What happened to all the miracles and healings

[caileesnana]

Kurts Daily Muse 5-22-07

Let me ask you a personal question: Have you ever asked the Lord,
"What happened to all the miracles and healings?" That's what Gideon asked
the Angel of the Lord while Israel was under bondage by the Midianites, "And
where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about...?" (Judges
6:13).
I know there are some who say the day of miracles and healings has
passed. But I don't give them the time of day because Jesus hasn't changed
(Heb. 13:8), and His Spirit's anointing hasn't diminished, and we are still
in the Church Age, the Day of Grace...and I have been healed many times.
So then, what's happened? Could we have anything to do with it?
Consider this list of things that keep us from receiving miracles and
healings: Distractions; a contentious relationship; unforgiven sin; doubt;
pride; focusing on the symptoms and not the Savior; disobedience to or
ignorance of God's Word; too busy with the world; coolness toward the Lord;
and quitting too soon, in faith.
There is nothing like one who will cling tenaciously to his faith, and
come "boldly into the presence of the Lord" (Heb. 4:16). The Syrophenician
mother had spunk, and Jesus healed her daughter (Mt. 15:22). The Roman
centurion understood authority, and Jesus healed his servant (Mt. 8:5). The
woman with the issue of blood pushed through the crowd, and pulled healing
"virtue" from Jesus (Lk. 8:43). The paralytic's friends were willing to do
some roof remodeling to see their friend healed (Lk. 5:18). The blind man
groped his way across town to wash in the Pool of Siloam to receive his
sight (Jn. 9). The ten lepers obeyed Jesus and went to show themselves to
the priests, and were healed (Lk. 17:12). The two blind men wouldn't shut
up until they were healed by Jesus (Mt. 20:30).
Do you get the picture? Faith has legs, goes beyond your comfort zone,
pushes forward as long as it still hears the "yea and amen" of God's Spirit,
rallies the faith of others, and never says "quit."
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen" (Heb. 11:1).
Have a fantastic day in the Lord, hiding God's Word in your heart,
standing on the promises, and waiting to see the
salvation/deliverance/healing of the Lord...as your "substance" becomes
"evidence" in Christ.

[Nuno]

Well i know a miracle or two in my life. They are real, but a non believer can't see it, it's not of the miracle, it's in the eyes of the beholder....I even believe if he wanted he would come again.

A beautiful lady i met, my friend died a year ago. Nobody cleaned her house, nobody put anything there to smell good. The house smells like roses. It's unbelievable...That my friends to me is a miracle! But it's in my eyes, and do i doubt it? no!

[gimmeid]

I was fooling around with a woman years ago, long before coming to the program, who suddenly turned violent, and it wasn't her. 'It' recognized me, and I recognized 'it', and knew it wasn't her I was looking at. I sobered up very quickly, and the thing happened like a fight, no thought until it was over. She attempted to scratch my eyes out, screaming at the top of her lungs, it took everything in me to hold her down. I tried asking it's name, got cussed and spit at, the voice wasn't even her, I told it repeatedly to come out in Jesus's name, when it did, she collapsed crying, back in her right mind but catatonic, wispering that it would just come back. I just held her the rest of the night. She couldn't or wouldn't remember anything about it the time or two I brought it up over the years.
I talked to her mother recently about her daughter's capacity for honesty and taking responsibility for herself before God as the only way out of the course her life was taking. I was shocked at the visciousness sparked, in a woman I had known half a decade, and told that her daughter's troubles where bad energy between me and my Christian God and her 'spirit energy', and I knew nothing of these things. I realized that she was absolutely correct, I know nothing of those things, and backed off quickly. I see where it came from, all those years, and a woman I loved who abandoned her own children and is going downward quickly, being sheltered from anything that would help her by the woman that raised her to be that person in the first place.
What did any of that accomplish? Nothing. It demonstrated the power of Jesus's name when used earnestly, and was another incident in a long line meant maybe for my instruction, but how did it help anything. It may have helped my drunken ego, but now I realize the incident hurt me as much as anything. I loved this woman, it is painful to recall these things sober and clear minded now.
And so it is with 'miracles' in this day and age. Someone went around healing and casting out demons, we would all want tickets, it would just be another form of entertainment.
You want to see God move powerfully these days, in an early New Testament manner, go to Africa, South America, China, Russia, North Korea where it is needs being met and not egos being fed.
Thank you.

[cmc]

Thanks for sharing and encouraging us to have faith and to walk in His ways.

I think miracles happen every day in forms that we often overlook. My kids are alive today because someone invented insulin in 1920. Had they been born in another era they would not have survived. Small things are miracles, little things we count on but take for granted, but what we usually mean by the word "miracle" is something that is impossible without divine intervention. It is some amazing feat that we see performed.

I believe in miracles too and have witnessed many documented divine healings and countless miracles. I also know many wonderful people who walk in faith and obedience still suffer, and some who have died in what seemed senseless ways. Several of those belong to my family, and my church family too.

