Faith and Miracles
Miracles operate according to sequential order. Miracles occur when we first exercise faith. Faith precedes the miracle. – Vaiangina Sikahema, “A House of Sequential Order,” Ensign (CR) November 2021
Miracles operate according to sequential order. Miracles occur when we first exercise faith. Faith precedes the miracle. – Vaiangina Sikahema, “A House of Sequential Order,” Ensign (CR) November 2021
Miracles, signs, and wonders abound among followers of Jesus Christ today, in your lives and in mine. Miracles are divine acts, manifestations and expressions of God’s limitless power, and an affirmation that He is “the same yesterday, today, and forever.”11 Jesus Christ, who created the seas, can calm them; He who gave sight to the […]
President Spencer W. Kimball taught us with a book by the title Faith Precedes the Miracle. But there is, of course, an increase of faith that should follow the miracle as well. As a result of the many miracles in our lives, we should be more humble and more grateful, more kind and more believing. […]
By unwavering faith, we learn for ourselves that “it is by faith that miracles are wrought.”18 Generally, those miracles will not be physical demonstrations of God’s power—parting of the Red Sea, raising of the dead, breaking down prison walls, or the appearance of heavenly messengers. By design, most miracles are spiritual demonstrations of God’s power—tender […]
Therefore, brothers and sisters, preferred to periodic miracles is having the Holy Ghost as a “constant companion” (see D&C 121:46). Ever to be remembered, however, is that the Holy Ghost, while a Comforter, is not an intruder! – Neal A. Maxwell, “Lessons from Laman and Lemuel,” Ensign (CR) November 1999