Amazing Testimony – 3 prayers answered
Amazing Love….. How can it be? That you my King should die for me. Amazing Love… I know it’s true. It’s my joy to honor you in all I do, to honor you.
Oh my, precious precious Jesus… Thank you for another blessed blessed testimony. You have commanded me to reveal these things, and I’m revealing.. So I know that Your amazing testimonies will not return to You void. I pray for the power of God to be behind these testimonies to uplift, edify, and most importantly, reveal You to those who need assistance with unbelief. Thank You Lord! Thank You!
Details are still coming in on this one, but in all my heart, I know 3 prayers answered today, and possibly 4. My most heart felt.. Oh my, I can’t even type this because of an overflow of grace… Oh my Lord, bless you. My most heart felt and continued prayers have been for the Lord to get a hold of family members (such as a posting today about Matt). I have been praying the same for my sister, that the Lord reveals Himself to her through others around her or through myself. Praise Praise Praise God Almighty.
The Lord placed my sister in the middle of 3 devoted Christians – My sister’s mother-in-law, the mother-in-law’s daughter who was adopted out as a baby, and myself. Us 3 do not know each other/communicate. I have met the mother-in-law maybe 2-3 times and she is definitely filled and a God fearing woman. My sister, who I am not going to judge whether she is saved or not.. I just know that she believes in God and Jesus, but doesn’t walk as a believer, which.. we have all been there. God is working, I can hold onto that truth. Praise God.
Well, my sister emails me 2 nights ago. She has been trying to help the mother-in-law (named Kathy) to find a baby that she adopted out at birth back in 1967. My sister hasn’t been able to find anything, but has experienced lately that I have been able to find things on the internet more easily than her (been helping her w/ college homework/papers/journal searching). So she asked me to help her. My first try, I put 3 keywords into google.. The date, adoption, and Warren, MI. The 3rd link on the page was a posting from 1996, from a female looking for her mother. It had an email address, which I emailed but the address was no longer. In this posting, she said she was born at 3:30p and her father may have been italian. I gave this info to my sister, she called Kathy and it was confirmed.. it’s her.
This all took place within mere minutes from getting the info from my sister (Perfection is working). While this is going on.. the daughter is watching a TV show for the first time.. something like Family Tree? where people are reunited w/ family members. So while the daughter is watching this show, my sister takes the info, does another internet search, bingo.. found her name.. then found her on Facebook and sent her an email. The daughter finishes watching the show, decides to start looking for her mother again… Goes to her computer to search and bam, an email from God’s work. She responds to my sister with praise to God!
I talk to my sister the next day.. and she’s “Joe, this is so weird. This is so weird. I use to work at that hospital in Warren. I use to work for the same catholic adoption services that she was adopted through. This is so weird.” And I said.. It seems weird to you, but it isn’t weird. It is God. This is what He does. This is His amazing testimony. She started to cry..
We all know that the mother/daughter who were looking for each other, both being Godly woman, were praying to find one another. I have no doubt about that. Here I am, praying for my sister, for Him to reveal Himself. Perfection came down. God used all 3 Christians to work together for the good, and for the good of the 4th person involved who needed a jolt of revelation. And who knows if my sister was praying.. She may have been. Perfection happened, that’s all I know.. God is alive and well. The Living God.. El Chay.. Who not only sees and hears, but is active in our lives. Praise God.
And as for the goodness received on my end? Knowing I’m being used by Him. Praise God. Edification.. for you and I. 3 prayers answered? Maybe 100s as far as I know. God is good and amazing. He gives another amazing testimony for you and I. Praise Him!
Blessed be the Lord God Almighty.
thank you brother Dave.. may the Lord bless thee and keep thee as well. Be blessed
I want to deeply thank you our father in heaven, our lord and savior Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit
For the guidance and the answer of many prayers
I am deeply grateful to st. Expefie, st. Rita of cassia, our holy mother of Fatima, mother aparecida, mother of impossiveis, st. Edwiges, st. Gabriel the archangel, all saints and angels in heaven, and to st. Jude Thaddeus, for interceding on my behalf to the sacred heart of Jesus and to our lord, and my prayers for financial need been fulfilled and for the strength given to my daughter to help her through her exams.
May god bless us all.
Hallelujah.. Thank you Lord. I thought of this song.. He is so full of grace, mercy and love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K44trVhtZX4
I want to deeply thank you our father in heaven, our lord and savior Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit
For the guidance and the answer of many prayers
I am deeply grateful to st. Expedite, st. Rita of cassia, our holy mother of Fatima, mother aparecida, mother of impossiveis, st. Edwiges, st. Gabriel the archangel, all saints and angels in heaven, and to st. Jude Thaddeus, for interceding on my behalf to the sacred heart of Jesus and to our lord.
My prayers for financial need been fulfilled.
my daughter had an high average in her exams
My safe trip with my daughter
to be able to pay my debt to my mother and to help my family financially since my brother is jobless at the moment and for not been charged unlawful by the rental car company .
May god bless us all.
Hallelujah, thank you God!
I want to deeply thank you our father in heaven, our lord and savior Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit
For the guidance and the answer of many prayers
I am deeply grateful to st. Expedite, st. Rita of cassia, our holy mother of Fatima, mother aparecida, mother of impossiveis, st. Edwiges, st. Gabriel the archangel, all saints and angels in heaven, and Jude Thaddeus, for interceding on my behalf to the sacred heart of Jesus and our father in heaven
For my daughter not have any health problems in her heart.
