Miracles
I have been thinking a lot about miracles lately. I’ve been wondering what makes an event a miracle? Last night I got on my computer and did some research trying to find out how others define what a miracle is.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a miracle is defined as “an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs.” This sounds good but it seemed too complicated, almost scientific, to me so I looked further.
I found on thefreedictionary.com the following: a miracle is “An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God.” Again, this sounded good but really didn’t hit home for me.
I continued to look and look but really didn’t find anything that I was happy with or excited about.
I decided to try to use my own words to describe what I think a miracle is. I think that a miracle is “God intervening in someone’s life to make something good happen that might not otherwise happen without His intervention.”
I could talk all day long about God and miracles. But, to someone who might not believe in miracles, it would take a big leap of faith to start to do so just based upon what I had to say. So, I decided the most powerful way to talk about miracles would be to hear from people who have had miracles occur in their lives.
In my post this past Sunday, I said the best way to see the power of God is through the testimony of others. I asked everyone if God had ever performed a miracle in their life and, if so, to please tell us about it.
The responses were amazing. People shared with us all types of miracles that have occurred in their lives. You can read the responses people submitted at www.TheWhisperofGod.com and at www.facebook.com/TheWhisperofGod (Please take a look at both pages as there are different responses on each.)
From everyone’s responses, it is apparent that miracles come in all shapes and sizes. They also don’t have to be dramatic either: seas don’t always need to be parted in order for a miracle to occur.
There were also some comments from people who stated that they have never had a miracle happen in their lives. Is it that a miracle has never happened for them or that they have just not been recognized?
What might be a miracle to one person is something that is taken for granted by another person. A person being able to buy food might be a miracle to someone who has to feed a hungry family but might be out of money. Being able to walk might be a miracle for another person while most of us take walking for granted every day.
We can also become instruments in helping make God’s miracles occur. Why might God give us the inspiration to do something for or say something to another person at “just the right time?” The timing of something happening in someone’s life can be a miracle in and of itself.
I have been told by others that something I have written or said came at just the right time for them. I even had a person tell me that I touched them at a critical time in their life and helped save their life. What I wrote at that time may not have affected someone else the way it did this person. What I am trying to say is that a miracle may be in the eye of the beholder.
As I write this a prayer has come to mind that, in closing, I would like to share with you:
“God let me learn to be an instrument for you to use as You see fit. Let me learn to hear, listen to, and understand Your Whisper. I thank you for every wonderful miracle that You have made a part of my life and I am humbled to know that You may call on me to help make a miracle happen in someone else’s life. I stand ready to serve You now and whenever You call.”
Have a blessed day today everyone!
Elmer
Everyday ia a blessing to me. A miracle is divine intervention at just the right time, whether it be salvation, a job, money, relationships, an encouraging word from someone, or just a beautiful moment with God during devotion, or just riding down the road. God is awesome, anyway you look at Him. He is always ready to meet our needs and to prove Himself through divine intervention. Just look at the people in Haiti. Although many, many have died, there are awesome stories of how people buried for days, have been recovered. I am proud to be related to Him.
1When I was approximately 22 years old, I was in a terrible car accident-a nurse on-the-scene reported that I had been “PEELED out of the car”. My six-week old son was killed—we were on the way from our family-care physician for my “6-week-after-having-a-baby” check-up. We were on the way to my husband’s office to bring (and share) some lunch. Apparently, I had suffered a hard-to-detect gall bladder attack while I was at a traffic control signal! The doctors at the hospital where I had been taken gave me 1% chance of surviving the night. The only event that is clear in my memory is that of an appearance of one who looked to me like Jesus in the Children’s Bible that my father often read to us at home. He told me that I would be alright. To me, I was only “gone” for a brief moment, but, by everyone else’s time, I was in the COMA 2-1/2 months. It did change my life—and my perceptions of what is important and what is not!
