Miracle Moment
 
 
February 21, 2025
Ezra 10:1-44; I Corinthians 6:1-20; Psalm 31:9-18; Proverbs 21:3

 

Paul starts this chapter off by rebuking those in the church that were taking a brother through the court system. He told them that we would be judging angels so how could it be possible to do that if we couldn’t handle disputes among ourselves.

 

“So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those who have no standing in the church to judge? I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who will be able to arbitrate between his brothers? Instead, brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers! Therefore, it is already a total defeat for you that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated? Instead you act unjustly and cheat – and this to brothers! Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God’s kingdom?” (I Corinthians 6:4-9a)

 

This was another area the Corinthians struggled with. They were used to handling problems through litigation. Paul was trying to get them to go to the church first to get some relief. His hope was that the one who had done the cheating or injustice would, as a Christian, repent and make restitution to the one done wrong. If that didn’t work, then he felt that the one sinned against should forgive and move on. He was using this as a teaching moment concerning turning the other cheek. (Luke 6:29) He appealed to their sense of family saying that we should have enough maturity and Holy Spirit conviction to handle things on our own without involving unbelievers. Paul considered going to court and suing one another an embarrassment to God. Instead of being a good witness of God’s power to change a life, they appeared to be no different than the unsaved. To encourage the wrong doer to repent he led into the next scripture –

 

“Do not be deceived: no sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom. Some of you were like this; but you were washed, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (V9b-11)

 

Paul reminded them they had all been like the above people in some way, but since they had been washed in the blood of Jesus and justified by His name and had the Holy Spirit then there was no reason for them to continue living like that.

 

“Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body.” (V19-29)

 

Bottom line, Jesus paid a dear price for us. We truly are not our own, we owe Him everything and He is simply trying to teach us a better way. Won’t you challenge yourself to take the high road and live up to the standard of His name?

 

PRAYER:

Lord, I ask You to forgive me for ever being an embarrassment to Your name. I love You and thank You for all of the patience You have shown me. I pray to be the bigger person in conflict and to operate in the principles You have set forth for Your people. I pray that as I do, then You will receive all the glory for my good witness. 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!