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hart4god:
Miracle or not?

when my son was young and probably from birth he had an astigmatism in his left eye that cause the muscle in his eye to atrophy and it turned inward. It was discovered when he was 6. The eye Dr (who also treated his father) said it was genetic as it matched the location and configuation of his father's astigmatism. We had him fitted for glasses and the eye patched. the muscles recovered (cause and effect) and he wore glasses for 2 more years until they were giving him headaches. We returned for a 2 year visit to the Dr who was baffled at the disappearance of the former defect. My son is now 23 yrs old and has perfect vision with no astigmatism. medical misdiagnosis or miracle? We did not ask for anything from the Lord regarding this thing. But we are still blessed to this day by the mercy shown and His great Love. and Yes, his father still wears glasses!

Miracle or not? ( warning: medically graphic)

my other son had his finger slammed in a door when he was 12 months old. and like anyone else, he immediately tried to pull his finger out and so stripped the muscle, nail bed and everything else from the top of his finger so just the bone remained. medical consult resulted in the reccommendation to amputate to the next joint and reconstruct a nail bed-so he would have a short finger but it would still function. Our reaction was "can't deal with this now- because my mother was dying of cancer". so we put it off until things were resolved with  my mom. ( which means she died). They warned us of high infection risk with a 12 month old with exposed bone etc.... we were so stressed all we could do was trust that God would prevail somehow. After 2 months, the big ugly black scab fell off one night in the bath and there was a new finger underneath. wow. they said there was no way skin could ever grow over bare bone.
miracle or not- we are thankful to the Lord that we are so fearfully and wonderfully made that he was healed. Today is he is police officer and he never would have made it if he had an amputated finger. God is good.  
love,
hart4god

hart4god:
PS
 :lol:
We never went to any faith healers or even prayed fervently for these things they were never put on display for others to see or did we ever brag on such things in our lives.......these little every day miracles were to be treasured in our hearts as an intimate exchange between The Father and us.

I am so sickened by those who try to make merchandise of God's goodness and love. Those are certainly the ones who will hear the fateful words "depart from me, I never knew you". and even now it saddens me that they are deceived and do not know the real Truth

I believe the real miracle of God are happening all around the world for the benefit of those who are calling on His name. and they are done quietly w/o TV cameras or gandstanding.

again,
hart4god

Sorin:
I believe that healing miracles still happen today. only not in circus shows like
Benny Hinn's. but rather behind the scenes like hart4god was saying the scab just feel off one night in bed and there was a new finger underneath.
Jesus never rented out a place and called people to be healed for fame and fortune like these phony hypocrites do. and God still doesn't perform miracles in the spotlight. if He did, who wouldn't believe? that's the way I see it atleast.

Mark J.:
If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to that mountain,"be ye moved", and it will rise up and be cast into the sea.

Obviously, this would be some miracle, however,we know He was refering to a spiritual mountain in this verse. Otherwise we'd have mountains flying everywhere which wouldn't be a good look, and it would drive topographical map makers insane with Christs faithful throwing them all over the place.

Secondly, He was pointing out again that our own faith is non existent. The only faith we have is God given.

I've had little things happen to me that one might call miracles, and others would call them coincidence.

Example: many years ago while touring with a Christian band out in the bush, it was nealy showtime when I suddenly came down with a monster headache. I couldn't even think let alone play. It knocked me flat. Anyway, the band leader came in and saw me stretched out and saw me in obvious pain. Before I could even say, "I have a thumping headache", he started praying over me, and as soon as he started I could literally feel the thing being dragged out of the top of my head.

God's intervention or a coincidence? I chose to believe the former. But as stated in other threads, there was no "grandstanding" about  it. I sat up, grabbed my guitar and went to work. I thanked God of course for freeing me from it.

I am grateful for all things in God, naturally, but here's one that I consider a huge miracle, and one of the "greater things" that Christ spoke of. This was a mountain mover.

I was selling vacume cleaners door to door at the time. We do what we need to do to survive. :wink:

Anyway, I went to this house to do a demonstration. I walk inside and there are statues of the Virgin Mary, pictures of the saints, and of course Christ nailed to a cross everywhere you look. Obviously it didn't take a revelation from God to work out that I'd walked into a Catholic stronghold here, and surprise, surprise, the lady I was doing the demonstration for was Italian.

Now in my job, we weren't allowed to do demonstrations to engineers as it was considered a commercial demonstratoin, and we had other more technically trained guys to do that.

As a born again Christian, performing a conversion in a hardcore Roman Catholic household could be viewed in a similar way. These people are heavily entrenched in their doctrine and shaking them from that requires a real spiritual awakening that is indeed miraculous. That veil is on TIGHT.

Anyway, I got into the demo with this lady, but soon into it something came up and the subject turned to religion. not by me, but by her. She was telling me about some problems in her family and that she'd been praying faithfully to the Vigin Mary and the Saints, but it wasn't doing any good. I just casually suggested, "Have you tried praying to God?"

Words don't do justice in describing the near horrified look on her face.

All she'd say was, "We are not worthy to come before God. We must pray to the blessed Virgin so she can intercede on our behalf. We must pray to the Saints. We aren't good enough." etc, etc.

I replied, " here's the smallest part of your problem. The Saints you pray to are dead and buried as is Mary. You first need someone who is alive to intercede for you. I would suggest the risen Lord Jesus Christ."

The tears welled up in her eyes. I could see the battle that had begun to rage inside her and my heart was breaking for her so I began to pray silently on her behalf that the Lord would set his peace upon this poor woman and calm her spirit that she may hear what He wanted to say to her at that point.

Her lifetime of indoctrination into that false religion needed to be lifted up and cast into the sea.

Guess what?

I swear, less than 30 seconds it took before she wanted to know everything I could tell her about Jesus and salvation by His name.

I arrived at that house at 7pm. She would not allow me to leave until 2am After I had met and sat and shared the gospel with her whole family. There was much coffee consumed and many tears of joy shed that night.

But now here's the kicker...

They didn't buy a vacume cleaner!

A miracle? oh yeah...Big time!

Kevin:
Mark that was an excellent post.
Would you call that raising the dead? I would

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