Power of a Miracle Testimony

I don’t know how the conversation got started. We were talking about the reliability of the scriptures and the Prophesies Jesus fulfilled to a skeptic/seeker at lunch. The topic of miracles was raised. The question was asked, couldn’t what was understood to be miracles then by explained by science now, and couldn’t what we call miracles now be explained by science in the future? Certainly both of these things could be true I conceded.
I then spoke of a Cancer case that our ministry was involved in. The Sister-in-Law of the healed women, worked with me at the time of the miracle and works with me now. She was at the table. I was sharing the story in general terms, but she was there, it was her sister in law who was healed, and she wanted to give God glory. So she shared this story.
In 2001 my sister-in law was diagnosed with brain cancer. It was inoperable. They closed up the incision on my sister-laws head with 65 stitches. They told my brother to prepare to bury his wife of three months. They gave her two weeks. My brother and Don went to RI Hospital three times a week to pray for my sister in law. It is now 2009 my sister in law has had no sign of cancer since a month after the projection of her death. She works full time, she is healthy, she is healed, she is a miracle.
The skeptic was very moved by the lunch time testimonial. She came into my office later. We spoke about Words of Knowledge and Words of Wisdom. She was suddenly open and shared a story herself that could only be described as supernatural. This followed the tragic death of a cousin in a bus accident. The skeptic was very young at the time. Her testimony was the deceased girl visited her in a dream and told her to tell my mother “I am safe with Jesus. ” The now seeker (no longer skeptic) said that she asked the girl to confirm her word by telling her something that only she and the mother would know. In the dream the young girl said, go into my closet with my mother and you will find this particular object in this place. The object was indeed there.
God is still talking to people. Many individuals in our workplaces have abandoned their faith because of rational ideas and other issues that get in the way of their believing. Bi-vocational ministers can be there to lend comfort and a testimony to the faithfulness of Jesus.