"...With God all things are possible." (Mark 19:26)
"I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things."
(Isa. 25:1)
We do not place miracles above scripture nor do we require miracles in order to believe in and serve Christ for the Bible says, ...The just shall live by faith. In fact, it's possible that those who are the most spiritual among us may never have personally experienced a miracle other than that of their own conversion and salvation.
But at the same time and for reasons known only to God He does come down among us from time to time to bring to pass certain extraordinary events that can only be explained as being a miracle from God. If these extraordinary events are consistent with the teachings of scripture and they always will be if they come of God, then we should give God the glory for them. ---And that is the purpose of this page!
Of course the greatest miracles of all are those that are in the spiritual realm. How wonderful are the words in the chorus:
It took a miracle to put the stars in place;
It took a miracle to hang the world in space.
But when He saved my soul,
Cleansed and made me whole,
It took a miracle of love and grace!
May the miracles of God shared on this page (and others that are forthcoming) help all of us to give glory to God. I also believe that we should try to share any personal knowledge we may have of miracles so that others may give God glory as well. Feel free to print off your favorite stories from this page to share with others as God gives you the opportunity to do so. Also, please email us with information on miracles that you personally know about along with your permission to share them (on this page and perhaps in other ways and places as well) as God gives us the opportunity to do so. elmer@Hefirstlovedus.com

THE FOLLOWING MIRACLE STORIES WILL BE ROTATED EACH WEEK.
NEW ENTRIES WILL BE FIRST ON THE LIST
WONDROUS MYSTERY
Sometimes fact is more mysterious than fiction! The "Denver Post"printed an article December 23, 1981 about a stranger-than-fact event that occurred in Colorado.
Stan Sieczkowski heard in church about a Denver family facing a rather bleak Christmas holiday. Medical bills robbed them of any extras; they would not even have a tree.
So Stan and his son Jay determined to get them that tree. They headed up into the Colorado Rockies in the family pickup. However, the truck skidded off the icy road and hit a boulder that shattered the windshield. Jay was showered by glass slivers and suffered from shock and crash trauma. Stan was uninjured, though somewhat shaken.
Cars sped past that day -- maybe 200 of them. Only two stopped. A gentle, dark-haired woman took the boy into her car to comfort him while her husband and another man helped Stan move his truck off the road. Then they drove father and son to Stan's home and quietly left without identifying themselves.
Later that month, Stan's pastor asked if he might deliver a food basket to the unfortunate family for which he had earlier tried to cut a tree. Stan found the house, but he could hardly find his speech when the door opened. Standing there before him was the same couple who had helped him on the mountain road!
---Shared by Steve Goodier
A LITTLE GIRL'S PRAYER
Helen Roseveare, a missionary doctor from England to Zaire Africa, shares the following true story.
One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do she died leaving us with a tiny premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter. We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive, as we had no incubator. (We had no electricity to run an incubator.) We also had no special feeding facilities.
Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous drafts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the cotton wool the baby would be wrapped in. Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came back shortly in distress to tell me that in filling the bottle, it had burst. Rubber perishes easily in tropical climates. "And it is our last hot water bottle!" she exclaimed.
As in the West it is no good crying over spilled milk, so in Central Africa it might be considered no good crying over burst water bottles. They do not grow on trees, and there are no drugstores down forest pathways.
"All right," I said, "Put the baby as near the fire as you safely can, and sleep between the baby and the door to keep it free from drafts. "Your job is to keep the baby warm."
The following noon, as I did most days, I went to have prayers with any of the orphanage children who chose to gather with me. I gave the youngsters various suggestions of things to pray about and told them about the tiny baby. I explained our problem about keeping the baby warm enough, mentioning the hot water bottle. The baby could so easily die if it got chills. I also told them of the two-year-old sister, crying because her mother had died. During the prayer time, one ten-year-old girl, Ruth, prayed with the usual blunt conciseness of our African children, "Please, God," she prayed, "send us a water bottle. It'll be no good tomorrow, God, as the baby will be dead, so please send it this afternoon."
While I gasped inwardly at the audacity of the prayer, she added by way of a corollary, "And while You are about it, would You please send a dolly for the little girl so she'll know You really love her?"
