God works miracles in our time (V. A

A common situation. A person really believes in his healing, goes out to pray and nothing happens. He comes out the next time, believes strongly, and nothing happens. It comes out the next time and nothing. And then such a person says, why did I really believe, but healing did not happen? Let's talk about such situations today.

At the Father's Blessing spiritual center we have seen many miracles since our awakening (in 2011). We observed many people and the ways in which people were healed and what is interesting is that different people are healed in different ways. What does it mean? This means that people should not expect to be healed by only one or a few methods known to them. You need to focus and activate your faith for all the different ways God works.

I have heard and seen people become frustrated because nothing happened according to their faith, “their faith did not work,” and worse, then those people gave up and gave up. But I have also seen other people receive healing in ways that they did not “bet on.” All the ministers prayed for the man and nothing happened, but then he goes home, drinks the anointed water and is immediately healed. Another person tried different methods on himself and was not healed, then he asked another person to pray for him and after the other person’s prayer, this person was immediately healed.

That is, a person should not focus and activate his faith on some methods of healing, but should be open to everything. Then, having come to the healing service, such a person will be open to everything. When a person enters a meeting room and believes: that he has entered into an atmosphere of miracles; believes that he hears the healing word of God; believes in the power of the words of the man of God; believes in the laying on of hands; believes in anointed objects; believes in the power of the faith of others; believes in the mercy of the Lord; believes in the power of forgiveness, etc., then such a person is most open to receiving his miracle.

When I realized this, I decided to find the main ways in which the Lord can heal us. It happened:

10 ways a miracle of healing can come to us

1. According to the word of the Lord

We can receive miracle healing through the power of the creative Word of God.

Is. 55:10 As rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth and make it capable of giving birth and growing, so that it gives seed to the one who sows, and bread to the one who eats - Isa. 55:11 So is My word that goes out of My mouth—it does not return to Me void, but it accomplishes what I please, and accomplishes what I sent it for.

Certificate. A woman confined to a wheelchair for 21 years was completely healed. During the sermon, she simply stood up and began to walk, thus being healed. She then ran out onto the platform to show everyone that she could run and even jump. The Word of God in itself already has power and we need to learn to listen and hear it.

2. According to our faith

We can receive miracle healing through our faith.

Matthew 9:27 When Jesus left there, two blind men followed Him, shouting: “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” Matthew 9:28 When He entered the house, blind men came to Him, and He asked them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they answered. Matthew 9:29 Then Jesus touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done to you according to your faith.” Matthew 9:30 And immediately they received their sight.

Certificate. One sister, who was carrying a child, learned after an ultrasound that her baby would be born with terrible abnormalities. Multiple ultrasounds showed that the child’s organs were located incorrectly, with various deformities and abnormalities. She was offered to have an emergency birth and get rid of the defective fetus. But the sister decided to believe God to the end and refused the abortion. God showed a miracle precisely during childbirth; the child was born without a single abnormality, completely healthy.

3. According to the faith of others

We can receive miracle healing thanks to the faith of other people.

Matt.9:2 Several people brought to Him a paralyzed man lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic: “Do not be afraid, My son, your sins are forgiven you!” Matthew 9:7 The man got up and went home.

Certificate. A poor woman, whose husband was completely paralyzed, came to the service carrying her husband on her back. But because of the crowd, she could not get to the stage. Then she found a place on the street where no one could see her, threw her husband over the fence, climbed over herself, put her husband on her back again and began to squeeze through the crowd to the entrance. Finally she reached the platform and stood in line for prayer. The preacher, seeing her faith, commanded her husband: “In the mighty name of Jesus Christ!” He began to walk after being healed.

4. By the grace of the Lord

We can receive a miracle healing because the Lord shows mercy to us.

Matthew 8:2 Then a man with leprosy came to Him, bowed to Him and said: “Lord, if You want, You can cleanse me.” Matthew 8:3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched him, saying: “I want to, be clean!” At that very moment the man was healed of leprosy.

Certificate. In 1993, after suppuration, my right kidney was removed. After removal, I lived for 10 years with one kidney. It was very difficult. I constantly felt that the load on the remaining kidney had doubled. A year after repentance, I felt that the usual load on the remaining kidney had decreased. Renal pressure and general pressure returned to normal. I lived like this for 3 years. In August 2003, I finally decided to go (to get things done) to the diagnostic center. During an examination using special equipment, the doctor showed me that it was my second! the right kidney looks much fresher, cleaner and new compared to the left. She said: “It looks like new.” When I looked at the screen, I screamed loudly, and this greatly alerted the doctors. They asked what happened? I said: “well, there’s the second kidney, I see it!” The doctors said: “Well, yes, kidney, what of this?” And I say: “The fact is that 10 years ago I had it removed, I still have all the documents.”

5. Through the laying on of hands of others

We can receive a miracle healing because believers will lay their hands on us.

