Read: Acts 5:12-16

Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles (v. 12)

Do miracles still happen? One school of thought is that even if miracles happened in Bible times, they don’t happen anymore. But if miracles cannot happen now, how is it they happened then? Has the fundamental reality of the universe somehow changed? What power today prevents God from intervening in human affairs in amazing, extraordinary ways?

Another line of thought is that miracles ceased when Jesus left the earth. But that’s not true. Long after Jesus left, “many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles” (Acts 5:12). Paul healed a man crippled from birth. Peter raised Dorcas from the dead. Jesus had assured the disciples that “whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do” (John 14:12).

And don’t forget, there were miracles long before Jesus was born: Naaman was cured of leprosy, Elisha raised a child from the dead, the Red Sea parted. If there were miracles before Jesus and after Jesus, why would we assume that there cannot be miracles today?

God is still God. If we believe that God spoke the universe into existence and raised Jesus from the dead, and if we believe the God of Scripture is the same God who lives and reigns today, then yes, I believe miracles can still happen. “For nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).

Prayer:

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.

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