Have you ever witnessed or experienced a bona fide miracle?

[Gryphon Rider]

Let me provide a very narrow definition of "miracle" for the purpose of this discussion:  A physical event believed to have a supernatural cause (e.g. performed by God) that cannot be explained by a reasonable person to possibly be produced by natural causes or coincidence, i.e. there is no reasonable scientific explanation, is not a common occurrence that simply doesn't yet have a scientific explanation, or is not remarkable simply because of its rarity, unlikeliness, or because it was predicted either explicitly or by premonition to occur.

Two Fictional examples of bona fide miracles:

1. A group of Valkyrie riders sees a storm approaching, so they park their bikes outside a restaurant, then go in to eat.  As they are watching their bikes through the windows, it starts to pour so hard they can hardly see the other side of the parking lot.  The moment the rain suddenly stops, they go outside and find all their bikes dripping except Serk's, parked in the middle of the others, perfectly dry, with dry pavement only under his bike.  There are ants crawling all over his seat, which then form the words, "BELIEVE NOW?", before dispersing down the bike to the ground.  I guess this would be two miracles.

2. DDT is riding through a town when a mom pushing a baby in a stroller starts to cross the road in front of him, so he applies the brakes.  One of the original rubber brake hoses for his front brakes bursts, leaving him with only rear brakes.  As his back tire is skidding, he remembers how he used to stop his pedal-bike as a boy, and drags his left toe on the pavement, allowing him to stop inches before impacting the stroller.  He puts his kickstand down, gets off the bike, and after checking to make sure mom and baby are okay, notices that he's worn the toe off of his boot, worn a hole through his sock, and ground his big toenail flush with the end of his toe.  He hates, because he really likes to show off his long, well-manicured toe nails to the ladies.  The moment he finishes that thought, the baby leans out of the stroller, and with compassion in her eyes, says, "Fix you boo-boo?"  DDT smiles as the baby reaches to touch the top of his boot, but is amazed that the moment she does, he watches the nail grows back to its former glorious length!

Three Fictional examples that may certainly indicate God's providence, but that don't meet the definition for our purposes here, as a skeptic could provide a plausible explanation or chalk it up to coincidence:

1. Meathead dreams about a friend that he hunted with as a young man, but hasn't seen in 35 years, or even thought about in 20 years.  The next morning the friend, on vacation, shows up at his store needing steaks to cook on his RV's BBQ.

2. Willow's been complaining on the VRCC General Board for weeks about an injured shoulder that causes intense pain when he tries to lift his arm, even posting selfies of his most dramatic grimaces.  Robert, who is in Kansas for a Christian comic book convention, offers to come over and pray for it.  Willow agrees, excited to see Robert.  Over the next two days the pain diminishes to the point that Willow can comfortably put his helmet on the shelf above his coat in his back closet.

3. Old2soon is thinking about ex-wives and old regrets, digging through a drawer that hasn't been organized in 40 years, looking for a pen that works.  None of the 18 pens he tries will write, but just before he gives up, he sees something and pulls out a pen that he "borrowed" from the Bible school his buddy was giving him a tour of, trying and failing to convince him to attend.  He tries the pen and it writes perfectly, then spots a pamphlet amongst this week's flyers, advertising an evening course at a local church, Learn Lamentations in 8 Weeks Flat.  Remarkably, he is interested.

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Do you have a story of miracle that either happened to you, or that you've personally witnessed happen to someone you know well enough that it could not possibly have been staged?  If it was a healing and not obvious to a casual observer, was it verified by an MD who examined them before and after the healing?

I'm not looking for second-hand accounts.

[Pete]

No, sorry nothing I can help you with.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Uh....could you clarify if a miracle could be encountered under the influence of drugs or alcohol ?

I think I might have several of those. I'm too boring to have a genuine miracle happen.


GREAT POST !

Edit : I do have one experience that really wouldn't be considered a miracle, but more along the lines of God reached down and touched me.

[J.Mencalice]

2004 ALCS.  Boston Red Sox come back from being down 0-3 in a seven game series and win 4 straight against the New Yawk Yankees and eventually win the World Series!!                                      

THAT was a four-game miracle, not just one of those one-game miracles, ask any Red Sox fan and witnessed by millions of unholy, non-believer Yankee fans.

God blesses the Boston Red Sox : see below.

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[Oss]

yes

but wont share here except for this one

Oss meets Bonnie   Bonnie likes Oss    

In the second category many

What would you say about

18 yr old Oss decides to hitchhike in a snowstorm, to Boston from Buffalo to see an old girlfriend at Boston U who does not know he is coming and he has no idea where she lives nor a phone # He just felt like saying hello to her as he missed her voice.

