I have been thinking a lot about miracles lately. I’ve been wondering what makes an event a miracle? Last night I got on my computer and did some research trying to find out how others define what a miracle is.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a miracle is defined as “an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs.” This sounds good but it seemed too complicated, almost scientific, to me so I looked further.
I found on thefreedictionary.com the following: a miracle is “An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God.” Again, this sounded good but really didn’t hit home for me.
I continued to look and look but really didn’t find anything that I was happy with or excited about.
I decided to try to use my own words to describe what I think a miracle is. I think that a miracle is “God intervening in someone’s life to make something good happen that might not otherwise happen without His intervention.”
I could talk all day long about God and miracles. But, to someone who might not believe in miracles, it would take a big leap of faith to start to do so just based upon what I had to say. So, I decided the most powerful way to talk about miracles would be to hear from people who have had miracles occur in their lives.
In my post this past Sunday, I said the best way to see the power of God is through the testimony of others. I asked everyone if God had ever performed a miracle in their life and, if so, to please tell us about it.
The responses were amazing. People shared with us all types of miracles that have occurred in their lives. You can read the responses people submitted at www.TheWhisperofGod.com and at www.facebook.com/TheWhisperofGod (Please take a look at both pages as there are different responses on each.)
From everyone’s responses, it is apparent that miracles come in all shapes and sizes. They also don’t have to be dramatic either: seas don’t always need to be parted in order for a miracle to occur.
There were also some comments from people who stated that they have never had a miracle happen in their lives. Is it that a miracle has never happened for them or that they have just not been recognized?
What might be a miracle to one person is something that is taken for granted by another person. A person being able to buy food might be a miracle to someone who has to feed a hungry family but might be out of money. Being able to walk might be a miracle for another person while most of us take walking for granted every day.
We can also become instruments in helping make God’s miracles occur. Why might God give us the inspiration to do something for or say something to another person at “just the right time?” The timing of something happening in someone’s life can be a miracle in and of itself.
I have been told by others that something I have written or said came at just the right time for them. I even had a person tell me that I touched them at a critical time in their life and helped save their life. What I wrote at that time may not have affected someone else the way it did this person. What I am trying to say is that a miracle may be in the eye of the beholder.
As I write this a prayer has come to mind that, in closing, I would like to share with you:
“God let me learn to be an instrument for you to use as You see fit. Let me learn to hear, listen to, and understand Your Whisper. I thank you for every wonderful miracle that You have made a part of my life and I am humbled to know that You may call on me to help make a miracle happen in someone else’s life. I stand ready to serve You now and whenever You call.”
Have a blessed day today everyone!
Elmer
Everyday ia a blessing to me. A miracle is divine intervention at just the right time, whether it be salvation, a job, money, relationships, an encouraging word from someone, or just a beautiful moment with God during devotion, or just riding down the road. God is awesome, anyway you look at Him. He is always ready to meet our needs and to prove Himself through divine intervention. Just look at the people in Haiti. Although many, many have died, there are awesome stories of how people buried for days, have been recovered. I am proud to be related to Him.
When I was approximately 22 years old, I was in a terrible car accident-a nurse on-the-scene reported that I had been “PEELED out of the car”. My six-week old son was killed—we were on the way from our family-care physician for my “6-week-after-having-a-baby” check-up. We were on the way to my husband’s office to bring (and share) some lunch. Apparently, I had suffered a hard-to-detect gall bladder attack while I was at a traffic control signal! The doctors at the hospital where I had been taken gave me 1% chance of surviving the night. The only event that is clear in my memory is that of an appearance of one who looked to me like Jesus in the Children’s Bible that my father often read to us at home. He told me that I would be alright. To me, I was only “gone” for a brief moment, but, by everyone else’s time, I was in the COMA 2-1/2 months. It did change my life—and my perceptions of what is important and what is not!
Without any preconceived notion of what would happen, I said a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ to God at my job site one day. Suddenly my life was forever changed. A weight that I never knew I carried departed from my life and has never returned. My entire conscience and everything changed. The bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Well this for me was a complete and total miracle and the first of many many to follow. Since that day I have been instantly supernaturally healed of a broken shoulder in Jesus’ name, my son suffered a skull fracture that was healed in the hospital after being flown in as well in Jesus’ name, I have seen the deaf healed in Jesus’ name, the lame walk in Jesus’ name. What a name is the Name of Jesus. I belong to that Name and I am glad that their is no other name given to men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) He said it… “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
I have heard so many say, “If God is so loving, then why is there so much evil in the world?” For so long this seemed to be a good question. But then I realized that it was not God that causes the evil but it is us in rebellion to Him that is doing it. And then I saw that God didn’t just leave us here to suffer while He stayed away out in heaven somewhere but that He became a man, came and did nothing but good – healing people and doing good every place that He went. And that the world turned on Him and hated Him and publicly mocked, ridiculed, tortured, and killed Him. That God didnt just stay far off and ignore what was going on but that He came and experienced it with us AND in doing so became our sacrifice for sins, forever cleansing us and opening up the way for us to once again have relationship with Him. That we would be able to obey Him and live to Him and not the letter of the law. But alive to Him in Spirit. Hallelujah! And that one day the lease will be up on this planet and He will return and live with the righteous and they will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father!
