This might sound like a strange article title but I can assure you that as you read it, you will not consider it strange but inspiring. It might even help you to re-consider your way of doing things.
John 21: 5-6 read then Jesus said to them, children, have you any food? They answered Him, no and He said to them cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some so they cast and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish. What do you think would have happened if they had cast their net on the left side of the boat? They would not have caught any fish that is what would have happened. Their miracle was on the right side of the boat and it was not a small miracle; there was an abundance of fish waiting to be caught.
My point is very simple; sometime we want the miracle but are not willing to do what it will take to get it. We might think that what we are told to do is silly or foolish, we might wonder what others might think about us doing what God has told us to do or we might think that our way is the best way but if the Lord has given us instructions; that is the side that our miracle is on and it is the right side. What we think or what others think is the left side and we will not get our miracle on that side.
In 2nd Kings Chapter five Na'aman was a man of valor, he had favor with the king of Syria but he was a leper. He went to see the prophet Elisha to be healed but when he got to his house, Elisha sent word to him by his messenger saying, go and wash in the Jordan seven times and your flesh shall be restored to you and you shall be clean. Na'aman became furious and went away and said, indeed I said to myself, he will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God and wave his hand over the place and heal the leprosy. Are not the Abanah and the Phar-par, the rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? Notice how Na'aman thought his way was better than the way of the man of God so he went away in a rage and possibly would have remained a leper if it had not been for his servant who said to him, my father, if the prophet had told you to do something great would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you wash and be clean. Na'aman listened to his servant and went and dipped himself in the Jordan River seven times and his flesh was restored as a little child and he was clean. If Na'aman had gone to anyone of those other rivers (which was the left side) he would have went down a leper and rose up a leper because his miracle was not in those rivers.
It could be possible that we are not getting miracles in our lives because we are in disobedience to what God has told us to do. It might have sound foolish to us but we need to know that God's ways are not like our ways. He takes the foolish things to confound the wise.
It takes faith to do the abnormal and most of the time our miracles lies in the abnormal things of the world but it is the right side because it has been ordained by God so that we would not be able to claim credit for it.
If we want to receive miracles and miracles in abundance; then we should look in the right place for it and not consider what it might look like to others because what others think is wrong and if we listen to them instead of God; we will be on the left side and not the right side. Persuasiveness by others is the downfall of many.
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