Monster Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 I have often wondered what happened to the miracles we read about in the scriptures. We seem to be totally devoid of them in my day. When the subject is brought up there are usually two responses.1. Miracles are happening everyday you just do not hear about them2. They are to sacred to talk about.I am wondering if anyone has really had first hand experience with a real honest to goodness miracle. I am not talking about praying for someone in intensive care and three weeks later they come out of the coma and six weeks latter they are eating solid food again. That is IMHO not a miracle. That is science and trained doctors fighting to save someone. Or even something as random as finding your car keys. I am talking about a blind person instantly seeing, or a totally lame person instantly being healed. No coincidence or rationalization allowed. Does anything like this really happen? I would be interested to hear about it only if you witnessed it yourself.
frankenstein Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 i have an experience, and it does involve car keys at the bottom of Puget Sound.
Nathair/|\ Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 As long as we are talking about missing keys:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4EVowTxrI0Sorry, couldn't resist. It happens to me all the time.Yours under the amused oaks,Nathair /|\
Truth Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 Several months ago my father woke up stone deaf in one ear. He went to the doctor and was told there would be no recovery of hearing. We ministered to him the next day. The next visit to the doctor was pronounced as a miracle for the hearing recovery by the doctor.My mother dumped very hot grease on her whole hand burning it severely. My father and I ministered to her and within days second to near third degree burns were completely healed.I was without work for a very long time, two years, then one day I had a job, and then another offered, and another, all in about a week. I ended up making more than I ever made, starting within six days of first interviewing. I do consider all these miracles.
maupayman Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 Several months ago my father woke up stone deaf in one ear. He went to the doctor and was told there would be no recovery of hearing. We ministered to him the next day. The next visit to the doctor was pronounced as a miracle for the hearing recovery by the doctor.My mother dumped very hot grease on her whole hand burning it severely. My father and I ministered to her and within days second to near third degree burns were completely healed.I was without work for a very long time, two years, then one day I had a job, and then another offered, and another, all in about a week. I ended up making more than I ever made, starting within six days of first interviewing. I do consider all these miracles.Thank you for actually sharing and not just giving the old its too sacred answer. These are remarkable experiences. My Grandfather was diagnosed with canncer once, we all fasted and prayed for him, and he was given a blessing, and upon returning, the doctors could not find the cancer. My family considers this to be a miracle.
Silver Girl Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 I am wondering if anyone has really had first hand experience with a real honest to goodness miracle. I am not talking about praying for someone in intensive care and three weeks later they come out of the coma and six weeks latter they are eating solid food again. That is IMHO not a miracle. That is science and trained doctors fighting to save someone. Or even something as random as finding your car keys. I am talking about a blind person instantly seeing, or a totally lame person instantly being healed. No coincidence or rationalization allowed. Does anything like this really happen? I would be interested to hear about it only if you witnessed it yourself.Okay, let
TAO Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 I know of a man who was assisting scouts while they were having a cliff-jump into the Colorado River. However, where they were planning to jump had him concerned, and so he decided to go first. He hit solid rock about a foot below the water. When they brought him to the hospital, he had a totally fractured knee - and they had to remove everything so there was literally no kneecap there. A few days later, he received a priesthood blessing. 2 weeks later, the doctors take a look at his knee again (he was in a wheelchair for the time being) and a full kneecap miraculously had appeared in their patient's leg. He was able to walk perfectly. The doctors were perplexed. Considering adults cannot regrow bones (only children can), this constitutes a miracle, I would say, wouldn't it?
jadams_4242 Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 I have often wondered what happened to the miracles we read about in the scriptures. We seem to be totally devoid of them in my day. When the subject is brought up there are usually two responses.1. Miracles are happening everyday you just do not hear about them2. They are to sacred to talk about.I am wondering if anyone has really had first hand experience with a real honest to goodness miracle. I am not talking about praying for someone in intensive care and three weeks later they come out of the coma and six weeks latter they are eating solid food again. That is IMHO not a miracle. That is science and trained doctors fighting to save someone. Or even something as random as finding your car keys. I am talking about a blind person instantly seeing, or a totally lame person instantly being healed. No coincidence or rationalization allowed. Does anything like this really happen? I would be interested to hear about it only if you witnessed it yourself. hows about miracles of the spirit,,? a miracle does not have to be physical. we receive them all the time; and the more clean,honest and worthy we keep ourselves the more oft and powerfull they become. .
