Signs and Wonders Win the Lost
Jesus promises to equip us with signs and wonders. “In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” After He rises from the dead He commands them in Acts 1:8, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you: you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Peter brings clarity to who this gift of the Holy Spirit is for in Acts 2:39: “For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” The Word of God is clear: He gives to us the power of His Spirit to work miracles to win the lost.
The Holy Spirit is intentionally seeking people (see 2 Chron. 16:9a) like ourselves through whom can flow a display of His mighty, supernatural wonders to the world, so that they may know that Jesus Christ is Lord. Knowing this, we ought to make ourselves highly visible to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to move through us with miraculous signs and wonders for His glory.
He realizes the limits in our natural strength, but He never intends for us to do His bidding in our own strength. In fact, He says in Zechariah 4:6, “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit.” We read in Luke 5: 1-11 how Jesus teaches Simon this very lesson. In the New American Standard Bible, Jesus says to Simon in verse 4, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” And in verse 5 we see how Simon replies to the Lord’s bidding:”Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” By the power of their natural strength their nets are empty. But this time Jesus goes with them and He instructs them to go out into the deep waters and cast their nets.
In this portion of Scriptures Jesus teaches us how to effectively win the lost. First, He tells us to try it again. Let’s go out into the world again. And this time with Him onboard we are to launch out into the deep things of the Spirit, cast our spiritual nets and activate the supernatural power of His Spirit. When we evangelize the lost His way, according to the great commission, we will supernaturally draw in an abundant catch. Our nets will be so full that they will bulge and be on the brink of breaking with souls for Jesus. Isaiah 60:5 says that the abundance of the sea will be turned to us. This is the inheritance that we are promised in Psalm 2:8, the Nations.
Time and time again, I have seen the eternal results of supernatural signs and wonders; I have seen how just one person’s miracle can win countless others to the Lord Jesus Christ. I ministered divine healing to a young boy in Tanzania who could not walk, and he was miraculously delivered and healed. Because of this amazing wonder the people in his village and surrounding villages came to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They said they saw the finger of God. Moving in the power of the Holy Spirit is the smart way to evangelize. And apparently from the point of the Scriptures, it is God’s way.
Becky Dvorak is a prophetic healing evangelist and the Destiny Image author of DARE to Believe, Greater Than Magic and, soon to be released, The Healing Creed. Visit her at authorbeckydvorak.com.
