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Eystein
Nov 27, 06 - 3:10 PM |
Testimony of miracles
I was asked by Mike to post some of my own experience with miracles under the topic “How should we read the Bible” and I felt is was appropriate to start a different thread on the subject so that others could post their stories as well. I have no spectacular examples, but they have meant very much for my own faith. I believe that God will answer every prayer that is made in love and in truth eventually in the age to come. He is not obliged to answer them in this age, and when he does this are the (frequent) exceptions. I believe we can learn many things from the nature of miracles by looking at the meaning of the word itself, it is Greek for sign. When God answers prayers in this age it is a sign for faith that he is still watching. I do not believe that miracles need to be supernatural. When God created the laws of nature he did it so cleverly that he did not have to break them to answer prayers (although I believe there are laws of nature we do not yet understand). My mother is a teacher and her students are her life. When she heard that Anders, a former student had fell three meters, hit the concrete on his head and was laying between life and death at the hospital she was completely destroyed. The doctors said there was a slight possibility that they could save his life, but that he would be a vegetable for life. So we prayed; our whole parish prayed. Three weeks later he woke up from the coma, walked across the room and send a SMS to his mother saying he was ok. Even the doctor said: I do not believe in miracles, but I do not know what else I can call this. Two of my sisters after going trough different tragedies has twice seen a double rainbow when the tide changed; the sign of God meaning never again. My dog has been sick for some time and got terminally ill this weekend. I didn’t find out until Saturday when my sister, who keeps the dog now, called and asked us to pray for him. She has worked as a veterinary assistant and she didn’t think he was going to make it. Yesterday he suddenly got better and today he is completely healthy. He is not a young dog, but it would be sad to lose him just before Christmas. Now there is no reason why he should not live at least to see another summer. I have experienced so many everyday answers to prayers that I do not know which ones to remember. Many of them are trivial. If I'm late and cannot find my keys I always find them immediately after I prayed. If I have a fight with somebody and pray about it we reconcile soon after. If I'm troubled by doubt God introduces me to people who strengthen my faith. I have this tremendous feeling that in life and death God looks after me. I do not pray that I will die an old man or that I will never experience sickness or misfortunes, but I pray that he will be there beside me through it all and carry me through the worst of it. And he has always, without a single exception, done that for me. |
Mike Burke
 Nov 28th, 2006 - 5:03 PM |
Re: Testimony of miracles
[quote] If I'm troubled by doubt God introduces me to people who strengthen my faith. [unquote] I believe that's how I met you and Ed. You have both strengthened my faith, and I thank God for that Eystein. ( I also thank you for posting this, and hope it strengthens the faith of all who visit here. ) God Bless. |
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Eystein
Nov 29th, 2006 - 1:18 PM |
Re: Testimony of miracles
Thank you Mike. I too believe that God brought us together. It was a relief to find a Christian universalist forum that is not fanatic in any way and which I can truly relate to. You, Ed, Caroline and other friends on this forum are all progressive answers to my prayers for fellowship and guidance although we live on two different continents. Paul had letters, we have internet. God bless. |
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Mike Burke
Nov 30th, 2006 - 11:24 PM |
Re: Testimony of miracles
Thank you Eystein. I've also prayed for fellowship and guidance, and I feel you, and Ed, and Caroline have been progressive answers to that prayer. Thank you (and God Bless.) |
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Mike Burke
Dec 2nd, 2006 - 11:47 AM |
Re: Testimony of miracles
To all, There are a couple of other things I should perhaps share here. I think I mentioned elsewhere that a friend of mine is a recovering addict. Back when her mother was alive, and she was living at home, she left for work one morning and never showed up. I was the last to learn she had relapsed, and found out when her mother called me that evening. My friend has two brothers, two sisters, and a brother in-law. Her mother said that she, the brothers, and the brother in-law had already been looking for her all day, and that they had tried every place they could think of. She may have thought that my knowledge of such places was more current than it actually was (as I don't think she really liked me at the time), but I told her I'd do the best I could. I tried every place I could remember (some of which weren't there anymore), and was having no luck myself until I said a short prayer. As soon as I had finished, I spotted my friend's car, and I spotted her and another young woman walking toward it (all in an area not far from her mother's house, and that I would not have considered particularly likely.) She was still in the uniform she was wearing when she left for work that morning, and I told her she was in danger of losing her job (and the roof over her head) if she didn't show up the next day. She wouldn't listen at first, and I ended up following her to some of the places I had already been. She tried to lose me several times, but she only stopped at one place (which happened to be one of the worst.) I finally got her to stop what she was doing and go home, but only after standing in the back alley of the building she entered, and shouting something about calling the police. I think she was afraid I'd get myself killed if she didn't come down and talk to me, and when she saw I wasn't going anywhere without her, she got back in her car and drove home. I followed her to the door, and she went to work the next day. That in itself was a small miracle, but there's another incident I remember that's a little more personal (which is why I haven't shared it until now.) To make a long story short, I once asked God to stop me from doing something I had come to believe was a serious sin, and returned home from work that night to find that my mother had been taken to the hospital with congestive heart failure. As a result, someone I had made a promise to missed an appointment, a deadline past, and everything worked out for the best. Without going into more detail here, I don't believe I was the only one who saw God's hand in this. There's also a story I received second hand, that I found quite interesting. When my friend and her sister were teenagers, their mother found that something kept telling her to go home one day. She was at work at the time, and came home to find that both her daughters had overdosed. The Emergency Room doctor said that they would have died if she hadn't called the ambulance when she did. Life is full of small miracles, and I share these here in the hope that they will strengthen the faith of those who visit. God Bless. |
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Mike Burke
Dec 10th, 2006 - 10:18 AM |
Re: Testimony of miracles
P.S. The third daughter was raised by her grandmother in Jersey, and wasn't home when the other girls overdosed. |
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