Miracle Healing: Where's my new finger?

Thats true but likewise we can't argue with their own Anti-Salvation experience either. Nor can we argue with a Hindu's experience or a Muslim experience.

 

Don't have to. That's God's job. Ours is just to present the gospel.

 

I suffered 4 strokes, lost my speech for 3 years, lost my immediate memory, became paralysed in both hands and feet and down right side.

Three years to the day, I preached in my former pastorate somewhat flawlessly and without using notes. I continued to use computer despite that fact my fingers are next to useless.

I am still not complete! There was no public healing or demand for such. The miracle remains that I am still here and functioning despite my calamities. Everyone in my village is amazed that I am still around and functioning. That is my miracle, that is their miracle, that is God's witness through my being. For this, I praise God and give him thanks.

Could God have healed me completely? Indeed He could. Would I have had the same tesimony? I doubt it.

God has His own ways and His own purpose for what He does, and I accept that and get on with the life He gave me and the testimony I owe Him.

The greatest healing was when He saved my soul and made me whole,,,,,in Him.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Amen, brother and that is true of each of us who are believers.

 

The only place I've ever seen such a thing is on a TV show. A woman who had only 1 leg suddenly woke up to find herself standing on 2 legs. After mentioning it to a doctor, Dr Constantine was his name, he said, "Well, there is a war going on. Are you sure you just haven't miscounted?"

In real life? Never heard of such a thing. And, unless I witnessed it with my own eyes, I would be highly skeptical that such a thing happened.

 

You seem to have completely miss understood me.

I said that it is not the way we use it today: I.E. the way the Word is USED in our language, not that we do not have FAITH TODAY.

 

Jesus did heal the man with the whithered hand.

Matt 12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

I have never witnessed a healing miracle myself, although I saw a young lady on TV who had been born blind, and was blind into her 20's when her eyes were healed. She demonstrated by reading. What was truly miraculous about this healing is that she still appeared blind, her eyes were sunken, and did not look forward. But it was obvious she could see as she walked around unassisted and read. They had many photographs of her from her youth showing she was blind. This was the most convincing evidence I've ever seen for a miracle healing.

Great testimony Allan.

 

... The important thing to remember about any healing is that it must be in God's will. There is also a scientific principal that, though I can't recall off the top of my head where, that the scriptures bears out, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
... When I took the gift of salvation, as my own, I sold myself to my Master. That makes me His Bond Slave and because of that I submit to what-ever His will for me is. I'm an old war veteran that rides around in a wheelchair and there are two different, though compatible, ways to look at that situation. Before I got bad enough to be put in this chair I witnessed in the prisons and various other institutions.
... When my affliction became so bad I could have followed the worlds logic and became bitter. I could have gone to some of these Healing Crusades and when God did not heal me I could have gotten very angry, I didn't, it's His will for His glory, not mine. When I became bound to this chair I prayed for God to direct me and He did.
... From the other view point; When I was a youth I grew up in the slums with two drunks for parents and all I wanted was to fly. When I was seventeen I enlisted in the Army ad went to Aviation Mechanic's School at Ft. Rucker, Alabama. I became a Helicopter Mechanic/ Crewchief. As such I was taught by my pilots to fly.
... That, easily, could have been the end of the story but I chose to be a career soldier and because I believed the little people of South Vietnam deserved freedom I volunteered to serve there for three tours. Bullets and crashes took their toll and worst of all I drank any cold soda I got my hands on and thus ingested aspertain and contracted MS. (Action/Reaction)
... As a crewchief I crewed for Generals and in doing so, I gained eogh influence that I never had to serve in the Killer Spades, in fact I had to make my First Sargent angry enough to want me dead to get reassigned to the Spades. God used me there and He uses me now, chair and all.
... Don't get me wrong, I will walk and run the street in Heaven but until then, it is my task to learn what God is teaching. I live in the same region of Texas as Don Piper (90 Minutes In Heaven) and there is a man here in my home town that was risen from death and I'm still in this chair.
... Maybe it's to hard a thing for God to do? Certainly not but it is not His will for me so I need to remain focused and learn what He is teaching me. All of us need to do that, don't we?