Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. It’s warming up a little in Virginia, and although I “suffered” through a few minutes outside this morning, I’m longing for warmer days when I can spend meet with my God on the front porch every morning. The Bible says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life”! When I met with the Living God at this morning, I thought about lots of other things I look forward to with longing. Some of those things are done-deals like entering the Gates of Heaven one day, while things look like “long shots” when they’re analyzed by the human mind…but with God, ALL things are possible. I long for a few long-shots even though they don’t seem possible to anybody else but me and my God, and I long for the day when Miracles are Revealed in Living Color. Don’t you long to see miracles, too?

It can be so easy for some people to express their own opinion of what God can or cannot do, and it’s even easier for others to believe that God doesn’t even perform Miracles today at all. Some people believe that Miracles are just things we read about and that the Bible is just an entertaining history book, and they miss the Glory of God because of it. Some people believe what they read about Pentecost, but the miracles are just things of the past we read about and nothing we could ever expect to see for ourselves. Why would the God of Miracles EVER quit performing them? He’s the same yesterday, today, and forevermore! To me, it’s very sad to see so many people deceived into believing that God’s power is limited and that Pentecost was just a time of show and tell for Jesus. As a result, some of them are just idling through this life with no Expectation of anything BIG from God at all. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Sometimes, people laugh when I share what I long for because they just can’t see God doing the things I talk about. But my God can (and WILL) Perform Miracles in my Life until He takes me Home. He’s been proven to be the Miracle Maker countless times, and He won’t stop as long as I Believe and my Heart is in the right place. Time and time again, people have seen God work in miraculous ways in my Life, and those Miracles have left them shaking their heads in disbelief. Yet STILL when I speak of the BIG things I long for with Conviction…things I KNOW will soon come to pass…those same people analyze my Life with the human mind and speak words of disbelief about the God of Miracles and what He’s willing ( or not) to do for me. One day they’ll be shaking their heads in disbelief all over again when they see what my God has done in my Life. When my longing is fulfilled, they’ll see the Tree of Life, that’s for sure, but I won’t be surprised because I Believed all along.

A long time ago there was a woman named Sarah who laughed when angels showed up to announce that she and Abraham would have a baby and that through that child, Abraham would become the “father of many nations.” Sarah laughed because she analyzed the message through a human mind instead of longing for what’s possible with God. I’m pretty sure that if Sarah shared that message with a few of her closest friends, they would ALL get a good laugh over the idea of a 90-year-old woman getting pregnant…but that’s exactly what happened because the God of Miracles made it be so. God has NO boundaries, and He hasn’t quit Performing Miracles…but if we allow the human mind to analyze them so that we can decide if they’re possible or not, then we quit believing in them all together. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

I’m longing for a few things that will soon come to pass one day and I will not waiver in my Belief even though I’ve been longing for a while. Sometimes, I confess to the Living God that I’m weary from the wait, but I NEVER doubt what He tells me, and I’m Confident that my longing will be fulfilled because He says so. When I tell Him I’m weary, the God of All Miracles is sure to nourish my soul for the Journey the same as He did for Elijah. “He is the same yesterday, and today, and forevermore” – OF COURSE He still “performs” Miracles! Nothing is too big for my God – but my God is way too big for some when they fail to Believe that all things ARE possible with Him.