But I also believe in scientific laws of creation

• That is, all knowledge and discoveries that are
  • objective, demonstrable, repeatable, and
    • irrespective of race, geography, time, or status
      • namely the laws of Physics, chemistry, electronics, gravity, geography, etc.
      • are valid and placed there by God.

Here is why I believe in Miracles:

• I believe in God
  • It follows that if (since) there is a God
    • and if (since) he is involved in his creation, then
    • by definition he is able to overrule the laws of creation
      • that is the definition of a miracle!
  • I also believe he responds to (answers) prayers and
    • that is the definition of a miracle!
• I believe in Jesus Christ
  • I believe he did all the miracles
    • that the gospels say he did.

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• I have experienced events in my life that qualify as miracles
  • The events around my repentance and believing in Jesus Christ as savior
    • feels like God responded to my desperate cry
      • for him to reveal himself to me!
  • Coming to the USA for the first time
    • was a miracle!
• I have ‘sensed’ (‘felt’/’known’) things before they happened
  • I ‘felt’ (‘knew’) God say to my heart
    • that the woman who is now my wife
      • of thirty-six years,
      • will be my wife before I had met or spoken to her;
  • I ‘felt’ (‘knew’) God say my first child will be a girl
  • I ‘felt’ (‘knew’) God say my second child will be a boy
    • (Note: I did not have any leading about the third and fourth).
  • I ‘felt’ (‘knew’) in my ‘spirit’ to mourn for a colleague
    • after a kind of vision (vivid image/thoughts)
    • before he was outed as  a cheat/crook
      • even though I had no prior knowledge of it.
  • I ‘feel’ (‘know’) God say to me that I will not die before I am 70
    • (caveat: I have now grown to respect the natural laws
      • that safeguard good health and long life, despite this).
    • I survived the civil war in my home country:
      • one time shot at
        • four bullets in my direction
        • two bullets through the window my father and I
          • were looking through;
      • one time on the ground slated for execution
        • by trigger happy troops;
        • in a civil war,
        • with exploding bombs within a couple of miles away
          • but survived.
    • Once, we had an accident
      • that had me and and my motorcycle slide under a huge truck
        • between its wheels,
        • but me and my passenger survived!

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• • I have also had some dramatic answers to prayer:
    • A Demon oppressed neighbor girl
      • was delivered as we prayed ‘in the Name of Jesus’.
    • My son with a medical condition
      • that could not be treated in my African country,
      • got treatment in the UK by clear answers to prayer (miracle):
        • funds were provided, and
        • doctors: general practitioners and specialists
          • gave free treatment and
            • their own money and time to care and
            • continued to provide costly and continuing support;
        • without which he would now be wheelchair bound,
          • deformed and/or dead!
      • By inspiration, I named him
        • “One born to see wonders!”
          • at birth!

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• • A married woman who could not bear child after several years
    • delivered within the year after prayer and
      • the laying on of hands;
  • A married woman whose pregnancy was going past ten months
    • delivered the baby by the next morning after prayer and
      • the ‘laying on of hands.’
  • A series of ‘answers’ to prayer that brought my family to the US
    • after fifteen years of prayer and then,
    • at the US Embassy,
      • an initial visa application appeared ‘Rejected!’
        • but dramatically changed to
          • ‘Approved;‘ 
    • and after provision of funds
      • that also went way beyond my ability.
  • And lots more
• • I believe other people have experienced miracles too!
    • I have heard first person narrations and
    • I have read about experiences of others.
  • • But some of my prayers
      • HAVE NOT been answered
        • the way I wanted it to be;
        • because God thought otherwise, and
        • because we must live by faith, and
        • because the ways of God is still a mystery!!

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The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
[Moses: Deuteronomy 29.29]