Miracles Are Easy: Walking in Signs and Wonders Daily

By Joe Kirkwood and Joan Hunter

God Can Use You to Work Miracles!

After Joe Kirkwood had an encounter with a healing angel, he became convinced that any Christian believer can operate in the wonderful world of miracles, signs, wonders. The inspiring stories of Pastor Joe's journey reveals that you too can see miracles flowing through your life.

You will read about:
* angel encounters that paved the way for a journey of faith into the miraculous.
* a man in the Philippines who did not have an eyeball and as Pastor Joe prayed, God miraculously created an eyeball that matched his other eye.
* a man who was deaf and mute, walking with a deformed leg, who was healed in Ghana, West Africa, while Joe preached to a crowd of idol worshipers.
* a village of idol worshipers who came to accept Christ when they saw this man's twisted leg straighten out before their eyes.

This book will also take you into a realm where you can practically apply simple principles of God's kingdom, the results of which will astound you. This book will make it easy for signs and wonders to be a part of your everyday normal life! Just imagine miracles happening throughout everyday life—on your job, in a supermarket, shopping mall, or while you travel on airplanes! Miracles are easy when you walk with the Holy Spirit every day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9781667899787

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

WHY NOT ME?

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name

they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will

pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt

them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

MARK 16: 17–18 NASB

As I have traveled around the world sharing the divine encounters that have taught me how to operate in signs, wonders, and miracles, people have repeated one reoccurring statement: You have a gift, and not everyone can do what you are doing.

That statement directly contradicted what an angel told me. Any true believer can operate in the miraculous.

When I first met my beautiful wife, Jacquie, she said the same thing: You just have a gift of healing. After I repeated over time what the angel told me, she decided to step out in faith to believe God concerning miracles. I have asked her to write the next chapter so that you will see that you, the believer, can start moving in signs, wonders, and miracles. Jacquie finally asked God the question, Why not me, God? She shares her story in the rest of this chapter.

JACQUIE’S PERSONAL TESTIMONY

It is the season of the outpouring of God’s Spirit, the raising up and empowering of Christians for the end-time believers’ revival. In this revival, signs will follow them that believe.

To be a part of this move of God, we must be true believers. But few of us allow ourselves to really be challenged to the point where we are willing to confront the unbelief that is in our heart and lives and make the journey to believing. The journey from unbelief to belief is possible. We know that because the Scripture says that nothing is impossible with God. But surely, if we were all honest, we would acknowledge that taking the above truth from the pages of the Bible and seeing it actually executed in our lives is no small journey. It is the journey from unbelief to belief.

SCRIPTURAL EXAMPLES AND SUPPORT

In Matthew 5:17–25, we see the man who brought his demon-possessed boy to the disciples for healing. They were unable to do so, and Jesus became very cross with them. Referencing their unbelief, He chastised them, saying, How long shall I be with you, and how long shall I put up with you? Jesus clearly thought that with all that the disciples had seen and witnessed, they should be reflecting Him and be filled with belief, manifesting the power of God—and they were not. Jesus turned to the boy’s father and told him that this could be done for him if he would only believe. Then, in a moment of profound transparency, the father shouted, I do believe—help my unbelief!

Over and over in Scripture, we are exhorted that it is the will of God to heal, that Jesus paid the price when He bore thirty-nine stripes upon His back, that it is the will of God for us to prosper and be in health, that He sent His Word to heal us, and that we would do the works Jesus did and even greater. Yet with all this evidence from the Word of God, we struggle to believe. Truly, this condition needs to be confronted.

The journey from unbelief to belief requires grace. Grace is God’s divine empowerment, His supernatural divine influence upon our hearts, and the reflection of that influence in our lives. It is miraculous influence that God pours upon us. Grace is what takes the knowledge from the page, breathes on it, and causes it to come alive and come forth. The truth is, every work of the kingdom that was ever accomplished in the earth came forth by grace through faith. And grace is found at the foot of His throne of grace, meditating on Him in heartfelt relationship.

After decades of ministry together, I lost my husband of more than thirty years. Then, I met and married Joe Kirkwood in 2007. Little did I know of the journey with God into which I was entering. Before we were even married, I was in revival services with him where I saw blind eyes open, deaf ears open, and a paralyzed young man get up out of a wheelchair and walk. Like many Christians unaccustomed to seeing miracles such as this, I was astounded!

My first instinct was to immediately conclude that Joe was special. He obviously had the Holy Spirit gift of the Working of Miracles. Of course, underlying that conclusion was the reality that if I believed he was special, I would not be responsible to be used of God to work miracles myself. Therefore, in all of my religiosity, I could simply say, I don’t have that gift. What I didn’t know was that God was not going to allow that erroneous conclusion to stand. The outpouring of His Spirit in this revival is intended to allow opportunity for all Christians to be swept up into it as He fills His church with glory. This move of God is for whosoever will believe. It is a whosoever time.

Thankfully and to Joe’s credit, he never agreed with or cooperated with my assertion that he was special. He consistently insisted that did not align with the encounter that he had had with the healing angel, with what the angel had told him and taught him. As the Lord gave Joe revelation of how to cooperate with Him in administering healing, he found that simple obedience to implement what God had revealed resulted in miracles. He was and is convinced, as now am I, that any believer can learn these principles of healing, and if they will believe, they too can be used of God. But how?

