Miracles

[MorningStar]

There is a wonderful talk by Dallin H. Oaks called Miracles There was one part in particular that really helped me - when miracles don't happen.

When Miracles Don’t Happen

I have been speaking of miracles that happen. What about miracles that don’t happen? Most of us have offered prayers that were not answered with the miracle we requested at the time we desired. Miracles are not available for the asking. We know this from the Lord’s revelation directing that the elders should be called to lay hands on and bless the sick: “It shall come to pass that he that hath faith in me to be healed, and is not appointed unto death, shall be healed” (D&C 42:48). The will of the Lord is always paramount. The priesthood of the Lord cannot be used to work a miracle contrary to the will of the Lord. We must also remember that even when a miracle is to occur, it will not occur on our desired schedule. The revelations teach that miraculous experiences occur “in his own time, and in his own way” (D&C 88:68).[/b]

I have dealt with so much illness and pain in my life and this helped me to understand and accept the Lord's will and that there is a reason for my trials. I am grateful because at times I have been healed through blessings or at least I greatly improved, but blessings have always helped me to endure the problems that remain.

This whole talk impresses me and I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.



MorningStar

[jehote]

hello Morningstar,
i was wondering if you cold please post the link to that talk? it would be very appreciated!
Speedo
p/s this fyi for ya, but a VERY timely post by you!

ok, this edit thing is not to cool with me! i think i got it! i found the link in the above post....its above the quote box!

[MorningStar]

hello Morningstar,
i was wondering if you cold please post the link to that talk? it would be very appreciated!
Speedo
p/s this fyi for ya, but a VERY timely post by you!

ok, this edit thing is not to cool with me! i think i got it! i found the link in the above post....its above the quote box![/b]

Yay! I'm glad you found it and that it came at a good time. A couple years ago I was guest teaching for our women's study group (I had no idea why I volunteered, like I needed more things to stress about), but I came to that talk and it really helped me during a terrible time. A lot of the women there found that quote extremely helpful when it came to the things they had prayed for but didn't receive or have their prayers answered in the way they wanted.

[Deborah]

I am so glad that the Lord didn't answer all my prayers, and some of them he did answer I went back to him and said "Well, that's not quite what I meant!"

[Pa Pa]

There is a wonderful talk by Dallin H. Oaks called Miracles There was one part in particular that really helped me - when miracles don't happen.
I have dealt with so much illness and pain in my life and this helped me to understand and accept the Lord's will and that there is a reason for my trials. I am grateful because at times I have been healed through blessings or at least I greatly improved, but blessings have always helped me to endure the problems that remain.

This whole talk impresses me and I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.



MorningStar[/b]

Same here..Just found out friday that my daughter lost her baby...later that night I was in the hospital and doctors found a "spot" on my Liver. I have suffered from health problems for 15 years. Yet in that suffering I have grown closer to God.

Pa pa

[MorningStar]

Same here..Just found out friday that my daughter lost her baby...later that night I was in the hospital and doctors found a "spot" on my Liver. I have suffered from health problems for 15 years. Yet in that suffering I have grown closer to God.

Pa pa [/b]

I'm so sorry to hear that. How far along was your daughter? You will both be in my prayers.

[Pa Pa]

I'm so sorry to hear that. How far along was your daughter? You will both be in my prayers.[/b]

Just two months, it is her second miscarriage.

Pa Pa

[fish4kitty]

I've been witness to a miracle. Once. Changed my life forever. My second daughter is here today and is thriving. She truely is a miracle. Thank you Jesus for blessing my life.....this was one miracle that I'm so thankful G-d let happen.



kitty

[MorningStar]

Just two months, it is her second miscarriage.

Pa Pa[/b]

That's so hard. Does she have any children yet? Last November I had a miscarriage, but I am blessed to have had my three boys first without any miscarriages. If I had lost one before, I don't think I would've handled it well at all. It took us two years to get pregnant with our first and it would've crushed me to lose him. We had started looking into adoption when I found out I was pregnant. I had a blessing the month before and I found myself accepting the idea of adoption, so I thought that was the Lord's way of telling me that was what I was meant to do. I was so grateful to find out I was finally having a baby.

I've been witness to a miracle. Once. Changed my life forever. My second daughter is here today and is thriving. She truely is a miracle. Thank you Jesus for blessing my life.....this was one miracle that I'm so thankful G-d let happen.
kitty[/b]

That is wonderful!

[MorningStar]

I also like these sections:

Macro-Miracles

Some miracles affect many people. The ultimate such miracle is the Atonement of Jesus Christ—His triumph over physical and spiritual death for all mankind. No miracle is more far-reaching or more magnificent.

Other far-reaching miracles—impossible to explain by rational means—occur as a result of obedience to the commandments of God. Thus, there is something miraculous about the way the members of our Church pay their tithing so faithfully and are blessed for doing so.

To cite another far-reaching miracle, there is no rational way to explain why young men and women give a year and a half to two years of their lives in the middle of their education and marriage eligibility to suffer the hardships incident to an inconvenient and highly disciplined pattern of missionary service to their fellowmen. Other miracles occur in funding missions by missionaries or families too poor to do so but who do so anyway.

Still another miracle is the way missionaries are protected during their labors. Of course we have fatalities among our young missionaries—about three to six per year over the last decade—all of them tragic. But the official death rates for comparable-age young men and women in the United States are eight times higher than the death rates of our missionaries. In other words, our young men and women are eight times safer in the mission field than the general population of their peers at home. In view of the hazards of missionary labor, this mortality record is nothing less than a miracle.

Other large-scale miracles are occurring in the Church’s family history work. The effect of our FamilySearch™ Internet Genealogy Service in the time it has been available is truly miraculous. After one year our Internet site averaged eight million hits per day, representing daily visits by about 130,000 persons. In this same one-year period, the site registered users from 117 countries who downloaded over 410,000 copies of our Personal Ancestral File. This was an eight-fold increase in usage over the prior technology. Family history work is exploding in a miraculous way.[/b]

Micro-Miracles

In contrast to these far-reaching miracles are the more familiar categories of miracles that impact only a few individuals. The scriptures abound with such miracles, and miracles as great as these still occur. I have seen them, and so have you. Elder Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985), then of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said:

“We do have miracles today—beyond imagination! …

“What kinds of miracles do we have? All kinds—revelations, visions, tongues, healings, special guidance and direction, evil spirits cast out. Where are they recorded? In the records of the Church, in journals, in news and magazine articles and in the minds and memories of many people.” 6

Most of us are acquainted with miracles that have occurred in our personal lives and the lives of those we love, such as miracles involving births and deaths and miraculous healings. All of these are fulfillments of the Lord’s modern promise to “show miracles, signs, and wonders, unto all those who believe on my name” (D&C 35:8).[/b]