I’ve been reading a book entitled, “Unsolved Miracles,” and what I learned from this book is that thousands and multiplied thousands of miracles happen everyday. Miracles that we take for granted and don’t even consider as a miracle. As I’ve said many times before, we expect miracles to all be like God sending fire down from Heaven and he has. He can and He will, if there’s a glorified purpose for it. Not just to gratify us with a spectacular fire works show. If it’s not a biblical style miracle then we often disregard it. Of course many people, and even some that go to church, think that the miracles of the bible are like fairy tales and makes for interesting fictional reading. The humorous fictional story is told that makes a good point about how folks are about miracles. This man was out in the ocean drowning and he prayed, “Oh Lord, save me with your mighty miraculous power! Preform a miracle!” And so the Lord sent a man along in a motor boat to save him and he said, “No! Move along. The Lord will work a miracle/” So, then God sent a helicopter with a guy coming down the cable to save him and he said, “No, no! God will work a miracle!” So, God then sent the coast guard along and he turned them down too. He drowned and got to Heaven and He asked, “God, why didn’t you work a miracle and save me?” God said, “I tried. I sent a motor boat, a helicopter and the coast guard and you turned them all down.” Miracles come in all sizes and types. There’s little miracles, medium size miracles and big, big miracles like the parting of the Red Sea. The little miracles that come in bunches mostly get written off just as coincidence. The medium size ones usually the credit for them goes to the medical profession, to science or to technology. Then the big, big ones get written off as just fairy tales. So there you go! If mankind just took one fourth of the effort to prove that God is real as they do trying to prove He ain’t, then they would be alright. Amen! Miracles and more miracles. There’s instant miracles, progressive miracles and delayed miracles. Some happen like an instant cup of coffee. Then some take a while and happen slowly, and then some come later on down the road. Then there;s the semi-explainable miracles and the unexplainable. Except that it was God. There’s the God alone miracles and the co-op miracles, where God works a divine miracle through the hands of man. Of course only God can get credit, because we all were created by Him, all wisdom and knowledge comes from Him and He lets us choose what we do with that knowledge, good or bad, and we can none do nothing without Him. So, no matter what size or type, they’re all still miracles and I praise God for the many, many miracles that He has done in my life and in all our lives. Can you say amen? u JUNE 2026 GLAD TIDINGS 11 GARY TOOLE EXPRESS LOCATION: 1001 N Madison Ave Douglas Ga. In the old Preferred Loan & Tax Bldg Come See Us For Your: Personal Loans - Tax Loans - Filing Taxes LOAN AND TAX SERVICE 912-389-1040 MIRACLES AND MORE MIRACLES Todd Wade - Owner Jasmine Gusman - Douglas Mgr ... phrase. It will show there is more to the picture than we tend to notice. So, this last portion of the verse means, “as well as (and) the one whom he (a liar) resembles in disposition and actions (father) of the same (it).” Basically, he fathered liars. He founded lying. He originated it, thus any liars are his descendents. I found this study of John 8:44 to be potent. I began asking God to search my heart for the liar in me. I wish to cast deception far from me since it is faithlessness. I want my heart full of faith to overflowing. I want to wholly please God. To do so, I must not be found to be a child of the devil, not even for a moment. I pray you will mediate on this teaching. I pray it will be revelation in your spirit man. I pray the manslayer in you who is first out to murder your own spirit man will be cast far from you. I pray we can all walk in Truth, no matter how difficult it may be at times. Sometimes it seems easier to lie, than to deal with other’s reactions to the Truth. Sometimes it is easier to lie, than to have people think badly of us. However, we now know that deceiving is far from pleasing to God. It is very serious. I ask you to go back to the beginning of this article, and reread the verse as a whole. Let it soak into your soul. May God’s grace and mercy go with us all! u ... in the post-resurrection life of Christ. The life he now lives bears the quality of eternity.” William Barclay says, “Eternal Life...is the coming into human life of something of the life of God.” The Translator’s New Testament has this note: “In the New Testament is that kind of life which is given to all true believers in Christ. The word ‘Eternal’ draws attention to the quality of the life not to its duration in a temporal sense.... Translators should be careful to avoid expressions which mean no more than life after death.” You Can Know You Have Eternal Life And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 John 5:11-13 When you get this new life, you get love-life, joy-life, peace-life, healing-life, prosperity-life -- the God-kind of life! This life sets you free from the control of sin and dead religion with its lifting power! Romans 8:2 says, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” The Phillips translation says, “For the new spiritual principle of life in Christ Jesus lifts me out of the old vicious circle of sin and death.” Permission Granted MARK HANKINS MINISTRIES P. O. BOX 12863, Alexandria, LA 71315 318-767-2001 contact@markhankins.org u MARK HANKINS - Con’t THE KING’S HWY - Con’t
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