| Covenant Connection |
| Issue Number 2002-04 |
| June 9, 2002 |
| Covenant CommUnity Center's Weekly Newsletter |
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| What Is A Miracle? |
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| When we think of miracles, what automatically comes to mind? Healing the sick, raising the dead. Even those of us who have experienced a form of miracles first hand often think we're incapable of performing miracles. That's the flaw in our thinking. Let's look at that statement: We think we're incapable of performing miracles. We think: It is my belief that the enlightened ones were using more brain potential than the average person. What if someone were to use 15% of their brain potantial, rather than the 10% that is generally accepted, that person would be looked upon as gifted. 20% maybe telekenetic, telepathic 30% maybe heal the sick 40% possible enlightened 50% maybe able to raise the dead What about approaching 100 %? Possibly that someone would be in continous contact with his Creator. Walking with God. It's impossible, right? or is it a miracle? We use our brains for everything we do but do we use our brains to full capacity? Not really. Not many of us. We're distracted, unfocused, undiciplined. Even the best of us do not use the 10% accessible to us all the time to the maximum. So when we think we're incapable of performing miracles, do we really know for absolute certain? We're incapable: We're told all our lives that we can't do this or that. Sometime we prove them right. Sometimes we prove them wrong. Sometimes we give up before we even try. Do we really know what we're capable of? Can a petite young mother lift a car? She can when her children are trapped underneath. We've all heard stories of healing from terminal illness, returning to life after being declared clinically dead but if we haven't had a personal experience, do we really believe we are capable of performing such miracles? Performing miracles: When we think about miracles, we should first look in the mirror. The odds of your conception, your birth and your survival are so overwhelmingly against you, it's staggering. For you to have the exact family, friends, environment and experiences to make you who you are today makes you an absolutely one of a kind unique individual. If that's not a miracle then realize that you are made up of the same atomic energy as the chair you're sitting on, the building around you, the air you breathe, the food you eat, the plants and animals, the rocks, earth and the stars. As a character from one of my favorite T.V. shows says, "We're all made out of start stuff." Out of all the stuff in the Universe, your atoms were formed together in one place, arranged in exactly the right order to be completely self-sufficient in the integral workings of your body; your own pump to push blood through your veins, your own vaccum system to capture and release air from your lungs, your own cooling and heating system. All the functions of your body are naturally self-sufficient. And then to be given the gift of consciousness. A gift which is unexplainable in the scientific theory of evolution. How is it possible? I think therefore I am. You don't perform miracles. You ARE a miracle. speech given by Rev. Shawn Murray at the Pep Rally for Your Spirit, June 4th, 2002 |
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