The parting of the Red Sea. The daily provision of manna in the wilderness. The feeding of the 5,000. The numerous healings from sicknesses and deliverances from demons.

Miracles such as these can be found throughout the Bible, each account revealing a new facet of God we might not have known otherwise. Today God works miracles in the lives of His children to show us who He is, so it’s common to hear Christians say they are praying and believing for a miracle.

However, I’m not sure most people who use the word “miracle” understand the fullness of what they are asking for.

Miracles happen when God supernaturally intervenes in impossible situations.

You may have heard that before. You might be thinking something along the lines of, “This is not new information…” And it’s not. Often revelation isn’t found in new information but rather in deeper information. And right now I am crawling in the trenches of the revelation of miracles. The shallow shore is beyond sight.

Miracles happen when God supernaturally intervenes in impossible situations.

Impossible situations. Who actually, honestly can say they want to be in an impossible situation?

Who wants $0 in their bank account, knowing that bills on automatic withdrawal are coming? Who wants to find out their body is riddled with a painful cancer that has no cure? Who wants a perpetually empty womb while their friends are on their second or third pregnancy? Who wants to witness the death of a loved one?

Logically nobody would desire such situations – not even believers.

But the difference that turns the tides of our hearts is rephrasing those questions with an addendum: what if God led you to these situations?

Look at the previous questions through this new lens.

Who wants to trust God with their finances so He can personally reveal Himself as your provider and meet every need before every deadline? Who wants to have an undeniable and medically-documented testimony that Jesus healed your body and mind without modern science or medicine? Who wants to endure grueling infertility and failed treatments and operations for years so that radical joy and hope can come when God supernaturally brings life to your womb? Who wants to witness and then spread the amazing news that resurrection power still belongs to our God – and that same power lives in us?

Is this life about our comfort (often found in predictability) or God’s glory (often found when we run out of resources and solutions)?

All of these types of situations have precedent in scripture because God loves to show us He is faithful. Often He reveals Himself through His names.

Provision: Abraham found Jehovah-Jireh when God provided a ram for the sacrifice. Healing: The woman with the issue of blood discovered Jehovah-Rapha when she touched the hem of Jesus’s garment in faith that He would heal her. Promise: Sarah’s eyes were opened to the God who sees His children (El Roi, as revealed to her handmaiden Hagar) when she became pregnant at an age way past child-bearing years. Resurrection: Mary and Martha realized Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the Living God, when their brother Lazarus was literally raised from the dead.

What has God personally revealed to you about who He is? What testimony do you have enough faith for? Will you trust Him in your impossible situations?

Nobody wants their child to be born blind. But what if you meet a woman in the grocery store who doubts whether God is real, and you get to see joy and peace illuminate her face when you share your testimony that God radically healed your child of blindness? What if she leads her whole family to Jesus because you shared that testimony, because you had that testimony in the first place? How many souls could be snatched out of eternal hell?

What is a miracle worth to you?

One trend I’ve noticed in my own life is that I almost always give up on God right before He intervenes in a miraculous way. I can sense the enemy lurking at the door of my heart, stirring me up to strive and doubt and conceive my own Ishmael.

Yet even though my faith has wavered time and time again, God has remained faithful. And, as has happened countless times in the past, I know God is going to move. I know He is moving. I know He will give me a testimony and an even deeper revelation of who He is – just because that’s the kind of Father He is.

You are not the exception to God’s faithfulness. I am not the exception to God’s faithfulness. What a preposterous idea I used to believe.

He sees you. He hears you. He loves you. He is faithful. And He always comes through to work miracles in impossible situations.