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Every Day a Miracle: Trusting the God Who Heals Us Inside and Out

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We may know Jesus as Lord and Savior, but do we know him as Healer? This book is for anyone asking for a miracle—whether physical, mental, relational, or spiritual—and how to worship the Great Healer no matter if His answer is answer is yes, no, or wait.

If we understand anything about our culture, it's that we desperately need healing. Many people are quick to believe in an outrageous conspiracy before they will believe in Jesus and the miracle worker He is. Throughout Scripture, we see that He makes the blind see, opens deaf ears, restores life from death, and so much more . . . but what about you?

Do you believe that Jesus has the power to restore you to health and heal your wounds? Throughout this book, Matthew Stephen Brown leads readers on a spiritual journey designed to discover who Jesus is as Healer and explore many questions

Why do we believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior but not as Healer?Why would a good God allow us to experience pain in the first place, and maybe many times?When we don't experience healing, does that mean Jesus has failed or let us down?Jesus cares about our physical needs, but what healing in our lives is He most concerned about? 

Combining personal stories, biblical truth and wisdom, and humor that puts people at ease and draws them in, Pastor Matt Brown leads readers to worship a God who is not random, not careless, and who is never without cause, especially when it comes to performing miracles. Everyone can get behind a God who says yes. But what about when God says no? Or wait? No matter what God's plan is for your life, we can learn to trust and worship the Great Healer.

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2024

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Matthew Stephen Brown

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Matthew Stephen Brown is the lead pastor of Sandals Church in Riverside, California. Sandals Church began in 1997 when Matt and his wife Tammy set out to create a church where people could be real with themselves, God and others.

From its first meeting in the Brown’s living room with eight people, Sandals Church has since grown to reach tens of thousands of people at local campuses throughout Southern California and around the world.

Matt is passionate about the vision of authenticity and helping people understand their own unique beauty and brokenness. He and his wife Tammy have three adult children and reside in Riverside, California.

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March 14, 2024
I have attended Sandals Church for 12 years now. And have been a Christian since I chose God at 8 years old. I am now 39, turning 40 in a few months - and I am a miracle. This book is real. The content reveals real stories about real people. Real miracles. Pastor Matt has never directly prayed over me. I have never stood in line to speak with him after church. But like Daniel, he is a man after God’s heart.

I am a miracle. Not because I wasn’t wanted as a baby. Not because my parents struggled with conceiving. I do not have a rare genetic condition where I have outlived the odds. I was healthy until I wasn’t. 4 years ago I got sick. Too sick. I ended up in the hospital. Then a COVID death ward. At the time, my family was attending the Woodcrest campus because we had two small daughters and it was close to our house. Pastor Tim, the campus pastor at Woodcrest, reached out to my wife to offer prayer. I was dying. I had to say goodbye to my wife and children via a FaceTime call. One of the hardest moments of my life. And then I prayed for a miracle. My wife prayed. Sandals leadership prayed. My mom reached out to her Prayer Warrior team. The last words my mom spoke to me before I said what I was told would be my last goodbyes were, “honey, thousands of people are praying for you. Hold on. God will hear our prayers.”

I was a poor statistic. I wasn’t supposed to live. I went from pneumonia whiting out both lungs to being moved to the intubation section of Kaiser’s death ward. Where everyone with severe symptoms of COVID went to die. They were short staffed and short another intubation machine. I was told I would have to wait to die. The kind nurse wheeled me back into my room where my oxygen mask was turned up to the max. And I laid there, praying, hoping that God would spare me. But being comforted that I knew I was not alone in that room. I closed my eyes for what was supposed to be the last time, suffocating, while oxygen was being blasted into my body, and I faded.

And then I woke up. At 3:04am. I was getting high off of the amount of oxygen I was receiving. I pulled off my mask and could breathe on my own. Nurses, who looked like astronauts, came in and were surprised to find me alive. They tried to force the oxygen on me, but I told them I could breathe on my own. They said that was impossible. The same nurse who initially wheeled me out, and then had to take me back to my isolation room joked, “aren’t you glad there was no more room at the inn?” Obviously referencing the fact that they had to wait for someone to die to get me on a machine. And instead of ending up a statistic, I was in my room breathing on my own.

