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It was early 2002, and I had just suffered a terrible cerebral bleed, an inherited illness that made my doctor tell my family that I was expected to die soon or be what I call brain dead. At first I had no worries, though, and I was not in pain, ignorance is bliss. My very old parents had their...

It was many years ago, and my aunt, who I will call Susan here, had just been diagnosed with a virulent form of cancer. She would have been about 43 yrs. old then, and she had a husband and a couple children, my cousins who I liked and still like. The doctors did not have the chemotherapy that...

My mom was always a strong Christian and for many years a sunday school teacher, while my Dad would go to church when we went, but that was about all he ever did. Mom prayed for him like crazy, but the years went by quickly. Soon Dad was in his late 50's. I was a son who followed my mom in...

I read an article some time ago about the faith of one of the leading generals in the American Civil War. Who knows his name here? This is what the General had to say about faith. I will paraphrase here: What advantage, in the future, does a man of no faith have over a man of faith, if the man...

In 2002 I collapsed to the floor, just home after work, while warming up dinner. I didn't know the cause, but I thought I was dying, and I was close to being right. It was later learned that I had suffered a cerebral bleed from a type of AVM, a type of inherited cerebral birth defect. My...

We have a friend, I will call Frieda, that we have known for many years, and she is a person of real faith in the Lord Jesus. Well, she told us this account of what happened to her family when her late mother was old and had a type of advanced cancer. Her mother lived at home with her and was...

The Civil War soldier grabbed his Bible that his fiance had given to him and slipped it into the special pocket that she had sewed for him in his soldier's tunic. It was Christmas eve and he wanted to read the Christmas story that night from his Bible while he was on picket duty. There was a...

This was the strangest thing that I suppose ever happened to me. I call it the "smoking gun". It happened in 2007 in August. It concerns a relative of ours, will call her Susan here, that lived some ways off from us and we had only met her once or twice in our lives, but she was closer to our...

We have a couple booths at an antique mall and recently we were at an auction in Pennsylvania when I saw 3-4 old framed religious sayings. I felt drawn to one colored drawing of the saying with a bird drawn in it. The dove may have been added to represent the Holy Spirit. It was framed in a...

It was 2004 and my wife and I were in Albany, NY to see a Christian speaking program. The Friday night program was, as I remember, on the workings of the Holy Spirit. We couldn't get good seats up front so we sat on the auditorium seats which were above and to the right side of the speaker's...

Paul and I were friends, even though our ages were far apart and we really had little in common. What we did have in common was one horrible disease that seemed determined to kill both of us and failing at that to ruin what was left of our lives. We each suffered from a cerebral bleed caused by...

I was sitting in the church, outside of the sanctuary, and it was my first visit to this particular church. My wife was inside one of the rooms attending a meeting and I was waiting for her. I was thinking of my prayed for healing several years before that and I was feeling like thanking God...

In 2003 I was tested for cancer in the digestive tract. My wife and I prayed for healing and when I was tested they could find no cancer and told me I was fine for at least the next ten years for that type of cancer. When we left the building...I was saying under my breath "Thank you, Jesus."...

About three and a half years ago our oldest daughter was scheduled to be married to her fiance, a man that she had met at church. As it happened they both had to seek new jobs after the wedding, and neither had very much money...as young people seldom seem to. Well, a week before the wedding the...

She was a difficult child and when she became a teenager in high school she seemed to get much worse. I remember one day, when she was a senior, we were all up and getting ready for work and school and there was something about her backpack sitting there in the entry hall. The Lord must have...

When I was young, a very young man, I wanted to meet a woman to marry, but it was difficult because I was a very shy person who had problems talking to someone that I had never met before. What to do? In those days, before the internet, there were no computer dating services, Christian or...

Growing up I was raised in a church which trained me to pray for friends who were very ill or in serious trouble. So I did pray for them, but I can't remember many people helped by my prayers. It wasn't the Lord's fault, but I was sure, and still am that it was my fault for not having the right...

Almost 12 years now the doctor said I was going to die soon, and I was prayed for, but I didn't die soon, nor did I become brain dead! Thank you Jesus! I wanted others to know how wonderful it was to be healed and so I asked the Lord to listen to my prayers for the healing of other people of...

Our large Protestant American church was losing it's old pastor and there were many problems. The church was low on members and lower on money. We needed someone to ignite the congregation. One day all the members were called to hear a new candidate for pastor and we all came to see for...

It was many years ago and my then fiance and I were talking about our appointment to talk to the local pastor to ask him to marry us. She was worried because he was a strict pastor who had said in the past that Christians who marry should already know for sure that they were saved. My church did...