Miracle Moment
 
 
February 12, 2025
II Chronicles 30:1-31:21; Romans 15:1-22; Psalm 25:1-15; Proverbs 20:13-15



“The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered…A slacker’s craving will kill him because his hands refuse to work. He is filled with craving all day long, but the righteous give and don’t hold back.” (Proverbs 21:13, 25-26)

 

Another case of reaping what you sow. No matter what station of life we find ourselves in we must always be generous to those who are trying but are without. We never know what life holds; we may be on the other end of need one day. The Word does make a distinction between those who are lazy and those who are just out and out poor. The one is making an effort while the other doesn’t even try to support himself. I know our economy is hard right now and please know that I am not trying to make anyone feel bad. If you are doing your best, then God knows your heart and your situation.

 

Before I met Christ, I was an addict that chased drugs and alcohol all evening and then slept a good part of the day. There is no way I could maintain steady employment. I had priorities you know. A job would’ve messed up my party life. So instead, I’d make a few dollars here and there to pay my low utility bill (didn’t have air conditioning or heat), ate at my mother’s, and did without a lot of things.

 

I didn’t have government assistance at the time, but I wasn’t getting anywhere in life. If a need arose, I had to depend on family to get me through and that’s okay if you’re in a pinch or have extenuating circumstances, but I wasn’t. I just flat out didn’t want to work so I did what I wanted to do and EXPECTED others to take care of me. Wrong mentality. No one owed me anything! I was so lost, I lacked purpose. Now that I’m saved, I teach people to work. Hard work fulfills something within us. Whether it is manual labor or using your noggin’ nothing makes you feel better than accomplishing a task.

 

Everyone must work. It’s not fair for someone to lay around all day and expect people to take care of them. That’s part of why we have so many problems today. A lot of people have gotten off kilter and don’t know how to take care of themselves anymore. There’s a story about some seagulls on the coast that had been hand-fed fish for a season. When they were no longer being fed, they began to die. It seems that after a while they forgot how to hunt for their own food. So, it is with us.

 

A social program may be a wonderful help when used properly, on occasion when we are in need, but when we build our lives around it, we become helpless and dependent on the government. Which in turn takes our eyes off of God as our provider and can possibly cause us to get into sin. For instance, I’ve known people who wouldn’t get married because they made more money from the government staying single and living together.

 

God wants us dependent on Him. Part of that dependency is met for the working poor when all of God’s people tithe and give gifts so as to take care of those who are in need. Years back, before all of the social programs were initiated, God’s people did take care of one another. We need to get back to that. Most hard-working people won’t take advantage either. They want to make their own way. But there are some who make a living by going church to church to get their bills paid and extra food. It makes it difficult on the churches when most have limited funding. Anyway, bottom line, we need to be willing to sing for our supper, give help to those in need and stop supporting those who refuse to do their part. Pray for them and entrust them to God. He uses all things in life to open our eyes and to draw us unto Himself. He is faithful.

 

PRAYER:

Father, I pray for everyone who is struggling to make ends meet. I ask that somehow, someway You will intervene and provide. I pray You will help your people to get back to their roots of generosity and faithfulness to You and each other. When hard times come, I pray we will do our best to be there for one another in whatever capacity we are able. Lord, help us to keep our eyes on You, teach us to work hard and to live within our means. 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!