Pat Robertson - Miracles Can Be Yours Today

MIRACLES
CAN BE YOURS TODAY

MIRACLES
CAN BE YOURS TODAY

Pat Robertson

MIRACLES

Copyright 2006 by Pat Robertson.

Published by Integrity Publishers, a division of Integrity Media, Inc. 5250 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027.

HELPING PEOPLE WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE the MANIFEST PRESENCE of GOD.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from The New King James Version, copyright 1979, 1980, 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers. Used by permission.

Other Scripture quotations are taken from the following sources: The Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV). Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. All rights reserved. The King James Version of the Bible (KJV). Public domain. The Holy Bible, New Living Translation (NLT ). Copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Robertson, Pat.
Miracles / Pat Robertson.
p. cm.
Summary: Helping 21st-century believers walk in the power of the Spirit and look past their impossible circumstances to all the possibilities of Almighty GodProvided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-59145-423-9 (hardcover) ISBN 1-59145-459-X (international paperback)
1. Miracles. I. Title.
BT97.3.R63 2006
231.7'3dc22

2005031610

Printed in the United States of America

06 07 08 09 CHG 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

CONTENTS

T his is my seventeenth book, and I want to publicly thank my dear wife, Dede, who has shared with me a life of miracles for the past fiftyone years and who, as a voracious reader of books, has faithfully read and critiqued each chapter of this book, as well as the sixteen that preceded it.

I am old-fashioned and prefer to write using a pen and a legal pad. Words fail me to adequately thank my secretary G. G. Conklin, who not only is able to decipher my left-handed scrawl but remained boundlessly enthusiastic about the contents of each page and the opportunity to bring forth out of countless legal pads a finished, typed manuscript.

I owe a debt of gratitude to three extremely gifted CBN vice presidents John Turver, Carol Ann Marshall, and Edie Wasserbergwho kept cheering me on in my predawn writing vigils.

I also want to acknowledge the CBN television producers who assembled for our television audience some of the thrilling stories of those whose lives had been touched by the hand of GodKristi Watts and Ken Hulme, for the death to life story of Connie Davis; Gorman Woodfin, the miraculous tornado rescue of Kim and Evan Bernhardt; Ken Hulme and Amy Reid, the healing of Alan and Lisa Knupps little baby; Rick Settoon, the creative miracle of Marlene Klepees; Debbie Harper, the story of Bob and Annie Arthur and the marriage from hell; Tim Branson, the story of Mark Gravell and the checkmate when the king had one more move; Kristen Cooney, the story of David Varon, whose blind eye became whole; Barbara Cornick, the story of Janet Taylor, the prostitute with addiction to crack cocaine; and Andrew Knox and Kristi Watts, the story of James Herring, who was freed from alcohol addiction.

Of course, I am grateful to the skilled team of sensitive literary professionals at Integrity Publishersespecially Byron Williamson, president and chief executive officer, and Joey Paul, senior vice president and publisher.

This book is dedicated to those men and women all over the world whose hearts are crying out to see in their lives the working of the miracle power of God.

T here is a longing in every human heart to feel that we are not alone in a vast imperial universe where distances are measured in billions of light years.

We worship. We bring gifts and offerings. We build temples, mosques, and churches. We bow down and cry out in hundreds of complex or simple rituals, all with one purpose: to demonstrate our belief in a being more powerful than we are, who is able to hear our supplication and then reach across the fathomless distances that surround us in order to guide us, comfort us, and take from us the dangers, diseases, and torments that are a part of our human existence.

Is all of this piety and religious zeal mere superstition? Is religion, as Karl Marx put it, merely the opiate of the masses? In short, is mankinds quest to be in touch with a higher power merely collective delusion, or is it based on concrete reality? Did a divine being create our vast universe and the inhabitants of our planet Earth, and does He now respond to the petitions of His creatures to bring them blessings and relief from their griefs and sufferings?

The critics either say there is no God (the atheists) or it is impossible to know anything about Him if indeed He exists (the agnostics). To them, our vast and complex universe arose from natural causes and over billions of years evolved into what exists today. Since to them a Creator does not exist, it is therefore folly and superstition to believe that worship of a divine being can bring any intervention in the lives of human beings today or at any time in history.

There are others whose beliefs make them neither atheists nor believers in the intervention of a divine being. To those whose beliefs place them under the heading deists, God the Creator exists, but, like a supernatural watchmaker, He created the universe, assigned to it physical laws, wound it up like a watch, and then withdrew so that His creation could run on to infinity without any further intervention on His part. To the thoroughgoing deist, any interaction between God and man outside of the immutable natural laws is impossible.

Then there are Christian deists who believe that God has intervened in human affairs in a manner described in the pages of the Old and New Testaments, but these interventions were in accordance with specific dispensations. To the dispensationalist, the age of Gods specific demonstration of miraculous power toward humanity ended with the death of the last of the apostles of Jesus Christ. Thereafter was the Church Age, during which, they say, the Christian church was guided by the inspired Holy Scriptures without the supernatural interventions of God that had characterized the days of the apostles.

Despite the naysayers, there is a vastly larger number of people who believe in a power or powers beyond the realm of human intellect that cannot be known by the senses of seeing, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. To these people, there is a secret kingdom of vast potential that transcends human thought and ability. This is the realm of the spirit... the realm of the miraculous.

The purpose of this book is to show to you, the reader, beyond any doubt, not only the realm of the miraculous but the real-life stories of people who have experienced miracles in our modern day. Then I want to show you in simple terms what Jesus Christ, the Son of God, told His disciples about how they could experience miracles in their lives and ministries. For you, these will become the keys to open for you an entrance into the miraculous.