And for the peace I received during her consultation
Thank you god for her to be a health child
May god bless us all
In the name of our father, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit
I want to thank you to st. Expedite the st of urgent causes st. Edwiges, st. Gabriel the archangel, st. Jude thadeus, st. Rita of cassia to all saints and angels in heaven , to our mother of Fatima, our lady aparecida, our lady the dores and holy mother of impossible for answering so many prayers.
I have been praying for my mother to heal from her toroid yesterday we have received good news since the tests showed she had improved and is felling better
May god bless us all.
Paula, the listed saints do not answer prayers. Glory should be given to God and God alone.. otherwise you are involved in idol worship. Please be very careful.. I’m grateful for God’s hand involved in your life as well..
Also, remember that according to the word of God, all believers in Jesus Christ are “saints”.. both alive and those that have passed away. There is no difference between the 2. It is best to ask a saint who is alive to intercede for you because God has commanded us to not speak with the dead.
He has also stated many times His displeasure towards statues and other items as form of idol worship. Again, we should be praying to God and God alone. We should have no people, images, or items that are a representative of God that we speak to or bow down to. It should be God only..
Please don’t take my word for it.. I ask that you please take the time and study the bible and pray for God’s guidance on these topics. He will teach you. (Please do not read any form of “man’s words” in the form of Catechisms. Read God’s word directly, it is clear and easy to understand pertaining to these matters). If you read anything but His Word (allowing the Holy Spirit to teach you) then doors are opened to deception. You should always guard your heart to any words from men.. always.
J, I really like how you handled this sensitively and with respect towards Paula’a beliefs. It is not always the case among Christians that that which we call correction is done in a way that is edifying through and through.
I think the lower nature sees the verses in the Bible where correction is made in a forceful way, and assumes this is normative, the way correction should always be. J the Baptist and Jesus both were forceful at times against the Pharisees, but it was the case that their whole internal religous and ego world needed to be broken up.
When Jesus rebuked Judas, he said “Do you betray me with a kiss?” Luke 22:48. Given what Judas was up to, one might imagine Jesus being more forceful. And Jesus calls Judas friend in Matt 26:50, when Judas was acting without friendship.
The point is, I think kindness should be normative in these types of matters, and forcefulness should be considered only as the Spirit suggests.
However, if a believer has a spirit of pride or self righteousness or anger, it would be better for him to restrain altogether from forceful correction, simply because Judas’ fallen Lord is cunning enough to make us believe our anger is God’s also. Remove the log from our own eye, and then remove it again.
Jesus knows through the Spirit how delicate some are, and perhaps he through the Spirit knew the only possible way to dissuade Judas was through kindness.
Another verse is Acts 18:26, where Apollos is instructed to teach “more perfectly”(KJV), even though his knowledge of the faith seemed to be quite limited, and less than perfect. God simply is in the business of edifying, and He is generous with edification, but more so with the willing heart, and He prefers to believe there is a willingness, unless there is evidence against it. And we should assume the best of others unless there is substatial evidence contrariwise, and even then we might always hope for the best.
To our sister Paula, I think it is sometimes the case that we Protestants can learn from the Catholic faith, for example, in honoring saints who are saints of God whether from the Bible, or if it is the case, from more modern times. I can say that, in honor to her, I would greatly benefit by having the type of faith that Mother Theresa has expressed in her life. There are simply some saints who seem to travel on higher ground, and she is one. While I would not elect to pray to her, I think it honors her more to be more like her, though in Christ, and by Christ and His power.
And so it is wise, I think, to honor those who have found the inner streams of God, even if their doctrinal viewpoints do not match mine, because God is the judge of the heart perhaps more than the mind, but yet I leave all judgement to Him, because He is able to judge in a compassion which is higher than ours, when called for.
Bless you Paula.
Thanks Mark.. sometimes, it is difficult to speak the truth as offense can be taken. I still think I have a lot of growth to go in this area.
Hi J, yes offense can be taken, it is something we should not enjoy doing at all. But we hope Paula can receive some encouragement in her growth. And everything is up to her and God. So if she sees things differently as a result of your words, it is well if this leads to better things in her spirit. But if she does not see things differently we still accept her completely and without hesitation, and we don’t have to pry and see if she is in the process of changing her thinking, because we leave all these things up to God and are grateful that we believe we will see Paula in the heavenly realms.
Bless all those who read this site no matter how they see our God.
I started praying to st expedite from 12 jan 2016, I set an altar, today my candle glass in which I kept a candle burning, it has broken into two pieces, what is this I am unable to understand. Please tell me what indicates this, will my prayer not be answered or st is angry with me, I want quick reply.
Hi Reena,
If you scroll up to my response to Paula on 5/28/2013, you will find my stance pertaining to praying to saints. If this were me and I was praying to God, contemplating whether praying to saints was correct or not, I would take this as a sign that God is displeased with my idol worship.
Other than this, I would not say that this saint broke the glass. They do not have the power to do anything as God is the source of such power. So, it can also be as simple as ‘The glass broke’ and it has no real meaning.
It is difficult to say.. I analyze what I am thinking/praying at the time of events in life. What is on my heart, what am I meditating on with the Lord, etc. If I’m not seeking/knocking on a topic, then it is very difficult for me to discern whether I’m receiving a sign from God or a simple natural event is taking place. As far as I’m concerned, if it’s a sign from God, it’s pretty obvious because the spirit testifies.
If I were asking God or contemplating in my heart as to whether praying to the saints was incorrect, and then this happened, I would view this as an answer from God. He will shatter all into pieces. See my testimony on the golden calf here: http://serious-things.com/testimony-the-golden-calf/