Did God give you a miracle?

Today | Jonty30

[Jonty30]

Although, I will not give particulars to protect myself, God performed a miracle for me last night.

I was traveling from my work camp to a gas compression station, which compresses LNG to allow it to flow through the pipes easier.

The road I was traveling on was good, except for after the T-intersection, then it turned very ice with hard packed ice with grooves in the road that could catch your tire. I slowed down to about 50km/hr, trying to be safe. However, the road still caught my tire and I spun out of control.

I had no control over the truck and was spinning out of control, while heading towards the ditch and no ability to stop and there was nothing to stop the truck from going into the ditch.

However, the truck stopped dead at the edge of the road with no discernible reason why it should have stopped.

I should mention that I was listening to a podcast while traveling and, just before the incident, my phone kept turning on my online radio, where they are playing Christmas tunes 24/7 and I couldn't shut it off no matter what I did, which forced me to turn off my cell phone completely, which I can see being deliberate to cause me to pay more attention to the upcoming hazard.

I am just extremely thankful right now.

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[af_vet_1981]

Yes, praise God.

[imardmd1]

Be very happy for him, looking forward to joining him, Be loving to someone while you are waiting for the moment!

That is what I have emphatically told my children, "Don't be sad, sing happy songs at my memorial service if you have one, and tell the same to others. The best is yet to come!"

[South Dakota]

In the flash of the moment

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have. Well...my son did. A normal weekday routine. My son wakes his two older kids for school, etc, etc. However, this day, he decided to get up early. Why? Who can say? It wasn't normal routine. Anyway...he went in to his 7 year old son's bedroom...tries to wake my grandson...but he is unresponsive...and has a blue palor.

My son, an Eagle Scout, knew what to do. He started resuscitation efforts, called 911 on his mobile, then continued his efforts while screaming for his wife to get up and tend to his other two kids. Ambulance arrives.

Another 3 minutes longer and my grandson would have died. Why did my son wake up earlier than is his habit? Why did he go to his oldest son's room first? It's not the closest to his room. Who can say? Shook up The Family pretty good. Praise Jesus.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Don’t be sad, sing happy songs at my memorial service if you have one, and tell the same to others. The best is yet to come!”

That was my mother’s funeral. 200 people singing, “When We All Get To Heaven” and “Beneath The Cross Of Jesus”, with my cousin’s piano-genius wife at the piano.

Another cousin’s daughter said that when she arrived she was broken hearted. When she left there was “joy in my heart”.

[mitch5501]

It’s good to be a child of the King.

[SaveFerris]

I’ll just say that the Lord gave me a calling and it
went above and beyond anything I could have imagined.

It’s definitely still happening though on a smaller scale.

And then an amazing answer to prayer earlier this year.

Which was needed.

Exactly what He has planned I don’t know.

In the meantime I just have to hang on and keep working.

[Jonty30]

I hear you on that, but if I can make an observation. You should have somebody on dial that you can call. If something should happen to you, your dogs will suffer.

Just as a precaution, I mean.

[Jonty30]

I agree. There is probably a mile long list that I am unaware.
It’s been my experience that inconveniences and sadnesses often protect us from worse things. Giving us small sadnesses protects us from larger ones.

[Toespi]

Actually, as I look back, my life has been a series of miracles…….it could have been much different.

[Jonty30]

You might have.

The thing is that there was no reason for my truck to avoid the ditch as there was no barrier of any kind to stop the truck and my truck was spinning at about the same speed as I was traveling.

But it stopped suddenly from going off the road and it stopped in the best way possible. No damage to the truck.

[Jonty30]

Amen.

[red-dawg]

Here is mine.
I was stationed in San Diego, NAVY, in the 70's.
I ran into an old friend I had gone to boot camp with. We went out on the town and partied hard, drank a lot and called it a night and promised to keep in touch.
He dropped me off at the pier my ship was moored at.
These piers are a good 30-40 ft up from the bay, depending on tide.
I was PLASTERED. As I was walking toward my ship, at the end of the pier, I decided to stop and rest.
I sat down at the edge of the pier and woke up under water trying to figure out what happened. It was dark, but I saw some bubbles floating up so I followed them up and reached the surface.
My left side hurt but I swam toward a "donut" tied to the pier and climbed up on it. (These things collect bilge pump stuff.)
I shimmied up the barnacle infested pier pile-on and made it to the top, collapsed next to the dumpster and passed out.
I woke up in Balboa Naval Hospital with a collapsed lung and severe lacerations on my forearms.
To this day, I believe God provided those little bubbles AFTER He woke me up.

[sauropod]

+1

[BereanBrain]

Every member of my family has had a life saving miracle, including me.

[Calvin Cooledge]

1968. When I was 13, I was with 4 other Boy Scouts in a VW Squareback sedan. The driver was 16. Due to a blowout at 70MPH, New Mexico desert crosswinds, and inexperienced driver (he slammed on the brakes) we rolled over 3 times. Third time was end over end according to eyewitnesses. Slid another 100 ft upside down and slid off the highway. Two guys in front seat were left hanging upside down from their lap belts. Three of us in the back had no seatbelts. Not a single injury among the 5 of us. Not even a scratch.

[usafretired]

I was on my way to college at my local campus outside of Philly, travelling down a two-lane road in my VW bug and I saw a guy coming down a road up ahead on my right that intersected with my road and as I came closer to the intersection it was evident he was not going to stop and I was going to plow into him. I had to decide what part of his car to hit, trying to remember my recent high school driver ed, and as I approached the pending collision, my steering wheel jerked to the left which took me into the oncoming lane (where another car was barreling towards me to a head-on) and the wheel jerked back to the right and I was in the correct lane again, having missed both cars. I do not to this day believe that I turned the wheel. It turned in my hands. Thank you Lord!

[PeterPrinciple]

I had no control over the truck and was spinning out of control, while heading towards the ditch and no ability to stop and there was nothing to stop the truck from going into the ditch.

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Folks,

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Ever reflect on that?

You are flying in an airplane and it suddently drops 8,000 feet.

You are driving down the Interstate and a truck crosses the medium and comes straight at you

What do these two examples have in common?

Your life is on the balance and you are not in control.

That is what fear of the Lord is. When you realize that is your relationship to God, you have come to a truth.

Now, we don’t live in that fear because ............ (you should know the answer to that)

But it is good to visit that fear of the Lord, more often then not.

[Zuriel]

**If you’ve read Pilgrim’s Progress, you’ve had a taste of that. For what else is it than a thorough recounting of Christian’s journey through this life as God superintended it?**

There is little doubt in my mind that the writer of the wizard of oz had read Pilgrim’s Progress, and used a very similar story line, and replaced God with the so-called wizard of oz.

[airborne]

I have had several.

Not sure why God has decided to keep me around but I’m happy that He has!