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Miracles: Experiencing the Supernatural
in Our Discipleship Journey
JA NUARY 31, 20 21
WORSHIP WORD
READ IT! PARAPHRASE IT!
Great Things,
JOHN 2:1-12 Restate the verse in your own words.
Today,
Hosanna On the third day there was a TALK ABOUT IT!
wedding in Cana of Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus • What did you like about these verses?
was there; 2 and both Jesus • What did you learn about God?
WELCOME and His disciples were • What did you learn about people?
invited to the wedding. 3 • What did you learn about following God
What is your favorite • What did you discover about miracles?
When the wine ran out, the
miracle story from mother of Jesus *said to
the Bible? In what Him, “They have no wine.” POINT IT OUT!
ways can you relate 4 And Jesus *said to her, “ A miracle is an extraordinary event with a positive outcome that
to it in your life? What business do you have is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and attributed to
with Me, woman? My hour God. It is a “paradox with a Divine Cause”; a paradox being two
has not yet come.” 5 His conflicting truths that exist at the same time. As we enter into
mother *said to the servants, a new normal discipleship in 2021, we can believe that we will
“Whatever He tells you, do experience miraculous breakthroughs because of God’s divine
it.” 6 Now there were six interventions in our lives!
stone waterpots standing
there for the Jewish custom of Here are four key postures for us to experience God’s supernatural
purification, containing two or work in our discipleship journey, that we discover from Jesus’
three measures each. 7 Jesus first-ever miracle that occurred at a wedding in Cana, Galilee
*said to them, “Fill the wa- (John 2:1-12) where Mary was probably an aunt of one of the
terpots with water.” So they bride or groom, so that when the wine ran out, the servants
filled them up to the brim. 8 came to her about the matter and where she in turn, went to
And He *said to them, “Draw Jesus for His divine intervention in the situation:
some out now and take it to
the headwaiter.” And they LOOK TO JESUS FIRST
took it to him. 9 Now when Look with your spiritual heart, not with your physical eyes or
the headwaiter tasted the just your rational mind. Mary looked to Jesus first when she
water which had become learned that the wine had run out (v.3). The natural thing
wine, and did not know to do when you run out of wine is to go to the village wine
where it came from (but the merchants, when we run out of money for our business, we
servants who had drawn the go to the bank first, when we are sick, we look for a doctor
water knew), the headwaiter first. But when we want to see a miracle, look to Jesus first;
*called the groom, 10 and look with your heart.
*said to him, “Every man
serves the good wine first, LOOK BEYOND GOD’S NON-RESPONSE
and when the guests are
drunk, then he serves the When Mary went to Jesus, she must have expected Jesus to
poorer wine; but you have say “no” or “yes” to her request. However, the answer He gave
kept the good wine until was neither of that, but an apparent non-response (v.4). Maybe
now.” 11 This beginning of you are praying for healing, but instead of receiving an answer,
His signs Jesus did in Cana you run into problem after problem and you wonder what God
of Galilee, and revealed is doing. This is what Jesus tells us in Mark 11:24: “Therefore
His glory; and His disciples I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe
believed in Him. 12 After this that you receive them, and you will have them”, so do not let
He went down to Caper- God’s apparent non-response discourage you; pray and believe
naum, He and His mother, that you will receive an answer. The miracle you are praying for
and His brothers and His is not centered on any human being or any law or doctrine but
disciples; and they stayed on the compassionate, ever-loving, Almighty, living Son of God.
there a few days.
LOOK TO DO WHATEVER HE ASKS YOU TO DO
Mary instructed the servants to do whatever Jesus asked them
to do and they did exactly as Jesus told them (v.; 5-8). Do you
want miracle breakthroughs in your life? Because we worship
a supernatural God, miracles are part and parcel of what God
wants us to inherit in our discipleship journey; He is a miracle
worker even as we journey with Jesus.
4Ws MIRACLES: EXPERIENCING THE
SUPERNATURAL IN OUR
JA NUARY 31, 20 21
WORD WORKS WEEKLY
LOOK TO STEP IN FAITH AND RECEIVE APPLY IT!
