Una mujer joven puede caminar por primera vez en su vida

Siempre hay reportes de sanaciones extraordinarias en eventos evangelísticos cristianos.... Según los familiares que la acompañan, esta joven de 20 años nunca antes había podido caminar:

En la foto de la portada el predicador comprueba si puede sentir algo en sus piernas sordas. Ella lo afirma....al final él le quita su promesa de caminar diariamente, ya que sus músculos tendrían que desarrollarse.

Een jonge vrouw kan voor het eerst in haar leven lopen

Er zijn altijd verslagen van buitengewone genezingen in christelijke evangelische gebeurtenissen..... Volgens haar begeleidende familieleden heeft deze jonge 20-jarige vrouw nog nooit eerder kunnen lopen:

 Op de coverfoto controleert de predikant of ze iets in haar dove benen kan voelen. Ze bevestigt het....uiteindelijk neemt hij haar belofte om dagelijks te lopen weg, omdat haar spieren zich zouden moeten ontwikkelen.

A young Woman can walk for the first Time in her Life

There are always reports of extraordinary healings in Christian evangelistic events... According to her accompanying relatives, this young 20-year-old woman has never been able to walk before:

In the cover picture the preacher checks if she can feel something in her deaf legs. She affirms it ...in the end he takes away her promise to walk daily because her muscles would have to develop.

The Miracle that happened in Frankfurt

In 1987 a large faith conference took place in Frankfurt am Main. It was announced as a five-day Fire Conference with the promising subtitle: Evangelism with Signs and Miracles.        
   At that time I was very close to a Bible school where I had begun a theological education. But I probably wouldn't have ended up at that Fire Conference if there hadn't been a lack of folders. So some of us Bible students were recruited. I was one of them.
     
The conference took place in the large exhibition halls. Several thousand visitors visited the most different events every day and as a steward I had a lot to do. Nevertheless, of course I got a lot of information about the events and some experiences were deeply engraved in my memory.      
   For example the afternoon event where Loren Cunnigham, the then leader of "Youth with a Mission", said in front of thousands of people: "God has shown us in prayer that the Berlin Wall will soon fall!                                                
   To be honest, I was quite amazed at the announcement. The man really had a good reputation to lose. To say something like that in public, he had to be either foolhardy or pretty sure of himself. As we know today, history proved him right.
    Outstanding from all the stories experienced there is the one from Saturday evening. It's really quite extraordinary!

That Saturday morning started with a praise march through the city of Frankfurt. Together with a few hundred other Christians I marched through the streets singing Christian songs. In between there was a loudspeaker announcement of an escort vehicle, in which we were invited to the evening event: "No matter who you are, come by! Bring your sick with you. There will also be prayers for healing tonight. And signs and miracles will happen. Hallelujah!" That or something like that was the announcement.
      In the evening the main hall was filled to capacity. The sermon was delivered by Reinhard Bonnke, an African missionary known in the Christian scene. Anyone who has once looked into the videos, where he preaches publicly in front of hundreds of thousands of Africans, can hardly remain uninvolved. But that is another topic.
    At the end of the sermon Bonnke called as usual for a decision for Jesus. And as usual in his meetings many people came forward to give their lives to Jesus.  Then he made a second call for the sick: "If you are sick and want to be healed, come forward. Jesus healed earlier and will heal again tonight. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord". In the hall it echoes a thousand times "Hallelujah!                          
    "Yes," Bonnke shouted now," he has done it and will do it again. "Come! Flocks of people streamed forward and were received there by the preachers and pastors.                          
     I stood in one of the back rows and observed how many small prayer groups formed on the large platform and how a life of its own developed there. A camera team from Hessischer Rundfunk came on stage, but filmed discreetly in the background.
    Maybe five minutes might have passed when I suddenly saw a young, pretty woman in Hotpants walking down the aisle. On her arms she was carrying an elderly woman, who obviously consisted only of skin and bones. 
     Arrived in front she rose the small side rise to the platform and put there the older woman then on the ground. Nothing else happened for several minutes. The small prayer groups were busy with themselves and the young woman continued to stand next to the woman lying on the floor.
     Suddenly a prayer group disbanded and a few seconds later Bonnke stormed in. A short exchange of words with the young woman, then she grabbed the microphone, raised her left arm and said: "Please rest in the hall, and all prayers on the stage please stop". 
     14,000 people stopped singing, and the prayer groups on the stage also looked at him, the young woman and the older woman. One could have heard a pin drop. The Hessian Television television team, which had previously kept in the background, sneaked onto the stage very close to the three people in the focus of the action.

    And then Bonnke asked the young woman pointing to the woman lying on the floor: "Who is that?" She replied: "My mother!" "What about her? Bonnke asked further. "She has terminal cancer. I heard the invitation this morning during the city march. And there I took my mother and brought her here.
    Bonnke he bent down to the woman and gave her the microphone: "Do you believe that Jesus can heal you? A moment of silence, then you heard a fragile "Yes, I believe that!
      Immediately Bonnke straightened up again and with a loud voice he announced: "Jesus cannot only heal you, he will heal you tonight from your cancer. Hallelujah!"
A moment of unbelieving amazement. Then a hurricane broke loose in the hall. "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah." The cameras of the television team swung over into the audience. Then the team moved very close to Bonnke and the two women. Close-up!