Monster Posted February 3, 2011 Author Posted February 3, 2011 I know of a man who was assisting scouts while they were having a cliff-jump into the Colorado River. However, where they were planning to jump had him concerned, and so he decided to go first. He hit solid rock about a foot below the water. When they brought him to the hospital, he had a totally fractured knee - and they had to remove everything so there was literally no kneecap there. A few days later, he received a priesthood blessing. 2 weeks later, the doctors take a look at his knee again (he was in a wheelchair for the time being) and a full kneecap miraculously had appeared in their patient's leg. He was able to walk perfectly. The doctors were perplexed. Considering adults cannot regrow bones (only children can), this constitutes a miracle, I would say, wouldn't it?I will assume this is a real occurrence. If it is I would say it is a miracle like those of old. It involves something that was not (a kneecap) and then it was. Which is far different than something that was (a cancer tumor) and then was not. There are many stories of things going away on their own but very few of something coming from nothing. I can not see how this could be coincidence.
Monster Posted February 3, 2011 Author Posted February 3, 2011 hows about miracles of the spirit,,? a miracle does not have to be physical. we receive them all the time; and the more clean,honest and worthy we keep ourselves the more oft and powerfull they become. .Just what would a miracle of the spirt be? And it seems by your comments God only loves certain types of his children. It seems more logical to me that God would give miracles of the spirit more often to those who need them like the sinner. It might help them turn from their bad ways.
ERayR Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 I have often wondered what happened to the miracles we read about in the scriptures. We seem to be totally devoid of them in my day. When the subject is brought up there are usually two responses.1. Miracles are happening everyday you just do not hear about them2. They are to sacred to talk about.I am wondering if anyone has really had first hand experience with a real honest to goodness miracle. I am not talking about praying for someone in intensive care and three weeks later they come out of the coma and six weeks latter they are eating solid food again. That is IMHO not a miracle. That is science and trained doctors fighting to save someone. Or even something as random as finding your car keys. I am talking about a blind person instantly seeing, or a totally lame person instantly being healed. No coincidence or rationalization allowed. Does anything like this really happen? I would be interested to hear about it only if you witnessed it yourself.I had this car wreck one time in which I should have been killed. I walked away with a few cuts and bruises (sp). My friends said I was lucky. You make the call. How would you call that one?
TAO Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 I will assume this is a real occurrence. If it is I would say it is a miracle like those of old. It involves something that was not (a kneecap) and then it was. Which is far different than something that was (a cancer tumor) and then was not. There are many stories of things going away on their own but very few of something coming from nothing. I can not see how this could be coincidence.Yes, it's real... it was the brother of one of my ward members... she was talking about it in Sunday School to some small kids, and I was there to help aid in the lessons (one of our special one-time activities). The lesson happened to be on Alma 32 (and Ether 12 indirectly), so yah, I guess it fit in well and all about faith and miracles.
rodheadlee Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 We were sailing on our way from Mazatlan to Hiva Oa. It's about 2600 miles/26 day sail. When you get down to the Inter Tropical Convergece Zone there are many squalls moving northwest from the equator. Some are small, some are large, some are white squalls (see the movie), they move faster than the boat, not always steady. We sail about 6 kts (8mph) they move between 15-20kts. We spent the first day hitting them on purpose because we and the boat needed a bath, then we hit a white squall and it wasn't fun anymore. We were a thousand miles from nowhere and you really don't want to break standing rigging parts out there (they hold the mast up). In the northern hemisphere they rotate counter clockwise as they move, the northern edge has greater wind speed and the southern edge less windspeed due to the easterly tradewinds. The next day we started dodging them, if you aim at the back of the squall as it approaches it will cross your path, if they are far enough away you cut in front of them. I was studying the Book of Ether during this period of our travels. We had dodged 7 squalls and wound up in front of this huge squall, I prayed mightly as I feared this squall. We couldn't dodge behind it so we tried to cross it's path and it was gunning for us. Then it just stopped, about a 1/2 mile off and rotated in place while we sailed in front of it. After we passed by it continued on behind our boat. I was truly grateful. It was a miracle to me.
Anijen Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 I have seen many miracles first hand. Two that come to mind;My daughter was ran over by our van when she was two years old. Her entire chest and back were dark red bruises and the bruises were in the shape of the tire treads, she was completely ran over. We rushed her to the hospital and administered to her. She was in the hospital for one night and most the next day but was fine. Not a single broken bone.My Nephew Ricky was diagnosed with Sherman's disease (complete with ex-rays)and was in a lot of pain. He was administered to and the next day was completely free of any sign of the disease (also validated by ex-ray) in two days two different ex-rays were taken and the first one showed up and the second had none.Yes I know miracles happen today. I have seen many others.
nicolasconnault Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 I've seen lots of miracles, but whether or not you would call them miracles depends on how you look at things. For me, a miracle is any event that I attribute to God, whether or not I understand the physics behind it. I try to "acknowledge His hand in all things", so at times I decide that an event was a miracle, instead of taking the cynic's view and searching for reasonable reasons why it might not have been one.The greatest miracles I have seen involve people's hearts and lives completely changing in a very short time after hearing the Gospel. These miracles are astounding, humbling and deeply moving.
