He’s Got My Miracle
Does God Still Do Miracles? Here's What the Resurrection Proves
Does God still do miracles today? Yes, and the empty tomb is the evidence. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a historical event to celebrate once a year; it is proof that the God who reversed death itself is still in the business of reversing impossible situations. If you walked into Easter weekend carrying something that feels permanently broken, this post is for you.
Most people who ask whether God still does miracles today are not asking it as a theological question. They are asking it because they are exhausted. They have prayed. They have waited. They have watched the situation get worse instead of better, and somewhere in the back of their mind a fear has started to creep in that maybe God handles some things and not others, and theirs might be in the second category. That fear is understandable. And it is also wrong.
Are You Stressing Over a Stone God Already Moved?
In Mark 16:1-6, three women (Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome) rose before sunrise and made their way to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus. On the way, they asked each other a question: "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?" It was a real problem. The stone was massive, and they had no plan. They were walking toward an obstacle they could not solve, carrying grief they could not fix, heading into a situation that felt completely irreversible.
And when they looked up, the stone was already gone.
Pastor Travis Hearn pointed to that moment on Easter Sunday with a directness that is worth sitting with: those women were stressing over a problem God had already solved. They were losing sleep over a stone that had already been moved. A lot of people reading this are doing the same thing. The question "Who is going to fix this?" feels urgent and real, but God sent the answer before you even knew to ask the question. Zechariah 4:6 makes this plain; it is not by might, not by power, but by God's Spirit. The miracle is not your responsibility to manufacture. That is God's part.
The one practical step worth taking today is this: write down the specific thing you have been trying to force or figure out on your own, and then set it down. Not because it does not matter, but because carrying the weight of something that belongs to God is exhausting and unnecessary.
What Does It Actually Mean to Walk by Faith and Not by Sight?
The second movement of Pastor Travis's Easter message was about the role of faith, and he was careful to clarify what he was not asking for. He did not ask the room whether anyone had a lot of faith. He asked whether anyone had any faith at all. Because Jesus himself said that faith the size of a mustard seed (the smallest seed imaginable) is enough to tell a mountain to move, and it will move (Matthew 17:20).
Walking by faith, as the Apostle Paul described it in 2 Corinthians 5:7, means making your decisions based on what God has said rather than what your circumstances are showing you. That distinction is harder than it sounds. What we see is loud. A medical report is loud. A bank account is loud. A marriage that has gone silent is loud. And what faith asks us to do is not to pretend those things are not real; it is to decide that they do not get the final word.
Pastor Natalie Hearn modeled this in one of the most personal moments of the sermon. When doctors told her that her husband's hemorrhagic stroke had effects that were irreversible, she heard what they said, and then she went straight to the Word of God. She landed on Acts 3:16: by faith in the name of Jesus, this man was made strong. She did not deny the diagnosis. She decided it was not the final diagnosis. That is what walking by faith looks like when everything is on the line.
The practical step here is concrete: find one promise from Scripture that applies directly to your situation, write it down, and read it aloud once a day for the next week. You are not trying to trick yourself into optimism; you are training your mind to move based on what God said rather than what fear is projecting.
What Happens When God's Track Record Becomes Your Evidence?
Three years ago, Pastor Travis Hearn could not speak. He could not walk. He could not think. He was airlifted to a level-one trauma center after suffering a massive hemorrhagic brain bleed, a stroke in the basal ganglia that doctors described as the worst of the worst. The medical team told Pastor Natalie that the effects were irreversible. That word sat in that hospital room like a verdict.
And then God reversed it.
Pastor Travis stood on that stage on Easter Sunday 2026 and preached eleven services across two campuses, and the fact that he was standing at all is the sermon within the sermon. He said it this way: cancer is not bigger than an empty tomb. Depression is not bigger than an empty tomb. Your past is not more powerful than an empty tomb. Whatever has felt like a verdict in your life (a diagnosis, a relationship, a failure, a version of yourself you thought was permanent) is not bigger than a God who walks out of graves.