When Jesus told the servants to fill the six stone jars with water, PRAYER POINTS
it was not easy to do so as each stone jar held 30 gallons of Based on this lesson on
water. We sometimes have to go through tough times to obey Miracles: Experiencing I. Thanksgiving
what God is saying. Sometimes it is out of our comfort zone, but the Supernatural in Our Worship God for who He is, what
step out in faith. Jesus told the servants to take the water to the Discipleship Journey, write He has done, and what He will do
master of the feast, and somewhere in the process of taking down your action point to in our lives
that water to the master, a change took place, turning water apply what you learned.
into the finest wine (v.9-10)! We need to step out in faith, out of II. Country and the World
Make this your “I will…”
our comfort zone and in obedience to what Jesus wants us to Upright and moral governance of
statement and follow the Public Servants
do and we will see miracles take place in our lives. S.M.A.R.T guideline to A God-centered Philippines
come up with a do-able Repentance and Salvation
WHAT DO MIRACLES LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY HAPPEN?
action point.
1. They are SPECTACULAR but SILENT. III. Church
When Jesus turned Water (H2O) into wine (C2H5OH) at that Simple That CCF Members would honor
wedding in Cana; carbon molecules were created from the and love God and make disciples
hydrogen atoms to create wine. This was an amazing miracle Measurable Elders, Pastors, Leaders, and
because you cannot convert hydrogen into carbon on planet Appropriate Families
earth! Do you know where hydrogen is converted into carbon? Ministries and Churches
It’s in the core of the sun at 15 million degrees Celsius— Realistic worldwide
it is spectacular, yet silent. When Jesus stilled the storm Time-bound
(Matt. 8:23-27), the only ones who saw the storm were the IV. CCF Facilities
12 twelve disciples; not everyone else on land. This is one Worship and Training Center
reason why we do not hear of amazing miracles that take “I will_________________ Prayer Mountain
place today—they are spectacular, but silent. ____________________
V. Personal Concerns
2. They are PUBLIC but PERSONAL Deeper intimate relationship
When Bartimaeus was healed outside of Jericho City, he SHARE IT! with God
had been there begging all his life. When Jesus healed him, Who will you share these
Righteous living
everybody saw it. But as far as the crowd was concerned, it Salvation of family and friends
was great for Bartimaeus but it was just a sideshow. It was truths to this week?
just one of those miracles that Jesus did before going into
the city where He encountered Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10)
then went on to the next miracle. It was just one of the PRAY CARE SHARE
many incidents as far as the public was concerned, but for IN ACTION
Bartimaeus, it was everything—it was life-changing. Just like
the woman who had bleeding for many years (Luke 8:43-48).
As far as the people around her were concerned, she was Pray for your friends,
just a nuisance contaminating everyone because she was family and others in your
unclean. She was healed instantly in their midst, but as far sphere of influence to see 24 Therefore I say to
as the public was concerned, it was on to the next “event”, God’s miracles in your you, whatever things
Jairus’ daughter (Luke 8:49-55). But for the woman who was own life and among His
healed, it was everything. The miracle was public but very, people. Pray that as they
you ask when you
very, personal. witness God’s amazing, pray, believe that you
supernatural work in and receive them, and you
3. They are ABUNDANT yet ABIDING
When Jesus turned water into wine, the equivalent of the six
through you, they too will have them
water jars amounted to about 6,000 bottles of wine. It was would want to know Jesus
enough for up to 5,000 wedding guests even in a royal as Savior and Lord. Show Mark 11:24
wedding, let alone for a wedding in a village! The household care by praying for their
had enough wine to last for a very long time. When God does need for breakthroughs
something, it is not just abundant, it is abiding. We worship and miracles this 2021.
the God of the “more than”—He will do more than what we Step out of your comfort
ask or even think (Ephesians 3:20-21). zone by faith and share
the gospel to others so
As God shapes our character, as we step out of our comfort zone that they can experience
and share the gospel, make disciples of nations, part and the greatest miracle of
parcel of what God wants to give us in this new normal in
disciplemaking in 2021 will include breakthroughs and miracles all—new life in Jesus!
in our lives. We will go through challenges and we will see the
hand of God come through for our lives.