I've been listening to Erwin Lutzer's series, Chiseled by the Master's Hand and he describes how the Lord allows a 'storm' in our life and allows us to walk with Him in victory over it. He tells of the story when Jesus walked on the water. We all know that the Lord could just as easily calmed the storm but he wanted to do another thing...require Peter to step out in faith and walk on the water! It's the same with healing, sometimes there are lessons to learn and character that needs building. Sometimes I just have to say "I don't know why' things happen but I do know that God is in control.
The danger with placing the focus on my own works is that He is the healer and He chooses who, when and how someone will receive healing and who will not. God often allows difficulty and sickness in our lives in order to "conform us into the image of Christ." (quoted and paraphrased from Erwin Lutzer)

If I could move heaven and earth to bring forth healing for myself or loved ones...I would have. The truth compiled from the entire written word is that many do suffer according to God's plan in order to grow and fulfill His purpose. I don't have to like it but that's the world we live in.

Some do suffer consequences of their own and/or others doing, because we have a free will and we live in a fallen world. It stinks to be one of those who suffer but once my life is given to God it is no longer mine, but His to do with as He sees fit. That is true surrender.

I can't make one thing happen...only from the hand of God does a healing come. I can extend my faith and try to obey Him but that is the dropping off point for me where I must leave it to Him and trust and hope in His goodness.....regardless of how things seem or are in this life.

[caileesnana]

without my faith the last few years, I wouldn't have had anything. The only good thing about my daughters problems is I have learned more and become closer to God than ever before. He is in control, even when I think he is not! I see that every day.

I too have seen miracles in my own life, at work, in my family. I have no idea, but maybe wherever my daughter is God is trying to work a "miracle" in her life. I pray when he does she listens.

Thanks and blessings,
susan

[cmc]

Thank you for sharing your faith and hope with us.
Prayers for your daughter and for all of our lost loved ones to find the Lord and to find a life of recovery.
I know many people who are 'miracles' themselves, they are the ones who have overcome addiction and by God's grace can share what they have with those who are willing to learn. They give me such hope that my son can continue in his recovery, and have the life that God intends for him to live.

[best]

I have seen miracles. I myself am a miracle. Me changing from who I was into who I am... Only by the grace of God... a miracle.
What I have found in life is that miracles are for those who believe.
A family room at a hospital full of people, a lady under the Dr's care and being told she may not make it past the hour... 3 of us in prayer and 15 others not knowing what to do. Said lady, my mother in law, recovers from her many injuries and to see her 3 months later you would never know the extent of her injuries or that she was even in such a horrible car crash.
At that same point of 3 months later... all who had seen what had happened... 4 of us know that only with the Lord's touch could such healings take place... the other 14 all started looking for earthly explainations of how such a thing could happen. To this day, doubts and denial fill their understandings.
For those of us who believed, we know that miracles still do happen every day.

A stroke while driving at 60 MPH, no seat belt on.
Goes off the road and hits a tree. Airbag stops her from going through the windshield but still she bangs her head and collects a double concussion.
Broken shoulder (L), broken arm (R), broken ribs, lungs collapsed (both), ruptured spleen, broken hip(R), broken leg (L)... all of this on a 70 year old lady on a county road while driving up through rural Maine. The last house that she past along the road, the people inside the house where just getting ready to leave for a trip to Alaska. 5 minutes later, she wouldn't have been found until someone had seen the car off the road.

Yes miracles do happen every day. My MIL reached full recovery from her every injury.
Thank You Jesus

[GlassPrisoner]

Walk into any AA meeting. You'll be surrounded by miracles.

[Johneebegood]

I was first diagnosed with Hepatitus C 21 years ago...I kept it a secret as best I could.. When ever I had a blood test it would show up and I would just change doctors.. Finally I just started going to Urgent care clinics when I was sick.. I was an addict for 34 years.. lost everything including my wife.. God heard my cry and lifted me from the valley of the shadow of death.. Restored my life, became a Christian Counselor, and a Lay Speaker.. and I remarried.. to a lady who couldnt have children...We decided to try in vitro.. with a donor egg.. It cost 12,000 dollars for one try.. When our turn came.. They said I had to have blood work.. I was distraught...My secret was gonna be revealed at a very bad time.. what would my new wife think..would she leave?? I had the test and they called and told me what I knew.. I had Hepatitus C.. and I needed to see a Doctor immediatly.. I went to church and told the Pastor I needed him to pray for me to have strength to weather the storm.. He prayed over me and the following day I had a full work up.. They called me...and said We cant explain this but you no longer have Hepatitus C.. I was able to do the invitro and March 5 by The Grace of God, at age 52,became a father for the first time.. I had a re test in November Same result..No antibodies...No virus.. Never think for a second, that God is out of the Miracle business..

[cmc]

Johneebe,
Wow!
cmc

[caileesnana]

God is good!

[Johneebegood]

If your heart is weak, God will strengthen it.
If your heart is hard, God will soften it.
If your heart is broken, God will repair it better than before.
If your heart is timid, He will give you courage.
If your heart is small, He will widen it and open it.
But God can not do anything with a heart that is not given to Him

[cmc]

Thankyou Johnnyb

But God can not do anything with a heart that is not given to Him

And yet, He still loves that one who chooses to stay away. He is calling to the hearts of those He loves, those who are lost,who have not made the choice to:
"Come unto Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Matthew 11:28-30
He waits.