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How to Recognize and Be One of Life’s Small Miracles

by Chautona Havig · 5 Comments

There’s this line in the movie, While You Were Sleeping. Sandra Bullock is talking to Peter Gallagher about saving people (and squirrels) and when Gallagher says he has never had a chance to be a real hero, she comments that he gives up his seat on the train every day. Peter says, “Well… but that’s not heroic.”

Bullock says something totally beautiful right there. She says, “It is to the person who sits in it.”

Honestly, that’s the only time in the entire movie that I see something in Peter that I actually liked. He comes off as a self-centered, shallow person. But that one thing there showed me that there was more to him than he let on.

Sometimes I feel like God is like that—in our eyes, anyway. We put Him in this Sunday School box where all things like miracles are contained in the Bible only, and are big, tremendous things like parting the Red Sea or healing blind people—raising the dead.

But Delores Liesner has written a devotional of thirty-one little miracles that God has allowed her to be a part of, and when I saw that review copies were available, I asked for one.

How to Recognize and Be One of Life's Small Miracles

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How to Recognize and Be One of Life’s Small Miracles

Delores Liesner tells her stories in Be the Miracle in a conversational style that makes you feel as if she’s in the room sharing them. You can almost feel her excitement bubbling off the page as she recounts how the Lord has used her to bless people over the years.

She asserts that this can and should be the norm for every Christian and explains how one is to be that small miracle for someone else. I recognized those small moments of blessing as I read story after story of how some small obedience on her part proved to bless someone—even herself sometimes.

So, how does one do that? Ms. Liesner insists it takes just three things:

  • Pray
  • Listen
  • Obey

Sounds an awful like what Jesus taught, doesn’t it?

Be the Miracle! chapters each have a true story from the author’s life, verses to study, action plans, and reminders to pray, and journal space to write out what the Lord taught you that day.

Readers should be aware that Ms. Liesner does frequently mention God specifically telling her to do this or that. This cannot be explained as extrapolating and applying Scripture as God’s conversation. The commands are specific to people in her life. My only other quibble with the book was the use of The Message for some of the Bible verses. I am not comfortable with paraphrases in place of Bible translations (and I know some of my readers aren’t either), so I thought I’d mention it.

I rarely enjoy devotionals like I did this one—particularly ones heavily influenced by anecdotes instead of Scripture, but Ms. Liesner touched a spot in my spirit that needed to be reached with it. I suspect the Lord has a lesson for me in there. Meanwhile, I’m just glad I requested a review copy of the book. This won’t be the last time I read it.Be The Miracle Delores Liesner

About the Book

Book Title: Be the Miracle

Author: Delores Liesner

Genre: Non-fiction, Christian living, devotional

Release date: June 1, 2018

Whether we title these unexplainable happenings miracles, God-sightings, or some other name, people love to hear of such occurrences. Why? They increase our faith by providing evidence of the miraculous in our everyday lives and heighten awareness of God’s desire to minister personally to us and through us.

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  1. realworldbiblestudy says

    September 15, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    I love While You Were Sleeping (I think it was the first movie that actually belonged to me), and I totally agree about Peter. He seems so flat, until we get that little glimpse.

    Pray, Listen, Obey…sounds so simple, but sometimes the execution is not so much! I have to remind myself that growth and that rich depth of prayer-warrior-ness takes time. My prayer: God, help me learn to recognize your voice and actually ask you what opportunities you have for me today!

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    • Chautona Havig says

      September 16, 2018 at 7:28 am

      Exactly. I really liked the reminder that what seems little to us can be huge for someone else.

      Reply
  2. Joy says

    September 13, 2018 at 8:29 am

    This sounds like an encouraging and challenging devotional! Hearing about God’s faithfulness always reminds me that He is in control and He is good. Reading someone’s admonition that I need to pray, listen and obey to find out where God is ready to utilize me for His kingdom gives me a gentle nudge toward the practical application of what I’m learning. I’m excited to read Be The Miracle!

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    • Chautona Havig says

      September 13, 2018 at 4:51 pm

      It really is very encouraging!:)

      Reply

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I had a chat with actor and author Henry O. Arnold a while back, and boy did we have a lot of fun. His Song of Prophets and Kings series features the advent of Israel’s kings from Samuel’s birth through David hiding from Saul (so far) and onward. Listen in as we chat about his most recent release, The Singer of Israel.

 

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What Made David Such a Man after God’s Heart?

I think this series will show us. I love that Henry O. Arnold started back at Samuel’s story to prepare us for the story of arguably the most influential king of Israel. Yes, Solomon was the wisest and richest, but David offered something that Solomon didn’t have. He was an average guy—a shepherd, no less—chosen by God to lead his country.

In a sense, it’s kind of the ancient Jewish version of a poor, everyday guy growing up to become President of the United States. If you know what I mean.

This five-book series is available as an eBook, in print, and as an audiobook, too! Henry read a snippet of it to us, and boy you get a feel for his love of Scripture and God’s people as he reads.

And if that wasn’t enough, he even gave us a hint of his upcoming Christian suspense/thriller “series. He says he has two books planned for sure, so… at least a duology, but maybe we can talk him into a trilogy at least? Get those odd numbers and everything?

The Singer of Israel by Henry O. Arnold

A singer’s voice inspires a troubled nation…A shepherd’s courage vanquishes a giant

The last official act of the prophet of Yahweh was to secretly anoint a replacement for the king of Israel who has been brought low by an unbalanced mind. The great prophet of Israel lives in fear of the wrath of the king. Then out of the hills of Bethlehem emerges the last-born son of a family of shepherds to become the unforeseen hero of Israel.

When David sings of the glory of Yahweh, this shepherd wins the hearts of the royal family and restores King Saul’s troubled mind. But when the singer/shepherd defeats the champion of the Philistines in single combat, David becomes forever known as “the giant slayer.” Saul quickly sees that David is now a threat to his kingdom and secretly plots to have him killed.

David may be the champion of the people of Israel, but he must live under the constant threat of Saul’s wrath until he is finally forced to flee for his life.

The Singer of Israel is a tale of triumph and tribulation, deepest love, and burning rivalries; the new epoch is given a voice…and it is The Song of Prophets and Kings.

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