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survey sez! Reader's responses to The Big Question. The Question: Describe a miracle you experienced or witnessed.
Answer: “A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.” Proverbs 18:16. Because it reminds me that God gave me talents and abilities (gifts if you will) and that His provision makes a way. No one has to open their own doors or make their own opportunities.”
Answer: “UPCI, October 2007, TV resolution.”
Answer: “Philippians 4:6-8, Here we are reminded who we are. Whose we are. How to live and hope and think. Paul reminding us of proper conduct and at the same time, giving encouragement. Paul writes this with such passion and love. It is very moving.”
Answer: “About six months ago, I developed some sort of rash all over my body that was itchy and painful. I couldn’t sleep through the night because I would wake up clawing at my body, scratching until the skin broke. This lasted about a week, until our Sunday night service. The power of God moved mightily, and there was a first time visitor in our service. He came to the altar shouting that he’d been healed. The day before, he had broken his leg to the point where the doctors were saying he’d need to have physical therapy and surgery in order to even “sort of” fix it. But, he was claiming the victory and wanted to cut his cast off right then and there.
Our pastor wanted him to wait and talk to a doctor regarding this, so the man went home, cut off his cast and came back into the church. He began to slam his once broken leg down on the concrete and claim the victory in Jesus name. There was no pain. We claimed it as a miracle in Jesus’ name.
People then began to ask our pastor who “was playing the trumpet tonight?” Several saints said that they heard trumpet playing going during the song service and altar call, but we didn’t have a trumpet player present during the service. In fact, the only person playing anything remotely close to the trumpet was our clarinet player—and she said she heard the trumpet as well. After that two people at separate times came forward and said that they saw angels.
After witnessing and hearing all of this, I realized tears were pouring down my face and all I could do was worship God. I began to feel a tingling feeling all over my body and I knew it was the presence of God touching me. I slept through the night that Sunday and have had no instances of that rash since then! God is so good! That had to have been one of the most apostolic services I’ve ever been in!”
Answer: “I was on chorale tour and I was helping pray for a young boy who had been deaf since birth. He started jolting around because he had never heard anything until the moment he got healed. I can’t imagine how scared he must have been, but it was really amazing to see when he started jumping around realizing that he had been healed. He did a flip down the aisle—it was really a phenomenal experience!”
Answer: “Just this week my best friend’s mother returned from Chicago where she was being treated for cancer. She had been diagnosed with stage three. She returned only to receive a phone call from the hospital down there. They’d have to stop treating her, as they can find no trace of the cancer at all!”
Answer: “My children being born.”
Answer: “I’ll go with the most recent: yesterday I had pain from my back around my side and felt awful. The doctors I work with diagnosed me with a kidney infection and gave me a prescription. I forgot the prescription at work because I was running late and almost missed the vanpool. I got home and started feeling worse with more pain. My husband and I prayed for God to heal my body and the pain went away. This morning I feel better than ever! :) Thank you, Jesus!”
Answer: “My ankles were healed at the National Singles Conference in Memphis this past June!”
Answer: “When I first walked into a UPC church I had over a dozen piercings spread around my entire body. I had been in church about a month and was invited to attend a ladies conference. I still had no particular conviction regarding my piercing, but out of respect for my church I took out all the obviously visible ones.
During the conference I went to the altar to pray for the infilling of the Holy Ghost. That was really the first time in my life I had ever even ‘kind of sort of’ believed in God. I had been doing Bible studies but they were more just an academic study of literature than anything else. But in that room with all those women praying their hearts out I began to wonder if there really wasn’t something more out there. I felt something.
I went to the altar still not completely convinced that He existed. I was praying (without a great understanding of really what I was praying for) I asked God to show me His presence by moving my tongue in such a way that I could experience tongues like everyone else there did and so I could have His spirit inside of me. He replied, in an audible masculine voice (notice there were no men in the room, I was at a ladies conference) just inside my ear, “How can I move your tongue when you have a post through it?” I still had my tongue ring in. I went to the rest room removed it and went back in and received the Holy Ghost.
I realize that is less of a miracle and more of a testimony. But it was a miracle that God spoke to me an (at that point), disbelieving, unrepented sinner. Who was, half earnestly praying, half preparing her list of things to make fun of these “religious nuts” about. He spoke to me. He made me believe. He has a sense of humor!”
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