Miracles All around Us

Posted by: Patrick Nugent, Business Development Associate | Monday, June 9th, 2025 (12:00am)

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.—Psalm 37:4

Since March of 2023, I have been training to become an ordained pastor, and one of the greatest blessings I’ve had as part of that process is being the pastor for my church’s young adult ministry. Every week we have 50 or so young adults who gather to share a meal, worship, and learn more about being a disciple of Jesus. Many of them are new believers or open to faith but who have yet to make any kind of commitment. When we meet, naturally I get asked a lot of questions. These, or some version of these, are what I get asked more than anything else by people who are exploring:

Can Jesus really heal me?   

Can I really be forgiven and loved despite what I’ve done and the problems I have? 

My heart knows there’s more to this life, but I need to see proof of Jesus. How can he still work miracles? 

Jesus gave sight to the blind, made crippled people walk, cast out demons, and so much more, but that was 2000 years ago. Can he still work a miracle today?

Before I started walking with Jesus and even since, I have wondered about the answer to some of these myself. Can Jesus still work miracles?  

YES!   

Unequivocally, the answer is yes to these questions that are deep in our hearts. Jesus is alive and performing miracles every day, every hour, every minute, every second. I’ve seen him heal addicts, forgive murderers, break generational disfunction, bring hope when all seems lost, and so many more, just in the last five years!   

I suppose you’re wondering, just as I was, how do we ask him to perform a miracle for us? The simple answer is this: pray.   

Our prayers are a way for God to reveal His will for us, and for us to reveal our desires to Him. Scripture tells us that God’s will is what is going to happen, but when we take delight in the Lord it is his great pleasure to give us the desires of our hearts (Psalms 37:4).

When you pray, surrender your heart to Him. Lay it all out. What do you want? What do you need? What are your deepest desires? Invite the Holy Spirit to dwell within you; you won’t be disappointed. While God doesn’t always answer our prayers with an overtly supernatural intervention—in fact, sometimes the answer is not at all what we were wanting or expecting—how He works in our lives will never cease to amaze. He knows what we need better than we do, and that is a miracle all on its own.

So never stop praying for God to help you overcome what may seem like insurmountable odds. Nagging doubt, a path littered with sin, overwhelming grief...God can and will help you through all of it. Never once have I heard someone say, “I wish I hadn’t surrendered my life to God.” I certainly will never say it. And I guarantee you won’t either.