Doctors took x-rays of my chest from the window setup. Other doctors came in and asked what I did? What did I take? Who gave me what? How did my lungs clear overnight? The doctor who was caring for me at the time said she would just call me Miracle. I was literally studied for 2 days. Remdesmivir was going to be piloted soon, but I had recovered from severe double pneumonia and COVID without it. The patients around me were dying. And the doctors couldn’t figure out how I was alive. I just kept saying, “Jesus. Jesus is why I am alive. He sat with me in the empty chair.” I was dying, but I was comforted. Did I see him? Maybe it was the illness and delusions. Or maybe Jesus took the time to sit with me while I was dying so that I would not be afraid.

When I was able to call my wife, I told her of the sensation of waking up at 3:04am and pulling off my mask. She told me she awoke that same morning at that same time. And she heard a voice say, “he will live.” My mom called and told me the same thing. Both my sisters as well. And even my non-believing best friend. They said a prayer, because to them what could it hurt. And they woke up in the early morning and knew I would live. When I was being released, they put me in a wheelchair and all of the doctors and nurses on my ward, dressed in their space gear safety suits, began clapping. I asked the nurse why they were clapping me out the door. She said, “you are the first patient to leave this ward alive, Miracle.”

Why am I writing all of this? Because I am a miracle. Even though the illness ravished my body. Soon after getting home, my heart failed. I was diagnosed with Post Viral Cardiomyopathy. I have had two heart surgeries since. And my heart’s ejection fraction is about 25%. But I am alive. I asked God to allow me to watch my girls grow up. Just another day. Just another moment. And going on 4 years God has continued to bless me with another day. Another moment. My life is not easy, but it is blessed.

Miracles are real. Pastor Matt has seen them. I have seen them. I believe he speaks truth. Not just his truth, but God’s truth. You should read this book. Understand that miracles are happening still. And if you see the one star reviews, know that people are damaged. They hold grudges. I’ll go out on a limb and say that they hold both Matt and God responsible for the miracles they didn’t get. God doesn’t always say yes. Sometimes it is a no. I wanted to come back whole. And I prayed. And prayed. I prayed for a healed body. And instead of being whole, I simply came back. Sometimes God says wait. I had to wait 3 years after surviving for a proper diagnosis, flatlining two times in the process. The doctors didn’t know how I survived, but they also didn’t know why my body was failing. Dying is not easy. Living incomplete is hard. But the key word here is “living.” And sometimes God says yes. I asked for one more day with my wife and daughters. So far he has given me 1,443 days and counting. That is a miracle. I was marked for death and God chose life.

Read the book. You will be better off for it.
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190 reviews10 followers
May 11, 2024
Have you been away from God for a long time? Are you starting to doubt your faith? Have you always been a Christian, but even though you "do" things right, you still struggle? Have you given up on God?

This book might help you see things from a different perspective. I'll be adding some quotes from the book that just stood out to me.

DISCLAIMER: This book does not contain all the answers to your questions or your doubts. This book will help you see that God is still doing miracles and He is still answering prayers. This book just shows that we as a people have stopped praying.

Matthew Brown points out, from early in the book, that people don't have time for God anymore. We don't see the miracles around us because we expect things to always go our way. "Many people don't have time for faith because they are busy with life".

"This book is about inviting its readers to the one thing that doesn't change in this world: the one constant, unchanging, eternal force." GOD! He is, was, and always will be the same. People change and flip-flop all the time. We want miracles and when they don't happen we get angry. Angry because God didn't listen. However, we don't even ask. You can't receive what you don't ask for.

For those non-Christians who want to argue about all the miracles that God didn't answer, there is always a reason. There is pain in life. That is normal. As Matthew Brown states, "...believing in Jesus is easy when everything in life is great. Still believing in JEsus when everything falls apart is another thing entirely."

