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Annie64 -> RE: ever recieved a miracle? (6/30/2008 3:50:54 AM)
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I've received a couple miracles, one for me and one for a friend I was praying for. I hope this post doesn't get too long, but I'd really like to tell about them.
The first was the one for a friend. About 9 years ago, I was working as a teacher's aide in a Christian school. One afternoon after school, when all the staff was still there but the kids had gone home, one of the teachers was in the hallway with her four-year-old daughter as the principal was walking by and I happened to be nearby. I don't remember what the little girl was doing, but it was an "aw, how cute" moment. The principal saw it and said, "Aw, I want a little girl!" The teacher laughed and said, "I think it's a little too late for that!" The principal was around 50 years old with three adult sons (though the youngest was a high school senior at that time), and two grandsons. I had and still have great admiration for this lady and it bothered me that the teacher would laugh at the impossibility of her ever enjoying a blessing that she herself had right in front of her. I began praying that day for the principal's middle son and his wife, who had no children at the time, to have a daughter. Within two years, they did. As far as I know, there was nothing physical preventing this from happening, but I still felt like it was a miracle, simply because the specific thing I asked for actually happened.
The second miracle happened last September. No longer working at that school (which doesn't really exist anymore), I had become a SAHM and had been homeschooling my children for several years. My oldest liked it, but my younger two children wanted to return to school. I had found a Christian school I wanted them to attend, but couldn't afford it if I didn't go back to work. When my husband and I realized that we really could do this if I did go back to work, I made plans to do that. After a five month employement roller coaster, and the kids already enrolled and a contract signed to pay tuition, I was still without a job. I had, during that time, done some temp work, but nothing permanent was on the horizon. Finally, I felt led to stop searching and start praying. I planned to spend a day in fasting and prayer, but in the middle of the afternoon, I felt strongly that God had answered my prayer and I didn't have to fast anymore, and to continue to do so would be legalistic. I had never felt that way before while fasting. Somewhere in that time I had had people in my church pray over me one Wednesday night as well. I know it was the same week that my fast was, and I think it was only a day or two before. The night after my fast, I looked at the career website I had been using and found that a company I had worked for before was looking for someone to do the job I had done before. I had not, in this five months, applied there. I had quit my job there once to do homeschooling, gone back, and quit again. I figured they wouldn't hire me back, though I really liked that job and had it in the back of my mind the whole time that it was the one I wanted. They did re-hire me, almost on the spot. When I stopped and asked God to do for me what I could not do for myself, he gave me more than I asked for.
Travis--I'll be praying for you. If He did it for me, He can do it for you.
Cheeky_Monkey--I'll be praying for your daughter as well. I have a 13-year-old, too.
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