Miracle Moment

 

July 26, 2026

Genesis 26:17-27:46; Matthew 9:1-17; Psalm 10:16-18; Proverbs 3:9-10

“Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it. So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, ‘Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,’Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’ Now, therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you. Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves. Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death.’

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, ‘Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man. Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.’ But his mother said to him, ‘Let your curse be on me, my son, only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.'” (Genesis 27:5-13)

His son, her son. That’s pretty messed up. There’s a whole lot of dysfunction and codependency goin’ on. It’s apparent this wasn’t the first deceptive thing done in this house. That should help some of us to see there’s hope for us!

How could such a tremendous woman of faith turn out to be so manipulative. When we operate in manipulation it shows a total lack of faith in God. It is selfish and treats people as pawns to be used to further our goals. What we are literally saying is that it doesn’t matter how it affects others the means meet the end. How prideful we are to think that God isn’t moving fast enough or doesn’t know what is best for this particular situation. Surely we know better than God…

Now the Lord has a divine plan and it will be accomplished one way or another. In this particular scripture the Lord actually had to move above the actions of his people to keep his godly seed line going. God overrode obstinate favoritism (dad), deceit (mom), a free will son looking to do his own thing (Esau), and an ambitious son who was willing to stoop low to position himself. If everyone would have trusted God and allowed Him to work the situation out it would have turned out according to His plan with everyone still intact, but like we all have, Rebekah chose to “help” God. Her way tore apart an already fragile family.

How can we prevent this from happening in our own lives? By not focusing on ourselves and our desires and allowing God to be God without fear of the outcome. We must trust He has everyone’s best interest at heart and that His plan is good. It is freeing to trust God. We don’t have to plot everything out and do maneuvers to make things happen that probably shouldn’t. We always miss God’s best when we feel compelled to manipulate circumstances and we will pay a price for our lack of faith. Simply put: Let go and let God.

PRAYER:

Lord, sometimes I find myself in a tight spot and I forget You are working on my behalf. Help me to be an honest person led by Your Holy Spirit and yielded to Your plan. I admit my ignorance Lord, I do not see the whole picture like You do so I ask you to forgive me for being manipulative. I give myself to You and ask You to break that pride and self sufficiency off of me, as painlessly as possible please 🙂 I pray the same for all of my brothers and sisters in Christ that we might bring You 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!