2Without any preconceived notion of what would happen, I said a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ to God at my job site one day. Suddenly my life was forever changed. A weight that I never knew I carried departed from my life and has never returned. My entire conscience and everything changed. The bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Well this for me was a complete and total miracle and the first of many many to follow. Since that day I have been instantly supernaturally healed of a broken shoulder in Jesus’ name, my son suffered a skull fracture that was healed in the hospital after being flown in as well in Jesus’ name, I have seen the deaf healed in Jesus’ name, the lame walk in Jesus’ name. What a name is the Name of Jesus. I belong to that Name and I am glad that their is no other name given to men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) He said it… “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
I have heard so many say, “If God is so loving, then why is there so much evil in the world?” For so long this seemed to be a good question. But then I realized that it was not God that causes the evil but it is us in rebellion to Him that is doing it. And then I saw that God didn’t just leave us here to suffer while He stayed away out in heaven somewhere but that He became a man, came and did nothing but good – healing people and doing good every place that He went. And that the world turned on Him and hated Him and publicly mocked, ridiculed, tortured, and killed Him. That God didnt just stay far off and ignore what was going on but that He came and experienced it with us AND in doing so became our sacrifice for sins, forever cleansing us and opening up the way for us to once again have relationship with Him. That we would be able to obey Him and live to Him and not the letter of the law. But alive to Him in Spirit. Hallelujah! And that one day the lease will be up on this planet and He will return and live with the righteous and they will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father!
Let Jesus have the preeminence.
3OOOOOOOOWOW
GOD IS AN AWSOME “GOD THE FATHER”
JESUS CHRIST IS AN AWSOME “SAVIOR”
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS AN AWSOME “TEACHER”
SOOOOOOO IN SAYING ALL THAT WE ARE ALL
4“MIRACLES OF GOD CREATION”
When you offer your life to Him to our Lord, you will received and experienced
5the real miracle in your life like for me even though I’m active in hearing and worshiping God but still I feel empty because there something missing in my life and that is my love to my husband, I decide to make separate with him for all I know I fall out of love even he really love me more than his life, but still I leave him………then I’ve been active going to Prayer meeting but I found myself one day crying and feeling lost that I don’t want to continue my life even though my family is there whose really supporting me, I what I did is I pray hard and ask God why I felt this and a voice whispering and telling me YOU OFFER YOUR LIFE TO ME NOW, LET ME BE THE ONE DRIVE YOUR LIFE JUST FOLLOW………and its like 2 angels came into me telling WHY DON’T YOU GAVE YOUR HUSBAND A CHANCE AGAIN, and on that moment my husband called me and we fixed everything…Its a Miracle because I really really love my husband now and every pictures of him is he looks always handsome to me and I miss him so much and cannot wait any longer to see him….He’s coming back on June and we will start all over again and its like we are newly wed and this time we will serve the Lord……..Thank you very much Lord for touching our lives and I Trust in You!!!! Thank you Holy Spirit!!!!!
When you offer your life to Him to our Lord, you will received and experienced
6the real miracle in your life like for me even though I’m active in hearing and worshiping God but still I feel empty because there something missing in my life and that is my love to my husband, I decide to make separate with him for all I know I fall out of love even he really love me more than his life, but still I leave him………then I’ve been active going to Prayer meeting but I found myself one day crying and feeling lost that I don’t want to continue my life even though my family is there whose really supporting me, I what I did is I pray hard and ask God why I felt this and a voice whispering and telling me YOU OFFER YOUR LIFE TO ME NOW, LET ME BE THE ONE DRIVE YOUR LIFE JUST FOLLOW………and its like 2 angels came into me telling WHY DON’T YOU GAVE YOUR HUSBAND A CHANCE AGAIN, and on that moment my husband called me and we fixed everything…Its a Miracle because I really really love my husband now and every pictures of him is he looks always handsome to me and I miss him so much and cannot wait any longer to see him….He’s coming back on June and we will start all over again and its like we are newly wed and this time we will serve the Lord……..Thank you very much Lord for touching our lives and I Trust in You!!!! Thank you Holy Spirit!!!!!
These help me everyday.. thank you
7I had a heartattack Sept.28,2009 just as my husband got home from work.I’d been several times with severe pain,it was always past off as stress.I believe because I’m Bipolar and take med. they couldn’t come up with anything but a nut case. Anyhow Sept28,2009 we rush to the hospital which was a 45 minute ride-I Prayed for 45 minutes in extreme pain.Got to the hospital and was told another 45 minutes and I would of been dead the arties in the back of my heart were totally blocked Dr. said I should of already of been dead.The Lord gave me life for 45 minutes of Prayer. They (DR.) called it a massive heartattack–3 days later I walked into Sunday night service –noone could believe I was up and doing well.
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