and go. I've watched Christian leaders come and go. I've watched miracle workers come and go. And I am convinced that one of the greatest miracles that God can ever work into your life is a miracle of stability and stickability.

So that you're not only here now praising the Lord, which is so wonderful and so important, but you're here 20 years from now praising the Lord. God convicted me many years ago that in my ministry there were too many short-term results.

In fact, He convicted me of that when I was 18. I was considered the great youth evangelist in my home area. At 18, I was preaching to great crowds of people. I went back to my high school where God was working a mini revival through the prayers of that elderly lady who prayed OM into being in the first place.

I preached to about 600 people and I gave an invitation and about 125, many of them weeping, came into the cafeteria for counseling and to be saved. And of course, this made an enormous impact on this area.

Immediately, I had more places and opportunities to speak than I could handle. I got the names and addresses of all those people and I followed them over all of these years. Most of them are not going on for God today.

Most of them. That doesn't mean it was not a legitimate work of the Holy Spirit. After all, I was only 18. God doesn't destroy the human factor. And it was from that high school that Operation Mobilization was born.

And that has spread all over the world in direct fulfillment to the prayers of that very godly woman who sent me a Gospel of John and prayed me into Heaven in the first place. A story maybe I'll tell at some other occasion.

And I was convinced at 18 years of age that somehow there must be a tremendous emphasis on follow-up, on discipling people, on giving yourself to people, on loving people, phoning them, writing them, visiting them, encouraging them, laying down your life for them.

I remember in my first year at college, when I arrived at college, I was warned about a fanatic named Dale Roton. Dale Roton to me is the greatest example of stability I've ever had in my Christian life.

I'm sure there are others, but for me he's the greatest. He discipled me. He baptized me. He brought into my life the emphasis on Scripture memory. He helped deliver me from a lot of other crazy things.

And we've been together in the work of God 28 years. The name of George Verwer, perhaps through books, perhaps because I'm a big mouth, is well known in some places. The name of Dale Roton is not. But he has been the anchor of Operation Mobilization.

I have failed many, many times. I have shot off my mouth. I have hurt people. I have sinned against God. I have fallen in many ways. Oh, not the big scandalous ways that you could write up in the Gospel Gazette.

By his mercy. Maybe because of his love for OM and his desire to preserve our testimony. But in ways that are truly sinful to God. Maybe I shouldn't mention his name. We need people like Dale Roton. Somebody once asked Dale, what's your secret?

Because he's got that consistent life. He pioneered our work in Turkey. He pioneered our work in the communist countries. He's now overseeing the ministry of both ships. Very quietly, behind the scenes.

Almost hard to even find the character. And somebody says, what's your secret? What's your secret? Have you had a triple-decker crisis experience? Have you had a miracle in the treetop? Because many people know my treetop miracle experience.

And God gave me the name Operation Mobilization after my fiasco in the Soviet Union. Some of you know my good friend, God's smuggler, Brother Andrew. This evening you've got God's bungler, Brother George.

That's me. I also went to the Soviet Union. Due to my own stupidity, lack of wisdom, discernment, and a few other problems, I got arrested on the second day by the Soviet secret police and accused of being a spy.

An American spy. Strange, since I'm an American. They treated us well, though, even gave us a submachine gun escort back to Austria. And it was there in the mountains that God, at the top of a tree, when I was praising the Lord and singing, I've always been a bit hyper, these words came to me, Operation Mobilization.

Somebody asked Dale, what crisis experience has kept him going all these years? And he just said, in his very phlegmatic, nonchalant way, he says, well, I read my Bible. I read my Bible. You know, some of you are never going to have stability in your life.

You're never going to have it until you become more serious about God's Word. I take surveys all over the country. Last night, Swansea University. How many of you have not yet read the Bible through even once?

Seventy-five percent. Raise your hand. Let's do it here. How many of you, young Christians, you're all excused. You're less than a few months in Jesus. But how many of you have never yet read the Bible through once?

Just be honest. Just be honest. Good. About 40 percent. That's certainly encouraging compared to some of the places I go to. Why don't you make a decision tonight? Maybe this is why the Lord brought me here tonight.

To decide to read the Bible through once in the next year. If you're illiterate, give yourself two years. First year you learn to read. Second year, you read the Bible. But, you know, I love, I love, to me the greatest invention since sliced bread is the Walkman.

