Miracles: Reasons for Hope

      Everyone needs hope.  In this world and in this time where everything seems to be turned upside down and inside out, when right is called wrong and wrong right, and when people's hearts fail them for fear, earthquakes and hurricanes hit unlikely targets (like NYC!),  people are deceived in every arena of life, and Jesus' name can be used as a curse word but not in any other realm of public life (other than church), it seems that we need reasons for hope more than ever.

      It is for this reason, primarily, that I would like to change the focus of this blog - for awhile anyway - to one that proclaims good news, specifically news that demonstrates that we still have a LIVING, LOVING God who CARES and INTERVENES MIRACULOUSLY in the affairs of humankind - TODAY! 

     But I don't want this to be a one-woman show blog!  In order to accomplish this goal, and reach the most people with the encouragement we ALL need,  I need to ask for your help!  In two ways.  First, I need to hear your stories of ways God has and IS moving in the miraculous:  healing miracles, amazing conversion stories, and more.  I KNOW they're out there!!!  Sometimes here in America we become too "sophisticated" or "smart" to believe, and as a result,  we fail to see God's workmanship in miraculous ways all around us, and more sadly, we fail to give God the "space" to perform His wonders that are often reported by missionaries from places WAY out in the "uttermost parts of the world" where they haven't been corrupted by "sophistication" and they still believe that God is willing and ABLE to do the "OUT THERE" miracles!  So, tell me your (or others' substantiated) stories of God's awesome power to share with people from ALL OVER the world!  That ties in with my second request/need of you:  in order for the most people to benefit from the encouragement of this blog,  I will need YOU to tell others ABOUT it, to people across the globe!  If you know of missionaries, evangelists, pastors with ties to ministries around the world, etc. - pass on this blog address and encourage them to write down their miracle stories so that MORE and MORE people will be encouraged, and hopefully nonbelievers would see the overwhelming evidence of God's moving in this world and come to Christ! 

      Please - spread the word and send in your stories so that MANY would know, be encouraged and be blessed, and so that Jesus would be glorified!  I can't wait to hear your stories!   Bring 'em on!

     Here's a preview:  just a tip of the iceberg, two, actually, and true.

      In 1976 I was a new believer (about a year into my salvation), living in NYC.  Seven years before I was running in my apartment in just my socks to get to the phone and slipped, skidding several feet and landing hard into the door jamb of my parents' bedroom. OUCH!  It hurt, and was x-rayed but it showed nothing. However, days became months, which became years and the pain increased.  More tests and more nothing.  To make a long story short (or less long),  after 4 years I had exploratory surgery and was told that "the ligaments supporting the kneecap had "stretched out" and weren't holding it in place any longer; additionally, I had fibrosis, which they told me "comes from chronic arthritis."  In short, I was told to "wear high heels and get used to the pain.  There's nothing we can do for you." That was in 1973, at the age of 17.  But God had other plans!  Three years later, at a large church in Queens, NY, an evangelist came to speak and I went with several friends to hear Mario Murillo speak. What I didn't know was that he had a ministry in which God gave him words of knowledge about miraculous things He was going to do and they were done!  At the end of the first night, my faith was encouraged, but the best I could say was, "It would be nice."  But I wasn't holding my breath. On my way out the door, though,  God spoke to my heart (loud enough to almost have been audible!) He said, "You're coming back tomorrow and I'm going to heal you."  I remember all the next day thinking, whenever my knee strained and pained, "Tonight my knee isn't going to hurt anymore."  Well, since this is already getting too long, I'll spare you the details.  But as you can probably guess by now, this story wouldn't BE included here if it DIDN'T happen.  It did.  And 34 years later, not only is my knee still healed, but once again God used the same evangelist to unexpectedly heal my back after a car accident three months prior to last November, only 3,000 miles away from the original "scene."  So you see, I KNOW first-hand, that God is still IN the miracle-making business! 

      Now it's YOUR turn.  Send your miracle stories to my email address:  Spiritglogal7@comcast;.net.  The sooner I get them, the sooner I can share them.  And pass this blog address on so many others can be blessed as well, and tell their stories.  Can't wait to read them.!