Show of Hands..

[FatherApe]

Alrighty then, let's have a show of hands please. Who has ever had a spiritual or miracle experience which you know for a fact was evidence (to you at least) of God's presence and/or work.

Please elaborate..

Thankyou in advance for your thoughtful replies...

 

[Hands&Feet]

I seriously wouldn't know where to start with so little time or space, but I've just completed a 370 page book documenting many, but not nearly all of them. It will be out in time for Easter. Life has been a struggle, yet God has been miraculously good.

 

[G4m]

Alrighty then, let's have a show of hands please. Who has ever had a spiritual or miracle experience which you know for a fact was evidence (to you at least) of God's presence and/or work.

Please elaborate..

Thankyou in advance for your thoughtful replies...

From as early as I can remember:

Hebrews 11
3By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

 

[Svt4Him]

Yes. Healing of my neck, which felt like an internal heat, then I could move my head all the way. And I can't smoke anymore, and it was a miracle, in that I still tried, but I couldn't inhale the smoke.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

I had a vision of the night that detailed the presidencies from 1954 through the next 2 presidents. I had this event in 1971.

 

[preston08]

I often talk with my cousin about the Bible and he knows it almost inside out...

When trying to give him advice I often say things that directly corralate with key verses, or ARE key verses from parts of the Bible which I have not even read.

He always asks "Where do you get all of this wisdom?"

 

[av2k]

Robbed on sunday

Gun to head

20 seconds count down until i get shot

prayed

robber left to do something else and forgot

 

[FatherApe]

Have your miracles in any way changed your life, or your spiritual walk?

 

[Svt4Him]

Yes. I don't smoke anymore.

 

[TheThinman]

Many in my life and others around me. But I'll give you one. Smoking pot was a way of life for me, handed down to me by my parents. 2 years ago, God plucked it out of my life instantly and thoroughly. I had nothing to do with it, it was all Him.

I will omit many details for the sake of pithiness


I loved everything about smoking pot. The taste, smell, the high, everything. I would get up on Sun. morning, smoke a bowl, go to church and smoke one on the way home. Although I officially smoked it much longer, I was constantly stoned from the moment I woke, to the time I went to bed for 16 years straight. I could fill a book with this one experience alone, but I do not type that fast, and I've stated the basic fact that God can do anything, and I can do nothing without Him.
This experience has been a true testimony to all my friends who know me, and use to pass the pipe with me. I was the biggest pot head I ever knew, or they knew. There was no 12 step program or gradual process to going straight, and I have not struggled with the urge to go back to my old ways.
Forget "signs and wonders" (God does that too) this is the kind of miracle that changed my life and others around me forever.

 

[pmarquette]

delivered from alcohol in 1992 , have not had a drop since

 

[FatherApe]

I too am clean of ganja & liquor after years of both. It took a DWI arrest to stop the alcohol. Perhaps there was a touch of Godly intervention in there too. My most undeniable session of spiritual warmth followed a day or 2 later as I lay in jail anticipating the worst and earnestly praying to be surrounded by angels. After an hour or so of fetal positioned prayer, I was overwhelmed with the most incredible sense of warmth and security I've ever known. It was as much a physical as a mental sensation - in a situation where I could not have mustered it on my own.

Funny how sometimes the worst brings out the best.

 

[Dawn Marie]

Robbed on sunday

Gun to head

20 seconds count down until i get shot

prayed

robber left to do something else and forgot

Wow.

 

[seebs]

I have no way of knowing for sure, but I have seen things which I personally find persuasive. But no, I don't know "for a fact".

 

[deg]

Here's a little experience that made me smile for...O...well, I guess I'm still smiling...

Saved on November 29, 02; delivered from every single drug known to the human race (execpt heroin, never touched that stuff!). Began my walk.

Started reading something about Baptism in Holy Spirit. Something about tongues. Asked the Lord about it. Left the tongues behind, I wanted the power to witness. Spent about 3 hours a night for 3 weeks in March '03 praying for a stronger anointing: shouting, singing, praying, crying...you name it, I did it. I was thirsty!

March 27, Lord came in a dream. I was seated around my dining room table with my family, everything was white, massive feast laid out. I got up to go read my bible, but for some reason I walked right past it, screaming in my head "I must READ MY BIBLE! THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY BIBLE I MUST READ!" Kept walking, right into a small room in our house, and stood in front of an old white rotary phone. Sat there. Waited. It rang, and I picked it up. Strong male voice, clear as a bell spoke "It is near."

Too much joy; way too much. More than I've ever experienced before. so much I can't even get words out properly, more like bubbles of letters. I also had an overriding knowledge of what was near: my baptism in the Spirit. I tried to respond but was too stupified with joy...my goodness, it still makes me giggle. Anyway, the voice rang out again: "Go to scripture." "Yes" I finally managed to reply. Hung up, ran back into the dining room, sat down, woke up.