He gets out of the car somewhere on Commonwealth Avenue
10 seconds later she walks by and he says hello

4 yrs later Oss drives to Florida with a friend and needs to stop in Gainsville on his way to WPB to drop him off to visit his friend Joni from SUNYBuffalo  Neither of them know Joni's address and the directions were left home by both young men (lots of mind altering stuff going on that trip lol )  After 18 hr of driving from Orangeburg NY Oss parks the 73 Monte in front of a random college building in Gainsville, gets out and Joni walks by within seconds.  And she is pleased to see Oss. The friend flies home disappointed    After a nice (ahem) visit Oss continues to WPB.

Last one, Oss has friends because he owns a Valkyrie and has been a true friend to people he has never met These friends are truly to him a family

[The emperor has no clothes]

Last one, Oss has friends because he owns a Valkyrie and has been a true friend to people he has never met These friends are truly to him a family

(and some you've met)

[Robert]

Just a few off the top of my head some you may or may not consider miracles but they all were since all were in desperate shape and in need.

A girl healed of asthma with bad lungs did not use the inhaler ever again and if I remember she said dr gave her a clean bill of health

Seen many prayed for pass out and cannot wake them sometimes for hours, wake up and changes had occurred in their lives and had an experience with the Lord

A woman who had a heart attack turned blue and lost pulse prayed for before paramedics came she got up and sat in the pew paramedics took her and found nothing wrong.

Kids after being prayed over crying, laughing and some just gone having a good time with the Lord.

A man told to go to the dr  by the Lord because he had chest pain a few weeks earlier that had totally cleared up and was not going to go,  he did and received a stent.

 A man told to buy a house with no money and did, with help of course.

Many receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit

Words of wisdom and encouragement to many people that came true.

My own marriage and many things in it.

Many in pains in different parts of peoples body healed

Some looking for job found one the exact way that the Lord had said they would.

Many monetary miracles.

So many different situations that the Lord was in.

I have had some walk into my place of business and said the Lord told me to come here and no I didn't know them.

I have had people come back and thank me for praying for them.

I have seen many set free from mental bondage's and fears.

Much much more.

My wife had a growth on her wrist, she was praying and we looked and it was gone. It was about the size of a half golf ball.

Had a lady that was prayed for fall and hit her head so hard on the wall it was heard through all the church. Well everyone heard it and I was becoming concerned because she was still laying there towards the end of service. She finally woke up and everyone was listening to her testimony and waiting to hear that there was something wrong. She said I had a terrible head ache when I came to church and now I feel great and all the pain is gone.. 

I had a wish for a car, it was very specific, I wanted a used Jag that some rich person had owned so all the maintenance and services were done at the dealer, it was to have low mileage and be in really good condition and be inexpensive. Today I own that car, called the dealer tried to get the service records and they said there were pages and pages and would not do it. Had 50k miles and is in excellent condition and bought it cheap. It was owned by a person who had race horses and a stable lived in Palm Beach and had a big business.

My father in law was going to die and I was worried about him making heaven. I really loved this man he was wealthy and a tough business man. He was hell fire at work a ladies man and not very personable. He had many affairs and his wife never really left him, you get the idea. But through all this he had a heart of gold, would take care of his kids, helped many out, quietly and changed many lives for the better. He led his daughters to the Lord and helped many in church and of course he himself was saved. He knew personally Zig Zigler, Evil Kneival and many other famous people. His family never suffered and he did alot for them. Well he was dying of cancer and the day he died I was in the room. A few minutes after he dies I get this joy inside myself and almost start to laugh and yet cry. I thought it strange, I had never experienced something like that before. I did not tell anyone of my experience not wanting to offend in a time of pain and  shortly after 2 of his daughters were talking and they also had the same experience. I believe that was the conformation he made it, Thank God.

One day my nephew walks into my place of business. He had tried to turn off, change direction, or not come but he found himself there. Well I knew almost immediately what he was there for and it was not the purpose he had in his own mind. We talked awhile and then I felt it was time to pray for him. I really didn't know him all that well, had heard about him from family members and met him at family events once in awhile. His dad and mom had split, his mom was having trouble coping and he had gotten into some hurtful situations. As I prayed for him I felt led to say a sinners prayer with him, he accepted the Lord. I went on praying and he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and from that moment on his life started to change. The deep hurt and regret that he felt over some situations he felt in his life went away. He started on a path to become a pastor and for 3 years we would talk and I would pray for him and the Lord was awesome at leading him. At the end of those years he graduated from school with his pastors degree, got a wife and went into the army. He was a pastor, that became a ranger and the things that the Lord had done for him you could have written a book about. Oh and what were his dreams when he was a kid to be either a pastor or go into the military, both dreams or ideas he had decided to give up on since he felt they were unobtainable.

He didnt have the money for a wedding or a dress for his bride and he prayed about it. Well his bride felt led to enter a contest she won and the prize was, you guessed it a wedding complete with dress and all the fixings and 10k to do with as you want.