And if you can't read, you can listen to the New Testament, the whole New Testament on tape. I have some with me in case you want a second. In fact, you can read and listen at the same time. The miracle of stability.

Why can't we get more missionaries and more people overseas who can dig into these unreached areas and plant churches and stick when there's no response, when there's jail, when there's heartache and illness and trial.

Why can't we get more people of that caliber in the 20th century? Because we haven't experienced this ongoing miracle. This isn't a one-shot miracle. I picked up a book some time ago. I haven't finished reading it.

How to Maintain Your Healing. Seems a lot of people get healed and then a week later they lose it. Now they got a whole book. How to Maintain Your Healing. Good. Maybe I ought to write one. How to Maintain the Miracle of Stability.

You might have a crisis tonight if you come to the cross, you let God fill you afresh with His Holy Spirit. That's a crisis to me in any man's book. But if that crisis is not followed by a process, you'll be another evangelical abscess.

I wonder if you dare to believe God for a miracle of stability in your life. That ongoing reality and stability that will keep you praising God, serving God, running in God's race every day, every day of your life from now until you get to heaven.

Doesn't that sound exciting? Do you know a lot of people that are like that who are past 50? Not so many. You may not realize that. But as people get into the 40s and 50s and 60s, many of them drop out of the race.

Many of the marriages break up. Many leave the ministry. And people like myself, Roger and Ray, as we travel, we're counseling these kind of people all the time. And I tell you, it causes us more than ever to want the miracle of stability.

The Miracle of Spiritual Balance

Secondly, the miracle of spiritual balance. We don't have the time, but if you could write down, some of you are taking notes and that excites me almost right out of my shoes, Ephesians 4, 15 and 16. In fact, read the whole chapter.

Ephesians chapter 4. Memorize it. How many of you memorize Scripture regularly? You know, one verse a month. We don't want to lay any heavy guilt trips on you. One verse a month. You raise your hand. This young man praised the Lord.

Several other people. Roger and Ray, raise your hand, thanks. But that's another thing that helped me so much when I was a young Christian. I had a lot of problems, 10 major problems, 20 minor problems, and some I hadn't even discovered yet.

It's good when you're first converted, you don't discover all your problems at once. The Lord waits, very gracious. I learned the hard way that it takes a miracle. It takes a miracle to see spiritual balance, especially in the life of characters like me, temperaments like mine.

Plus, together with my other problems, I have a very deep cynical streak. And through visiting Cambridge now, every year for the last 20 years, this skill has increased. Cynicism. They give you advanced courses there at Cambridge in cynicism.

I've seen cynical Cambridge students reduced, for example, Americans to nothing within a quarter of a minute. I had also a very real negative streak, and some of my original Christian faith was quite negative.

Some negatives, of course, are from God. Some I had were not. If God hadn't performed a miracle of spiritual balance in my life, and in turn in the movement of OM, we might today be a cult. That's right.

You think that can't happen to you, but the Church and history proves it can happen. Miracle of spiritual balance. Balance is not compromise. Not mixing the world and the Church. That's not what I'm talking about.

Balance is letting one strong truth, like the truth about forsaking all, Luke 14, 33, be brought into balance by other truths, like those words in Philippians that say, God will supply all your needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus.

And if I had the time, I could share a hundred areas from God's Word, where as Christians, we have to continue to work for balance. I wonder if you'd pray with me tonight for a miracle of spiritual balance in your own life, because some of you know, some of you may not be aware yet, but some of you know this is your greatest need, to find balance in what you say, in what you think, in your use of time, in the divine factor and the human factor.

You see, when the Holy Spirit fills us, He doesn't destroy the human factor. It took me a long time to learn that. And the hurt I inflicted on my own wife in the process of understanding the human factor and that this treasure is in an earthen vessel is a story that perhaps we won't depress you with tonight.

I wonder how many of you are married. Any of you married people here? Raise your hand. Married people. Wow, you didn't look married when I first came here. I guess it was the lights. How many of you have ever thought, you know, just, I know you're serving the Lord and your gut, you're so busy, but in an off moment you've thought about the possibility of marriage.

Any of you have thought about that? Most of you have not thought about it. Too tired to get your hand up. You know, I'd love to talk to you about marriage. It's perhaps my favorite subject because mine is a testimony of many failures and God's great victory.

