Miracle Moment
 
 
July 17, 2024
Genesis 5-7; Matthew 3:7-4:11; Psalm 3:1-8; Proverbs 1:10-19

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, ‘If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.’ But He answered and said, ‘It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”

Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: He shall give His angels charge over you. In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ Jesus said to him, ‘It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’

Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, ‘All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.” (Matthew 4:1-11)

Everyone will go through a season of testing, and it will usually come at your weakest moment. Will we stand or will we crumble? Our success has a lot, excuse me, it has everything to do with the intimate level of fellowship we have with the Lord and how well we know His Word.

In the first temptation Satan thought he had Jesus with the food thing. I love how it says “after 40 days and nights He was hungry.” Ha, I always thought that was funny because I’m usually hungry after 40 minutes of a declared fast, you feel me. Anyway, Jesus had the revelation that God’s Word is more important and more life giving than physical food. If you have the Word stored in your heart you can make it through anything. Things of this world will never be able to solve a spiritual problem.

Job said it like this: “But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I will come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; His way have I kept, and not turned aside. I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” (Job 23:10-12) Anybody out there think that Job might know what he’s talking about? Job, like Jesus, gave us the key to his survival and sanity. Even though he couldn’t “feel” God and didn’t understand why he was going through his trial he clung to God, continuing to seek Him and held fast to His Word. God’s Word is our spiritual food.

The next thing Satan hit on was to try and make Jesus force God’s hand. We never force God’s hand. Go ahead and jump off a cliff and tell God to catch you if He loves you. Splat. God loves you and He doesn’t have to be put on the spot to show it. This is God’s world, not ours. We fit into His sovereign plan; He doesn’t bend to fit ours. Again, Jesus used the Word and Satan did not dispute it. The Word is the only thing that will block Satan.

The last thing Satan did was to tempt Jesus with control and power. We must know that everything belongs to our Daddy. Don’t be deceived, Satan cannot give us what is already ours. Besides anything the devil gives you always has a string attached. If you’re into being a puppet then you do you. I’d rather be a free man in Christ and get my goods later. Jesus threw that Word on Him one last time. The oppression broke because Jesus stood His ground through the Word. The Father sent angels to minister to Him and He will do the same for us as well.

PRAYER:

Lord, help me to stand fast when I am going through times of trials and temptation. I pray to have Your Word buried deep within my spirit so the Holy Ghost can bring it up when I need it. I love You Lord and I will stand for Your glory. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
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Pastor Ricky and Jeannie Sinclair

From Ricky’s book, Miracle-at-Large, Ricky became an evangelist spreading the word of God through his testimony. He was a fire. He would go in, light it up and encourage people in the places he shared his testimony. When you’re an evangelist, you breeze in and breeze out, and you don’t have to worry about hurting anyone. But that was the start of the ministry. His evangelism was birthed from the book that came out, which gave him a platform. People started following us and we gave them resources and suggested churches to get plugged into. However, we developed a following of people that would not go anywhere else but honestly, it was not in our heart to start a physical church.

With us not wanting to turn people away, we started meeting together as a prayer group and started having a little teaching within the prayer group. But then, we were bursting out of our living room. Our house could squeeze 30 to 60 people in it butt here was not much you can do in it anymore with people wall-to-wall. We had John Mayers and his wife leading worship through singing and playing a guitar. We had all the elements for church, which led to people pressing us to start a church and they wouldn’t go anywhere else. With us growing but not ready for a church, we had to look into bigger spaces and started with one conference room in a hotel. However, we eventually consumed every conference room in the hotel as we continued to grow.

As we grew, we saw a lot of gifts and opportunities. As a result, we wanted to start a physical church where everybody was included and invited. Even if they seemed like they didn’t fit into a“traditional church”, they would be accepted at our church. I sought God and God spoke to my heart and said, “I want you to start a church and I’m going to send everybody that is like you to the church. You will have a church and they’ll be other churches, too. There will be people that I send to those churches, but you will become your own individual church with the people that I’m creating and building for your church.” That’s how we became our own identity and individual church with our own personality that God established because God put this in Ricky’s heart. Everyone from various backgrounds would be welcomed as family and they would have a place for them to go to church in a family… MiraclePlace Church.

Here we are still standing today with the same message from 2001: Everyone from various backgrounds are welcomed as family and this is a place for you to actually go to church in a family… Miracle Place Church in Baker, LA. Come as you are, You Belong Here!