Gotta admit folks I don't think I've ever seen a true miracle. In the 12 years I've went to church, not once did I see a demon cast out, someone raise from the dead, or a healing. By healing I mean - cancer healed completely immediately without drugs, brain damage healed, AIDS healed, or someone with a true physical handicap made whole, etc. I've heard stories from other saints claiming someone split their head while running the aisles and God healed it instantly.
If you've seen a true, 100% miracle please tell your story!
I have seen Demons cast out. I have "seen" healings, without medical interventions, and aside from that the many other kinds of miracles like prophetic utterences, works of knowledge, visons and dreams
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I've certainly been around miracles, many involving ourselves (and non-health related -my whole life is one!) but as far as seeing a physical supernatural occurrence like a missing limb appear (NOT lengthened) where there wasn't one, someone being raised from the dead who was REALLY dead and not just clinically so for a few minutes, or someone blind suddenly able to see, no I have not.
I've seen hundreds of people say their back pain magically vanished though!
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I'm looking more for supernatural, divine, physical miracles.
I think most would agree that a healthy baby growing inside a woman from a double cell and being born is a miracle but it's something that happens everyday.
When my son was about 10, he had a growth come up on his shoulder. It was at night, we were home, getting ready to go to bed. He found the growth when he was putting his PJs on.
At that time I was praying and fasting and was just lost in Jesus, was walking close to God.
We prayed and commanded the growth to fall off his body in Jesus name, and it did, and it never came back.
We were so innocent and simple in those days.
It makes me sad because I've become jaded and weary somehow, how I long to walk again in that simple faith.
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Oh, and one time my son was on the playground. there was a kid about 5 years older then Jason and his friends and he would pick on the kids and they didn't stand a chance against him. He was like a Goliath to them
One day Jason came flying into the house praising God and yelling that the Lord had delivered him from the bully.
He said he started to run from him calling on the name of Jesus, and the Bully almost caught him but the angel of the Lord tripped the bully and delivered him.
Oh, I believe it. you may not, but I do.
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I'm looking more for supernatural, divine, physical miracles.
I think most would agree that a healthy baby growing inside a woman from a double cell and being born is a miracle but it's something that happens everyday.
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.
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