Miracles are not just yesterday’s story

As stories of healing, salvation and new life multiply, Alex Morgan urges churches to honour the past – but believe God for fresh miracles today

“Oh, by the way, I’ve been healed of diabetes.” These were the words spoken to me as a member of our church rushed through our foyer. Taking a minute to process what had been said, I called her back to explain and confirm it.

She recounted how the doctors had told her she no longer had type 1 diabetes.

The next day, I told our staff team about this miracle. One staff member exclaimed that God had healed them of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and another shared how they had been healed of a degenerative eye disease. A few weeks later, we prayed for women who were struggling to conceive. That afternoon, my wife received a text: “Nicole, I’m pregnant!” God moves fast. A lady in our church, whom we had been journeying with and praying for in this area, had just discovered that she was pregnant that very week.

A few years earlier, I stood in our prayer meeting with a man from our church who had tears in his eyes. He had just heard the news that his cancer was gone and that he was going to live. The doctors had given him six months to live – and seven months later he was cancer-free. He had been so sure he was going to die that, a few weeks earlier, he came to me for advice. He had bought himself a coffin and now wanted to know what to do with it, as someone had suggested he turn it into a coffee table.

These are just a few of the stories we have of God moving miraculously in the midst of our church. I shouldn’t be surprised by this, because we have been left with a legacy.

I will forever remember my interview at the church 11 years ago, when I sat with Richard Buxton and, for two hours, he spoke of the miracles that had happened here. I sat in awe and excitement of what God had done and was continuing to do.

When the Buxtons passed us the baton of leading this incredible church, we picked up the responsibility of making sure that we didn’t live off our history but continued in passing on a legacy. What they had contended for in prayer, we are still seeing the benefit of.

That same responsibility sits on all of us as we continue to see an advancement of the kingdom of God in our neighbourhoods, towns, and cities. We are called to be a people who don’t live off the story of yesterday but of today ‒ people who pass on a legacy to the generation to come.

As Psalm 102:18 says: “Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord.”

As we see a shift in the spiritual temperature of our nation, we should begin to share our stories with one another and celebrate together.

I’m loving hearing stories of salvation, baptisms and healing that God is doing in our churches. We should continue to share those stories because, as we do, they increase.

I believe that as we share what God is doing, we inspire faith in others. As we tell stories of healing and salvation, people begin to say, “If God can do that for them, why not for me? If He can save their family, what about mine? If He can heal their body, what about mine?”

As we began to share about the healing that had happened, suddenly more people began to be miraculously healed by God.

We are called to be a people who honour our past and leave a legacy for those not yet born.

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