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@Caleb (con't) My father was "delivered" from sleep-walking, except his sleep-walking took him out in the middle of busy streets with nothing but his bvd's. He was 'discipled' by Billy Graham and others on the radio, as his local priests weren't sure what happened to him. He described "speaking in tongues" as his job was to deliver electrical material, and he found that 'speaking in this prayer language' helped him to be 'freer' and connect with God.
@Caleb (con't) I could go on and on, but the one story he told was when he was at a customer's house(he was an Electrical Contractor by then), who while my dad was working on something else, gashed himself severely. He held his hand, while my father got something to apply to the wound, then went out cold. The bleeding stopped, there was no pulse, and he emptied his bladder. My father got his wife to call an ambulance, then proceeded to pray for him "In Jesus Name".
@Caleb (Last-honest) It took about 20-25 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, but just before it arrived, the man got up, looked around and asked-"What happened?" He didn't want to go in the ambulance, but when his wife insisted, he went.
@All I have had numerous "escapes from certain death", have prayed with people who were "brain-dead', multiple organ failure, cancer, and many other maladies and have seen them healed. I have also witnessed close friends who lost their loved ones; my father also died when he was 69. I believe it is part of the "Normal Christian Life"(a term coined from Watchman Nee's book) and my faith is no different than your faith. You read the same bible I do, what does it say?
@All "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to My Father."(Jn. 14:12) Jesus is our 2nd Adam, meaning "if He can do it, we can do it". A grain of a "mustard seed" of faith-without doubt, is all that is needed.
@All (I will get off my soap-box) In Africa they have that faith; in China, Indonesia, Philippines, they experience supernatural encounters w/God. Why not Europe & US? Jesus said, "To whom do YOUR children cast them(demons) out?"(Mt. 12:27) If your belief is in the 'power of man'-whether or not you 'pray', nothing will happen. Those 'other places' don't have an answer-except sorcery and pagan worship which makes them more sick. But somehow we have 'evolved' in the west-or have we?