As often with children's prayers, I was put on the spot. Could I honestly say, "Amen?" I just did not believe that God could do this. Oh, yes, I know that He can do everything. The Bible says so. But there are limits, aren't there? The only way God could answer this particular prayer would be by sending me a parcel from the homeland. I had been in Africa for almost four years at that time, and I had never, ever received a parcel from home. Anyway, if anyone did send me a parcel, who would put in a hot water bottle? I lived on the equator!
Halfway through the afternoon, while I was teaching in the nurses' training school, a message was sent that there was a car at my front door. By the time I reached home, the car had gone, but there, on the verandah, was a large twenty-two pound parcel. I felt tears pricking my eyes. I could not open the parcel alone, so I sent for the orphanage children. Together we pulled off the string, carefully undoing each knot. We folded the paper, taking care not to tear it unduly.
Excitement was mounting. Some thirty or forty pairs of eyes were focused on the large cardboard box. From the top, I lifted out brightly colored, knitted jerseys. Eyes sparkled as I gave them out. Then there were the knitted bandages for the leprosy patients, and the children looked a little bored. Then came a box of mixed raisins and sultanas--that would make a nice batch of buns for the weekend.
Then, as I put my hand in again, I felt the
could it really be? I grasped it and pulled it out--yes, a brand-new, rubber hot water bottle!
I cried. I had not asked God to send it; I had not truly believed that He could. Ruth was in the front row of the children. She rushed forward, crying out, "If God has sent the bottle, He must have sent the dolly, too!"
Rummaging down to the bottom of the box, she pulled out the small, beautifully dressed dolly, Her eyes shone! She had never doubted. Looking up at me, she asked: "Can I go over with you, Mummy, and give this dolly to that little girl, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?"
That parcel had been on the way for five whole months. Packed up by my former Sunday school class, whose leader had heard and obeyed God's prompting to send a hot water bottle, even to the equator. And one of the girls had put in a dolly for an African child--five months before--in answer to the believing prayer of a ten-year-old to bring it that afternoon! "Before they call, I will answer!" Isa. 65:24
God Hears the Prayer of the Boy in Trouble
My first recollection of God hearing my prayer goes back to the time when as a bare-footed lad I lived with my parents on a farm. A few days before I had been presented with my first jack-knife, in those times quite an era in a boys life. That morning, while playing in the pasture, I had lost the precious knife and had spent over two hours in a fruitless search for the same.
When my mother called me in to dinner my heart was too full of sorrow over my loss to care for any. It flashed into my mind that the Lord knew where that knife was, then why not ask Him to show me where it was? The only prayer that I knew up to that time was my evening prayer that I always repeated on my knees by my bed before retiring. That was the only place for prayer that I knew, so while the family were at dinner, I slipped into my bedroom and kneeling by my bed I poured out to the Lord my trouble and asked Him to lead me to where the lost knife lay. I got up from my knees, dried my tears, and with full confidence that I would find that knife, ran out again into the pasture, and walked straight to where I picked up the knife, about twenty-five yards into the field.
I was too young to understand the theology of prayer, but I well remember that that day I had an overwhelming sense of the fact that God was interested in a boys troubles, and my heart was filled with gladness.
---R.L.E.
A Spiritual Miracle
BORN AGAIN at the age of 81
Casey served his country as a young twenty year old by serving in the Second World War. At the age of eighty-one, he had done about everything that a man could do in life that was against God’s will, and I actually think he was proud of it. He had been a womanizer. He owned a bar in Texas and could drink whiskey with the best of drinkers. Foul language was every day life.
People who knew Casey probably would have given a thousand-to-one odds that he would never change, but these same people did not know the power of God.
Casey and his wife lived in Spring, Texas, where she had faithfully served the Lord for years. While talking to her on the phone, I mentioned that I believed God would use me to lead Casey to the Lord. She then told me that he was going to have throat surgery in two weeks and would probably lose his voice box and, if I could, please come and try.
I had prayed on the flight to Texas and every spare moment since for the Lord to speak through me, for only He knew what Casey needed to hear…
A thousand things ran through my mind as I contemplated what to say. Then the Lord began to speak through me, and I asked him if he loved his wife as much as she loved him. He smiled and said, “I sure do.” Then I asked, “Do you love me (your brother) as much as I love you?” Again he said he did. Then I asked, “What if one or both of us were in a house that was on fire, and you were not able to help us? What if we were in torment with blisters all over our body, and our lungs filled with smoke; if the heat was unbearable as we screamed with agony, and we had to live in that never ending fire for evermore. And each morning as soon as you woke you would think, ‘they’re in that fire being tortured, and I cannot save them’. How would you feel?
