Hearing From God.

[savednsealed]

In 2002 I collapsed to the floor after having a major cerebral bleed caused by an inherited illness, similar to
an aneurysm. It was something, I am told, that I would have had from birth, but never knew it. When I
collapsed I was rushed to a hospital where the doctor thought that I wouldn't make it. My wife asked
Christains to pray for me including whole churches.

When I slowly began to recover, and was allowed to go home, I prayed and asked the Lord if this was from
him and if I could thank him. Did he answer me? Yes, he did. How does God answer our most sincere prayers?
He answers us when we read his word in the scriptures, he answers us in the sermon that we hear given to us
in church, sometimes he answers us deep in the night with thoughts sent into our souls, and if we are really
hard of hearing he may send us an audible message. But this last one I have never heard, because it wasn't
needed. He is all powerful and blessed and he knows how to make himself understood with a message that
is consistant with his scriptures.

Thank you Lord, for making yourself known and for saving us in more ways than one.

 

[amadeus2]

Give God the glory my friend. All healing does come from Him.

 

[Itz Me]

In 2002 I collapsed to the floor after having a major cerebral bleed caused by an inherited illness, similar to
an aneurysm. It was something, I am told, that I would have had from birth, but never knew it. When I
collapsed I was rushed to a hospital where the doctor thought that I wouldn't make it. My wife asked
Christians to pray for me including whole churches.

When I slowly began to recover, and was allowed to go home, I prayed and asked the Lord if this was from
him and if I could thank him. Did he answer me? Yes, he did. How does God answer our most sincere prayers?
He answers us when we read his word in the scriptures, he answers us in the sermon that we hear given to us
in church, sometimes he answers us deep in the night with thoughts sent into our souls, and if we are really
hard of hearing he may send us an audible message. But this last one I have never heard, because it wasn't
needed. He is all powerful and blessed and he knows how to make himself understood with a message that
is consistent with his scriptures.

Thank you Lord, for making yourself known and for saving us in more ways than one.

Ummm, I'm astonished with your seeming to say that you "asked the Lord if this was from Him and if I could thank Him".
I certainly hope that you're not thinking that God somehow caused the cerebral bleed event.
Simply because our God is not schizophrenic, He's not One of multiple faces.
Our Heavenly Father is not One to extend saving help one day and tempting troubles the next.
The paradoxical conception of God as being the source of sickness, death or punishment while, at the same instance, the source of miraculous blessing is absolutely absurd.
God is only goodness, light and life. He has only good intentions and purposes. His nature, character and attributes are all perfectly and entirely flawless and good. The idea that God is somebody 'up there' hurling lightning bolts in just recompense on the earth is an outrageous defamation of His wholly good and perfect being.

While it's true that the Old Testament writers testified that their God was the author of both good and evil, it's also true that no one prior the time of Jesus ever grasped the absolute truth about God; namely, that He's only and completely and absolutely good.

The basic understanding of the Old Testament righteous was generally one that God is both good and evil. God heals but He also makes sick; He brings forth life but He also imposes death.
Throughout the Ancient Writings, black and white threads were oftentimes intertwined and weaved together to make one thread. The same holds true too for many Christians today: they believe that God is good but they mix a measure of images and thoughts about Him which are "resembling mortal man",

The Lord has never made anyone deaf, dumb, blind or crippled. Neither has He ever killed, caused sickness or accidents. He is not a God to be feared, (in the sense of One Who threatens to retaliate), --- not even when we fail.
Neither is He, 'Yes', and, 'No', at the same time.
His loving kindness is over us forever.
He gives only perfect and pure goodness, love, light and life.

So, 'SavedNsealed', we may never attribute to God things which are the products of darkness and, therefore, it'is error to ascribe Him responsibility or blame for anything evil which occurs. God's will and thoughts towards us are always good and only directed at what is wholesome, right and perfect.
God never resorts to violence, coercion or force --- not even against the arch-enemy, Satan and his host.
When someone breaks the laws of creation, God never adds misery to the offense simply to prove a point, Neither, as some would claim, to convey His certain chastisement or wrathful discipline.
All of God's actions find their motivation in the purity of love and goodness.