That was only one story so many more.

One day I was feeling low and upset and walking by this guy, I knew him well and we would walk and talk about the Lord. I really was not in the mood for talking though at that time and wanted to be left alone to sulk and we were in front of a barber shop he would frequent quite a bit. Well he started to talk and I was thinking just leave me alone but somehow I said ok you want more of the Lord I said I will pray for you, right there. I didn't know how many people were watching and didn't care either and I started to pry for him. Well he was 6'6" and had the weight to match. His hands made mine look small, and yet as I laid my hands on him and started to pray I felt God move on him and he started to fall down. I had to hold him up and pray for him with everyone around. Truthfully I really dont know how many were watching or if anyone was but it was a powerful moment. I finally felt led to stop praying and as I stopped he was finally able to stand on his own but he was out of it for awhile and we both stood there for a bit. In that moment he received the baptism and I felt so much better and he went on and had a real relationship with the Lord from that day forward, his life was never the same and we laughed about it and rejoiced that God did a miracle in that place.

Last story,
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I was in another one of my not so good moods and having a real pity party. So I went to the cafeteria and wanted to sit by myself and eat my lunch and sulk. Well the table that I sat at was a 4 person table and so after a bit this guy sits down and starts to tell me his life story. I was NOT in the mood for this, he keeps on and on and I was eating my lunch and did not say one word and was thinking, OH please just zip it. Well at the point of sheer desperation, I finally bleated out the only way I know to get help is to pray to Jesus. Finally I did it and finally he was quite for a few seconds with a stunned look on his face. Well after a moment he starts again so I knew at that point I was being summoned. So we started to talk but it was strange because it was mostly reciting scripture after scripture, perfectly put together and all making perfect sense, but it was not really me. So this continued for awhile and I got up and he followed me. I put my tray away walked outside and he was right there with me and I was still quoting scripture. Well we walked a bit and I was ready to go my own way and felt led to pray for him. I laid my hands on him and started to pray, the power and compassion at that moment was amazing. He was almost crying and he did not want to so he quickly left and but I explained to him that God was going to do something for him that night and dont be afraid. Well next morning I went to go get something to eat and who do I see by the door to the complex, this guy. I thought oh no here it comes. I was not wrong either but it was not bad it was an awesome story. He was a pastors kid and had never met the Lord, the first words out of his mouth was I met the Lord. He then commenced to tell me a few more points and we parted ways, and I never saw him again.

[Serk]

1. A group of Valkyrie riders sees a storm approaching, so they park their bikes outside a restaurant, then go in to eat.  As they are watching their bikes through the windows, it starts to pour so hard they can hardly see the other side of the parking lot.  The moment the rain suddenly stops, they go outside and find all their bikes dripping except Serk's, parked in the middle of the others, perfectly dry, with dry pavement only under his bike.  There are ants crawling all over his seat, which then form the words, "BELIEVE NOW?", before dispersing down the bike to the ground.  I guess this would be two miracles.

I have not...

...and even if that did happen, I'd be examining the seat for signs of ant pheromones or sugar spelling out the message...

[Moonshot_1]

Sure. Taking my daughter to a Dr's appointment in Sioux City. This is about 60 miles away from us.
This was in Apr. of 2009. My daughter was 17 at the time. The appointment was in relation to her Cleft lip and palate.  Anyway....

It was a beautiful Apr. afternoon and we decided to take the bike. Had my 99 red and cream Valk Tourer then.

We are about 30 miles down the road, heading west, and about a mile from our south bound leg. We come over the top of a small hill and can see all the way to the next road about a mile away. There is some traffic and a little side road off a T intersection and beyond that is a guy on a tractor putting along.

We are zipping right along about 65 mph and I come up on the tractor and begin to pass him as I suddenly see him start to turn left into the field across what now is my (passing) lane.

Make a couple evasive maneuvers and I see the loader on his front end coming my way as I pass him. Thought I cleared it but felt the bump on the back and the bike does a quarter second death wobble and goes down. I slide down the road on the bike then the bike flips and launches me into shallow earth orbit. I wind up at the bottom of a deep ditch.
As I am assessing my condition, broken ribs and collar bone and a variety of other non-life threatening things, my daughter is standing on the road above me yelling “Dad, Dad!”. And that is the miracle.
She came off the bike when it went down. At probably 50 mph. Not a scratch. Nothing. A little red spot on the hip maybe. Not even close to a bruise.
She will still hop on the bike too.