The strangest look came on his face and he said that would be awful. Then I said to him, “That’s what hell is like, and if you die before we do, that’s what you will be going through and every moment we are awake it will be on our minds, ‘Casey is in that fire that never goes out’.”
I had never seen a grown man look so frightened. Then I said, “Let me lead you to the Lord.” He said, “Okay.”
As soon as we were through praying the Sinner’s prayer, Casey stood up and there was a glow around him, as if a light was shining from behind. His wife rushed in and hugged him; at that moment she was the happiest woman in the world, and I was the happiest brother.
The following Friday the surgeons removed his voice box; his voice was never to be heard again on earth, but he would do plenty with his finger. He would point to himself and then up to heaven and then to you. What he was saying with his finger was, “I’m going to heaven, are you?”
Casey lived just short of two more years. Although his throat would be bothering him, he could not wait to go to church. The preacher would visit him before he was saved, but Casey was not interested. After Casey gave his life to the Lord, the preacher would come to visit and say it was a miracle the way Casey had changed. God is good at that. Now he is in heaven with a new throat, praising his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
--- from “how i became BORN AGAIN and other miracles & testimonials"
by R. L. Lee (available at tatepublishing.com)
Note 1: I have worked with and know personally about the great change that has taken place in author Roy Lee's life since he trusted in Jesus as his Lord and Savior. I highly recommend his book which shares 31 miracles and much more! (E.W.)
Note 2: Casey, Roy's brother, never drank a drop of liquor after he became born again. He also influenced others to turn to the Lord just by simply pointing his finger.
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Rescued from a Rooster ... and a Teacher
When I was in the first or second grade I remember finding a baby squirrel that had fallen out of a tree. I placed the squirrel in a shoe box surrounded with soft rags so it would feel comfortable and I took it to school to show it off. I think maybe the squirrel was probably getting too much attention because our teacher said she thought it was getting sick and told me that I should take it back home. She also made it very clear that I was to hurry and get back to school right away.
Our house was at the edge of town and I thought I would take a short cut and go across the field rather than taking the street home as I normally did. I really thought I would be in big trouble if I did not obey my teacher and get back to school right away. All went well until I crossed the field and came into our back yard. A mean rooster saw me and chased me up a tree. This rooster had flogged me more than once in the past and I knew that he meant business.
I stayed in the tree for what seemed to be a very long time. Then I figured that the rooster may have forgotten me for he was quite a distance away. I slowly climbed down the tree and tried to sneak my way to the house but the rooster saw me and chased me back up into the tree. I dont remember how many times this happened but I do remember being very worried about what my teacher would do when I came back to school late. I thought she might send me to the principal and Id get a paddling.
In my desperation I decided to pray. As far as I can remember no one had ever taken me to church or Sunday School and no one had ever talked to me about God. I remember trying to figure out what God looked like. I figured He must be very big.
Heres what I prayed: God, please make it snow very hard so this rooster will run back into the chicken coup and I can get this squirrel in the house and get back to school right away. And I remember adding...If you will do this Ill pray every day.
Well, believe it or not, God did what I had requested. Just as soon as I finished my prayer the wind started blowing very hard and in my minds eye I can still see the snow coming, a little at first and then a lot of it. It was one of those horizontal snows that we sometimes see on a very windy day in the winter (but it wasnt winter when I prayed this prayer; maybe Fall but not winter). And I can still see that rooster and all of the other chickens running very fast into the chicken coup. I quickly took the squirrel into the house and ran back to school (by way of the street, not the field) and I didnt even get into trouble with my teacher. I dont remember her saying anything.
Did I keep my promise to pray every day? Yes, for about three days I remember getting between the garage and a fence where no one could see me and I prayed. After that Im sorry to say that I forgot, but how wonderful it is to know that God did not forget me.
Elmer Winner
When I Stopped to Pray
When four year old Charles Odam, a neighbor's son, strayed from home, everyone in our heavily wooded, rural area pitched in to look for him. After checking out a big, deep spring I climbed the mountainside, calling the boy and listening. No answer.
At the top of the mountain, green moss grew in a thick carpet on the woodland floor and late afternoon sunlight glimmered through the trees. I dropped to my knees and prayed to God for His help. Raising my head, I noticed a faint trail I had never seen before just a path used by forest animals.
