Well true enough one could consider the term miracle to mean different things, but what I am talking about is the miracles that only God can pull off with faith.
Things such as healing for instance and i say this mainly because it is a miracle that i personally am in great need of. my eyes are severely damaged everything is clody and i barely am able to read things people post here i can see enough just to be able to be online and that is with everything enlarged and the screen as close as i can have it.
God has been leading me through a transition of faith ib which i am learning to have absolute faith in his word and in him to believe in the impossible, before i didn't bother asking for healing i figured i simply couldn't be healed and this was my burden to bear but this transition has brought me into new waters and i am coming to understand that many do not believe in such things some will even argue that it was only considered to be sign gifts in the first church and we have no need for them today
But no matter how much i have debated with these people no matter how much scripture is used both sides stayed on their respected belief. I chose to believe because there is something inside me that tells me that if i only have faith and believe i will see the wonders of God in more ways than just healing
Hummmm ... I'm enjoying the thread and honesty. This is the type of things that I like talked about in this forum, and the type of honestly also.
So a couple of thoughts - First I want to point out that He is the Word of God!! )Jn 1 - Rev 19:13) Now He is not the Bible, but people who knew Him as the Word of God wrote like He (The Word of God) told them to. Those writings are called the Scriptures. If we believe the Scriptures we will believe in Him and Him as the Word of God - because He talks to us and we His sheep hear His voice.
So the next thought that comes us is that faith comes from hearing a word (a saying - rhema/word) from Him. Rom 10:17 - Therefore if we recognize that we need faith to receive healing from Him we first need to talk to Him and hear what He has to say about it! For example: We read in the Bible where people would say to Jesus something like 'If you say the word I will be healed'.
Therefore - when I come to a problem like healing that is needed, I turn to Him and try to start up a conversation with Him about the problem. Now it is not always easy to hear what He has to say about healing, simply because healing is often so important to me that I can't even believe I can hear a word about it from Him. One thing that I have learned which can help me is to start the conversation with things that are easier to believe a word from Him for.
For example - He had me working in a Christain healing ministry for five years. And I, or more importantly the person wanting healing, need to get a word from Him - because that faith comes from hearing a word from Him! Still, because that type of word is sometimes hard to pick up due to the importance of it to us, I would have the person start the conversation with Him by asking Jesus how He felt about them. Of course since God is love they would hear or get something about Him loving them. I never knew what it would be, because He is extremely creative, but if they could pick up something from Him it would be about Him loving them. That help them start to believe for a word from Him about Him healing them.
Now during those years, and other years also, I have seen the Lord do hundreds of miracles. I have felt swelling go down under my hand. I have seen legs get longer. We once prayed for a lady going in for heart surgery the next day and the power of God fell in that room. The next day she went in for her heart surgery and they wound up sending her home because the pre-surgery exam showed that she did have the problem anymore.
We all that written, it didn't mean that everyone got everything they came in for. Perhaps the most disappointing thing to me was when a lady came in with the side of her face badly swollen. She told us that she had cancer and was going to die soon, according to the doctors. Now we were supposed to keep our prayer times to about 20 minutes, which meant we often went between 30 and forty minutes if we felt it was needed. I had kept my team (which was me and a couple others) praying for this lady well over an hour. And all I could hear for was, 'perhaps if you keep everyone praying all night then in the morning she would be healed.'
You don't know, you believe. Like most everything that comes from Him, it was just a though like a wind blowing in you. I kept my team going until I was the last team praying. Indeed, one member needed to leave and I noticed that another group had finished, so I grabbed someone I knew in that group. Our time came to an end. I didn't run the ministry, and we had been told that if we didn't get the healing we needed we should tell the person to come back the next week. I did that, even knowing what I felt I heard. She didn't come back. Perhaps she was dead, because she did mean she would be dead soon.
I don't have all the answers - and I believe we are each responsible to seek the Lord for ourselves - which is to say that we each need to believe that Jesus Christ is there to talk to us personally!!
So what am I to say? I never saw eyes healed in the groups I was in, but at least two other leaders of prayer teams in the ministry told me they had personally seen the Lord do that - heal cloudy eyes right as they were praying for it. I never actually ran into that request. My advice, based on my experience, would be to keep seeking the Lord Jesus Christ and what He has to say via His Holy Spirit talking to your spirit. Start conversations with Him!! I would also suggest seeking a Christian healing ministry. The Lord does have different ministries for various purposes!!
1 Cor 12: 4-9 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And
there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6 There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all
persons. 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,