We're going to get to that perhaps in a minute. But marriage is one of God's graduate schools. And if you're extreme, one thing you don't want to do, get married. Unless you want to come into balance.

Because extreme people have a way of blowing marriages right into pieces. The miracle of spiritual balance. Do you know that miracle? Is that a reality in your life? Is that a reality in your heart? Then that is something to be very, very encouraged about.

The Miracle of Moral Purity

And then number three, the miracle of purity. I brought a book with me because I don't have time to speak much about each one of these miracles called Living With Your Passions. Now, we're all living with our passions, right?

Some of us at times may not be doing so well. This is the best book I know on the subject of sexual purity. It comes from the States by a man of God. I saw the publisher last week and he said it's selling so well they're going to produce a British edition and anglicize it.

That's good. But you may want to get it before that. Living With Your Passions and Your Parents, Freudian Slip, A Christian's Guide to Sexual Purity. I've received about 14 ,000 personal letters as a result of one of my earlier books, a book called Hunger for Reality.

14 ,000 letters. I read almost every one of them from all over the world. And so many of the people who have written have said their problem, their struggle is in this area of sexual purity. Wherever I go, any Christian Union meeting, any pastor's conference, almost any meeting, if I touch on that subject, there's a queue of people writing or wanting to see me, to pray for a miracle in their life.

Now, this was the greatest struggle in my Christian life. And I just testify because our time is going. And I want to tell you that if God can keep a character like me, and he's kept me 30 years, not without struggle in the mind, not without failure in the mind and the eyes, and that's wrong and it's sin and I repent it.

But if God can keep a character like me for 30 years and keep my marriage, we've just had the 25th wedding anniversary, then I know there's hope for everybody here. You may think I'm some special Christian leader leading Operation Mobilization and a great spiritual invasion across the world, but I can tell you I am one with God.

Struggling follower of Jesus Christ. But I know his keeping power, and I believe the greatest miracle I have experienced is the miracle of healing in the area of impurity. At 16, I was a pornoholic. I had started out in my little do-do-do bum-bum with four years of age with my eye on women.

By 16, there were 32 different girls in my life. Praise God, fortunately, that was the age of romance. I wasn't jumping in bed with all these girls due to fear. Jesus Christ came into my heart, and he performed a miracle.

He gave me a new mind, a mind that can think pure things, that even can look at the most attractive sister or woman in the world and think pure things. That is a miracle, at least for some of us. And today, if there's any miracle we need, it's that.

Some of you are praying that the Lord heals this illness. I know people that go to healing meetings and ask special prayer for their corns and special prayer for ingrown toenails. I've seen people praying for almost every, you know, people laying on hands and praying that hair will grow in the head.

It's cheaper to buy a wig. No, it isn't, actually. It's expensive. Somebody was saying something about Tony Compallo in that area. But the miracle of moral purity, do you have it? Are you experiencing it?

The Miracle of Ongoing Reality

Are you living in the light of it? Paul wrote to Saint Timothy and he said, flee youthful lusts which war against the soul. And then, fourthly, the miracle of ongoing reality. You know, God is real. He's real.

He's more real than this wooden platform. And we can fellowship with God. We can worship God. As a young Christian, I started the habit, which I've kept to this day, of going out for half days of prayer and being alone with God in the woods.

And I, myself, have experienced God in my life as much alone as I have in corporate worship. God is real. This is why we push the books of A .W. Tozer, because he emphasizes knowing God. Have you read any of that man's books?

If you can read one of his books and not be challenged to the depth of your soul, you write to me and I'll send an apology and 25 free books. A .W. Tozer is a witness, is a living testimony. I've talked to men who knew him personally, that God is real, not just tonight, not just when you're riding on the crest of a wave of blessing or recent conversion or recent filling with the Holy Spirit.

He's real right to the end. Right to the end. That, to me, is the neglected miracle of our day. Ongoing reality. Running the race right to the end. When it's tough and it's rough and you're rejected and things go wrong and you're in prison.

The Miracle of a Happy, Holy Marriage

Don't think for a minute God isn't going to let some of those things happen to some of us. The miracle of ongoing reality. And fifthly, the miracle of a happy, holy marriage. There's hardly a church that is not wrestling intensely with a divorce problem.

