randman writes:
But that doesn't mean we all get a miracle when we want one, or we would all be healthy and rich. We do though receive something better than a miracle though.
Hi Randman. Your is true (AbE: that we don't always get a miracle, but also, as you have stated it's also true that some times we do.}. I was once instantly healed after the elders of the church I was attending anointed me with oil and prayed after I asked them to do so in a Sunday evening service. I was in the Air Force, stationed at Griffis AFB, Rome, NY back in the fifties. I was to begin a long hitch hike trip to Wyoming to see my folks the next AM. I had had a very persistent cough for over a month and felt the need of a healing before being exposed to the elements so long. In fact, I was hacking away even in the service with this cough. After the prayer and anointing which was done before the preaching, I returned to my seat and never coughed once the rest of the evening. I also never coughed all the way to Wyo, though often I stood out in the elememts between rides, sometimes into the cool night. I have never since had a problem with long cough spells as I had had prior to this. The churches I have been involved with were not pentacostal types. Rarely in the churches I have attended do they advocate this anointing, et al, so I had to specifically request it when it has been done.
I have received anointing and prayer since on several occasions with satisfactory results, but none since which were instantaneous.
I have received myself and heard tell by reliable sources, many miracles. I never try to convince anyone that they should believe them. These are personal things which we can know are miraculous and too unusual to be natural, but to try to prove it to someone else is futle. It's something you have to exeperience, just as the presence of the Holy Spirit is something that must be personally experienced.
I have initiated threads in the past here on the Exodus Video research of the chariot wheels photographed in the Gulf of Aqaba and the corroborating stuff in the region pertaining to the Biblical account of the Exodus. The secularists here nearly all debunked it, inspite of the video researched evidence by a marine biologist who was also quite experienced in archeological research and marine photograpy, so if they reject that which they could view, why should we expect them to accept miracles they can't see.
Imo, every fulfilled Biblical prophecy which can be verified is a miracle, but alas, few, even among the clergy care enough to investigate, preach on or to even read and study them.
This message has been edited by buzsaw, 12-26-2005 10:42 PM
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