Do you believe in miracles?  When I began writing Anna’s Healing, that was the question at the very front of my mind—for myself, for my readers, and for Christians as a whole. Do we still believe in miracles? Why do they happen to some people and not others? How do we know when a real miracle has occurred? Why are miracles even mentioned in the Bible? 

First of all, I am not a Biblical scholar! I am a Christian of 42 years, and I’ve certainly been through my share of terrible situations where I prayed for a miracle, where my heart was aching and I called out to God. So let’s look at these questions one at a time.

Do we still believe in miracles? When I first came up with the idea of Anna’s Healing, I knew that I did believe in miracles, but what about the vast majority of Christians? So I did several “polls” and the answers were overwhelmingly YES. So most of my readership does believe that the miracles we read about in the Bible can and do still happen today. That led me to question #2.

Why do they happen to some people and not others? This is a hard one. Several people who answered my survey said, “I do believe in miracles. We didn’t receive one, but I still believe.” That type of faith is inspiring to me. There have been times in my life when I prayed for a cure for a loved one or prayed for a situation to pass. Many times instead of a miracle, we had to endure the situation. Did it make us stronger? Yes. Did it in increase our faith? Sure. I certainly can’t pretend to know the mind of God, and His ways are not our ways … 

How do we know when a real miracle has occurred? Ahh, the age of skepticism. I’ll admit that I question most things I read or even that people tell me. But if we pray and commit ourselves to knowing God’s truth in a situation, then I think we can know whether a real miracle has occurred. 

Why are miracles even mentioned in the Bible? It’s always struck me as odd that whenever Christ healed some one, he would invariably tell them “tell no one about this” (see Mark 1:44, Matthew 8:4, and Luke 5:14). Why? Wouldn’t we want to shout it from the rooftops if we were healed? 

I love all of these questions that deal with such a basic question of our faith. After studying and writing about miracles, all I can say for certain is the height and breadth and width and depth of God’s love for us is something we can only begin to imagine … and sometimes, that love is revealed through a miracle.