Christianity has been misunderstood. Miracles happen all the time.

Multitudes of miracles are hidden in people’s memories and experiences. Yet, Western culture has trained us since birth to ignore them, forget them, and explain them away.

People who dare to openly talk about and give God credit for miracles they have personally seen or experienced are frequently viewed as irrational, superstitious, or mentally unbalanced. When it comes to boldly testifying about signs and wonders we have seen God do, the fear of mockery or rejection gags us. Because of that, people falsely believe that modern-day miracles are very rare or nonexistent.

Even churches have a gag rule against talking about God’s miracles. Church services are full of people who have seen God do amazing things within them, through them, and around them. However, because they aren’t encouraged (or even allowed) to speak up in church and testify about what they’ve seen and heard, it often seems like God stopped doing miracles when Christ’s first apostles died.

Theologians have even given the belief that God doesn’t do miracles anymore a name: cessationism. Some churches even teach cessationism as an official doctrine.

I’ve heard a funny definition of cessationism: “God’s miracle power petered out when Peter the Apostle petered out.” However, there is nothing funny about ignoring, being silent about, or denying the presence, power, and miracles of the living resurrected Jesus Christ. The Bible plainly says, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

Christ is still working miracles! I see and experience them throughout each day. There are far too many incredibly odds-defying things that happen within me, through me, and around me to be mere coincidences.

But I’m not alone. God is also doing miracles in and around you. Do you have the courage to look beyond your Western world blinders? Set aside your anti-miracle prejudice and intellectual pride for even one day and you will be reminded that many incredible, logically unexplainable things have happened both within and around you.

Even church people have trouble believing in miracles, not just because of rationalistic brain washing, but also because of the forced silence in the pews that shuts down the amazing testimonies of God’s signs and wonders. The Bible says, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” It says that Christians become overcomers “by the word of their testimony.”

Another reason that people have trouble believing in miracles is because of the way that some churches have used hype and emotionalism, and sometimes even deception, to promote the concept of healing and miracles. I’m not talking about worked-up religious rowdiness. I’m talking about the power of noticing the inner voice of God. When you become aware of God’s miracles life gets really exciting.

Don’t just believe me! God Himself is talking to you, perhaps even as you read this. Listen to His inner whispers to your heart and His voice in your conscience. Don’t write them off as superstition, insanity, or coincidence. Let them inspire you, correct you, instruct you, and reveal and remind you of the miracles the risen Jesus has done and is doing in and around you. Then dare to humbly speak about the things you have seen and heard from God so you can help other people recognize what God is saying and doing in their lives.

If you like you can even testify in the comments.

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Three hours after posting this I called a medical company. The lady who answered the phone said: “Hello, my name is Miracle. How can I help you?” After our conversation, I told her I had just written and posted an article about miracles. Miracle replied: “That’s confirmation!”