The Bible is a book of miracles. From the first page to the last, God interrupts the ordinary course of things — a sea splits, iron floats, fire falls, the dead rise, the blind see. Scripture records these wonders not as legend but as history, and it never treats them as a thing of the past. On the contrary, it exhorts us to believe God for the miraculous still — because the God who worked every one of them is alive, unchanged, and near.
Miracles from Genesis to Revelation
The miraculous is woven through the whole of Scripture. A short walk through it:
| Where | What God did |
|---|---|
| The Exodus | The Red Sea parted, the pillar of fire, manna from heaven, water from the rock (Exodus 14–17) |
| Elijah & Elisha | Drought and rain at a word, fire on Carmel, the widow’s oil, the dead child raised (1 Kings 17–18; 2 Kings 4) |
| The exile | The fiery furnace, the lions’ den — men untouched by flame and fang (Daniel 3; 6) |
| Jesus’ ministry | The sick healed, storms stilled, the blind given sight, Lazarus called from the tomb (Matthew–John) |
| The resurrection | The central miracle — Christ raised bodily from the dead (Luke 24; 1 Corinthians 15) |
| The early church | Pentecost, the lame man at the gate, prison doors opened, the dead raised through the apostles (Acts) |
These are not scattered oddities. They are God signing His name in history — showing that the Lord of nature is free to act within it, and does, for the sake of His people and His glory.
Did miracles stop?
Some teach that the miraculous gifts ended with the apostles — a view called cessationism. But this is a theological inference, not a word of Scripture; the New Testament nowhere posts an expiration date on the works of the Spirit. The plain promises run the other way. Jesus said, “these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils… they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:17-18). Paul lists “the gifts of healing… the working of miracles” among the Spirit’s ongoing gifts to the church (1 Corinthians 12:9-10). And the anchor of it all: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8).
The Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal conviction — and the reading this site holds — is continuationist: the same Spirit poured out at Pentecost is poured out still. Peter said so on that first day: “the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:39). If the promise reaches to us, so does the Promiser. The book of Acts is not a closed chapter; it is the pattern of the church.
What I have seen
This is not only doctrine to me. I offer the following not as proof — testimony is not laboratory evidence — but as honest witness. Each came in answer to prayer in the name of Jesus.
My daughter was burning with a debilitating fever. We prayed over her in the name of Jesus, and she was healed immediately. What medicine and worry could not settle, the Lord settled at His word.
I was stranded in the middle of a lake with an empty tank — no fuel, no way in. We prayed in the name of Jesus. The tank was filled, the engine turned over at once, and we came safely to shore. I have no natural explanation; I only know Who answered.
I carried mail for a living. One day I stepped away from my vehicle and left it in neutral. By every law of physics it should have rolled straight into a house. Instead — and there were witnesses who saw it — it rolled in a slow circle with no one at the wheel and came to rest, parked, in a driveway. What should have been a disaster became a wonder.
One Sunday evening, during a prayer for the sick, a paralyzed man wheeled himself to the front of the church — as he had before — hoping that this time God would heal him. A minister stepped up, laid a hand on his shoulder, and began to pray. A burning sensation ran down through the man’s legs, and he leaped up out of the wheelchair. The burning left him; and knowing God had healed him, he danced around the front of the church for joy.
A dear sister in the Lord — worn from years of caring for a dying husband — was rushed to the hospital with a massive heart attack and carried ahead of two others for an emergency stent in her aortic artery. My wife and I did not even hear of it until the following day; yet we went to her side in prayer, in the name of Jesus, believing God for His will. She lived — given, in her nurse’s words, a second life. When she learned we had prayed a day “late,” she said something I will not forget: “God works outside of our time, and the prayer worked as if on time.” The God who named kings before they were born is not bound by our clock — “before they call, I will answer” (Isaiah 65:24).
I share these plainly, aware that some will wonder and some will doubt. That is all right. I am not asking anyone to build their faith on my story — faith rests on Christ and His word. But I cannot pretend I have not seen what I have seen, and every bit of it points to the same living Lord the Bible reveals.
Believe God for miracles
Scripture does not merely record miracles; it calls us to expect God to act. “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive” (Matthew 21:22). “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up” (James 5:15). “Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).
Two guardrails keep this from going wrong. First, faith is trust in a Person, not a formula that commands Him. We ask boldly, in Jesus’ name, and then we leave the outcome to His wisdom — He is a Father, not a vending machine, and sometimes His answer is a deeper grace than the one we asked for (2 Corinthians 12:9). Second, every true miracle points away from itself to God. The wonder is never the point; the Worker is. Miracles are signs, and signs are meant to be read — they say, the Lord is here, and He is good.
The greatest miracle
For all the fevers healed and tanks filled, the miracle God most wants to work in you is the one He offers to everyone: to take a dead heart and make it alive — to forgive your sins and fill you with His own Spirit. That is the wonder of the new birth, and the door to it is the same name in which every other miracle comes: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). The God of miracles is not far off. He is as near as a prayer in the name of Jesus.