An enticing trail for a little boy! But it ended where someone had cut logs. No sign of Charles there. The sun was going down. Time to go back. Just then I heard a wild animal's cry, a little "miaow" like a bobcat's kitten. Again it came. I peered through some bushes. There was Charles! He'd cried till He could only make that funny little sound. He locked his arms around my neck and I carried him all the way home. On the way I thought about the hidden trail. What if I hadn't bowed my head to pray?
--- shared by Nadine Moody, found in His Mysterious Ways and published by Revell
So, he lived another 53 years!
Okie V. Boyer was born on February 11, 1877 in Vinton County, Ohio, and became a Pickaway County centenarian. He celebrated his 106th birthday in Circleville where he had made his home for many years. He was the father of eight children. Ethel Boyer and Maneva Ross, his daughters with whom he lived, took good care of him. He stayed alert and never had much illness.
In his younger days, Mr. Boyer worked at several different occupations. He worked as a sawyer, was a coal miner, a carpenter, the caretaker of a cemetery, a painter, and a beekeeper, to name a few. He enjoyed gardening into his 90s.
The Lord started convicting Mr. Boyer of his sinful way of living. When he was 53 years old, he went to an old oak tree to pray. He was determined not to leave until he was saved. After his conversion, he asked the Lord to give him as much time to serve Him as he had spent serving Satan. God granted his request. So, he lived another 53 years! When he fell ill to a virus, knowing that his prayer had been answered, he told his daughters to let him go. In his own bed at home, he raised his arms in the air and motioned for Jesus to come and get him. He entered into his eternal reward on May 20th, 1983.
Mr. Boyer attributed his longevity to following the biblical principle in Deuteronomy 5:16. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
---Shared by a granddaughter, Bea Boltenhouse and a great-grandson, Keith Stevenson
Can God Heal a Duck?
My husband and I were saved November 5, 1961. On Easter, 1964 our son was around 4. His grandmother gave him and his little sister two baby ducks, so in our small back yard was 1 dog, 7 little puppies, 2 little kittens, 2 little ducks, and 2 little children.
One day during the following Fall our dog tried to have our son's duck for lunch. The dog had broken down the duck's back and chewed the duck's legs. Our son found his duck lying on the ground, alive, but it couldn't get up or walk. I explained to him that the duck was suffering and we were going to have to put it out of its misery.
Today I can still recall the look in those big blue eyes with tears, as our son looked me straight in the eyes and said, "but Mommy, can't God heal my duck?" I answered him as honestly as I could that I didn't know, but we could go into his bedroom, kneel and pray and tell God how very important this duck was to this little boy and would He please heal the duck.
As the kids were put to bed that night again our son asked God to heal his duck in his I-lay-me-down-to-sleep prayer. Before I went to bed, I just had to look out into the yard to see what God was doing, "that's the human part of, no." The duck was still lying in the same spot our son had found it in. He had given it corn and water, but the duck still couldn't move.
The next morning at 5:00 a.m. I heard a very loud quack and it just kept getting louder. This was their usual feeding time. When I looked out the door both ducks were standing there quacking their heads off. In fact, they looked like they had a smile on their faces. You could not see one mark on the injured duck, so during the night, God healed a duck.
God knew in this family's lifetime we would have to claim the faith of healing and miracles over and over again, and if you would ask this family about healing we would tell you God healed a duck.
I've told this story to people before that if God loved a little boy so much to heal his duck how much more he loves you and me. As grownups we have to find the little child in each of us and just believe. We need to let Jesus take us in his arms, put his hand on us and bless us, and remember
and God healed a duck.
---Shared by good friends, Bud and Kay Hampton
The Yellow Kite
I stood at the window and watched the neighborhood children flying their kites on the hill behind our house. My four-year-old son Michael stood next to me with his face eagerly pressed against the glass. Then, looking up at me with pleading eyes, he again asked if he could have a kite like the other children.
For days now, ever since he had first seen them congregate on the hill, Michael had been asking the same question, and had been given the same answer: "Wait until you are a little older."
It was easier not to go into a long explanation, but actually Michael was too young to fly a kite all by himself, and that meant that one of his parents would always have to go with him to help. Because of my health I simply didn't have the strength or energy, and my husband was usually at work. Once again, Michael hid his face in my skirt, something he always did when he was going to cry and didn't want me to see.
