Personally Collected Miracle Accounts

So I decided that it would be neat if I asked a bunch of brothers and sisters from the Christian Apologetics Alliance if they could relate times they had personally experienced miracles. I will leave the reader to be the judge of whether they are. I personally believe that whether God acts in accord with His natural operations (what most people would call "natural cause"), or if He acts redemptively (what most would call "supernatural/divine intervention"...I don't use those words because I think it implies deism...but more on that in another post), all things are sovereignly governed by God. So here are the accounts I collected-many of whom are eyewitnesses to these things :)

1.) "My son was in the passenger seat of his dad's truck when they were in an accident. The dents in the truck went from the front end of the passenger side to the rear end of the passenger side...but skipped my son's door."

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" I had kidney failure and a rare blood disease (Henoch-Schonlein Purpura) when I was 5 years old. The doctors told my parents that I would not survive. Miraculously, all the pain, symptoms, purpura, went away in a matter of just a couple days; all my bodily functions were restored to normal; white blood cell count increased; immune system functioned properly again... It was said to be nothing short of a miracle by the doctors, and I think I believe it was..."

3.) "Jesus saved me. That is a bigger and greater miracle that anything temporary that will happen on this Earth."

4.) " I have often thought when something happens like a "miracle" in my life... wow after all God has already done for me... the worm that I am... He is still personally involved in my life in so many ways..... there is NO GOD like the ONE TRUE GOD"

5.) "After a group prayed...myself included...I witnessed a mother who had her optic nerve severed after playing ball with her children, regain sight. In fact, the husband stated that she ended up seeing better after the event than she did before it occurred."

6.) "Around 4 months ago 3 friends prayed for me in the car. After 3min of praying i start feeling a sensation of something really clean and holy entering my body. It feels as if im breathing a pure oxygen i never knew existed. My friends noticed how my breathing changed. After seconds my hands were filling sticky, as if they were sleeping but in a really good way. My hands automatically turned into the prayer position by my chest and as i looked at them, i asked myself "noooo waaay! Whats happening?!" The sensation got more and more intense and in the end i was looking straight up the roof of the car as if i were staring at God himself... it was one of the most euphoric happy holy awesome exoerienece i ever lived. It lasted for around 10 minutes. All the windows were fogged aswell because of my breathing and i was wondering "what did just happen?!" While knowkng the answer. It felt like this holy pressence cleaned my dirty sinful soul through holy water and i felt cleansed and euphoric. I understood why sin is bad and how God is good. After the prayer we talked about it and i had alot of energy and was really euphoric in ecstasy of what id call "filled with the holy spirit". I went home jumping on the side stones cause i was full of energy. I came home and told my dad. He also noticed on my face something extraordinary happened because of how happy i was. It was awesome. They were 3 ppl who prayed for me. The next day i continue reading Matthew, and coincidently, a verse struck me "wherever there are two or three gathered in my name. Therei will be among them"
Moral of the story; never underestimate the power of prayer"

7.) "I haven't had a drink of alcohol in 18 years by the Grace of God"

8.)  "Years ago I was trying to find a Bible for my grandmother. It was Sunday and all the Christian book stores were closed. I was guided in a part of town I had never been in to a secular book store that had perfect Bible for her. I also have 12 years parole from the prison of alcoholism, by order of the King."

9.) "As a new Christian, went to bed with a cancerous inoperable tumor on temple. Woke up without it. God is marvelous!"

10.) "My mom didn't get married to my dad until she was about 37 years old. By that time, she already had severe endometriosis. She had me about 2 years later. A long time after, when she finally had a hysterectomy in order to prevent uterine cancer, the doctor said that, based on what her uterus looked like when it came out, having a child should have been a physical impossibility since her early 30s. This came after my grandfather (my dad's stepdad) confided in her privately that he thought I was special and wished he could be around to see what God had in store for me. He died in a hit-and-run not long after that. Honestly, re-remembering all this gives me the heebie-jeebies sometimes 

11.) "n 2004 I was diagnosed with an enlarged aorta. The cardiologist told me I had the same problem that killed John Ritter. I was on my way to the Utah-Idaho SBC meeting when I saw my cardiologist, so I continued on to the meeting after getting the news. I had a followup appt. set a week later. They prayed for me at the meeting and at the three churches that I pastored at the time. When I went for my followup test my aorta was normal. The doctors assumed that there was a problem with the first test, I call it a miracle."

12.) " had my neck healed on the spot when a friend prayed over it (warming sensation then I felt great). A mans hand that was crushed by a car was restored on the spot outside the rescue mission in OKC. My eye was healed of a corneal ulcer in a matter of hours after prayer 

even though the doc was convinced I'd lose my sight in that eye. 
I would consider a woman understanding me in her own language not as tongues, but a miracle of hearing that she was given to hear the gospel and me praying over her. 
Also, a demonized man was barred from entering a fenced in area where Scripture was being read day and night (Genesis to Revelation). It was as though he smacked his head on a brick wall. When he was allowed to enter, the demon left and he was in his right mind.
There's more, but these are a few that stick out off the top of my head."

13.) " I was instantly healed of smoking cigs through prayer. No side affects, no desire. Done. Completely gone. I should add I had smoked at least two packs a day for 17 years."

14.) Every single christian has experienced atleast 1 miracle.

