01/09/2026
Why don't we see many miracles take place in the West today?
Do miracles still happen amongst us?
Recently, my family saw a miracle take place when someone close to us should have died. He was clinically dead for over 20 minutes with no oxygen. Over the phone we were commanding his soul to get back in his body and for him to live and not die.
The surgeon that night at the hospital told me, "If he survives, he will be a vegetable at best, and the only thing that saved him and will save him is a miracle" (The surgeon's words).
I told the surgeon he was speaking to the right person because I know someone who works miracles.
A few days later he woke up and tried to pull his breathing tube out.
He is alive now, not a vegetable, and fully functional.
We mixed our faith with medicine and action.
Miracles after all are faith in action.
I know they happen and take place, I've seen many around the world, including in the USA and the UK.
I was once "summoned" to a hospital room in Ocoee with a man dying of brain and lung tumors. I stood there and preached to his family and led them all to the Lord.
I then laid hands on him and commanded the tumors to go.
A year later as I was walking down the street in downtown Winter Garden I literally bumped into him. He told me how God had healed him, and how he and his family were all in Church.
He told me the next day after we had prayed he had new scans done and the tumors had all massively shrunk.
Within a week they were all completely gone.
The answers to my first two questions are simple... God still does miracles today, including in America and the UK.
They just aren't as rampant as in other parts of the world.
With stories like this in mind why is the Western Church so against miracles? Why are there so many cessationists in our midst?
And why does our experience or lack of it shape so much of what we believe?
Perhaps if we actually obeyed the great commission and went to the uttermost parts of the earth we would be encouraged by the miracles we see take place there.
I mean, if we never pray for the sick we'll never see them recover.
If we never go and at least try to do what Jesus did we will never get the results that Jesus got.
If we don't "Go into all the world and preach..." we won't see the things God said we'd see when we go.
The Church in the West that are against miracles are against them because it reveals our lack of faith, a presence of unbelief, or inadequate preaching that fails to proclaim the “whole counsel” of God.
This is the main cause miracles aren’t seen as much in the West as they are in the rest of the world.
And because of this we've had to change our belief system in order to justify our experiences.
We would do well to heed the words of Jesus in John 20:29 where He tells doubting Thomas, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
We don't necessarily believe because we see, but we see because we believe. The belief comes first, not the seeing.
Our experiences don't dictate our doctrine, although they do help shape it.
But what comes first? The doctrine, or the belief?
Before I knew doctrine I knew Jesus saves.
And I knew He heals.
My experiences revealed a deeper truth found in Scripture, however, my experiences must align with Scripture.
Miracles reveal the truth found in Scripture.
No miracles... no true preaching of the Scriptures!
Miracles aren’t just for Africa and Asia. They follow wherever His truth is proclaimed.
Miracles follow the preaching of the Gospel (Mark 16:20).
If they don’t then it’s caused by one of three things…
1. The “Gospel” being preached is not THE Gospel.
If it doesn’t call sinners to repentance or surrender then it’s only a part of the Gospel, not the full message.
His Gospel is so thunderous even sickness flees at its proclamation.
Demons must leave at the mention of the name of Jesus when He's preached with authority!
2. A lack of faith.
People choose not to believe the Gospel, and even if they see a miracle they reason why it could not have possibly been the God presented to us in the pages of the Bible. They tend to love the darkness greater than the light.
They simply don't believe, and therefore don't receive.
3. A spirit, or presence, of unbelief.
This is a demonic stronghold that robs the hearer of the seed of God’s word that was just preached to them.
Whereas a lack of faith can be built upon since there's nothing there, and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17), a presence of unbelief needs to be cast out BEFORE the hearer can hear or see, they are not the same thing.
(For the sake of space I won't get into timing or God's overarching will).
In short, we must banish unbelief from the Western Church, preach the whole counsel of God boldly and without apology, choose to believe His Word over what our physical eyes see or our physical ears hear, and in faith we will see miracles take place.
Let's close with the words of Jesus in Mark 5:36 where He tells the ruler of the local synagogue, "Do not be afraid; only believe."
Have a blessed weekend you wonderful people!