As I turned from the window, I felt like crying myself. I looked around the room; the furniture was shabby and worn, and the walls were badly in need of paint. You could see the light places on them, the spots where previous tenants had hung their pictures. Even though we had lived here for several months, I had not done very much to fix the place up. We had moved so many times, and each time it seemed like the neighborhood was a little more run-down, and the house a little older, each one in need of repairs.
My husband Bill worked long irregular hours at his job and earned a good salary. However, there was never enough money and we kept going deeper in debt. I had lost three children through miscarriages and the complications which followed caused me to make sever emergency trips to the hospital and to be constantly under a doctor's care. As a result, a tension had grown between us and we found we could no longer get along with one another.
It all looked so hopeless; even God seemed to have forgotten us. I prayed so often about our problems, asking God for help, but things only seemed to get worse. I found myself thinking, "God doesn't care, and I guess I don't either."
I walked over to the mirror and studied my reflection. It was almost like looking at a stranger. I looked pale and worn, much older than my years. I no longer bother to fix my face or do anything with my hair. I stepped back and studied my whole image---the old dress that I had worn all week was wrinkled and torn at the pocket and there was a button missing at the neck.
As I stood there and stared at myself, a feeling of dread, almost panic, came over me, and it filled my whole body with fear. It was the realization that I was giving up on life. I had stopped caring about anything; I felt defeated. I could no longer rise above the depression that had taken hold of me.
In the last few months, my husband had grown rather quiet and we did not talk much. I was aware of his eyes studying me when he thought I was preoccupied with something. I used to be so particular about everything. Bill had not said a word about the change that had come over me, but his actions said a lot. He made a special effort to get me interested in new things, but I did not respond. I fact, I did not respond to him; in any way, and he did not know quite how to handle me any more.
Michael was the one spark of life left for me. He could make me smile, and when he hugged me, I would feel love. I clung to him such in the way one would cling to a life preserve. He needed me and I knew it---that kept me going.
As I tucked him into bed that evening, Michael said, "Mommy, may I pray to God to send me a yellow kite?" Then, fearing that I might repeat what I had said so many times before, he added, "Maybe He doesn't think I'm too young."
Michael prayed his prayer and fell asleep with a smile on his face. As I stood there looking down at that beautiful child with the blond curls, so trusting in his faith that God would answer his little prayer, I found myself questioning God. Would He really answer such a small prayer when He had chosen not to hear any of my frantic pleas or send me any help to relieve my situation? "O, God," I prayed, "please help me! Show me the way out of this dark place."
The next morning as I raised the shade in the kitchen, I stared at the sight that met my eyes---a string hanging down in front of the window. Not quite able to believe the thoughts that were being put together in my mind, I found myself running out the back door and into the yard. There it was, a yellow kite, caught on the roof with its string handing down.
"Oh, thank You, God, thank You!" I repeated over and over again. I was thanking Him for the yellow kite, and I was thanking Him for the joy that was flooding into my soul. He had answered the prayer of a little boy, just a little prayer, but by answering that prayer, He had also answered my prayer for help.
Suddenly I remembered Michael. I ran to his room, scooped him up in my arms and carried him into the backyard. He was still half-asleep and didn't quite know what to make of this mother who was babbling about something on the roof and saying, "Wait until you see!"
He clapped his hands and bounced up and down in my arms when he saw the kite. "Mommy, Mommy, and it's even yellow!" he exclaimed. I smiled at him and added, "It's a miracle too." He hugged me and said, "I knew God would answer my prayer. I just knew He would."
I thought to myself, "This was why I had been so depressed. I had lost my faith. I had turned my back on God, and then insisted that He had stopped caring." The yellow kite was not the only miracle that God sent to us that morning.
When Bill came home we took the kite to the beach and flew it. It went so high that it was almost out of sight for a while. Bill said he had never seen a kit fly as high. We asked all over the neighborhood but we never found a trace of the kite's former owner.
We moved several times in the years that followed, and the yellow kite always went with us. My depression left me and as my health improved, so did my relationship with my husband.
At each new place I would hang the kite in some corner where I could see it as I went about my duties. It served as a reminder that no matter how bad things may seem, we must never lose sight of the fact that God cares, that He hears our prayers. No request is too big or too small to bring before Him.
--- By Beverly Newman (Found in "The Guideposts Treasury of Hope")
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