14.What is the working of miracles? .

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Supernatural abilities—operations of works of power—given to some members of the Body of Christ so the Body may not be prevented from performing the will of God by the limitations of the laws of nature.

Again, notice the plural (energies of works of power) applied to an individual believer ("to another").

Both the Old Testament and the New Testament describe the most astonishing miracles one could imagine. When we study the Bible we receive the impression that the Holy Spirit is both willing and able to break through the laws of nature and put things together or take them apart according to the needs of the moment.

Perhaps the most spectacular miracle of the Old Testament was the forming of the heavens and the earth by the Word of God. The stopping of the rotation of the earth (or the moving of the sun) at the word of Joshua also was an operation of stupendous power.

There are so many instances of mastery over nature in the ministry of Jesus that one has only to read the Gospel accounts to realize that miracles were a common occurrence in the daily life of Christ.

In the day we cease from our own works and turn to Christ with a pure heart, in that same day the working of miracles will return to the Church of Christ. There can be no scriptural testimony given by the Church of Christ apart from the working of miracles, for the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power.

Where Christ is there are miracles.

Miracles are the testimony of God that the Gospel of Christ is from Him.