The spiritual gift of miracles is similar to healing but not limited to healing. Soon after Jesus ascended to heaven, miracles were performed by the apostles as credentials of whom the served and where they got their power from (Acts 8:13; 14:8-10; 19:11-12; Romans 15:19; Hebrews 2:4). Most scholars today would call healings, tongues and miracles "infancy gifts" professing that they were only for the early church, I and many others disagree.
The spiritual gift of miracles can also be used for exercising demons (Acts 19:12), inducing physical ability (Acts 13:11), or even death (Acts 5:5;9). It is easy to understand how the miracles in the first paragraph would be encouraging to the church, but what about the ones like death and potential blindness? In Acts 13:1-11, Paul temporarily blinds a demonic magician trying to divert a high ranking Roman officer from hearing the gospel, so Paul straight blinded this magic man and the Roman officer was saved. What's not encouraging about that!!!
Like I said in yesterday's post about healing, these type of gifts must be sought out, expected from the Father and not doubted. If we want to see God do big things, let's allow Him to do them!!!
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