Ephesians 3:20 describes a God who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or think. That is not a figure of speech; it means the ceiling of what God can do in your situation does not exist. Isaiah 41:10 adds the other side of that promise: "Do not fear, for I am with you; I will strengthen you and help you." The promise is not that you will never feel fear. The promise is that fear does not get to drive. You can feel afraid and still take the next step. You can doubt and still keep believing. You can be hit and still refuse to quit.
The practical step here is simple: the next time fear starts to speak, do not argue with it. Just say out loud, "God is with me," because according to Isaiah 41:10 and Psalm 23:4, he is.
What Mark 16:1-6 Reveals About How God Works
The women in Mark 16:1-6 were not passive. They got up before sunrise, gathered their supplies, and started walking toward an impossible situation. The structure of what they encountered that morning maps directly onto what Pastor Travis Hearn preached as his four-point framework for trusting God when you need a miracle.
1. He's Got My Miracle
What it means: God holds the responsibility for the outcome. You do not have to manufacture it, force it, or figure it out.
The shift: You stop asking "How is this going to get fixed?" and start trusting that the stone may already be gone.
2. I've Got My Faith
What it means: Faith is your part. Not great faith, not perfect faith — mustard seed faith is enough.
The shift: You move based on what God said, not what the situation is showing you.
3. My God Can Do It All
What it means: There is no limited version of God. Nothing is too broken, too lost, or too far gone for him to redeem.
The shift: You stop measuring the size of your problem and start remembering the size of your God.
4. So I'm Not Afraid
What it means: Fear does not have to disappear before you take the next step. It just does not get the final word.
The shift: You feel the fear and keep coming anyway, because the same God who walked out of the grave is walking with you now.
If You Are Still Waiting for Your Stone to Move
Some people reading this have been carrying an impossible situation for a long time. The weight of it is real, and the waiting is hard, and the fear that nothing will ever change is one of the loneliest feelings there is. If that is where you are, you do not have to stay there alone. Impact Church exists for people in exactly that place, with campuses in North Scottsdale and South Scottsdale serving the greater Phoenix Valley, including Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Paradise Valley, and the surrounding communities of Maricopa County. Whether you are across town or across the Valley, there is a seat for you, and you are welcome to bring whatever faith you have and let God meet you there.
The Stone Is Already Gone
The resurrection was not just about one Sunday two thousand years ago. It was God's loudest declaration that death does not get the final word, not physical death, not the death of a marriage, not the death of a dream, not the death of hope. Pastor Travis Hearn put it plainly: if it looks dead, it means God is not done. That is not religious optimism; it is the testimony of a man who was told his situation was irreversible, who trusted God in the middle of that verdict, and who is standing today as proof that does God still do miracles today is a question with a living answer. He does. And he has not run out.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Scripture makes the case that God's character does not change. Hebrews 13:8 states that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, which means the same God who healed the blind and raised Lazarus is still active today. Modern testimonies, including Pastor Travis Hearn's recovery from a medically declared irreversible stroke, point to a God who still does the impossible when human options run out.
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Trusting God in a waiting season is less about feeling confident and more about deciding who gets the final word: your circumstances or God's promises. Walking by faith, as Paul described it, means making your next move based on what God has said rather than what the situation is showing you. It does not require certainty; it requires a mustard seed's worth of willingness to keep going.
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The Easter story speaks directly to this. The women approaching the tomb in Mark 16 were walking toward a situation they believed was permanent and sealed. The stone had already been rolled away before they arrived. Pastor Travis Hearn taught that some people are worrying about a problem God has already solved; the obstacle feels immovable because they have not yet looked up to see it is gone.
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Yes. Pastor Travis taught that if God can raise a dead Savior, he can resurrect a dead marriage. The same resurrection power that emptied the tomb is available to breathe life into relationships, families, and situations that feel beyond repair. That is not a promise that it will look the way you planned, but it is a promise that God is not done.
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Pastor Natalie Hearn faced exactly this question when physicians told her that her husband's stroke damage was irreversible. Her response was to find a word from God and stand on it: Acts 3:16, which declares that healing comes through faith in the name of Jesus. Faith for healing does not require you to ignore medical reality; it requires you to decide that medical reality is not the highest authority in the room.
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