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Sherry2
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 5:40 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Richard, thanks for sharing that. I have had similar experiences. There was a girl in college I absolutely couldn't stand. She seemed like such a snob. So every time I saw her, I made up my mind to pray for her...not please help her be a better person prayers, but prayers of blessing and praise for her. By the end of the year we were friends, and she really was a nice person.
Maryann
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2001 - 9:23 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi Richard,

As to the resurrection of "keyword search!"

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

God does fulfill our greatest desires at times;-))

One guess who;-))

PS...I failed to have "faith" and checked it before I thanked you, he he he he he!;-))
Flyinglady
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Posted on Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 10:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I experienced a miraculous rescue when I was pregant with my son in 1971. I was still SDA and living in Montreal, Quebec. I was driving to prayer meeting. I was on a ramp merging onto a highway. As I looked to my left before I merged onto the highway I say a huge truck. I was driving a small Ford Cortina and was 8 1/2 months pregnant. I looked to my right and there was a large car or a pickup truck coming up on my right. I remember thinking I would get squeezed between the two of them. The next thing I remember is that my car is on the right side of the highway and the 2 vehicles are ahead of me. It was instantaneous. I did not feel the car move. I was just moved and that was it. God does perform miracles and sometimes one does not even ask. Everything happened so fast I did not even think to ask.
I thank God for His miraculous rescue.
He is AWESOME<=.
Diana
Sharon2
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Posted on Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 4:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

All this week, I have been immersed in the miraculous. I have seen the video, listened to the tapes, read the books, and heard a sermon on the internet. I discovered Heidi Baker, a missionary to Mozambic. She listens to God. He told her not to ask for money because He would provide. And He provides! She is caring for thousands of children at this point, bringing the poorest of the poor to Jesus, establishing churches every day. Food is multiplied, People are healed. Her bush pastors are raising the dead. It is so exciting to hear with God is doing today. As I look at her life, I see a key to miracles. That key is total surrender, especially surrender of our own intellect and reasoning. It doesnít make sense to go to the mission field without monetary support. As I prepared to teach my childrenís class this morning, I studied the story of the children of Israel crossing the Jordan when it was at flood stage. God told the priests to just walk into a swollen river with the ark. I was struck by the fact that that direction did not make sense. We, in America are very educated. We seldom see the power of God because we have to reason everything out first. Also, we have not had much practice in hearing Him. Here are 2 websites where you can learn a little about this wonderful missionary and hear her preach. Iíve been very blessed by her messages this week.
http://www.healing2thenations.net/news/03-04-16.htm
http://www.vcfw.com/sermonz.html
Sharon
Praisegod
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Posted on Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 4:41 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have heard positive things about Heidi Baker also. She has been on a program called Extreme Prophetic where they apparently go into the streets of various cities and minister to the people "with signs and wonders following" just as in Bible times. Sounds kind of like a Christian reality program I believe it's on Sky Angel and Canada.

Since we only have very basic cable, I've not heard of the programs that several of you are mentioning as we get very few Christian TV programs and most of those are "talking heads". In order to reach the masses, Christian TV is going to need some new tactics.

Praise God...
Lydell
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Posted on Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 12:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sharon can I offer another thought on the subject of miracles? As you have said, surrender is so important. We do need to believe that God can move in our lives and the lives of others. Expectation is important! If we don't honestly believe that God can or will, then we are likely to never see what He does.

Yet it is also important to keep in mind the nature of the kingdom of God. According to the New Testament the kingdom of God is here (He does do miraculous things), but the kingdom of God is also future. We are kind of living between times here. Right now we only get glimpses of the full power of the kingdom, the sovereignty of God at work. When Jesus returns, then we will see the full power of the kingdom of God fully released.

This explains why people who solidly believe in healing, who firmly expect the healing to take place, are not healed. It also helps us understand why, even tho we are born again and possessors of all the kingdom of God has to offer we still stumble and struggle at times.

It's important to keep both in view: the need to be expectant and praying and the nature of the kingdom of God. We can get off into the extreme on the miraculous and end up leaving someone feeling that they are rejected by God when they don't see the miraculous answer to prayer. Or we can get into the exreme of only waiting and thinking that the miraculous can't possibly happen until the end of time, and not bother to pray.

Can't remember where I found it on the Internet now, but there is a site out there that talks about the history of revivals. Gives some fascinating stuff on eyewitness accounts. Think you'd be really interested in that too. Think I stumbled on it by doing a search on history of revivals, or perhaps it was revival in Wales.

I remember reading a story with my son about a missionary to China and Tibet, a contemporary of Watchman Nee. He was fascinated to hear some villagers, who had been eyewitnesses, tell of travelling thru the wilderness as a group.

Apparently it was safer to travel in the area in a group because of bandits who tended to cause trouble along that way. The group came to a flood swollen river. With sunset fast approaching they were concerned and desperate for something to do.

There were a couple of Christians in the group who listened to the frightened discussion for a time, then told them that they remembered a story from God's book about how he parted the waters of a river for his children to get away from danger. They declared that they fully believed that they were serving the same God and He could do that for them too. So they prayed, when they looked up they found that the waters had receded to normal. The group crossed safely. When they got on the other side, the river quickly rose again to the previous level. The narrators of the story were certainly convinced that God was real. Cool, huh?
Sharon2
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Posted on Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 1:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I agree. I think I have had to come to terms with that in a very personal way. My husband who had a brain stem stroke in 1988 was never supposed to get out of bed. He was supposed to live like a vegetable until he died of complications, but now he is functioning almost independently in an electric wheelchair. Every doctor will tell you that that is miraculous, but I had to come to terms with why God didn't do a complete healing. I think I have. He gave us everything we needed and left us in a unique witnessing position.

Still, I have always loved God's miracles. The story you told was great! Even as a child in the SDA church I wondered why we didn't see miracles like we read about in the Bible. Since I have left Adventism and joined a Messianic Jewish Congregation, I have experienced the reality of healing miracles, financial miracles, emotional and spiritual miracles in myself and others. I believe that miracles accompany spirit-filled teaching, but God is sovereign and has perfect reasons for when he does and does not perform a miracle.

In August Heidi Baker will be in Nashville and we are going to go hear her. Am I looking for my husband to get up and walk? I recognize that it could happen, and I will certainly give God the opportunity. Do I expect to be touched and further changed and empowered by Godís Spirit? Definitely! Is it all right if others are healed and we receive nothing physical? Yes, we would be thrilled to see God restore others. We know that God has given us everything we need and that He will continue to do so.
Sharon
Conniegodenick
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Posted on Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 3:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sharon,

I have news for you. I know of people who have recovered from strokes using completely natural nutritional supplements. I feel that God is working through these. Email me at nutradoc@charter.net and I'll send you a transcript of a doctor who had a stroke in 1987 and 13 years later made a full recovery after getting on these supplements. He has no residual deficits whatsoever.

Connie Godenick
Dennis
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Posted on Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 8:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Connie,

How was your trip to Italy? Great to have your back in our discussions.
Conniegodenick
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Posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 4:48 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Trip to Italy was a dream come true. My kids and I loved every minute of it and we are all ready to go back! Enjoyed your article on tithing. Like many "formers" I am allergic to any suggestion that I am bound by old covenant thinking and your article reinforced my beliefs in the new covenant

Connie

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