Blackwater
05-08-2019, 06:22 PM
As Christians, we are supposed to believe in miracles. Otherwise, we place limits on what we BELIEVE God can do, and that's kind'a like the tail wagging the dog! So I'd like this to be a thread of examples of miracles, or even possible miracles, that you've experienced in your own lives. I'll start with my own best example that I witnessed.
My wife's grandfather was in the hospital and they'd called the family in because they didn't expect him to make it. He had internal bleeding they couldn't get stopped. The docs had done all they could and expressed same to family, and told them all they could do now was pray. They did. The preacher of the little country/community church many of them attended was there. He was pretty old then, and his hair was solid white. He was not a well educated man, but nobody could exceed his commitment to the Lord, and I enjoyed listening to him preach. After he'd led a family prayer, everyone divided up into their little groups to talk. This is when the preacher took Auby, my FIL aside, and told him that he knew a passage in the Bible that if he read it in the presence of one who was bleeding, it would stop the bleeding. Auby seemed to obviously think "Why not at least try it." After all, his own father's life was on the line.
So the Auby got the nurses to leave the room for a minute so that only "Doc" and the preacher were in the room together and the door locked. We could see the preacher reading the passage with obvious emotion and a whole lot of faith. He came out, after praying with Doc a minute, and very confidently said, "OK, I think he'll be OK now." About 20 minutes later one of the nurses went in to check on Doc, and she came out and got another nurse to fetch Doc's doctor. She seemed obviously concerned, and I think most feared the worst for Doc. But when the doc came back and entered the room and closed the door, he fiddled with the tubes and equipment a bit, and kept reading it's results, and after a while, he came out with a bit of an incredulous look on his face, and said the bleeding had stopped, and it looked like Doc might make it after all. Auby told the doc what the preacher had done. The doc asked the preacher if it was true, and he verified it all. The doc then looked very studious, and not entirely incredulous, along with being somewhat amused that when all his knowledge and talent had failed, a simple country preacher without a whole lot of education, had accomplished what he could not. He obviously took the matter seriously, and Doc did indeed get better, and went home to live yet a while longer.
This to me demonstrates the Power of God in action. I am convinced that miracles occur all around us, but we are too dim and too steeped in today's world's nihlistic cynicism to recognize them for what they are. Yes, we pray for many things, and when we get our prayers' answers, they often CAN be explained rationalistically. BUT, sometimes, there's no real or seemingly valid rationalistic explanation for why a prayer is answered, and Doc's case is, I think, one of those. Yeah, the meds could have suddenly kicked in for some unknown reason, but that really doesn't stand a true test of validity. The doc was very experienced, and he couldn't explain it, and he KNEW all that had been done, and knew it didn't occur that bleeding would stop so suddenly and completely.
So there's one of my best examples of a miracle in real life. Now let's hear yours. And please don't be bashful about it, if you will. Who knows? A story of a miracle you observed may be the final "nail" to tack down another's belief and faith. So let's hear 'em.
My wife's grandfather was in the hospital and they'd called the family in because they didn't expect him to make it. He had internal bleeding they couldn't get stopped. The docs had done all they could and expressed same to family, and told them all they could do now was pray. They did. The preacher of the little country/community church many of them attended was there. He was pretty old then, and his hair was solid white. He was not a well educated man, but nobody could exceed his commitment to the Lord, and I enjoyed listening to him preach. After he'd led a family prayer, everyone divided up into their little groups to talk. This is when the preacher took Auby, my FIL aside, and told him that he knew a passage in the Bible that if he read it in the presence of one who was bleeding, it would stop the bleeding. Auby seemed to obviously think "Why not at least try it." After all, his own father's life was on the line.
So the Auby got the nurses to leave the room for a minute so that only "Doc" and the preacher were in the room together and the door locked. We could see the preacher reading the passage with obvious emotion and a whole lot of faith. He came out, after praying with Doc a minute, and very confidently said, "OK, I think he'll be OK now." About 20 minutes later one of the nurses went in to check on Doc, and she came out and got another nurse to fetch Doc's doctor. She seemed obviously concerned, and I think most feared the worst for Doc. But when the doc came back and entered the room and closed the door, he fiddled with the tubes and equipment a bit, and kept reading it's results, and after a while, he came out with a bit of an incredulous look on his face, and said the bleeding had stopped, and it looked like Doc might make it after all. Auby told the doc what the preacher had done. The doc asked the preacher if it was true, and he verified it all. The doc then looked very studious, and not entirely incredulous, along with being somewhat amused that when all his knowledge and talent had failed, a simple country preacher without a whole lot of education, had accomplished what he could not. He obviously took the matter seriously, and Doc did indeed get better, and went home to live yet a while longer.
This to me demonstrates the Power of God in action. I am convinced that miracles occur all around us, but we are too dim and too steeped in today's world's nihlistic cynicism to recognize them for what they are. Yes, we pray for many things, and when we get our prayers' answers, they often CAN be explained rationalistically. BUT, sometimes, there's no real or seemingly valid rationalistic explanation for why a prayer is answered, and Doc's case is, I think, one of those. Yeah, the meds could have suddenly kicked in for some unknown reason, but that really doesn't stand a true test of validity. The doc was very experienced, and he couldn't explain it, and he KNEW all that had been done, and knew it didn't occur that bleeding would stop so suddenly and completely.
So there's one of my best examples of a miracle in real life. Now let's hear yours. And please don't be bashful about it, if you will. Who knows? A story of a miracle you observed may be the final "nail" to tack down another's belief and faith. So let's hear 'em.