[John Schmidt]

Yes, one major one besides my own...a heart attack 6 years ago I wasn't supposed to survive. I wasn't breathing, on artificial pump of some type for the heart, dr. told Rita to get the family together. They did, they prayed together....less than 24 hrs. I was breathing on my own and the O2 was shut off, the pump was removed, 30 hrs. into it my kidneys kicked in and I peed off over 50 lbs. of fluid over the next 2-3 days. Discharged Aug. 6, on the bicycle Sept. 1st, on the Valk Sept. 20, led a group to Daytona for Biketoberfest in mid-October(over 100 miles that day). Back in the gym Nov. 1, surpassed my prior lifting by March 15.

Now the other miracle....my oldest daughter's husband. He was working on the back porch, standing on a kitchen chair when it slipped off the porch. He came down on it and one chair leg pierced the groin on the left side and went clear through to the hip, an image of the glider on the bottom of the leg could be seen on the inside as it pressed against the outer skin. He yelled for my daughter, together they pulled the leg out and he was bleeding heavily from it, found out later it hadn't hit the femoral artery. They struggled to get to the car, big guy weighed nearly 300 lbs. at the time. She got in the car and suddenly realized it was on empty...yet it started fine. A nearby railroad normally had the nearest crossing blocked for long periods at this time of day, yet today there wasn't a train in sight. She went flying out onto the main road just as an ambulance passed headed in the same direction. She was able to get their attention, they stopped and moved him to their vehicle before screaming off to the hospital. My daughter followed and when she pulled into the parking lot, just as she parked the engine died. His loss of blood was extreme, the surgeon told us there was no reason for him to be alive...no pulse, no BP, not enough blood in his system to have either. I forget how many units he rec'd. but it was nearly a full transfusion. The impression of the chair glider remained and he was complaining of pain in that area a couple days later so they x-rayed it to find the glider had apparently slipped off the chair leg when it was first pulled out. They numbed the area, cut it open and removed a fully intact chair leg floor glide from his hip. A couple months of rehab and he was back coaching baskeball.

Another time I was flying a C-172 with my wife and passing by Tallahassee, FL on our way to Arkansas for Thanksgiving. I was talking to Approach with flight following due to it being a heavy traffic area, and noticed they were trying to raise someone east of Tally that wasn't responding with radio or transponder. We were also east of Tally at ~6500' when someone told me to dive sharply to the right. I did and a small Piper passed close enough in front and slightly above for me to see the color of the guys shirt, all the while we were jostled a bit from the prop wash. After gathering myself I told my wife I was glad she had told me to dive like that.....to which she answered "I never said anything to you, I was asleep."

Draw your own conclusions, but too many events have taken place in my life to write it off as coincidence. Divine intervention has carried me through more times than I deserve....present situation included.  

[Bigwolf]

Gryphon,

Looking at your stated criteria, if such a miracle did happen, nobody would believe those that actually experienced it.  They would be better off to keep their mouth shut about their experience.

I believe people almost invariably believe what they want to believe.  As Andy Rooney said “most people will accept the facts as truth just as long as the facts support what they already believe.”

While I have a high degree of disdain for religions, I do believe their is a Power far beyond the understanding of mankind.  There have been a lot of “coincidences” in my life but 2 events stand out in my mind.  

One such event happened at work several years ago.  I ran a large CNC boring mill.  It was big enough to cut on all parts of a box 20ft x 10ft x 5ft deep.  The workpiece sat on a computer controlled table that could be moved, by computer, out away from the front of the machine or it could be moved in till it contacted the solid part of the front of the machine.  Most days of the last 3 or more years, I had moved that table to a position about 2 and1/2 feet from the front of the machine.  With the table in that position, I would walk in between the front of the machine and the 16ft long workpiece....... I would be just a little over half way along the workpiece (about 9ft) in that space.  This was necessary to set the starting point for machining those long frames.  Most days I had Done that twice during my shift.  I never thought anything about it.
Then one night I just could not do that!  I could not bring myself to enter that space.  I had the overwhelming feeling that I would certainly die if I entered that space.  My shift had been normal and everything was going as usual right up until I moved that table into that position preparing to set the starting point.  I took a break, got a soft drink and came back to the machine but the overwhelming feeling was still there.  I could not shake it off.  I finally figured out a way to get that starting point set without entering that area.  My mind was at ease with this new way.  It was more than twice as hard but was, barely, doable.  I finished that shift.  The machine had given no indication of any problem.  All seemed well and good except for the overwhelming feeling I had experienced.  Shortly into the next shift that work table went bezerk.  From that day on for about 16 months, that work table crashed into the front of the machine numerous times.  In doing so, it destroyed a lot of stuff, sheared off 1 and 1/4 inch hardened steel locating pins, and punched a hole through 1/4 inch thick steel cover on the front of the machine.

You can classify that story however you feel it should be classified.  I don’t care what anyone else thinks about it.  I do have my own opinion of it though.