A major theme in this book is prayer. How to pray, when to pray, why we pray, and what to pray. Pray, pray, pray. God won't answer your prayers exactly how you want them answered. But He WILL answer. When we suffer, we blame God. When life is good we tend to forget God. This book highlights a good thing to ask yourself when life is hard, What does God want me to learn right now? "The suffering you are enduring will not last forever, but the lessons you learn will." That line right there stood out to me because when I thought I had lost everything, I blamed God. When I came out of it, I saw God. I saw the lesson He needed me to learn. I wouldn't have changed as a person or learned my lesson if I was told exactly what to change because I couldn't see WHY I needed to change. It wasn't until I was hopeless, depressed, worried and sick that I was able to see how my own actions and reactions were damaging me and those around me.

This book was a good read. Read this if you have doubts or questions in your faith.
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25 reviews
August 14, 2024
This book really shaped my faith and gave me CHILLS every chapter.
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35 reviews
June 13, 2024
I love Matt Brown so much! He can communicate difficult topics in a simple way, he's relatable and he's funny. It was amazing to read about how God has used Matt to perform healing miracles that seem impossible, and just as amazing to read that God can use me in the same way. At the beginning of reading this book, I had to look at my heart and ask myself if I believe Jesus performs healing miracles today like He did in the Bible. I found myself hesitating, mostly because I had never seen a miracle like Lazarus being raised from the dead, the bleeding woman being healed, or sick children brought back to life. Though I have never witnessed a miracle like that, I have witnessed and experienced miracles in my own life, and this book reminded me of those miraculous experiences. I have been healed by God physically, emotionally, and mentally at different points in my life. I have also experienced non-healing related miracles. All this to say, that the book was just fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone who got a no for their miracle, is praying for a miracle, or is curious about God's healing.
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13 reviews1 follower
May 13, 2024
Wow! This book is amazing. I picked it up because my daughter deals with an extreme food allergy and it has been getting worse. I had just written it off as a part of life and stopped praying about it. This book really convicted me to actually believe that she could be healed.

It does a great job at using scripture to guide the reader through revealing our lack of faith and then teaches how to move forward in hope, prayer and belief - not in ourselves, but in Jesus! It has changed my perspective by realizing I just have to believe that God CAN but I might not get the answer I want (even Jesus didn’t) and that while I wait I must lean into God and draw near to Him instead of pushing away.

Last night I brought my daughter to an ice cream shop with dairy free options. I mentioned to the person next in line that she was so excited to be able to eat it. Turns out that God put me next to an angel! This mother had a daughter who was allergic to nuts and gave me the information for a clinic that is helping her and she is slowly but surely being healed. The whole process of clinics was so overwhelming to me that I didn’t even Google it, yet God literally delivered me an exact place to go. It’s even covered by our insurance! And the cherry on top is that she paid for our ice cream!

I’m thankful that this book prompted me to pray so this healing journey could begin. I’ve been a believer since I was a kid and I realized I had grown to be neutral about prayer. I recommend this book to anyone who needs some hope, insight, encouragement and awe to be brought into, or back into, their spiritual life.
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128 reviews1 follower
July 17, 2024
“What have we forgotten or failed to discover about Jesus that His early followers knew? Even those who rejected Jesus as the Messiah accepted the fact that He performed miracles. His messiahship was in question; His miracles were not! Many of today's believers are exactly the opposite. We accept Him as our Savior but reject Him as our miraculous Healer. We need to rediscover Him as both.”