Let Jesus have the preeminence.
OOOOOOOOWOW
GOD IS AN AWSOME “GOD THE FATHER”
JESUS CHRIST IS AN AWSOME “SAVIOR”
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS AN AWSOME “TEACHER”
SOOOOOOO IN SAYING ALL THAT WE ARE ALL
“MIRACLES OF GOD CREATION”
When you offer your life to Him to our Lord, you will received and experienced
the real miracle in your life like for me even though I’m active in hearing and worshiping God but still I feel empty because there something missing in my life and that is my love to my husband, I decide to make separate with him for all I know I fall out of love even he really love me more than his life, but still I leave him………then I’ve been active going to Prayer meeting but I found myself one day crying and feeling lost that I don’t want to continue my life even though my family is there whose really supporting me, I what I did is I pray hard and ask God why I felt this and a voice whispering and telling me YOU OFFER YOUR LIFE TO ME NOW, LET ME BE THE ONE DRIVE YOUR LIFE JUST FOLLOW………and its like 2 angels came into me telling WHY DON’T YOU GAVE YOUR HUSBAND A CHANCE AGAIN, and on that moment my husband called me and we fixed everything…Its a Miracle because I really really love my husband now and every pictures of him is he looks always handsome to me and I miss him so much and cannot wait any longer to see him….He’s coming back on June and we will start all over again and its like we are newly wed and this time we will serve the Lord……..Thank you very much Lord for touching our lives and I Trust in You!!!! Thank you Holy Spirit!!!!!
When you offer your life to Him to our Lord, you will received and experienced
the real miracle in your life like for me even though I’m active in hearing and worshiping God but still I feel empty because there something missing in my life and that is my love to my husband, I decide to make separate with him for all I know I fall out of love even he really love me more than his life, but still I leave him………then I’ve been active going to Prayer meeting but I found myself one day crying and feeling lost that I don’t want to continue my life even though my family is there whose really supporting me, I what I did is I pray hard and ask God why I felt this and a voice whispering and telling me YOU OFFER YOUR LIFE TO ME NOW, LET ME BE THE ONE DRIVE YOUR LIFE JUST FOLLOW………and its like 2 angels came into me telling WHY DON’T YOU GAVE YOUR HUSBAND A CHANCE AGAIN, and on that moment my husband called me and we fixed everything…Its a Miracle because I really really love my husband now and every pictures of him is he looks always handsome to me and I miss him so much and cannot wait any longer to see him….He’s coming back on June and we will start all over again and its like we are newly wed and this time we will serve the Lord……..Thank you very much Lord for touching our lives and I Trust in You!!!! Thank you Holy Spirit!!!!!
These help me everyday.. thank you
I had a heartattack Sept.28,2009 just as my husband got home from work.I’d been several times with severe pain,it was always past off as stress.I believe because I’m Bipolar and take med. they couldn’t come up with anything but a nut case. Anyhow Sept28,2009 we rush to the hospital which was a 45 minute ride-I Prayed for 45 minutes in extreme pain.Got to the hospital and was told another 45 minutes and I would of been dead the arties in the back of my heart were totally blocked Dr. said I should of already of been dead.The Lord gave me life for 45 minutes of Prayer. They (DR.) called it a massive heartattack–3 days later I walked into Sunday night service –noone could believe I was up and doing well.