Bigwolf

[msb]

I truly believe miracles happen every day...things that really have no reason to happen and there's no explanation other than a greater force is in play. I am not religious in a "true" sense, but am certainly open minded enough to believe that not everything can be or is meant to be explained in an earthly way.

I share my obvious two miracles with my wife...they are named Jacquie and Cory, our 30 & 28 year old daughters. For me, their births were bonafide miracles because I would never have imangined before them that I could care about someone that much. I like Oss's example as well about his better half...I can relate to that

[G-Man]

Beautiful day.  Mid 80's, few clouds, little to no breeze.

Go into a store with my cousin from London.  At the register is the Magic 8-Ball.  Cuz asks what it was so I told him, to ask the ball a question and it will give you the answer.  He asked some crazy question so I told him it had to be closer to a Yes or No type question.  So he says "Will it Rain?"  8-Ball says Most Definitely when the piece floats to the top.  Sure enough, a sun shower on the way to the car.  Stops once we get in the car and doesn't rain again all day.

 

[DDT (12)]

It's a miracle I still have a left foot!

DDT

[The emperor has no clothes]

It's a miracle I still have a left foot!

DDT

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

A group of Valkyrie riders sees a storm approaching, so they park their bikes outside a restaurant, then go in to eat.  As they are watching their bikes through the windows, it starts to pour so hard they can hardly see the other side of the parking lot.  The moment the rain suddenly stops, they go outside and find all their bikes dripping except Serk's, parked in the middle of the others, perfectly dry, with dry pavement only under his bike.  There are ants crawling all over his seat, which then form the words, "BELIEVE NOW?", before dispersing down the bike to the ground.  I guess this would be two miracles.

No dry spots was found on this ride .

[Jess from VA]

Thermos bottles are a miracle.

Keep hot things hot, and cold things cold.

How do they know?

[Valker]

Thermos bottles are a miracle.

Keep hot things hot, and cold things cold.

How do they know?

They are very easily confused though. I put my coffee and popsicle in mine this morning. At lunch neither one was the right temp.

[Mr Whiskey]

Yes...In my youth I spent about 7 years in a manufacturing facility that produced porcelain line insulators. These things are HEAVY & so are the concrete slabs & brick used to build the kiln cars they are fired on. All this was moved by hand. Wasn't nothin' to move 20k lbs before dinner, 50k lbs a night total was considered average. Needless to say, I became pretty "stout".
One evening the skeleton crew showed up 'bout 45 min early & let me go ahead & take off, so I arrived home at least half hour early. I pull in the driveway & see my landlord putting a basket full of wet laundry in the right side back of her Ford Tempo, she slams the car door & it starts rolling backwards down the hill, she runs around behind it to try & stop it & immediately goes under the car! Here she is under the trunk with her elbows hooked on the rear bumper coming at me fast & I distinctly remember thinking "ah 4377 no" not gonna happen on my watch! So I cut the little honda civic I'm driving into the tree on the right side of the drive (didn't even have time to take it outta gear) & stepped out. I got one good heal on these ol hog nose boots planted before the car hit me...
it took every minute of every day, every ounce of every pound I moved, every fiber of my being, & God makin' me "ready" to stop that car! Right place, right time, right condition.
I don't know if that fits anyone else definition of a miracle,
but Janice still sends me Christmas cards  

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Yes...In my youth I spent about 7 years in a manufacturing facility that produced porcelain line insulators. These things are HEAVY & so are the concrete slabs & brick used to build the kiln cars they are fired on. All this was moved by hand. Wasn't nothin' to move 20k lbs before dinner, 50k lbs a night total was considered average. Needless to say, I became pretty "stout".
One evening the skeleton crew showed up 'bout 45 min early & let me go ahead & take off, so I arrived home at least half hour early. I pull in the driveway & see my landlord putting a basket full of wet laundry in the right side back of her Ford Tempo, she slams the car door & it starts rolling backwards down the hill, she runs around behind it to try & stop it & immediately goes under the car! Here she is under the trunk with her elbows hooked on the rear bumper coming at me fast & I distinctly remember thinking "ah 4377 no" not gonna happen on my watch! So I cut the little honda civic I'm driving into the tree on the right side of the drive (didn't even have time to take it outta gear) & stepped out. I got one good heal on these ol hog nose boots planted before the car hit me...
it took every minute of every day, every ounce of every pound I moved, every fiber of my being, & God makin' me "ready" to stop that car! Right place, right time, right condition.
I don't know if that fits anyone else definition of a miracle,
but Janice still sends me Christmas cards  

Awesome story Whiskey Man... Good for you 

[Willow]

