God Performs A Miracle On 19th Street

It was an exciting night at A Church Without Walls last night, as we witnessed a powerful miracle with our own eyes!  Read on.

There seems to be more and more people on the streets each week. We saw a number of new faces. By God’s grace there have been more and more people coming out to help serve. Last night Aaron, Monique, Jeremy & his brother Josh (from Elizabeth City), Ezekiel & Shannon, Tom & Elisha & Hezekiah, Debbie & Sophia, and Jimmy & I went out to serve the spaghetti dinner that Laura had made to those of us who have no home. Imagine, a hot spaghetti dinner with homemade sauce and garlic bread! Last night A Church Without Walls became ‘home’ for these beautiful people – just as Jesus intended when he commanded us to ‘Love our neighbors as ourselves.’

The spaghetti was gone in a moment… but the night was just beginning. Everyone gathered around Josh, Shannon, and Ezekiel as they began to play music and the rest of us served dessert – homemade brownies. Once everyone had found a place on the curb Jimmy brought a word of encouragement from the Gospel of John, sharing the story of the man who was born blind and when the disciples asked ‘who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?’ Jesus replied ‘neither, but that the glory of God would be revealed to them all’…. including us.

Jimmy shared his testimony and introduced our new friend Ezekiel who brought full circle the teaching with his testimony of his trials and God’s ultimate glory.

God’s power was evident, as one man risked missing his opportunity to have a place to sleep in order to be prayed for, and another took the initiative to ask that we pray as a group… and we did.

Ezekiel, who himself has spent many a night homeless, made an important observation. He said some people look for miracles in their great wealth, their many blessings, or some great and obvious move of God. But it’s a miracle when you’re hungry and someone gives you food, or when you’re thirsty and someone gives you something to drink, or when you are cold and someone gives you something to wear. These are the true miracles that Christ has called each of His children to perform.

We witnessed the miraculous last night as the hungry were fed, the thirsty were given drink, and everyone heard how much God loved them, even in their desperate situation. It was a miracle as lives were changed (including our own) right before our eyes. The love of God was freely displayed, and new hope was brought to those who are struggling to survive.

The cool thing is that miracles are so easy to perform. How difficult is it to make a spaghetti dinner? To purchase a $5 pizza and give it to someone in need? How hard is it to hand a bottle of cold water to someone on a hot day?

The truth is that the miracle that you are to perform today is only a heartbeat away.

What miracle will you share with someone today?

A Church Without Walls exists to encourage, empower, and provide opportunity for the children of God to ‘perform the miracles’ prepared by God in advance for each of them to do.