Featured A little sampling of church history is in order

Hey, almost forgot, I guess this can also be considered as part of church history ... we're still in the church age, right?

Taken from my spiritual testimony, which some of you have read ...

Months before first going to Bulgaria: I woke up with a major “muscle pull” in my back (it must have been the way I slept). During many years of playing basketball and tennis, I had several of these types of injuries, and I knew this one would
take about 10 days to heal. At 9 am, an elderly lady from our church phoned and asked me how I was doing. I told her that
I was in pain and why. She said, “No problem!”, and told me to put my right hand where the pain was and we would pray
in agreement about it, and the Lord would take care of it. So, we prayed in faith “in the name of Jesus”, and instantly
the pain was gone! For the next several months, I had a very slight pain in that area of my back. I kept saying to people:
“Isn’t it obvious that God wants me to remember His great healing power, and also when and how He healed me!”
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No one's disputing what's obvious ... there have been many frauds on TV, and off.
And many people love to use this as an excuse to flaunt their cessationism.

But, then there are the legitimate anointed ones who quietly do God's work.
These have "the baptism with the Holy Spirit" anointing of strong faith, healing, miracles, etc.
These are among the ones who quietly prove that man's spiritual gifts have not ceased.
I.E. I'm not talking about God performing miracles on His own (without man's involvement).

As always, spiritual truth must come through spiritual revelation from the Lord.
Examples: belief in Jesus for salvation, belief in the Trinity, belief that cessationism is error, etc.

Remember, God stays way from UNBELIEF ... but God loves to respond to STRONG BELIEF.

As stated above, this STRONG BELIEF comes via spiritual revelation.
So, we can't be too critical of those who don't have it.
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I don't know, but does it really matter?
Peter, Paul, Stephen, etc. all were used to perform S/W/M.
And, guess what, they were all led by the Holy Spirit.
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Greetings, Jope

You seem to be a more gentle fellow than what I'm used to here.
Paul used to ask, "Why do you hate me when I tell you the truth?"

IMO, this passage indicates that signs are to help everyone to believe, which should be more than obvious.

John 20:
30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples,
which are not written in this book;
31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
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A testimony from another website follows.
AWESOME! ... but then our God is an AWESOME God!

I had been receiving a gospel witness for a while, I BELIEVED it, I LOVED it, but I did not believe in the miracles that accompanied the witness.

Many times I read the scripture "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday and today and forever" oh I used to stare at that scripture, I tried so hard to understand what it could mean.

After attending a "revival" meeting I read that gospel magazine witness and read the wonderful story of a man in Poncé Puerto Rica he was a hopeless cripple, paralysed from the waist down, hadn't stood or walked for 16 years.

He was reduced to begging. He began to hear stories of miracles happening at a gospel campaign in his city, after much begging his family they brought him and sat him on the grounds propped up back to back with a blind woman.

The message that night was the healing of the paralysed man in the bible who had been brought to Jesus.

After the message prayer was offered for people to be saved, he did pray and was saved. Then prayer was offered for the healing of the sick just as in bible days. Now the woman who he was propped up against received her sight and let out a shriek and leapt to her feet.

Poor Juan Santos flopped on his back.

There he struggled, crying out, he tried to lift himself to his elbows but kept falling back, struggling, crying, desperate.
A christian policeman who knew Juan saw him and had pity for him and reached down and grabbed him by his shoulders saying "the Lord heals you brother Juan, the Lord heals you now".
Juan Santos stood on his feet, his legs went straight and he received strength.
He said "I felt like I was 10ft tall swaying in the breeze."

There were so many healed that it was 3 days before Juan got to testify to his healing. He spent the rest of his life going from village to village telling his story and it was him telling this story in the magazine I was reading, he finished his story with the words Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Oh I understood it...this was Jesus in the bible, healing and saving people. Then it's true, it's ALL true. that is when God opened my understanding to the way to be saved.

I have personally witnessed many miracles since that day. And received miracles, and prayed for and seen miracles done in Jesu's name.

(The writer) rigidly believes the bible, there is so much going on which is not bible, but if it IS bible and it is done along bible lines then it is worthy to be believed.
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