The best stories ever heard are contained in the Old Testament (Old Covenant) of the Bible. While those historic tales of the Hebrew nation are astounding and inspiring, they are also true.

Waters parted.
Giants were felled.
The sun stood still at Joshua’s request.
Food appeared on the ground each morning for forty years.
Even an axe head floated in the water.

The miracles performed were so many interventions from the everlasting God - revelations of His character and intentions. They were mercies of deliverance from enemies, healing of diseases and miraculous provisions for His peculiar people. These stories showed God’s power, pity and lovingkindness toward the children under His care.

Notice that God rarely injected Himself into the earth except through His prophets who called to Him, or acted for Him.

Jesus gave high regard to God’s prophets. Especially John the Baptizer, of whom He said, Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Here, Jesus calls John the greatest man who ever lived, up to that time.

Then, He makes a shocking statement: Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he (John). MT 11:11 How could Jesus say of you or me, the smallest or lowest of Christians, that we are greater than the greatest prophet of the Old Testament?

Remember that before Christ, God only intervened here and there, now and again as circumstances warranted, or in response to the cries of His people. That was the old way. But now every new creation in Christ Jesus walks as a temple filled and empowered with the Holy Spirit. The least child of God is literally joined to the same Spirit that brought forth the signs, wonders, and miracles on this or that occasion in times past.

However thrilling were God’s mighty deeds of old, that covenant pales to nothing in light of His new and living covenant. We are inundated, permeated, satiated by the Fountain that gushes inside us. We swill what they merely sipped.

Here and now we are invited to shine perpetually with the glory unparalleled in the universe . . .
We abide in the Spirit of the everlasting God,
Having Jesus’ authority as our cloak of righteousness,
Our dynamo of power.
Wrapped in the inexhaustible love and favor
Of the Ancient of Days - the Father of Lights -
We stand fearless and triumphant.

Having been made one with Jesus Christ, there remains no obstacle, no separation, no limit to our ability to reveal Him in the earth as He is. God may roam freely, doing all the miracles and goodness His heart desires . . . through you and me.