I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A STORY VERY DEAR TO MY HEART. ON JULY 5, 2010, MY 78 YEAR OLD FATHER AND BROTHER WERE CLEARING BRUSH IN A VERY LARGE PASTURE WHEN THEY WERE ATTACKED BY AFRICANIZED KILLER BEES. MY FATHER WAS THE FIRST TO BE BITTEN BY JUST ONE BEE (THAT SOON SET OFF THOUSANDS OF ANGRY BEES). MY BROTHER SAW THE BEES AS THEY BEGAN TO SWARM TOWARD THEM. HE SCREAMED FOR MY FATHER TO RUN, BUT INSTEAD OF RUNNING AWAY, HE RAN TOWARD THE SWARM. THE AFRICANIZED BEES IMMEDIATELY COVERED MY FATHER’S HEAD AND DROPPED HIM TO THE GROUND WHERE THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO COVER HIS ENTIRE BODY. SOON THEY WERE BOTH BEING SEVERLY ATTACKED. MY BROTHER AND FATHER WERE BOTH ROLLING ON THE GROUND IN AGONY AND PAIN AS THEY WERE BEING COVERED BY AFRICANIZED BEES. AFTER A WHILE, MY BROTHER FOUND THE STRENGTH TO GET TO HIS TRUCK AND TRY TO GET SOME OF THE BEES OFF OF HIM BECAUSE HE KNEW HE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO SAVE MY FATHER. IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET THE BEES OFF, HE POURED GASOLINE ON HIS HEAD AND BODY. WHEN THIS DID NOT WORK, HE TRIED USING WATER AND ICE FROM AN ICE CHEST (ALONG WITH WHATEVER HE COULD FIND). HE FOUND A T-SHIRT AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIS HEAD TO TRY TO PROTECT HIMSELF AS WELL AS HE COULD. STILL BEING ATTACKED BY THE BEES HIMSELF, HE WENT BACK TO TRY TO HELP MY FATHER. HE USED HIS POCKET KNIFE TO CUT A FIRE EXTINGUISHER FROM THE BULLDOZER HE HAD BEEN USING. HE TRIED TO SPRAY MY FATHER WITH THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER, BUT THIS DID NOT CALM THE FURIOUS SWARM. INSTEAD HE FOUND HIMSELF ONCE AGAIN COVERED BY THE IRRITATED BEES. HIS NEXT ATTEMPT WAS TO TRY AND PULL MY FATHER TO SAFETY, ONLY TO FALL HIMSELF. MY FATHER WAS NO LONGER MOVING OR MAKING ANY NOISE. AT THIS POINT MY BROTHER WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND IN BELIEF THAT MY FATHER WAS ALREADY GONE AND HE WAS WOULD SOON BE NEXT. SUDDENLY; WITH THE HELP OF GOD, HE GOT THE STRENGTH TO ATTEMPT TO ONCE AGAIN TRY TO MAKE IT TO THE SAFETY OF HIS TRUCK. THIS TIME HE HAD TO MAKE THE HEART-WRINCHING DECISION TO LEAVE OUR FATHER BEHIND WITH ONLY THE SAFETY OF GOD AND THE ST. CHRITOPHER MEDAL HE WAS WEARING TO PROTECT HIM. HE KNEW THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO GO FOR HELP FOR BOTH OF THEM. HE WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE THROUGH THE PASTURE IN AN ATTEMPT TO PICK UP A SIGNAL TO CALL 911 AND OUR UNCLE (WHO KNEW THE AREA AND MAY BE ABLE TO HELP FIND THEM). DUE TO A POOR SIGNAL HIS CALLS WERE DROPPED SEVERAL TIMES. FINALLY HE WAS ABLE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH EMERGENCY SERVICES. HIS NEXT CALL WAS TO HIS 19 YEAR SON TO TELL HIM THAT HE WOULD LIKELY TO DIE AND TELL HIS FAMILY THAT HE LOVED THEM.
TWO HOURS AFTER THE ATTACK, EMERGENCY CREWS FOUND OUR FATHER IN THE WOODS. HE WAS COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE WITH BEES. THE ANGRY BEES WERE STILL SWARMING, MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THE RESCUE TEAM TO FIND HIM.
KENNETH WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE AND MY FATHER WAS TAKEN VIA PHI/Air MED CENTER WHERE THEY WERE LISTED STABLE, BUT IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ESTIMATEDTHAT TOGETHER THEY HAD OVER 1,600 BITES TO THEIR HEADS ALONE.
WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS MY BOTHER SAVED MY FATHER’S LIFE.
EVERY MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL THAT HAS SEEN MY BROTHER AND FATHER HAS TOLD THEM THAT THEY WERE AS CLOSE TO DEATH AS A PERSON COULD POSSIBLY BE. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WERE PRAYING FOR OUR FAMILY. I CAN NOT EXPLAIN THE MIRACLE THAT WE WITNESSED. THEY WERE IN THE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. PRAYER CHAINS WERE STARTED AND MIRACLES BEGIN TO HAPPEN. WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF THE ATTACK MY FATHER WAS TAKEN OFF A VENTALATOR AND MIRACULOUS HEALING BEGAN!!!
