Have you ever seen a miracle?

[Izzy]

I would love video if anyone has it. I am looking to increase my faith.

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

You hit on something. There ARE supernatural miracles everywhere but virtually all of them are the result of God's unbelievably planning from the beginning. For instance, the ultimate miracles is the one which happened 13.7 billion years ago when God set the Universe in motion from a single point of origin. The fine tuning and planning is something beyond human comprehension. Earth is not only at a "just right" spot in our solar system, but our solar system is at a "just right" spot in our galaxy and it could even be said that our galaxy is at a "just right" spot in our local cluster. We are living in a "just right" period of time where our sun is at its most stable for advanced life and part of what makes that possible is that it is a 2nd generation star (being formed from remnants of earlier ones) which gives it the proper chemistry and our planet all the heavy elements like gold and uranium.

Yet, despite how awesome creation is many want to turn it into the equivalent of Jeanie (from I Dream Of Jeanie) folding her arms and bobbing her head up and down with a might bonk! and having everything appear as we see it today.

Your right, it's amazing.

I still wonder why there aren't more wondrous physical miracles to help prove the existence of an Almighty God, and encourage those low on faith.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Your right, it's amazing.

I still wonder why there aren't more wondrous physical miracles to help prove the existence of an Almighty God, and encourage those low on faith.

Probably because it nearly every case it puffs up the head of the person who performed it via laying on of hands or anointing with oil and draws attention to them more than it does God. Jesus Himself performed many but then again there isn't anything wrong with the attention being Him.

[canam]

My sister healed of hairy cell luekemia many years ago , refused chemo, looks great today.

[mfblume]

I've been involved in casting out demons, saw miracles and healings. Just came back from a native reserve in northern Manitoba where we cast out devils and saw many healings. Last fall we prayed for the pastor from there and he was delivered from bone cancer. I have the videos posted in the Canadian flavor section of this forum.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by mfblume

I've been involved in casting out demons, saw miracles and healings. Just came back from a native reserve in northern Manitoba where we cast out devils and saw many healings. Last fall we prayed for the pastor from there and he was delivered from bone cancer. I have the videos posted in the Canadian flavor section of this forum.

What Izzy is asking for are the hard visual types of miracles. I have seen and heard enough stories about cancer vanishing that it seems almost common, yet you don't see anything when the person is being prayed for. (Same for demons being cast out. Has anyone ever personally seen it where someone actually levitated?)
What about stories where a blind person with white eyes (or glass ones), sort of like the Blind Samurai gets prayed over and his vision returns along which the eyes turning a normal color? Or someone with a missing arm or leg who gets prayed over and grows a new limb? Or someone who has been dead beyond the normal definition of "clinical death" where they do not have a pulse for a few minutes and comes back to life?

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

What Izzy is asking for are the hard visual types of miracles. I have seen and heard enough stories about cancer vanishing that it seems almost common, yet you don't see anything when the person is being prayed for. (Same for demons being cast out. Has anyone ever personally seen it where someone actually levitated?)
What about stories where a blind person with white eyes (or glass ones), sort of like the Blind Samurai gets prayed over and his vision returns along which the eyes turning a normal color? Or someone with a missing arm or leg who gets prayed over and grows a new limb?

Oh, the sensational kind. Can't say I did. At the native reserve a man told me he witnessed a broken forearm snapped in an L shape and saw it restored instantly before his eyes.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Oh, the sensational kind. Can't say I did.

I guess ANY miracle where you visually see someone healed or raised from the dead would be considered sensational (and miraculous). It was common for Jesus and the apostles, but haven't heard much about it since.

[mfblume]

When casting out devils, the people always demonstratively react in coughing or vomiting, though. Also, I now recall praying for a girl who broke out in hives, and the hives instantly vanished.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Your right, it's amazing.

I still wonder why there aren't more wondrous physical miracles to help prove the existence of an Almighty God, and encourage those low on faith.

The bible provides us with the tools. Prayer and Fasting as well as reading the word of God. The more you build up your faith that way the more you will see miracles.
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Move from here to there. And it shall move. And nothing shall be impossible to you.
Mat 17:21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
Rom 10:17 Then faith is of hearing, and hearing by the Word of God

Jud 1:20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

Sadly this message has been replaced by a psuedo "magic" formula of uncut hair and incantations or invoking magic words.

While I do believe whole heartedly on calling on the name of Jesus, it's our faith IN His name that is active, not the vocalization of the sounds

Act 3:5 And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
Act 3:6 But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!"
Act 3:7 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
Act 3:8 And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

Act 3:16 And his name--by faith in his name--has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.

Many UPCs focus on works and standards and tongues as evidence but not on faith and the gifts of the Spirit.