Yes.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Yes...In my youth I spent about 7 years in a manufacturing facility that produced porcelain line insulators. These things are HEAVY & so are the concrete slabs & brick used to build the kiln cars they are fired on. All this was moved by hand. Wasn't nothin' to move 20k lbs before dinner, 50k lbs a night total was considered average. Needless to say, I became pretty "stout".
One evening the skeleton crew showed up 'bout 45 min early & let me go ahead & take off, so I arrived home at least half hour early. I pull in the driveway & see my landlord putting a basket full of wet laundry in the right side back of her Ford Tempo, she slams the car door & it starts rolling backwards down the hill, she runs around behind it to try & stop it & immediately goes under the car! Here she is under the trunk with her elbows hooked on the rear bumper coming at me fast & I distinctly remember thinking "ah 4377 no" not gonna happen on my watch! So I cut the little honda civic I'm driving into the tree on the right side of the drive (didn't even have time to take it outta gear) & stepped out. I got one good heal on these ol hog nose boots planted before the car hit me...
it took every minute of every day, every ounce of every pound I moved, every fiber of my being, & God makin' me "ready" to stop that car! Right place, right time, right condition.
I don't know if that fits anyone else definition of a miracle,
but Janice still sends me Christmas cards  

Awesome story Whiskey Man... Good for you 

+1 fits my description 

[The emperor has no clothes]

Yes.

how’s the shoulder ? 

[Gryphon Rider]

Yes.

If you're ever interviewed you for TV or radio, someone had better warn the interviewer to have mostly open-ended questions prepared.

[da prez]

  Yes, I did. Before the divorce , the soon to be ex , got up from the couch and took her dinner plate into the kitchen. I guess it would not fit under the couch.

                               da prez

[Bigwolf]

Yes...In my youth I spent about 7 years in a manufacturing facility that produced porcelain line insulators. These things are HEAVY & so are the concrete slabs & brick used to build the kiln cars they are fired on. All this was moved by hand. Wasn't nothin' to move 20k lbs before dinner, 50k lbs a night total was considered average. Needless to say, I became pretty "stout".
One evening the skeleton crew showed up 'bout 45 min early & let me go ahead & take off, so I arrived home at least half hour early. I pull in the driveway & see my landlord putting a basket full of wet laundry in the right side back of her Ford Tempo, she slams the car door & it starts rolling backwards down the hill, she runs around behind it to try & stop it & immediately goes under the car! Here she is under the trunk with her elbows hooked on the rear bumper coming at me fast & I distinctly remember thinking "ah 4377 no" not gonna happen on my watch! So I cut the little honda civic I'm driving into the tree on the right side of the drive (didn't even have time to take it outta gear) & stepped out. I got one good heal on these ol hog nose boots planted before the car hit me...
it took every minute of every day, every ounce of every pound I moved, every fiber of my being, & God makin' me "ready" to stop that car! Right place, right time, right condition.
I don't know if that fits anyone else definition of a miracle,
but Janice still sends me Christmas cards  

Awesome story Whiskey Man... Good for you 

+1 fits my description 

+1 more.  Perfect conditioning, perfect timing, and possibly even a bit of help with adequate footing too.........I have to count that as an act of God.   

[Serk]

We see and use, in our everyday lives, things that would be considered bona fide miracles just 100 years ago...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

--Arthur C. Clarke.

(Not to denigrate those who feel they've witnessed and/or experienced not technological miracles in their lives, just sayin'...)

[DirtyDan]

Miracle.......?

Can’t say

Watched over from the other side.........

Definitely !

Dan

[Alpha Dog]

Miracle.......?

Can’t say

Watched over from the other side.........

Definitely !

Dan

Some very good instances of Angelic forces at work, from above statements.  Over the years I have heard hundreds or thousands of extraordinary examples being a long time listener of Coast to Coast AM.  I thank the above members for coming forward.  I myself believe I stopped a surgery from being needed at 12 years old by praying, and then it all healed immediately.


Just a few days ago I listened to Dale Earnhardt Jr. describe an incident from 2004 in a corvette at Sebring.  His corvette caught on fire, there is video of the flames surrounding him and it was intense. There is also video of him coming out of the corvette but backwards.   He runs to his crew and asks who pulled me out.  They told him no one.  He started cursing a bit stating someone pulled him out and he could feel there arms grabbing him from under his arms and dragging him out.  The video shows no one there.  He thinks it was angelic and possibly the spirit of his Father.  Who is to say?   All I know this stuff happens, it is not paranormal, just not understood.  Academia or Science who have no ability to quantify this Universal energy of the creator just dismiss it for the most part.  How easy for them.

The creator, call it what you want,  is the consciousness of the entire Universe.  It is an energy force much more powerful than anything else and can and does manifest itself in miraculous and wonderous ways.

[Chrisj CMA]

I hesitated telling this again. Too much talking about me I guess. But this had to be a miracle.

Remember when I got my arm stuck in the cement mixer?  Well, I do!  Ok, here’s what happened.  I’m kneeling in front of the portable mixer with a hose. Mixer turning and I’m spraying water up into it. I remember it was HOT so it felt good getting wet from the over spray.

