Sometimes the “smallest” miracles can have the biggest impact on our lives. It’s incredible to think that God cares about all our requests—from stubbed toes to cancer, losing keys to losing loved ones.
I remember one “little” miracle that had a huge impact on me. It happened when my daughters Danielle and Eden were about two and three.
A friend and I had taken the girls to the beach and we had just arrived home. The girls peeled out of the car and raced for the steel gate in our front yard. Eden reached it a second before Danielle, swinging it wide. At the same time, Danielle lunged for wrong side of the gate and let out a high-pitched shriek.
One of her tiny fingers had been pinched in the metal hinge. The skin and tissue on her ring finger was scraped back to expose the joint, which looked crushed. As her other tiny fingers curled, this finger couldn’t seem to bend.
Ever so gently, I took Danielle’s little hand in mine and prayed a simple prayer: “Be whole in Jesus’s name.” Immediately, her screams stopped, and as she often loved to do at that age, she began to play with my mustache.
I looked down at her finger, and although I could still see bare bone, the joint was no longer flattened and the finger curled naturally alongside the others. Scooping her up, I took Danielle into the house and sat her on my knee in the bathroom so I could run water over her finger. She seemed to be in no pain as she played happily in the water.
After a few minutes, my friend followed us in. Danielle had been so content and that I hadn’t looked at her finger again, but by the look on his face, I could tell that something big had happened.
When I turned to look at Danielle’s finger, I saw that beautiful new skin had completely covered the knuckle. The new, white skin was surrounded by skin that was tanned from the summer sun. Only about four minutes had passed, and she was completely healed.
This was an incredible miracle, yet it happened normally and naturally. No organ music played in the background. I didn’t loudly command the joint to re-form or the skin to reappear. Any onlookers would have seen nothing more than a father comforting his child, and experiences like this are what living the Spirit Contemporary life is all about. It’s about everyday people reaching out to the people in their everyday lives…and experiencing extraordinary results.
We serve a good God who isn’t too busy or too indifferent to get involved in the smallest details—intervening to help someone get a job that has better hours, healing a wart on a child’s foot, or causing a headache to disappear when a little boy prays for his mom. And when you share some of these “smaller” miracles that have happened to you, they encourage people more than you might think.
Don’t be afraid to share what God is doing in your life, no matter how small it may seem. It might be exactly what someone needs to hear today.
Adapted from The Spirit Contemporary Life by Leon Fontaine (to be released June 21, 2016). Preorder your copy today!
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