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Scripture
As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. Mark 11:20

The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, which represented the house of Levi, had not only sprouted but had budded, blossomed and produced almonds. Numbers 17:8

Observation
If we are to pray with faith for the miraculous, what is supernatural must become almost natural to our thinking. There is a sense when we pray for healing that we are asking for something so far beyond the norm that we can’t conceive it. But we need to open our minds to let the superantural seem natural to us. That is where faith is born. Here’s what I do to increase my faith.

I close my eyes and I see a row of sticks laying in the dark in the presence of God. One of them is Aaron’s rod. There are no roots to draw moisture. There is no soil to make things grow. There is no water to be drawn up as sap. There is no sunlight to begin photosynthesis. But the atmosphere of God’s house is heavy with a humidity without moisture and a warmth without sunlight. Richer than the nurturing environment of a greenhouse, it is God’s Spirit caressing the lifeless dead stick laying on the ground. The atmosphere around that dead wood works without roots, soil, water or light. Life emerges from the centre of the rod. Buds, leaves, flowers, and fruit emerge. This is the atmosphere of heaven bringing life where there was none before. It is all naturally supernatural.

When we pray for the sick or we lay lifeless things in the presence of God, this is the same restorative power that is at work in them. The supernatural seems almost natural with faith in our hearts.

I close my eyes again and see Jesus, the Creator of all, talking to a tree as if it were human. With one sentence that tree gave up the will to live and was dead before the sun was up. In the spring time when life was on the move and in a tree that for decades had lived death suddenly came. What power there is in the word of Christ. His word can drain life or restore it. It is nice to know that Jesus took out his anger on trees rather than people. Again what is supernatural seems almost natural if we look at it with faith.

Application
Old timers will speak about “bathing in prayer” the requests that they bring to the Lord. I should have a sense as I pray for the sick or the impossible, that I am immersing these lifeless things into the miracle-grow of the Lord. The same life-giving power that rose Christ from the dead is at work within me and the things I pray for.

Prayer
Father, give me the courage to lay lifeless things in the darkroom before you that they may live. Give me the faith that the obstacles in the way can be shriveled with one word from you. Let my prayers be naturally supernatural. Amen.