How come there are no more miracles in the world?
We just read a bible story for Rachel, about when all Peter had to do was pray to God, and then he just told Tabitha to get up, and she did!
that does not seem so hard to do, but if it is not so hard to pray and tell some one to get up then, how come no one can do it? and if they can most of us don't believe that its true?
Are we really that horrible that God will not help us do miracles?
this is depressing....
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No it's not actually. Because God still does do miracles!
Have you heard about the crazy revival happening in Lakeland Florida? At a church there are people are being healed left, right and, center. Just type it into youtube you'll see what's happening.
And it's not just that, just last Sunday I was praying with a lady for her stomach swelling to go away. And it did. She was ecstatic. Total healing from God.
One of my friends at a bible study I go was praying for somebody's broken ankle the other day and it got healed right away. Just on the spot.
I saw a guy with cerebral palsy, who had never walked in his life, get up and walk after being prayed for.
Healings are happening everywhere Ben. Christians just need to wake up and see it. I am hearing stories like this every week at my church.
When Jesus raised from the dead after 3 days, the gift of his resurrection was an end of sickness, death, and destruction. We have to choose to live in that.
I remember hearing someone say this: in a world where people get what they want by shouting, maybe God prefers to whisper.
I do believe that miracles happen, in fact I know I've experienced a few whispers when I needed them. I'm sorry Kirstyn, I don't doubt what you say, but it really frustrates me that there is so much human potential to help heal, and yet we do nothing. I would happily give up the miracles that heal broken ankles here in North America if it would mean that the hundreds of thousands of children who die each year of /preventable/ diseases could live instead. I think that here in Canada it is easy to choose to live with no sickness, death and destruction. We don't have to deal with it as much, so it seems like we've made a choice. I don't know.. I just don't think that if you ask God for a miracle and it doesn't come, that he doesn't love you any less. Bad things happen to all kinds of people, and it is a part of life. I suppose I'm praying for a miracle of changed hearts, rather than bodies, so we can do the good that we are capable of doing ourselves.
I still think that God's power needs to be seen in Canada as well.
Who says God can't work here at the same time as he's working in children's lives in third world countries. No one ever thinks that God is going to come to North America and do the miracles that we hear about in Africa, but He is. I have a real heart for what God is doing in this nation. Because man, do we need him bad. And he's here. And he's healing people.
And I think that a lot of the time, people's hearts are changed when they see a physical manifestation of God's power.
Also, yea, I agree, nothing we can ever do, or not do for that matter will ever change how passionately He loves us.
remember the show "mysterious ways"? it had an episode once about a minister who had the power to heal people with just a touch and a prayer. but then his wife got him to start publicizing this, and televise each of his sermons to the nation so that everyone could see his miracles. and as soon as he did that, the people he touched were hurt instead of healed.
that episode and it's message will stick with me for life. especially the ending, when the minister realizes what he was meant to do with his gift: use it selflessly without asking for attention.
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