Expert: Padraig Caughey - 10/27/2007

Question
Dear Padraig,

                    Hello, Happy Halloween. Have you ever experienced a supernatural "miracle of God"? I know I have; and I had two testimonies. Since plantar warts are on a pressure area, they grow inward and are often tender and painful.When they occur on the bottom of the foot, they are called plantar warts. As you know my story goes that I had this things on my left foot and they were big as a nickle some a dime I had five of them. They look like hard, thick patches of skin with dark specks. Plantar warts may cause pain when you walk, and you may feel like you are stepping on a pebble or rocks even seashells. This is how I felt but most of my doctors are Jewish and the others 5% are non Jew. For several agonizing years I dealt with depression and this foot issue, My grandmother prayed that God would work a miracle and heal me.

Nothing happened. Untill that faithful day on Pentecost I gave myself to God to Jesus I ask him to come into my heart! One day three years ago a homeless man named Joshua in hebrew that means Savior. He reminded me of Jesus he had such a compassionate heart and he prayed all the time we never saw him again he was wearing gloves but as he took them off to eat as he was praying I saw marks like if he was crucified two thousand years ago!


He said to my Grandma "God gave me a vision that your granddaughter will soon be miraculously healed," Joshua said. The grandmother hopes were lifted my grandpa was in shock he knew it was God in his house he had a peaceful look in his eyes and they were blue like the water! His teeth were sparkling white and healthy even straigh his soul was christlike and holy even pure his spirit was and it was like that for hours and never gone away! I had a restoring faith because of that I feel like my hopes are lifted and I know Jesus is still alive! Perhaps, like me, you've known people who have prayed for a miracle from God, but the miracle floodgates have failed to release even a single drop. Maybe you've sat motionless by their bedsides, unsure of what to say, as tears streamed down their cheeks over their disappointment with God. They've read book after book heralding the existence of miracles. They've sat in church and heard parishioners share incredible stories of divine healings even take the miracles of the Eucharist. All the while, their spirits spiral downward as they wonder why God won't intervene in a similar miraculous fashion on their behalf. This is how I felt over the years now I have mine too share! Many Christian physicians, and Pyschiatrists
believe God still performs miracles of physical healing that defy natural explanation. But are the hosts of "miracles" we hear about so often truly miracles? By all means my doctors still ask these same ol'questions till this day!

Paul writes, "Test everything" (1 Thess. 5:21). I tell everyone that comes across to me If you or a loved one is eagerly awaiting a miracle of healing from God, remember that His answers may not come in a way that we can immediately recognize. Christ healed completely. He had no half cures. The paralytic didn't hobble away; the leper didn't go back to the priest with only a few skin nodules here and there; and the blind man didn't need glasses or a seeing-eye camel to find his way around.


Christ healed immediately. Except for three instances, where the healing took place in a matter of minutes, all miracles happened instantaneously—not days or weeks later.

Christ healed in public. His healing ministry was not limited to certain prearranged sites. He didn't need an emotionally supercharged atmosphere or an "anointing". In my case I had it instantly so this was a true miracle. Christ healed mostly visible organic disease. He was not intimidated by withered body parts, the blind, or people in the grave. His miracles were so convincing that not even his critics of the day could refute them.


Christ healed even those without faith. Christ healed without partiality, healing even those who apparently had little or no faith. You'll remember that the man Christ healed of blindness didn't really know who Christ was. "He replied, 'Whether [Christ] is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!'" (John 9:25, 35-36).


Christ healed with a purpose. His purpose was to authenticate His messianic claim (John 5:36), to show the people that He had the authority to forgive sins (Matt. 9:6), to prove that His message came from God (Acts 2:22), and through it all to launch the beginning of His church and bring more glory to God (Eph. 2:19-22; John 11:4). Christ didn't heal everyone (John 5:3-5), nor did He heal on demand (Matt. 12:38-40).Should it surprise a true believer in God that God is working miracles today?According to the Bible, "Jesus Christ is the same,as yesterday, today and forever!The skeptic objection would then go, “No miracles today implies, in the absence of evidence of past miracles or a miracle-working God, that there were no such thing!God:His command and promise on that Feast Holy Day that is Pentecost will have miracles and miracles that will be flowing so much we have to spread God's word!Today miracles still can and do happen. That is why my story will change others and skeptics how they think! I had a virous on my foot and the day before my operation it was healed in the blink of an eye! An then I had my doubts wiped away and my faith restored. I had a date that was from hell and this 23rd year old guy of Romanian/ Ukaraine descent had demon and vampire activity going on and I had that vibe from him! I had a deliverance from this evil humanoid spirit that was trying to destroy my faith in Jesus and I didnt let that happen I fought in the name of Jesus!“Whatever you encounter is there because God chose it should be there,” and for you to learn from your mistakes!~Christians can learn how to defeat demons and be victorious! 100% based on the Bible. I had a Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance from God and I won! My other question is last but not least I had looked and amazingly I have Jesus and the Virgin Mary on the wooden door of my bathroom!Jesus and The Virgin Mary appearing in in the wood pattern on my bathroom door is amazing and a miracle! It has stayed there for a year and a half! It is in the shape of the Immaculate heart of Mary and the other is just Jesus face and a crown of thorns on his head! I believe the manifestation to be a representation of the Virgin Mary&Jesus is real and true! Will it become enshrined? It is in my house?!It continues to attract me and it just makes me wonder and I pray the rosary by it too. I mean the Virgin Mary appearing on the bathroom door on both sides and Jesus on one side,the figure of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ formed by a stain inside of a grain has amazed me and I just cant stop thinking about it! These holy images that appear—many believe miraculously—in the most unlikely places. Like my Bathroom door! What does this mean. I need some answers  

Answer
Hi again Jaqui,

Yes I have experienced the miraculous often. Reading the Word of God, experiencing Christ in the Eucharist, a baby's smile, an Autumn sunrise...


It seems to me that we walk by faith in darkness. It seems to me too that you are maybe too much centred on the extraordinary. Try if you can to see God more in the everyday and ordinary. Try not to centre yourself on the notion of being 'special' and 'extraordinary' for Satan is a trickster.