I picked up this book because I’m having some health issues and was frustrated not being to find any pain relief.
I’m grateful for having read this book and have a new perspective on healing/being healed.
Pastor Brown opened my eyes to see God as Jehovah-Rapha. And the necessity to know what He can do isn’t necessarily what He will do.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Roman 8:28
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803 reviews42 followers
July 23, 2024
I really hope in the future that Pastor Matt writes more books. This was outstanding. I cried, and I laughed, but mostly I learned about some of the spiritual things I sometimes struggle with and question. Pastor Matt has to be one of the most authentic pastors I've had the pleasure of listening to. He is so incredibly real. You may not like the answers, but he strives to bring love, compassion, and genuineness in his teaching while keeping it biblical. If you are curious, he has a podcast, or you can find him on most social media apps. He's really worth the listen. If your heart is heavy when you look around at our world, I would encourage you to pick this up, it's not long but it fills the heart as he does such a wonderful job talking about Jesus and the love we all so desperately need. Happy Reading!!
108 reviews2 followers
March 29, 2024
Every day is a miracle that we wake up and face a world of turmoil. If one thing is certain about our American culture us that we need a healing. The healing that is needed comes from God because trusting in him to guide us in the direction that we need to go. God is the one that can heal us inside and out just by trusting him. The reader of this book is taken on a spiritual journey to learn to trust and worship God no matter what his plan is for your life. Enjoy this journey and take from it what you need to have a full and joyous life with God at the center. This is an easy read with lots of things to stop and ponder plus you will gain a stronger strength in your belief in God.
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68 reviews3 followers
April 6, 2024
I really connected with the message Pastor Matt delivered in this book. It was really neat for me to see him focus on Jesus being a healer. I grew up in a non-christian home and my relationship with Jesus has always been in the way shown in this book, a direct relationship with him as healer and savior. I'm excited to purchase a few more copies of this book and share it with my family members who have since started attending church with my husband and I. I really think the book can reach so many people on many different levels. This book is going to help those searching for Jesus and those who want to learn how to pray, how to develop a relationship with him.
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Author 5 books6 followers
March 25, 2024
This was a beautiful read that moved me to tears and convicted me. Often, my faith mirrors Martha’s, and I struggle to believe (even though I say I do). Like Martha, I worry about the mess, and when faced with the tomb, I think more about the realities of this life, and I don’t focus on the miraculous. This book reminded me that miracles happen every day, and it is time that I start noticing and speaking about them. It is time…
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April 25, 2024
I loved this book! Matt Brown shares some amazing miracle stories, but doesn't make you feel like your faith is lacking if the miracle you pray for doesn't come to pass. There's some practical tips for praying, and waiting, for your miracle.
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17 reviews2 followers
June 3, 2024
A must read! This book really touched my heart and faith, and it is written so beautifully. The stories are real, raw, truthful, and faith-boosting! Such a good reminder of how Jesus is our savior AND our healer!
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284 reviews
June 24, 2024
This was the newest book my pastor wrote about miracles. I enjoyed reading this book and learning from the word of God. Brown brings biblical insights and shares personal experiences in this area. I learned a lot and was encouraged. I highly recommend reading this book.
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6 reviews
September 29, 2024
Truly awesome book. Must read. Everything is well written and easy to digest. This book is very personal to me tho.

I’ve been a Christian in my entire life, but I was always scared to pray for miracles and healing. I limited God to do great things through me. This book has moved me.
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7 reviews
August 18, 2025
some good principles; but some deceptive teaching in the back third that just doesn't appear to be properly supported by Scripture
it's also not promoted at all in the books description which affects the overall messaging significantly, disappointed overall
Profile Image for Brian Shaffer.
105 reviews
March 18, 2024
An inspiring book! Many of the true stories within its pages brought me to tears.
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1,140 reviews
April 2, 2024
A great reminder for those of faith. Worth the time investment to read. Highly recommended.
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June 4, 2024
We read through this book with my small group. I enjoyed it and learned a lot. It makes you realize what the power of God can do!
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June 11, 2024
This book left me with so much to think about in my every day life. All of the miracles all around us if we just acknowledge them. I keep talking about how great this book was.
10 reviews
October 18, 2024
“Don’t leave this life with miracles in heaven sitting on a shelf”. Very encouraging read.
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39 reviews1 follower
December 15, 2024
(listened on Spotify) Very encouraging and emotional. Keep praying for that miracle...
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13 reviews1 follower
April 17, 2025
BINGED this book. I love that pastor Matt always had so many lines I just need to quote. I feel like every sermon he does, and in every chapter here I find myself copying quotes into my notes app.
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August 25, 2025
I listened to Every Day a Miracle on Audible. It's easy to understand and full of insight into God as Healer.
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85 reviews
June 2, 2024
Excellent reminders of the power of Jesus and what he can do! We may not know what He will do but I know what He can do - ALL things! “For nothing will be impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37)

You and I may not be able to do the same miracles as Jesus. But He can still do the same miracles because He is still the same Jesus. Because He is!!!
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63 reviews
February 2, 2025
I enjoyed this book. I may not get the miracles I have desperately hoped and prayed for but it is good to see that someone else is. It was encouraging in a hard season and I have good memories of taking turns reading it aloud with my mom while we drove to Montana.
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