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  A GOD OF MIRACLES A YEAR OF MIRACLES “He is your God, the one who is worthy of your praise, the one who has done mighty miracles that you yourselves have seen.” Deuteronomy 10:21
We on the New Mexico district have seen our God do miracles this year. He is a God of miracles. That will be the theme of my report to the district assembly June 25-26, 2010. This will be the 97th district assembly for the NM district. We are only 3 years away from our centennial celebration as a district. Our heavenly Father has been working miracles on our district for nearly one hundred years. Praise His holy name. He especially has worked in miraculous ways this assembly year. In a book I recently finished pastor Mark Batterson wrote, “All of us love miracles. We just don’t like being in situations where we need one. But that is a prerequisite. You will never experience the power of God until you put yourself into a situation that necessitates it.” He went on to say, “Without His power at work with us we cannot accomplish His purposes. We need to rediscover the energy that empowered them (the disciples) to do miracles in Jesus’ name. There are rare moments when we experience God’s supernatural power and it keeps us believing for miracles.” The miracles on our district have been numerous. Let me mention just a few of them: Layman George Hutchison raised from the dead, the healing of Helen Fisher from cancer, the financial miracle of Bonita Park’s indebtedness being cut in less than half from 1.2 million to $480,000, the $360,000 indebtedness of El Paso Trinity Church being totally eliminated. Following are the miracles that several pastors wrote me about from their church this year: Tom Farley writes, “Without doubt our greatest miracle has been in the area of finances. In a time of economical disaster nationwide, we too were affected. We met our local monthly budgets only four out of eight months...operating in the red eight months of this year. The miracle is that of the four months we did meet budget, we also received enough to compensate for the eight month shortfall...allowing our annual local, district and global budgets to be met and exceeded for the fourth consecutive year. Only God can move people to this type of sacrificial giving.” Steve and Jennifer Sanchez write, “Thank you for the opportunity to share God’s incredible work in the lives of people here at Roswell First. He has certainly changed the lives of many—praise His name! The miracle of God I’d like to share with you is watching those who have never done so before, lead others to Christ and begin discipling them in Christianity. It is so exhilarating to watch those who were unsaved, but are now controlled by the Holy Spirit, maturing in prayer and discipling others for Christ’s sake. The miracle of Jesus’ duplication and multiplication is happening here in Roswell.” Mike Vincent writes, “We began a Native American ministry worship service on Sunday evenings. Presently those who are attending are Navajo. The average attendance is about 20. Emerson and Mil Bitsui are leading this service. The vision of the group is to become a church on the South West Native American district. PTL.” Rick Hutchison writes, “We have a gal in our congregation who has macular degeneration. She has been going to see an eye doctor in Las Cruces and about 6 months ago, her vision began to improve. Over the course of about 4 months, the vision improved and the doctor made the statement to her that there was no explanation for it. We know it was God’s touch! There is also the miracle that Pat Ours has been able to continue to work despite the cancer. The doctors told her that they don’t understand how she can be so active and most of the time to this point is taking mostly Tylenol for pain and not much more. The real miracle is to come because we continue to believe God is healing!” Larry Scott writes, “The single miraculous event that stands out in my mind when God intervened was with our parsonage “placement permit” and “impact fees” for Pajarito Mesa Community Church. We were facing a fine of $7,000 or days in jail because our general contractor failed to get the permit he was supposed to. In a meeting of the appropriate county officials it was decided that there would be no impact fees levied on us and the house placement was authorized.” Jon Stout writes, “The miracle I’d like to share concerns the Neal family, people who just started attending Montwood in March. The very first Sunday they came Bruce shared a prayer request to pray for his wife, who had been diagnosed with cancer. On their second Sunday, we had his wife Charity come forward for anointing and prayer as nearly the entire congregation surrounded her. It was one of those times I knew God had planned something incredible and my prayer was one of real expectation that God would be God. When Charity went back for another doctor’s appointment to go over some tests, they could not find any cancer. Zip! Nada! Nothing! What a wonderful God-moment. I was so happy for the Mom, Dad and all the kids, and so grateful to be a part of what the Lord desired to do in Charity’s life that would bless her, the family and glorify His Name.” As you might imagine, I get so thrilled hearing about the miracles that God has done and is doing on our district. There are more miracles on the way. Keep your mind set on the reality that God is a miracle-working God. Start talking to your mountain about how big our God is! J Fred Huff
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