Miracle Moment
 
 
December 24, 2024
I Kings 9:1-10:29; Acts 8:14-40; Psalm 130:1-8; Proverbs 17:2-3

 

“A crucible is for silver and a smelter for gold, but the Lord is a tester of hearts.” (Proverbs 17:3)

 

It’s easy to determine the worth of silver and gold, all you have to do is put the heat on them to remove the impurities and you can set the standard of its value. It is not so easy to see this with human beings. It is impossible to judge a man because we have no idea what runs through his mind, we don’t know where he has been, what he has experienced and what life challenges have formed him. Only God knows. And only He has the ability to test that person to see what rises up.

 

The Bible shows us the fruit to look for in a person’s life, which is to see if they are producing actions that correlate with their confessions, but beyond that we can’t determine that person’s eternal fate. People can make estimates and that sort of thing, just talking wise, like people do, but their destiny lies in the hands of God.

 

I met a Christian woman one time that was as mean as you please. Wouldn’t cut you any slack and almost seemed to go after you, to make you squirm you know. Come to find out, she grew up in such abuse and mental neglect that it was amazing she was able to function. She was warped by the circumstances of her life, however, she was a work in progress. People in her inner circle said that she was a wonderful person and that God had already brought her so far.

 

That’s how all of us are when we come to Christ, a work in progress. So hold your judgments and worry about yourself because you don’t know where a person is in their spiritual walk. Think mercy, think grace, think assistance. They don’t need another person talking about them or telling them what a lousy person they are. It is God’s prerogative to prune the tree or cut it down (John 15:2). Let God be God!

 

PRAYER:

Lord, I submit my life to You and I ask You to help me stay focused on my own growth and short-comings. Teach me how to build people up, to help them become what You have created them to be. I want to be a blessing, not an inspector or a judge. That is way over my head. Forgive me for doing it in time past. I love You and I appreciate the long-suffering and grace You have extended to me, and I pray to do the same for others. 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!