So, the inside of the mixer is pretty clean except for one little chunk. Why I thought it was so important to dislodge that thing right then I’ll never know. So I reach in just a couple inches thinking  I could flick that chunk off the mixing blade and my wrist gets grabbed. The more the mixer turned the tighter the hold.

Remember, I am kneeling, all wet in front of a wet turning mixer.

When I felt the wrist break I remember having the thought that somehow I need to be moving with this thing or my arm is going to twist off.

That’s when it happened. Somehow I leaped up on top of the mixer from a kneeling position and held on with one arm while turning and the thing falling over and dragging me under. At any point had I let go my arm would have been off.

Once the elbow dislocated things loosened up so I could escape.

All went back together at the hospital without surgery and I have full strength and function in that arm

God sent an angel when I needed it and there’s no other explanation.

Sometimes I walk past that same mixer and wonder how that all happened. Then I remind myself it wasn’t me that did anything

[98valk]

Yes!!!  all of the time.

[longrider]

The Misses on a new to us 01 IS,  first ride on the m/c,  older son on his sport bike and I out for a nice 300 miler.  Leading the group I was Rolling along at 55 or 90 km Mama is following.  Rounded a curve and she was not to be seen.  Pulled over and went back.  A woman in a cage had pulled out from a side road immediately in front of her.  55 into the drivers door.  A crushed wrist and loss of the tip of her index finger.  Scraped one knee.  Other than that not a bruise to be found. 

A miracle for sure

[Skinhead]

Yes...In my youth I spent about 7 years in a manufacturing facility that produced porcelain line insulators. These things are HEAVY & so are the concrete slabs & brick used to build the kiln cars they are fired on. All this was moved by hand. Wasn't nothin' to move 20k lbs before dinner, 50k lbs a night total was considered average. Needless to say, I became pretty "stout".
One evening the skeleton crew showed up 'bout 45 min early & let me go ahead & take off, so I arrived home at least half hour early. I pull in the driveway & see my landlord putting a basket full of wet laundry in the right side back of her Ford Tempo, she slams the car door & it starts rolling backwards down the hill, she runs around behind it to try & stop it & immediately goes under the car! Here she is under the trunk with her elbows hooked on the rear bumper coming at me fast & I distinctly remember thinking "ah 4377 no" not gonna happen on my watch! So I cut the little honda civic I'm driving into the tree on the right side of the drive (didn't even have time to take it outta gear) & stepped out. I got one good heal on these ol hog nose boots planted before the car hit me...
it took every minute of every day, every ounce of every pound I moved, every fiber of my being, & God makin' me "ready" to stop that car! Right place, right time, right condition.
I don't know if that fits anyone else definition of a miracle,
but Janice still sends me Christmas cards  

Awesome story Whiskey Man... Good for you 

Attaboy, Dexter!

[Robert]

Dont really know if you would consider this a miracle but it just happened to me in the restaurant I was at.

So was sitting there eating with my wife and one of the waitress was going back and forth doing her thing. The Lord put a word in my heart for her, so one time I stopped her and said, "you have to learn a new way to do things", the world stopped for her in that moment. Then I said it again, since she just stood there looking at me for a moment. Its at that moment when you say to yourself either that was dead on or dead off and your about to find out. As the wheels slowed a bit in her head, she said, "You have no notion how timely that is". I thought she was going to cry right there. It took a few moments for her to regain her composer.

She proceeded to tell us a story about what had happened to her and her concerns.

She said you have no idea how timely that is I was just reading that message this morning and thanked me for the word.

Well she came back a few more times and explained more and more and you could see in her face the release of tension and worry.

God always wants to give a word to those that will listen and seek Him for the hurting. If the one delivering the word will be faithful and do what He knows the Lord wants him to do.

How do you know if God Loves you or hears you if you never get a word or a knowing in your spirit that it was Him who answered in the way you needed it. Be it saving from an accident or a word, we all need encouragement.

I consider that a miracle in this time, although it should be a regular and common occurrence for those in the Lord to have a life a bit changed and encouraged by a Word or to have a word for someone to have their lives encouraged or changed.

[Gryphon Rider]

Yes!!!  all of the time.

So...tell us of the most indisputably miraculous one.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Yes!!!  all of the time.

So...tell us of the most indisputably miraculous one.

Any for you Kevin ?

[Gryphon Rider]

Yes!!!  all of the time.

So...tell us of the most indisputably miraculous one.

Any for you Kevin ?