NOT LONG BEFORE THIS INCIDENT MY BROTHER AND HIS WIFE HAD FOUND OUT THAT SHE HAD TWO TUMORS ON HER BRAIN. IT SEEMS THAT THEY HAVE HAD ONE HARDSHIP AFTER ANOTHER FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AFTER MY BROTHER’S BEE ATTACK. FINANCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY, THEY HAVE HAD A REAL STRUGGLE.
MY FATHER WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR ABOUT 11 OR 12 DAYS ALL TOGETHER AND A WEEK OR TWO AFTER HIS REALEASE MY MOTHER ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL AND WOULD LATER BE ADMITTED INTO A NURSING HOME FOR REHABILITATION.
I ORIGINALLY WROTE THIS TO TELL YOU MY BROTHER AND FATHER’S AMAZING STORY. MY BROTHER IS A TRUE HERO AND YOU WOULD BE IN AWE AT SOME OF THE THINGS MY FATHER AND BROTHER HAVE DONE TO HELP OTHERS. HOWEVER; THIS STORY HAS A DIFFERENT TWIST.
EVERY MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL THAT HAS SEEN MY FATHER TELLS HIM THAT THERE IS SOMETHING ON EARTH THAT HE IS STILL MEANT TO DO (BECAUSE HE SHOULD HAVE DIED). I COULD BE WRONG, BUT I THINK IT MAY BE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD HOW WONDERFUL PEOPLE TRULY ARE!!! PEOPLE DID NOT SEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO MY FAMILY, YOU SEE THEY SENT SOMETHING MORE….THE GIFT OF LOVE AND PRAYERS. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WERE PRAYING FOR THEM. THEY WERE ON PRAYER LISTS, PEOPLE WE HAD NEVER MET OR SEEN IN OUR LIVES WERE SENDING US MESSAGES ABOUT HOW THEY WERE PRAYING FOR OUR FAMILY. THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE AT THE HOSPITAL VISITING THEM AND CHECKING ON US. THE ICU WAITING ROOM WAS FULL OF PEOPLE THAT WERE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR FAMILY. MY FATHER’S HOSPITAL ROOM WOULD BE SO FULL OF PEOPLE, THAT VISITORS WOULD LEAVE AND COME BACK AT A LATER TIME. NURSES THAT WERE NOT IN CHARGE OF MY FATHER AT THE TIME WERE COMING IN TO CHECK ON HIM. AFTER MY BROTHER AND FATHER WERE RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL PEOPLE BROUGHT FOOD, GET WELL CARDS, GIFTS AND ETC. A LITTLE TEN YEAR OLD GIRL, WHO HAD NEVER MET MY FATHER BROUGHT HIM A CAKE AND TOLD HIM THAT SHE WOULD HELP TAKE CARE OF HIM.
THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT THIS STORY IS THAT THOUGH MY BROTHER AND FATHER WENT THROUGH SUCH A TRAMATIC EVENT AND HAVE HAD SEVERAL UNFORTUNATE EVENTS TAKE PLACE; THEY HAVE NOT COMPLAINED OR QUESTIONED GOD AS TO WHY. INSTEAD THEY KEEP GOING ON AND ON ABOUT HOW GOOD PEOPLE ARE. MY FATHER KEEPS SAYING, “EVERY DAY I HEAR ABOUT HORRIBLE THINGS THAT HAPPEN – I WISH THE WORLD KNEW HOW MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE THERE STILL ARE ON EARTH.”
OPRAH I HOPE THAT MY FATHER AND BROTHER’S STORY IS SHARED WITH THE WORLD. PLEASE LET OTHERS KNOW THAT IN A WORLD FULL OF HATE AND ANGER, THERE ARE STILL GOOD PEOPLE OUT THERE.
I OFTEN ASK GOD TO PLEASE GIVE MY FAMILY A BREAK IN THESE HARD TIMES. THEY WORK SO HARD JUST TO MAKE ENDS MEET. THIS MISFORTUNE MADE ME REALIZE, THAT THOUGH THEY MAY NOT BE MAY BE FINANCIALLY WEALTHY; THEY ARE THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHEN IT COMES TO THE BLESSINGS OF LOVE!! MAY WE ALWAYS REMEMBER THE POWER OF PRAYER AND LOVE! GOD BLESS – IN HONOR OF MY STRONG FATHER AND HEROIC BROTHER!
Thanks for sharing. Praise God for His deliverance of your brother and father!
When I was a child a friend gave me a cassette with the song, “I Expect A Miracle”. In it, “miracle” is defined as a supernatural intervention of God.