15.) Our little girl was sick and coughing alot for a few days. We decided to keep her in between us in bed one night. We put down a towel for her just in case she threw up. During that night and into the morning should would cough. Around 3:00 am I asked God to send a ministering angel (Heb 1:14) to come and minister healing to her. At around 3:30 am, my wife and I heard the sound of water in the room and someone putting something in the water and moving it around. The sound left and the room became peaceful and we went back to sleep. Little girl didn't cough anymore. Around 6:00 am, she was up and running around playing like she had never been sick. Her towel was wet with water but she was dry. Then the Lord had brought a verse to my mind, John 5:4, 

"For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

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One night around 9:00 pm I was at my computer desk. The Holy Spirit had came over me and I knew immediately what I had to do. I had to go to work and sit in my bosses chair to wait for a phone call. Before we leave work at 5:00 pm, we transfer line 1 to the answering service. I was there waiting for a phone call and it came in on line one and the answering service didn't answer it. I picked it up and stated my company name and and my name and a little old lady asked if this was the mowing company. I told her no, but I said that I will come and mow your yard tomorrow after work. She had dialed the wrong number to my work instead of the mowing company. After work the next day, I went and mowed her yard and it was pouring down rain but I was the happiest man on earth because I was smack dab in the middle of God's will. Then a song had came to my mind, "It's beginning to rain, hear the voice of the Father. Saying whosoever will, come drink of this water. I will pour my spirit out on my sons and my daughters. If you're thirsty and dry look up to the sky, it's beginning to rain".

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When I was in Army in Germany back in the early 90's, I was doing CQ duty. In the morning one of the Sergeants came in with bite marks on his arm. I asked him what happened and he said "My wife goes into a fit of rage and attacks me and her eyes turn red." Well, I knew what that was. She had evil spirits in her. So I asked him if he could talk to his wife and come to our church for deliverance. He asked her and she said yes. That Sunday after church, we started praying for her and she began to manifest. She was cussing, spitting and writhing around on the floor. We commanded the demons to tell us how they got into her in Jesus Name and one of the demons stated 'through depression'. Then it started complaining about Matthew and Mark and how it was cast out by them also. She was set free. Times of refreshing had came to them.

There are alot of other stories I have and I give God the glory for His help.

16.) " I had epilepsy as a teen that was making me really struggle with my faith. Then I recall healing with it going dormant in a few months. I didn't know it at the time but I later learned my mom had the whole church praying for me."

17.)  I was healed instantaneously of chronic bronchitis through prayer; another event here:http://www.thinkingchristian.net/.../E20061216.../index.html

I asked this one: instantly? He replied:

Instantly. And enduringly. I'd had that problem for years. It didn't come back.

18.) I'm alive - and not just a life form, but a multi-cellular, complex life form in the universe, a life form whose odds of existence are statistically essentially zero.

19.) Three different doctors from different agencies agreed the tumor in my leg was cancer; I still have the X-rays & reports but when they cut out the tumor, it wasn't a carcinoma. It was an angioma. Then in checking my lower torso to see if the cancer had spread from my leg, they accidentally scanned my lung where they found a mass on my lung that was Stage two cancer. The doctors said because I was asymptomatic (showing no symptoms whatsoever) it would have killed me

20.) I've experienced demonic supernatural events. Which isn't at all the same I guess but prayer plays a big role in most of the stories I have on the subject

21.) My mom and dad couldn't have children. 

My grandmother was told by the doctors that her daughter (my aunt) wouldn't live to see the end of the month. She's turning 65 in 4 days.

Prayer played a big part in both these events which I think required divine intervention.

22.) "My dad had terminal cancer most his life. It started about 17 years ago. Since my dad was 16 he was a militant Atheist. "Science will prove everything". He got cancer when he was 33 i believe. About a year later the doctors came to him and said he had to get surgery to take the rumor out of his neck. Since the rumor was attached to his spinal cord, the surgery was either gojng to kill him or paralyze him from the neck down. After my dad was told this, a couple nights before his surgery he prayed to God( he didn't believe in him, so he started it with sonething like "if there is a God), and he asked him to live long enough to see his kids go through college(in my case the military :D) and God shrank the tumor two nights later overnight. Me and my sister have the MRI'S and doctors testimony prove this physically impossible task. The Lord took my dad last April, but He was a walking miracle that brought many people to Christ."

23.) "When my youngest was born, she was put in the nursery on her back three hours before a physical exam. The doctor realized she had a cleft palate, a small chin, and tongue set too far back. This meant that when they bagan monitering, they could not stop the tongue from rolling back and blocking the airway for more than 2 and a quarter minutes. After this, she required surgery, and was never left on her back, yet somehow she survived. This got my attention, and I was converted 6 weeks later."

24.) "Science, or at least a few scientists, said that my wife wouldn't conceive. God said otherwise. My son turns 4 in March."

25.) " I have witnessed several miracles, but the one that comes to mind happened in Russia. I was there with Athletes in Action to teach American football to Russian kids while also sharing Jesus. Playing basketball with some of our translators resulted in a pretty severe ankle injury for me. As I hobbled back to my dorm, one of our translators asked permission to pray for my ankle. I consented. Before he finished praying I could walk on my ankle again with no pain at all."

26.) https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-howery/a-minor-miracle-a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-20-miles-away/59357189384

I'll also add this video by someone I consider highly reliable (as I consider all of these posters): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SK07TY1uh0

Now, of course, someone will look at these and say "oh those are just dishonest Christian apologists." Okay. Quite honestly, I can't refute that. But I'd also say that the burden of proof is on the one claiming such a thing.

Now many of these look ordinary (i.e "Jesus saved me"). But I judge that one the most extraordinary miracle of all. Really. That Christ would take a dead heart and breathe new life into us is AMAZING. That He would put His Spirit in us and call a rebel like me from death to life is wonderfully, beautifully loving and sweet. This is a God who has infinite power to heal and make new; so come to the infinite ocean of God's everlasting love, drink and be satisfied :)