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It is still possible under certain conditions and with a humble and contrite heart to receive a vision from God. However, it is something you must pray for for a long time with great humility and there must be some very important purpose that you receive this vision. Also, the vision will not be what you expect, and will probably be very frightening at first, until you begin to pray about it's interpretation and analyze it with reference both to scripture and to exactly what vision you were praying for. Believe me, you do not want to communicate with God in this manner unless you are a very courageous person and very well-versed in the scriptures. God is not limited in communicating to us just through the scriptures. I have had one vision, after six weeks of isolation, semi-fasting, prayer and Bible study, and I have heard his voice on one occassion. Both times, what I saw and heard were not expected, and were laden with so much wisdom that I was still learning over a decade later from events that lasted no more than a few seconds.

Every case is different. My experience with a vision from God was quite wonderful and uplifting ... not frightening in any way.

For those that I've bored with this story before (way back in the early part of the neverending threads), I apoligize for boring you one more time...

My wife and I had been trying to conceive for a while and were praying for God's help in this matter. In January of last year, I attended a men's conference (sponsored by the D-FW Catholic Men's Network) at the University of Dallas' chapel. I really had no idea what it was all about, but got the feeling that I should go. When I got there, I found out it was all about confession ... something I still wasn't very comfortable with even after 8 years of being a Catholic Christian.

I won't bore you with the details, but after it was all over and I went on home, I spent some time in prayer (a decade of the Rosary, the Lord's Prayer, and some one-on-one with The Man). That night, as my wife and I did our usual evening prayer before turning in, I asked God once again to fill our home with the joy and laughter of little children. At that very moment, I saw and heard two little children running and laughing in the hallway in our house and I immediately burst into laughter and tears. My wife heard it, too, and joined me in my extreme joy.

He later revealed to us what He was showing us ... my wife was pregnant with our first child! (She turns one year old Friday, btw)

What I saw that night was two children close in age. Given that information, I knew that they would indeed be close. We are expecting our 2nd child in February.

Where am I going with all this? I don't know ... I guess I was just sharing that with you to let you know that not all visions will frighten or take decades to figure out or only come after a long period of fasting, praying, etc. I was indeed full of humility and my heart was in the right place that night. When we are that clean, it's much easier to see and hear God's word.

Hello all, hope you all had good weekends! Today frost arrived in western PA, as I dug out my winter coat and had to scrape my windows before driving off to work. My wife and I left Sarah with my parents yesterday and went to the mountains for "Autumnfest." I rode the "Alpine Slide" little individual sled ride down the mountain "Wheeeeeee" and we got a pumpkin and apple butter and real maple syrup. A good day.

SD

Jesus was a human. He had the spirit of God in him and walked perfectly on this earth.

Havoc, was/is Jesus God?

SD

I was indeed full of humility and my heart was in the right place that night. When we are that clean, it's much easier to see and hear God's word.

Great story, and I think you summed it up for me when you said, "my heart was in the right place that night".

I wonder how many have had a miracle happen when they were at the early stage in their spiritual awakening?

This period of life is probably the purest and most innocent time of your life, and it seems that this is the time that God gives you a welcome home son gift.

I had only found Christ a few months, and I was big eyed and excited over all the new things God was showing me in the Bible, and all the promises of new and exciting things that were ahead of me on my new journey.

I had gotten an infection on the upper part of my right leg, from grinding metal where my elbow rested on my leg, and over several months, it had grown to be around 3"X 2" and would form a scab, but then one bump, and it would slide off, leaving a watery open sore again, and it would start the process all over again.

One night, we had read the Bible and had learned how God gave miracles to those he loves, so while praying, I asked God to heal me of this problem, and didn't make a big deal out of it, or have any heightened sense of closeness to God, simply asked him to take it away.

That next morning, when I got up, while I was starting to put on my socks, I looked, and it was gone, I mean completely, even to the point the skin was the same color of the rest of my leg.

My wife came over and we could only find the slightest discoloration where it had been.

Although we had many miracles in my life, this one stands out as the most obvious, and I will always believe it was because of my innocence in Christ, and my unquestioning faith which we seem to loose as we get older and start picking at our selves because we aren't perfect.