Miracles by Henry M. Morris

Author:Henry M. Morris
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: RELIGION / Religion & Science, RELIGION / Faith
ISBN: 9781614580584
Publisher: Master Books
Published: 2004-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Miracles and Divine Watchcare

I guess that most of our prayers are sort of routine and general ("please bless my loved ones"), and perhaps the ministry of the angels God has assigned to us is also routine and general, but even this is invaluable. But when a special need arises, and we are moved to pray urgently and fervently, if God (perhaps using the angels) does answer and meet that need, that’s when we are specially aware of His presence and power and when we then offer fervent prayers of special thanksgiving. And if the answer requires some very unusual timing or rate of otherwise natural processes, it might well be a miracle of providence, or Grade B miracle.

In one sense, of course, even God’s routine watchcare could be considered miraculous in the providential sense. My wife, Mary Louise, and I have been married 64 years and have lived in 15 different homes in eight different cities in six different states. Each day we have prayed for God’s protection and watchcare, and He has graciously answered that prayer in the sense that we have never been robbed nor our home damaged in a storm of any kind. At least we consider that an answer to prayer.

We prayed for God’s guidance, of course, and we are confident that He has led in each of these various moves, with blessings resulting in abundance. All six of our children accepted Christ early in their lives, and are faithful witnessing Christians today (one, of course, already in heaven). All have at least two college degrees, and four have earned doctorates. They married Christian spouses and are earnestly trying to bring up our 17 grandchildren "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Eph. 6:4). When people ask me how to raise godly children in such an ungodly age, I simply have to reply, "You pray a lot!"

This is not meant to be a book of testimony, however, so I’d better forego too many more personal illustrations of prayer answered. But the Bible is replete with promises of answered prayer, and they have been wonderfully confirmed in our own lives.

God does not always answer in just the way and at just the time we ask, of course, for He can see much further ahead than we can, and thus He does see that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose" (Rom. 8:28). Of course there are conditions. We must pray unselfishly (James 4:3), without harboring and excusing some human sin in our lives (Ps. 66:18) and in accordance with His will (1 John 5:14–15).

But the bottom line is that the Lord is real, He does care, and He does answer prayer. When His answers involve a very unusual ordering of process rates or timing of events, though still within the framework of natural laws, we can realistically regard them as Grade B miracles, as the Bible does. Often we can rightly feel

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