Nothing too unusual about that, only a dream that was so vivid I can describe the pattern on the tablecloth and the reflection in the silver table trappings. Anyway, now it's 630 AM, March 27, and I'm sitting bolt upright it my dorm room, roomy asleep next to me. I get over to my KJV, not knowing what the heck to expect, and pray a simple prayer: "Lord, please teach me in the third verse I read." I opened to where I had left the marker about a month back in James: James 1:3 "Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." I was confused, completely. I thought I had made the whole thing up and I was ready to go back to bed, and write it all off. Prayed again: "Lord, I know you aren't the author of confusion: please teach me again in the third verse." So I RANDOMLY SPLIT MY CLOSED BIBLE, and it fell to Romans 5, and I began to read third verse: "and not only so, but we glory in tribulation also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience." I began to laugh out loud, so loud I disturbed my roomate. Did it change me? Oh my yes. It confirmed everything. There was little room for faith, it was mostly knowledge. That is, until later.

6 Months later, this past November 3rd, after a few MAJOR TRIALS, I found myself out on the floor in my congregation, loudly pronouncing declarative tongues, completely immersed in the Divine. I must say, that experience changed me more than the dream foretelling it did!

In Love and Hope,
Deg

 

[FatherApe]

Nicely told.. Thanks Deg.

 

[Im4HimiHs]

Was working with my hands, the thoughts "Is this one for the people or is this one for the Lord?". My response was "everything is for the Lord". Two days later the item was "lost". I think it was dropped in church. Either way it is gone. Yes, it was "for the Lord".

 

[Sword-In-Hand]

Reading these posts has made me a little more than misty eyed. To see how God works so personally in each of our lives is amazing. He truly does give freely and without reproach. We are so undeserving of anything, but because of a love we can't comprehend, He still does all for us.

God has set me free from so many things, I could write a book....maybe I will, since He called me to write . Personally though, He has set me free from alcohol and sexual activity. I remember calling out to Him during my deepest struggle and lifting my hand for Him to take a hold of. It was a time in my life where I thought everything was crashing down upon me, I had just lost a baby. Talk about someone being broken. Anyway, when I called and reached to Him and fell in prayer, He immediately answered me and gave me a comfort I can't even describe. I've been a changed person ever since and now my life is focused on Jesus and nothing else. I love my King, can't wait to be with Him.

 

[Indigo]

I don't know how to explain but will try. I seem to have a soundtrack to my life. I'm always changing stations when listening to the radio or I pick out certain songs from CDs and they always seem to tell me exactly what is going on in my life at the time and the dangers around me as well as how I feel if I'm not sure myself. I don't pick songs because of the words and I want to believe they are true, I just pick them randomly or because I just like the music and when I listen to the words, I realise what it means. Although, before I realised this, I made lots of mistakes and even now, sometimes I just don't believe it (what the song is telling me). Or I realize the meaning later. People who have hurt me seemed to realize this about me before I ever did, probably because it warned me about them. That just seemed to make them mad because they didn't want to see the error of their ways. For instance, my sister-in-law is a pure evil woman and once I started singing the song on the jukebox which I did not play myself. As I sang, I noticed she gave me a dirty look. Later I realized the song was about her and she obviously knew it. The song was Garbage's "Stupid Girl" and it talks about how everything she does is fake and it fits her personality perfectly. There's many other examples I won't go into. But it's not just songs, it's things I watch on TV or just hear while zapping. When I was still with my ex, he always played head games with me and I started going to a psychiatrist which to him meant that I was the one with the problem. One day he was zapping on the TV and there was a talk show and the only thing I/we heard before he quickly zapped again was "most people go to psychiatrists because they have someone around them who desperately needs it more than them". Anyway, if you are around me and you want to hurt me, God will constantly torment you with the truth about yourself. Does anyone else experience this? It is also warnings to me and I have to listen.

 

[ydouxist]

One night about 15 yrs ago. I had a very long debate with a very intelligent and convincing older man. He shook the foundation of my beliefs. I held my own because I knew the Word. But our conversation led me to question if I really "knew the truth"

The next afternoon I was praying, {face down in tears on my living room floor} Calling out to God. "God I don't want to believe something just because I believe it. I have to know truth. Please don't let me be deceived."

"The irony of deception is those who are don't even realize it."

I knew this. Hence the prayer. While I was still on the floor the phone rang.

My wife told me it was an old college friend. I had not talked to this guy in over 9 yrs. We went to school together in Massachusetts. I now lived in Texas, he was in California.
We used to party together. The last time I saw him was when I witnessed to him. He thought I went off the deep end and wanted nothing to do with any of it.

He explained the reason for his call. {short version} He was just about to commit suicide because of his circumstances, but said, God if your real and I'm about to meet you, I have to know. What is truth? He told me God answered him and said," Call Vinal" {my name}
This was his story. He didn't know what I was praying.
He had to locate me. His timing was perfect {divine} .

Only God could answer 2 prayers at the same time.

Isn't God awesome?