Miracles!

when i think of miracles in the bible, i usually think of what Jesus did. now Jesus is pretty cool, he healed the blind, made the lame to walk, cast out demons and all those nasty things, raised the dead. And the biggest and coolest thing of all, overcame death and sin and all that. all that is really awesome!

but God was doing cool stuff all the way through the bible.

Balaams donkey is cool. a mans donkey saves his life! and he talks! (God was doing this before donkey and shrek). it's in the bible Numbers 22.21-39.

creation is rather mind blowing. who else can create the whole universe other than God.

God parted the red sea for the Israelites to escape, (Exodus 14.19-31) and then he rained food on them while they wondered around in the desert!

the prophet Elijah is great. i love what he does, he's even called a trouble maker. it stopped raining for 3 years and started again only after a competition between 450 prophets of Baal (a god dude) and 1 prophet of the Lord, Elijah. these prophets of Baal were to sacrifice a bull to him, but not light it themselves, Baal was to do that. They started at sundown and continued...

27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. "Shout louder!" he said. "Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened." 28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. Exodus 18

after this Elijah built an alter to the Lord, put a bull on it and then got these silly prophets of Baal to cover it in so much water that the trenches around it were filled. then he called to God and fire came down and burned it all up. it was all gone, water and all.

well, after God had been proved rather powerful the rains came and the power of the Lord allowed Elijah to run faster than a horse! how cool.

God does lots of miracles through the bible. he's continually handing huge armies over to His people who without Him wouldn't be capable of such a thing. He heals people and raises them from the dead, provides for His people from nothing, protects them from lions and fire and all sorts of things... lots of cool stuff! who ever said the bible is boring

God did all this a long time ago and i believe that He can and still does, do it today!