I had followed the action on stage like a spell. But now he has hung out his window quite far, it went through my head. If the miracle doesn't happen now, he's dead! They will tear it apart in the media.
    But Bonnke was already further. "Lord Jesus, we ask you to reward the faith of these two women and heal the cancer," he prayed out loud. The cameras were now fully directed at him and the woman. And then the command: "In the name of Jesus. Get up!" The woman remained lying!
     Even before an embarrassing silence could arise, he turned to the audience. "Please all pray in the hall! In the hall began a thousand voices of murmur. And then Bonnke shouted: "In the name of Jesus! Get up!" At the same time he pulled it up with one hand.
     And then she stood! Looking around unbelievingly! Her daughter slapped her hands in front of her face. Bonnke called. "Go! Go!" The woman began to take a step. Bonnke yelled: "Go up and down! You are healed! Jesus healed you and then she began to walk. Once to the right, once to the left, the TV team's cameras fully pointed at her.
       In the hall and on stage an indescribable tumult broke out. Mother and daughter were in each other's arms, the hall was raging. And Bonnke drowned everything out: "Jesus did it again! Halleeelluuujjaaaah!

 The next morning at the closing service of the 1987 Fire Conference, the hall was filled to capacity again. Again Reinhard Bonnke was the main speaker. But with quite a hoarse voice. He smiled: "I was asked why I was so sure that the woman would be healed". A question that probably everyone asked themselves the evening before.
    "Well," he continued, "I had just finished praying for a sick person when I received something like an electric shock. I drove around and saw the woman lying on the stage amidst all the sick and praying people. No one seemed to care for her. And at that very moment an inner voice said to me: "This is the key miracle tonight".
      He took a meaningful break and then said, "That's why I knew this woman would be healed!

I have to say that this event had really touched me deeply. I was all the more surprised when I heard that in a report on Hessischer Fernsehen this obvious miracle was not mentioned with a syllable.
    Instead, everything was presented as "religious rip-off". As evidence, extensive collection calls and fundraising were shown. In addition it is to be said that the execution of such meetings simply costs money.
 
 What remains to be seen is what happened to that woman. Perhaps everything was just a set-up?  A year later I saw a photo of that woman. The "skin and bones" woman had become a normal older woman, standing next to Bonnke, smiling friendly.
     The photo belonged to a newspaper article that reported about the Fire Conference the following year. She was invited there as a guest of honor and told thousands of listeners her view of the events at that time.
     After the miracle of healing she had been examined again. And to her great amazement, the doctors who had previously diagnosed a terminal cancer and sent her home to die could no longer find cancer. According to her own testimony, and clearly visible, she had gained about thirty kilos by now and was leading a normal life again.
     And that ends my little memory of a quite memorable event. After almost twenty-five years I felt a real need to write it down and publish it.

Can one arrive at a personal Certainty of God?

"I hear the message well, but I have no faith!" (Heinrich Faust)

The Christian message - about Jesus to God - has spread worldwide. There may be people who may never have heard or understood this message. But I think that a large part of humanity feels the same way as Heinrich Faust did in Goethe's tragedy. You heard the message and somehow understood it, but you remained unbelieving.
     This can have several reasons, but the most obvious is of course that there is no clear (objective) proof of the existence of the biblical God. There is only the assertion of His existence and experience in the earth space.
     But how resilient is this assertion. Can such reported experiences of God not also be lies and deception? Can there really be such a point of subjective certainty of God, beyond wishful thinking and misinterpretations? 
   But, I think that experiences can become unambiguous, that other imaginable interpretations fade completely behind them. To illustrate this now, I would like to refer back to a biblical story. It doesn't matter whether it really happened or not. We assume it - as a working hypothesis - simply to be true

             The judgment of God on Carmel
                               (1.Kings 18)

All the people of Israel had gathered on Mount Carmel:

And Elijah said unto the people, I am left only a prophet of the LORD: but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men.
   Now therefore give us two young bulls, and let them choose one bull, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire on it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire on it.
   And call ye the name of your God, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. Which God then shall answer with fire is he God. And all the people answered and said, This is right.
After the Baal priests had called upon their God for many hours in vain, Elijah came to his sacrificial animal:
"LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and I thy servant, and that I have done all this according to thy word.
   Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that their hearts are returned to you.
    And the fire of the LORD came down, and devoured burnt offerings, and wood, and stones, and earth, and licked up the water in the ditch.
When all the people saw them, they fell on their faces and said: The LORD is God, the LORD is God.
So much for history. Now my question: "Assuming that history really took place in this way, would there be the slightest reasonable doubt that the biblical God has answered?
  Anyone who would experience something like this, especially at a time when there were no great technical aids, would probably be convinced. The evidence of the divine is obvious, one could also speak of a revelation of God.
    Of course, here too a hard-boiled eyewitness and skeptic could claim: "This is not objective proof. It could also be something magically mystical, Elijah could only bring energies to compression and discharge, etc. "There are no limits to the inventiveness of a skeptic who simply does not want to believe. The normal person sees, understands and believes after such an event.
    In this sense, I mean that, provided that God really exists, one can also arrive at a personal certainty of God. Anyone who experiences such a clear revelation of God will no longer be able to hold on to his unbelief with a clear conscience.
All well and good, some people may think, if I would have such an experience of God, I would also be able to believe. But I did not!
   This is indeed a weighty argument, because without a personal experience of God there is also no (subjective) certainty of God. So everything remains the same?

I think that it does not have to be like this. Of course one cannot force God to reveal himself. Or to give you a revival experience. It is and always will be a sovereign act of grace of God.
   But personally I am convinced that one can certainly increase the probability of such a personal revelation. "He who seeks finds. He who knocks will be opened" . Jesus gave this promise in the Sermon on the Mount. And many people are of the opinion that they have actually experienced this. So I can only encourage you to make such an attempt ... and then to wait what happens!

Here an personal experience: The five Clouds