You're a relatively young fellowship. I know you've proven yourself for good enough years, at least in my book. But I know that today Satan's attacks often are on the heart of the home. On the marriages.

And the marriages of men who have experienced the baptism of the spirit, the fullness of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit, healings, men who walked high in mighty power for God. There are hundreds of them today whose marriages have broken up, if we count the United States, where the battle seems to be a little fiercer than here.

If I gave some of the names, you might fall off your chair. I'm not going to do that. To me, this is a miracle we should pray for. And it's a miracle that if you're having difficulty in your marriage, I hope you've got enough courage to seek counsel and to ask for prayer and experience ongoing counsel.

It's not all just spiritual things. I believe a lot of somewhat spiritual people make a lot of practical mistakes in their marriage. In our movement, we have been long on zeal and short on wisdom. A .W. Tozer said the greatest gift needed in the church today was discernment.

And we need that in our marriage. We need discernment to know the balance between time with our wife and time in the ministry. The balance in all the other areas that I know you've read something about.

The Miracle of Listening and Learning

And then the miracle, the sixth miracle, and you'll surely, some of you say, now that's not a miracle. You're really stretching things to get your point across. Forgive me. It seems to me God repeats quite a few things as well.

Like, love your neighbor as you love yourself. Why does he give that nine times in the Word of God? I mean, does he think we're thick? Of course, God doesn't think we're thick. He knows we are. The sixth miracle, the sixth, we haven't allowed any time for clapping, the sixth miracle is the miracle of listening and learning.

Now, let's take a little survey. How are you doing in the area of listening? From one to ten, ten is a good listener who hears what people are saying, absorbs it, and you know, it gets in. How many, you know, how many of you are from one to ten, how many tens do we have?

Good listener. According to James chapter one, you need to be a good listener. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, humble crowd, five, four, that's me, three, two, one. You know, it's harder to listen than it is to speak.

And I feel that many of us as God's people, it's been an absolute sin at times in the last my life. We don't listen to people. And some of us husbands, here I am guilty again, we don't listen to our wives.

We don't really hear what they're reaching out, trying to say to us. I don't know how many times my poor wife has been trying to say something to me. My mind has been wandering off in China or India or the next million tracks or some other thing, and she says, are you listening?

Oh, sure, sure. What am I talking about? Uh, you're talking about, uh, something I will tell you, in characters like me, it takes a miracle to listen and to learn, to keep those L plates on. After you get powerful spiritual experiences, after God uses you to bring thousands of souls to Jesus Christ, after God uses you in apostolic ministry, you're still a learner, you still walk humbly before God.

If that isn't a miracle we need in Britain today, then I'm an E .T. combined with a giraffe. And then the seventh miracle, the seventh miracle, the eighth is that Verwer keeps to his time. The seventh miracle is the miracle of perseverance.

The Miracle of Perseverance

We won't stress that because it's linked in with the other six, and perhaps it's almost the same as number one. But I long for this. I don't know if you pray for Operation Mobilization. I don't know if you pray for me.

Some of you, I know, pray for me. Pray that we would persevere. For some of us, it's getting rougher, it's getting tougher. We've seen a lot. We've seen a lot. We haven't had all of our prayers answered for Turkey and Afghanistan, for Mongolia, for India.

We're over-committed. The opposition is great, and we want daily the miracle of perseverance. And I know that's God's plan for you as well. Paul said, I buffet my body. That's strong language, isn't it?

I buffet my body and bring it into subjection. Lest our I become a castaway. That's pretty clear. We are called, brothers and sisters, to run right to the end. And for those of you that have just entered the race, I just close by saying, I've known something of these seven miracles in my feeble life.

And if I can know something, then you can as well. These miracles take place not in the absence of fear and struggle and doubts, but they take place through, as we battle through, in the. And it's the will of God for every one of us to know these seven neglected miracles in our own life.

But God won't force them on you. It's up to you. Ask and you shall receive. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. That which you're really aiming at in your Christian life, that is what you will get.

And I want to aim at those seven things. Whatever else the Lord wants to do, saving souls, healing people, churches being born, nations taken for Christ, thousands coming back to Christ, fine, I'm willing for anything, but without those seven neglected foundation miracles in my life, I'll be one more scandal in the work of God.