Often, I am a bit too intellectual, and so I constantly queried Joe, wanting to understand what and how. I wanted to wrap my brain around what was happening. I knew what issues I struggled with anytime I prayed for someone. Never-ending, fear-producing questions can bombard our minds anytime we step out in faith to believe that God will heal someone. What if they don’t get healed? What if I make a fool of myself? What if I’m not anointed? What if I miss it? What if I get their hopes up and then cannot deliver? The longer that I watched Joe be used of God, the more I understood that there is no place for what ifs when one desires to be used by God in power.

And even at first glance, one can easily see the problem with thoughts such as this and this line of reasoning. First and foremost, we should know that as we encounter those thoughts in our minds, we are definitely not looking at Jesus but at ourselves. Several facets go into cooperating with the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit when He wants to heal someone. But the first thing is that we must focus on Christ and on what He wants to do. We must determine in our hearts that we will shut everything else out: every doubt, distraction, and voice that is not of God. We are already three-fourths of the way to victory when we are in agreement with Jesus and the Holy Spirit in their desire to heal. Focus. Concentrate.

I was constantly asking Joe to explain to me what was going on between him and the Holy Spirit when God was using him to heal the sick and do miracles. Once, he was sharing with me about the young man in Africa who had the twisted leg that was healed (he shares this testimony in full further in the book). Several times, I really put him on the spot, asking for specifics and details about the sequence of events and the sequence of his thoughts and what the Holy Spirit said to him and when. He chuckled at me, saying no one had ever asked him those kinds of questions before and he had not really thought about it in that kind of detail. He just knew that it flowed out of his relationship with the Holy Spirit.

That was exactly as I thought. Which is why I wanted details about his relationship with the Holy Spirit. Of course, on that particular occasion, the Lord truly blessed him with a sovereign manifestation of His grace. And does healing not always flow from the grace of God? Due to the grace of God, Joe’s faith shot up without any encumbrance when he heard the Holy Spirit say that on the third day, God raised Jesus from the dead! However, that moment of spectacular grace would never have happened if Joe had not been willing to put himself out on a cliff of the seeming unknown, where when jumping off, the only thing that is available to hold onto is your faith in God.

But for me, more important than that breathtaking moment of the Holy Spirit’s intervention into those circumstances was what was happening inside Joe prior to that miraculous moment. This is that segment of time when you are in the pressure cooker of faith, as Joe refers to it. When your desire is strong, but you realize that you are attempting to accomplish something supernatural in yourself and you are absolutely not sufficient. That place of complete surrender to Him, which is totally necessary before you ever see a victory. That confident surrender to the faithfulness of God.

After two seemingly failed attempts at seeing the young man’s leg straightened out, the pressure was on. But then, Joe began to realize that deep in his heart, he was making it about himself. He was worried he would fall short in the eyes of the crowd and in the eyes of the church members that had come to the village with him. His heart shifted by the grace of God, and he began to say to the Lord, God, if these villagers beat me, they beat me, and that is okay. But if You do not heal this boy, they will never know that Jesus truly is Who I told them He was, and they will not believe in Your Son whom You’ve sent. Then, the miracle manifested.

Yet in the pressure cooker of those circumstances, Joe experienced what it was to come to the end of himself and to turn and fix his focus completely on Jesus and His power to heal. Standing in that pressure, he learned how to hold steady, to wait on and trust God. To be at peace and connect with the flow of the river of living water deep down inside. That pressure affected something in him that was a turning point so that he could be used of God. The simple testimony of it became a turning point for me. I had to realize that it is not easy to subjugate the flesh and self but that to receive the power of God, it is absolutely necessary. We must be willing to be put on the spot, to jump off that cliff into a place called faith. At some point, in each of our journeys to believing, God will give us that opportunity to just jump. And jump we must, because faith that comes to us is worthless without using it to manifest the power and will of God.

A PERSONAL CHANGE IN ME

Scripture is very clear that faith comes to us by hearing and understanding the revelation of the Word of God. (See Romans 10:17.) Faith always comes as God has promised. But there is a difference between faith coming and being available for us to use and actually stepping out in that faith and acting upon the revelation we’ve received. I began to learn that at some point, if we want to be used of God in this way, we have to get out of the boat and walk on the water, ignoring the storm of doubt and questions in our minds. We have to separate ourselves from our pride and the fear of how we might look. We have to jump off the cliff and trust God to catch us with His faithfulness. No shortcuts. We have to be willing to take the risk that we may fall short, all the while fixing our gaze, our hearts, and our attention upon Jesus. We are called to heal the sick. He wants to use us to do this that He might show forth and demonstrate His great love and mercy to mankind. He is alive, and just as before, He is still healing today. Amen.

My conviction that it was absolutely mandatory for me to arise and walk in this truth in this season came from and is rooted in my absolute belief that it is God’s intention for every believer to manifest the resurrection power of Jesus in our everyday lives in the open marketplace where unbelievers can be most readily impacted. It is part of the Great Commission and what Jesus Himself called us to do. As this was brought forth prophetically in our church time and time again, we knew God was leading us to have the courage to confront unbelief in our lives and in our witness and to allow Him to change us.

For many years, the Lord has spoken to me about His glorious church. One can most readily see the manifestation of the glory in the New Testament in the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Once again, we see circumstances where people are overwhelmed with unbelief. Mary and Martha were overcome with grief and could not move their faith beyond the paradigm that if Jesus had only been there before Lazarus died, He