MorningStar Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 After two years of trying to have a baby and severe pain that came with every cycle, I was given a blessing. I was pregnant the following cycle and I don't have that pain anymore. During that whole pregnancy, I didn't have a single migraine and rarely get them anymore.A friend of mine was given two weeks to live shortly before Halloween. They said as the chemo left his body, he would feel better at first, but then the cancer would completely take over. The doctors were shocked to see a decrease in his leukemia. He got to spend another Christmas with his family after my brother made a special trip to say goodbye to him. It's 3 months later and he is still alive.Just a few weeks ago, another friend of mine had a cardiac arrest while pregnant. The timing of it all was miraculous. The kids were in bed and didn't have to witness the horrible scene, her husband was home, so he was able to save her and their baby's life and he had an amazing moment of clarity where he knew exactly what to do as he prayed. He performed CPR, the paramedics came, she was revived, and while she was still unconscious, doctors had to do an emergency c-section. She woke up to find that her baby had been born and wasn't even in the same hospital with her. Both were in critical condition, but they have made a full recovery after they had less than a 10% of surviving. The baby has no brain damage. After a week, she finally got to hold him after she got a pacemaker. Yes, medical care had a lot to do with it, but I believe there were miracles throughout this ordeal. I still cry to think that she might have been alone with her three young children and died right on front of them.When my husband was a teenager, his appendix was about to burst, but his dad gave him a blessing and he didn't have to have the surgery.
Monster Posted February 3, 2011 Author Posted February 3, 2011 I had this car wreck one time in which I should have been killed. I walked away with a few cuts and bruises (sp). My friends said I was lucky. You make the call. How would you call that one?Cold be a miracle or it could not. Thats one of those that we will never know for sure. People surviving accidents that you would think should kill them does not necessarily suggest divine intervention, but it does make you wonder.
Lightbearer Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 No miracles have not ceased for those who have faith enough to see them:(Moroni 7:35-39) "And now, my beloved brethren, if this be the case that these things are true which I have spoken unto you, and God will show unto you, with power and great glory at the last day, that they are true, and if they are true has the day of miracles ceased? Or have angels ceased to appear unto the children of men? Or has he withheld the power of the Holy Ghost from them? Or will he, so long as time shall last, or the earth shall stand, or there shall be one man upon the face thereof to be saved? Behold I say unto you, Nay; for it is by faith that miracles are wrought; and it is by faith that angels appear and minister unto men; wherefore, if these things have ceased wo be unto the children of men, for it is because of unbelief, and all is vain. For no man can be saved, according to the words of Christ, save they shall have faith in his name; wherefore, if these things have ceased, then has faith ceased also; and awful is the state of man, for they are as though there had been no redemption made. But behold, my beloved brethren, I judge better things of you, for I judge that ye have faith in Christ because of your meekness; for if ye have not faith in him then ye are not fit to be numbered among the people of his church."
ERMD Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 Read some of Matthew Cowley's experiences when he was in the South Pacific.
bluebell Posted February 3, 2011 Posted February 3, 2011 One night when my oldest was around 2-3, he very suddenly developed severe pain in his abdomen. He was/is the drama queen of the family when it comes to pain so we tried to make him comfortable and observe him but weren't worried at first. As the night progressed though, he got to the point where i was holding him in my arms in a cradled position rocking him and he was screaming that it hurt. We were on the phone with the ER and getting ready to take him in when my husband gave him a blessing.Not even 2 minutes after that blessing the child was asleep. The pain stopped instantly and it was so late at night and he was so exhausted that he could not stay awake any longer. He slept with us that night so i could watch him (he never had a fever or anything with the pain so the ER said it was probably fine to keep him home) but the pain never came back and the next day he was perfectly fine.I don't know that anything life threatening was happening to him and that the blessing fixed it, but i do know that where incredible pain had been, it ceased to be when his father put his hands on his head, annoited him, and blessed him. That's not going to be very exciting for people who want proof of the miraculous, but in our home that night, it was proof enough.
jadams_4242 Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 Just what would a miracle of the spirt be? And it seems by your comments God only loves certain types of his children. It seems more logical to me that God would give miracles of the spirit more often to those who need them like the sinner. It might help them turn from their bad ways. of course he gives gifts to all. but Why would a sinner be elligable to receive spiritual blessings more than a dicsiple of righteousness? the lord has asked us to follow him; most sinners refuse to try.. so heavenly father is going to give spiritual companionship to more to a hater of his ways than a lover a follower?
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