Eyewitnesses Demonstrate That God Is Always Watching -- Ready With Miracles

 By Michael H. Brown

Do you believe in miracles? We certainly do. We especially do after viewing a video, Miracles Are Real, which presents miraculous instances that even the most hardened skeptic would have trouble explaining.

Take Mary Mueller, a firewoman in Larsen, Wisconsin, who got a call for what she thought was a blaze and ended up encountering a horrible auto accident in which a woman was bleeding to death. In a panic, Mary realized she had no bandages to stop the bleeding. She thought of using her gloves, but they were sooty. "I knew that I needed something really quick, and there was no medical help around," she recalls. "I had nothing. In the split second that I looked over to my left at the car and over to the right at the bystanders, who were a good distance away from me, I reached really deep down in my heart and said, 'God, I really need some help here, I think I'm going to lose this girl, I can't do this myself,' and in that split second a reddish-colored medical bag showed up approximately 12 inches off my left knee."

There was no way it should have been there. There were no footprints around it in the snow. But there it was: a medical kit with sterile white gauze pads and everything Mary needed to save the woman. When she went back to get the bag later, it had disappeared.

There is also Paul Robert Walker, who tells how his mother and father could not have a child and were ready to adopt. This was in 1952. Before they did, however, his mother said a prayer and actually felt a great weight lift from her because she had placed the problem in the Hands of God.

Exactly nine months later, Paul was born. "There is really a power out there, a spiritual world, and in fact my life is a product of that," notes Walker, an author.

There is Rodney P. Kephart. He was on Wake Island in 1941 as a carpenter when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. After assisting at a hospital treating wounded all night, he went to sleep in what appeared to be a vacant hospital room but was stopped by a strange light and a strange "force" that literally wouldn't let him into the room. That night the Japanese dropped an incendiary into the room. "My life," he says, "was spared by the miracle."

In Monterey, Mexico, a woman had a huge abdominal tumor and while prayed over saw a white light enter her body, go to the tumor, and enfold the mass. She could see it shrink until it disappeared. It was the energy, she says, of God's Light, and we have no reason to doubt it.

Perhaps most remarkable is the account of Ken Gaub of Yakima, Washington, who at the time of his "miracle" was traveling in a music ministry and going through a crisis. He wasn't sure which direction his life should take. Should he continue to do what he was doing? Should he continue to minister? Or should he find a regular job?

The answer came when he was out of state and 1,000 miles from home and walking out for a Pepsi.

There was a phone booth near a gas station, and suddenly, as he walked past, he heard it ringing. Hesitating at first, he finally picked it up. "I said 'hello' and the operator said 'person-to-person call for Ken Gaub,'" he recounts. "I yelled out, 'You're crazy.' I thought it was Candid Camera or something." But he finally acknowledged that he was indeed Ken Gaub -- there in a strange town, on a strange street, picking up a payphone! -- and found himself speaking to a woman who was ready to commit suicide (a woman who had once seen him and had been inspired and now said she got the number she had just called in a vision.) "She just saw a little collection of numbers in her mind and called an operator to place the call," says Gaub. "What are the odds of that -- one in a billion?"

The woman didn't commit suicide and Gaub didn't leave the ministry.

There are other accounts, 17 in all, many from Catholic author Joan Wester-Anderson, who helps narrate this anointed video and wrote a book called Where Miracles Happen. It is time, says Joan, a magazine writer, to chronicle the miraculous. There are other cases of healing. There is the documentation of the miracle of multiplication (this too in Texas). There is a man whose son was miraculously healed from severe facial wounds after the father forgave the muggers.

What is a miracle?

Something inexplicable by the laws of nature, something that defies the rationality of our scientific time, something that shows God is watching every minute.

It often comes down, notes the video, to love -- which creates a constant stream of good "coincidences."

Take a choir in Nebraska. One day every member of the choir, each for a different reason, ended up late for practice. Good thing: three minutes before the scheduled time, a gas explosion destroyed the church. Or take a woman named Manon Shockey of Falls Church, Virginia. Her daughter needed a new house and even though it wasn't for sale, something made Manon stop and pray in front of a "perfect" white home in the area and a couple days later her daughter called with the surprise news that the house was suddenly for sale.

When we pray, when we do God's Will, miracles are all the more frequent.

Love is often the motivation for the power necessary for a miracle-causing prayer. We have to really ask God. We have to be unselfish. We have to pray from the heart. And as in the case of Manon -- who would otherwise never have stopped in front of a house that wasn't for sale -- we have to let the Holy Spirit pray through us.

A simple prayer can be, "Angels be with me."

Such helped a woman who was nearly mugged. She invoked angels and police later found that she wasn't mugged because the criminal thought he saw two large men on either side of her!

Dramatic too is the testimony of Duane Miller, a pastor in Houston who for three years lost use of his voice (following a bout with severe flu). He saw doctors from many major cities and even from Europe and Japan. It seems the virus got into his vocal nerves and destroyed them. They said he would never recover. Ultimately, he would be totally mute, and so he had to resign as pastor. Emotionally, he was destroyed, at loose ends, asking God why. Then the miraculous intervened. He was teaching a Sunday school class one day, rasping, and as he was specifically preaching about how God forgives and heals, something suddenly "broke" and just like that his voice returned. (It is documented on an audio tape of the class!)

Or there is Deborah Deckelman of Hanover, Pennsylvania, who had lost friends and relatives and was ill with depression. She too was ready to commit suicide. Hospitalized, she heard a beautiful voice say, "Deborah, can I come around and talk to you?" It was a grandmotherly woman who spoke about her plight -- seemed to know Deborah inside-out -- and told her that God wanted her to take just one day at a time, to scratch away a little darkness each day. If she did that, said the woman, every day more light would come into her life, and every day more Light would be there -- God's love and promise.

Deborah saw a strange light, and later, looking out the window, spotted an incredible rainbow.

Meanwhile the radiant woman had left brushing by a nurse, but neither the nurse nor anyone else saw her.