FAITH AND SOCCER

 In soccer if you are 0-1 down and its last minute, and you are want your team to score 2 goals to equalise and win then you are hoping for a miracle. It means that you have to work extra harder in search of the 2 goals in one minute. Hoping for a miracle does not mean sitting back and hoping that you will find the ball at the back of the net, it means working extra-harder. Winners and losers are made right there, hence the warning-last minute is dangerous. In  life when we hope for a miracle we have to work extra harder to achieve the results as if all depends upon us. If you hope to just find the ball at the back of the net, then you are hoping for a magic

not a miracle. Jesus left us a ministry-"Go ye therefore" not magic, but 21st century Christians have abandoned ministry for magic. The signs according to Mark 16 follow those who work-who are going therefore with Christ's ministry not those concentrating on magic. Magic is not a miracle. Its only God who performs a miracle, what the

so called prophets and pastors are performing is magic. Nothing wrong with hoping for a miracle it means you have faith in God whilst its totally wrong to hope for a magic-or to use miracles to distinguish the true and false God-even the evil one has power to perform miracles as well Revelation 13.

Revelation13: 13-14  And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 

Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

"Satan, surrounded by evil angels, and claiming to be God, will work miracles of all kinds to deceive, if possible, the very elect. God's people will not find their safety in working miracles, for Satan would counterfeit any miracle that might be worked. God's tried and tested people will find their power in the sign spoken of in Exodus 31:12-18. They are to take their stand on the living Word—“It is written.” This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely. Those who have broken their covenant with God will in that day be without hope and without God in the world."Selected Messeges