Saved By A Bento Box: An Urgent Call To Walk In Your Authority and Your Key To Seeing Miracles
2026-01-26 Today I want to tell you a story that peels back the mystery of miracles and exposes the simple engine behind them: obedience, not some exclusive anointing reserved for a select few. If you’re willing to hear truth with a soft heart and a hard edge—this is for you.
Belief: It's Decision Not An Anointing - The Engine of the Supernatural
If you’ve never seen a miracle, ask two honest questions: Do you know your God? Do you believe his words? Belief is not just intellectual agreement. It’s a decision not an anointing.
The Jan Story: A Bento Box and a Breakthrough
There was a woman named Jan who showed up at an Alpha course I helped run—bitter, crusty, guarded. Everyone sensed it. She irritated people. She had wounds that had calcified into a defensive crust. Most would have written her off and moved on. Instead, I was told to bring her a bento box.
That tiny act of obedience—walking down the street, buying her a meal, handing it over as an expression of God’s love—became catalytic. Week after week I brought the bento box. Week after week I showed up. Little acts of obedience eroded the crust around her heart. On a Holy Spirit weekend weeks later I held her hand at the altar. She wept. She was baptized. Ten days after a public baptism in the ocean, I got a call: Jan had passed away, but she had gone into heaven newly touched, newly reconciled, newly loved. Saved by a Bento Box.
What the Bento Box Teaches Us
This story isn’t sentimental fluff. It’s a theological map. The miracle didn’t come because I had a secret anointing. It came because obedience met opportunity. Small, faithful acts—available to anyone—compounded into a spiritual trajectory that changed a life.
There are three simple lessons in that bento box:
- Obedience precedes increase. The Lord gives greater assignments to those who are faithful in small things.
- Anointing is not an excuse for inaction. Teaching, gifting, and calling can open doors, but daily obedience walks a person through them.
- Belief is the operative force. Doubt kills momentum; trust releases God’s power through ordinary people doing ordinary tasks in faith.
Obedience vs Anointing: Which One Carries the Weight?
People say, “You have a special anointing.” I don’t deny God’s gifting, but I do deny that anointing is the main thing. The gifting and anointing for me at least is in the teaching others how to do what I have done just following and believing the scriptures. The Signs, wonders and Miracles are simply the fruit Jesus promised to anyone who believes. Anointing without obedience is a wasted endowment. Obedience without flashy giftings is where long-term fruit grows.
Jesus didn’t promise that a select few would do miracles. He said plainly: “Those who know their God will do great exploits.” He transferred authority to ordinary people who’d spent time with him, who’d learned to obey his words and move in faith. This is for YOU.
Two barriers to miracles people often bring:
- Not spending time with God—so you don’t know him.
- Unbelief—doubt neutralizes authority.
In the book of Acts we read of the Pharisees, speaking of Peter and John,
They realized that these were unschooled, ordinary men, and they were astonished and took note that these men had spent time with Jesus.
The "Words in Red": Commands to Do, Not Decorations to Admire
I call Jesus’ direct commands the words in red: heal the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead, be the light. These aren’t metaphors to admire from a distance. They are practical instructions to be enacted. When you treat them like suggestions, you stay passive. When you act upon them, doors open.
Obedience to the words in red looks like these simple actions:
- Praying for the person who limps past you on the street.
- Speaking to a deranged man in the name of Jesus and commanding the torment to leave.
- Laid hands on a sick neighbor because God told you to, leaving the result to him.
Each is small. Each is repeatable. Each builds a muscle in faith. The muscle grows and soon the assignments and opportunities grow, too.
Belief: It's Decision Not An Anointing - The Engine of the Supernatural
If you’ve never seen a miracle, ask two honest questions: Do you know your God? Do you believe his words? Belief is not just intellectual agreement. It’s a decision not an anointing.
I will live as if what Jesus said is true. The day the "penny dropped" for me was not an angelic download— I simply came the place where I said to myself "If He said it, He meant it, If he meant it I'm gonna believe it and if I'm going to believe I'm just going to do it. The penny dropped the day I made a choice in my mind to act on the Word, come what may.
Once you decide—and start practicing obedience—the evidence accumulates. Encounters, confirmations, changed lives. Faith grows from experience: do small obedient things, leave the results to God, trust him.
Practical Steps You Can Take Today
This is not an abstract sermon. It’s a practical brief. Start with the small. Build the muscle. Your environment will change.
- Spend daily time in Scripture with expectation—ask God to speak plainly.
- Do one small act of obedience this week: buy a meal, speak a blessing, lay hands on someone sick in faith.
- Drop the line that results are on your shoulders—leave them with God and move forward in faith.
- Declare simple statements: “In Jesus’ name, be healed,” and then trust.
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Results
Acts tells us that the early believers were viewed as unschooled, ordinary men—yet they did extraordinary things because they had been with Jesus. You don’t need an exotic credential to be used. You need a habit of obedience, a fortified belief, and the courage to speak God’s words into situations.
If you are a cop, a nurse, a mom, a librarian, a firefighter, a CEO, or a neighbor across the street—your daily context is your altar. As a cop, for example, you operate in the natural and spiritual simultaneously. Bind and Loose everywhere you go and arrest the demons in the spirit while you handcuff the person in the street. You were not called to sit and admire miracles. You were called to release them. Start with a bento box and see where obedience takes you.
Final Word
The world is about to go through incredible upheaval. The church that survives and helps will not be the building down the street but the people who rise up and do the words in red. This is a summons: be faithful in the small things, fortify your belief, and act. The most glorious days can be ahead of you if you choose to stop nodding in agreement and start walking obedience.
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