I've experienced times where it was obvious that God arranged circumstances to achieve His purpose, often to increase faith within His children.  An example of that is when at a small meeting that included a time of prayer, I had asked for prayer for my trip to InZane in Asheville, and one lady, Brenda, felt led to pray specifically that I would have a dry ride to Asheville.  I remember thinking, that's a nice thought, but unlikely, and besides, I wouldn't be especially bothered by a little rain as I was prepared with rain gear.  Well, my first day was from Calgary to a fellow CMAer's home just west of Regina, and as I approached Regina a big dark cloud was forming over the city.  When I turned north towards the town of Grand Coulee, about six miles west of Regina, a few drops were hitting my windshield.  My friend had his garage open and I rode in before things got wet.  The next day in North Dakota the highway threaded the needle between two storms, keeping me dry.  From Moorhead MN, where 97BLKVALK generously put me up for the night, I joined some others heading to InZane, and although we saw storms along our route, we stayed dry over two days together.  We parted ways in Indiana when I headed south to Kentucky to stay with Rams, while the others continued east.  I might me wrong, but I think they described riding in rain for a couple of hours (or more) sometime after I split off.  My trip to Asheville was rain free.  Not so much the trip back, as Rams and I rode for a short stretch in hard rain, and my last day from Regina to Calgary was a rainy one.  Before InZane in Spearfish I jokingly asked Brenda to pray for a dry trip because her last prayer was answered, and when it was her turn to pray, she didn't mention dry riding weather.  Emily and I got wet once on the way.

I have never experienced or seen a physical miracle comparable to the ones described in the Bible, but that doesn't shake my faith, as miracles are not promised to us.  That is not to say that God cannot or won't do the miraculous, but rather that they are rare enough that I, for one, haven't seen one.  The miracles of the Bible have typically been to demonstrate God's power that people may know Him, or to be a witness that His prophet or Apostle is actually speaking on behalf of Him, with His authority.

The true miracles that I have seen are the changes that God makes in the hearts of people who repent and believe.  One lady in the Bible study I lead was so changed that her social worker asked her to come in and talk to her in person because she didn't believe she was talking on the phone to the person she knew.  I know well another who was an alcoholic for whom, when saved, God completely removed his desire to drink.

[Willow]

We often use the word in ways that are not indicated by the primary definition.  The primary definition would indicate a change that is outside of the known natural laws and could only take place by supernatural intervention.  Secondarily some dictionaries add an event that is unusual and believed to be the result of supernatural intervention.

I often use the term in referring to my unlikely survival in two traffic mishaps.  I believe they show evidence of God's (or my guardian angel's) hand but they don't really meet the primary def.

Ten years ago I impacted a Ford at the driver's door at forty miles per hour unbraked.  The timing of the impact and my unpreparedness caused the nose of the bike to be up thus catapulting me over the vehicle rather than into its side.  Interestingly that was just a couple of months after a very similar accident took the life of Steve Lucas.  I was hurled probably thirty or more feet into the air and landed flat on my back.  There were no injuries to the spine or major organs other than a punctured lung, shattered ribs and a broken pelvis.  Well, there was the broken thumb.

Perhaps that didn't adequately get my attention.  Five years ago I lost pressure rapidly in the rear tire at turnpike speed.  I misinterpreted the wobble and decided I could get through it if I just held my speed steady.  Wrong reaction to a flattening rear!  I hit the pavement on my face, skidded and rolled for quite some distance.  The trooper first on the scene said, "He kept trying to roll over but I was afraid he would drown on the blood."  I broke bones in that left wrist and hand again.  At the hospital my wife described me as unrecognizable.  Anyone who saw me then would say if I survived my face would be horribly disfigured.  If you look closely today the only result you can see is the repair to my lower lip and my nose is very, very slightly out of alignment.

Neither of those are actual miracles although I do recognize them as definite results of God's purposeful interventions.

When I was a child I witnessed a college aged young man have his sight restored.  Restored may be the wrong term as he had been blind from birth.  That counts as a miracle.         

[Chrisj CMA]

Although this is a good discussion,  I am a little surprised that nobody has mentioned the miracle that every born again Christian has personally witnessed.

When a person comes to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior God performs a miracle.

Gods word says at that moment the person is an all new creature/creation. In fact God himself is so proud of his own handiwork that it says “behold...all is made new”

If you haven’t been changed by God (a miracle) you haven’t been saved.

[Gryphon Rider]

Although this is a good discussion,  I am a little surprised that nobody has mentioned the miracle that every born again Christian has personally witnessed.

When a person comes to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior God performs a miracle.

Gods word says at that moment the person is an all new creature/creation. In fact God himself is so proud of his own handiwork that it says “behold...all is made new”

If you haven’t been changed by God (a miracle) you haven’t been saved.

Although I didn't say it in exactly those words, I said:

The true miracles that I have seen are the changes that God makes in the hearts of people who repent and believe.

While I completely agree with you about the miracle of salvation, I did specifically ask people to relate physical miracles that couldn't be denied by a reasonable skeptic.