Miracles are
extraordinary acts of providence which are beyond the causal powers of natural
entities. But yet some people would
discount all the testimonies of these things occurring or would want to wave
them off to an ‘unknown’ source. But the
irony is that many people become Christians because they’ve been a witness to a
miracle that could have only come from God. God is the main explanation
in these cases because a miracle has been done through his people or from petitioning
him directly or even through God speaking directly through the Holy Spirit.
Sadly you won’t realize
that genuine miracles are still occurring unless you research it. Doctors
and medical professionals have attested before to tumors and cancers
disappearing, to bones and flesh healing on the spot and to limbs being able to
work anew. The unexplainable occurs but when it does it isn’t usually
talked about. Why? Because a
stigma has been created to make people feel like they must be crazy if they’ve
witnessed a miracle. And even then the
supernatural explanation of God doesn’t always get more than a passing mention
which is why people don’t realize how often these things are happening.
Take someone in my
church for instance:
she’s been plagued with cancer and tumors and spots but after prayer time and
time again these threats on her life have been lessened or completely
removed. The doctors marvel at her increasing health but when she cites
that it was done by God they laugh it off. Miracles like this don’t have another
explanation (though some demonic ones do). This is a lady with a
relationship to God and she vouches for action done by the God whom she
directly asked to act on her behalf.
I’ve heard stories
of missionaries in Africa who have seen a girl raised from the dead, seen
supernatural deliverance of items needed and seen freakish coincidences that
could have come about by no other means but their prayer. Babies
pronounced dead in the womb have come out alive, people have been truly saved
before certain death.
A miracle happened
to me that I’ve written about before. My daughter was spared before she was
even born when we were hit by a car on a motorbike before I even knew I was
pregnant. While it wasn’t one of those jaw-dropping miracles I still knew
it was God interceding because I was prompted to pray and if I hadn’t there would have been several ways our daughter would
certainly have died. Likewise there were many stories after 9/11 of people
that had been warned by God or prevented by God directly from going to the Twin Towers that day.
These things do
happen and they are an incredible testimony to the validity of God but atheists
shrug it off. For the atheist, miracles are simply things they do
not yet understand as they’re waiting for science to come along and tell them
that God is not needed for these things to occur. That’s great. But
the thing they are overlooking is the
fact that these miracles have occurred after direct request from God. It seems more likely therefore that God does
exist and does miraculous things on occasion than God not existing and miracles
to be waiting for some other explanation because people have a predisposed bias
against the supernatural.
It’s just like the
case with demons. There is eyewitness testimony galore but that isn’t
good enough. All of that can be ignored because they haven’t seen it with
their own eyes. But is that reason enough to doubt that it happens?
Why do we take eyewitness testimony in courts of law but don’t apply it to the
deep issues of life like whether or not demons exist or miracles occur? The supernatural can’t always be seen by our
eyes but yet there is evidence galore for it!
As a note, some
‘Faith Healers’ are opportunistic charlatans, it’s the sad truth but in a world
marred by sin this is to be expected. Yet some are legit and even still
many miracles do happen in individual congregations on behalf of a pastor and
church members led by God. Sometimes churches have been started because
God miraculously provided the perfect amount of money for the job. Open
your ears to the existence of miracles and you’ll find evidence aplenty for
the existence of God.