Mark 16:17 Signs will follow those who believe: they will cast out demons in My Name, speaking in new tongues; Mark 16:18 They will pick up snakes, and even if they drink deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

Testimony: The man of God went out the back door to go home quietly after the service, when suddenly the poor old woman grabbed hold of him. Despair was visible on her face. “Please don’t leave without praying for me,” she began to plead. “I know that if you just touch my eyes, I will be completely healed. I'm completely blind. Oh, I must heal today. I know God will heal me." The man of God replied: “Sorry, but I’m very tired. We have already prayed for hundreds of people today. I want you to try to come tomorrow evening, then we will pray for you.” She cried and said, “I can’t come tomorrow. I am a poor woman and my friend brought me here. I must heal today." The man of God took her hands and asked, “Do you believe with all your heart that if I touch your eyes in the name of Jesus, He will give you sight?” The woman replied, “I know the Lord will heal me now.” After this, he laid his hands on her eyes and said: “Woman, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, whom God raised from the dead, I command your blind eyes to be opened and see.” Suddenly the woman exclaimed: “Oh, thank God! Yes, I can see! I can see everything! I knew He would do it!”

6. By the prayer of others

We can receive a miracle healing thanks to someone's prayer.

Matthew 18:19 Once again I tell you that if two of you here on earth agree together to ask for something, then My Heavenly Father will certainly do for you whatever you ask.

Certificate. A 37-year-old woman had four surgeries. According to the female procedure, half of her tube was cut out, one ovary completely and half of the other... On the part that remained, a huge tumor of about a kilogram formed and the woman was prepared for surgery. On Sunday they prayed for her in church, and on Tuesday she went for an ultrasound because she felt fine. The doctor looked and said that he found nothing, he said that she could give birth. The woman told the doctor: “Everything has been removed from me there.” And he got angry: “Don’t fool me, all your organs are in place.” Then they conducted another examination, but they also found nothing.

7. According to the word of the man of God

We can receive a miracle of healing through the released word of the man of God.

1 Samuel 1:17 Eli replied, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel give you what you have asked Him for.” 1 Samuel 1:20 After some time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “I named him that because I asked the Lord for him.”

Acts 9:33 There was a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and did not get out of bed for eight years. Acts 9:34 Peter said to him: “Aeneas!” Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed. At the same moment, Aeneas stood up.

Testimony: At a healing service, a man of God ordered a new organ to form in a woman's body. A month later, she came back and said that after we prayed for her, she went to the hospital to have surgery, but the doctor told her: “You don’t need surgery because you have a NEW uterus!”

8. Through anointed objects (liquids)

We can receive miracle healing by touching anointed objects or liquids.

Acts 19:12 The sick were allowed to touch the handkerchiefs and aprons that Paul had previously touched, and their illnesses went away, and the evil spirits came out of them.

Testimony: There was a time in Lake's ministry when he came to a village in Africa and he could not find a place to rest. He saw that he would not be able to rest in this village either. Too many people needed prayer. He realized that he could no longer pray with the employees and saw in the middle of the village there was a pole to which horses were tied. He said they needed to go away to rest, but he laid his hands on the pillar and gave him the anointing. He said that everyone who touches this pillar will be healthy. In one week, 70,000 were healed.

9. Through exorcism of the demon of disease

We can receive a miracle healing by expelling the demon that caused the disease.

Matthew 17:18 Jesus commanded the demon to come out, and it came out of the boy; at that very moment the child became completely healthy.

10. Through forgiveness of sins

We can receive a miracle of healing through repentance and forsaking our sins.

Mark 2:5 Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic: “My son, your sins are forgiven you!”
James 5:16 Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The intense prayer of a righteous person can do a lot.

Testimony: John Lake reports: At the healing meeting, 65 people came forward who needed healing. Having lined them up, the ministers prayed for each one. 60 people were healed immediately. They decided to interview the remaining 5 people. Each of them was asked the same question: “Do you know the reason why you did not receive healing?” One man confessed to adultery. When he repented before God, they prayed for him again, and he was immediately healed. The woman confessed to theft. She swore to God that she would go and confess what she had done to the people from whom she stole, and, as far as possible, would compensate for the damage. This woman was healed as soon as she confessed her sin and repented before God. It took the ministers little time to heal the 60 people, but it took them four hours to deal with the five, and when they repented of their sins, they were also healed.

Best stories about Miracles

There is an ancient cross in France with words about the Lord Jesus Christ engraved on it.

If there were no Miracles of God, then there would be no Orthodox Faith!

All over the world, at all times, MIRACLES have always happened, and are still happening today - amazing and inexplicable phenomena and events from the point of view of science. There are a lot of them, thanks to these miracles, many people on earth gained faith in Almighty God and became believers. History stores a large number of reliable facts of all kinds of amazing incidents and events - those that really happened on earth, and therefore people believe in God or not, but these miracles, as they happened before, they still happen in our time and help people find true faith in God.

Therefore, no matter how non-believing people say and claim that God does not exist and cannot exist, that all people who believe in God are ignorant and insane, let us still give space to existing real facts, that is, to such events that occurred on actually. And we will listen carefully to those people who themselves were participants and witnesses of these events...

The Lord wants to save every person, and for this good purpose, He performs many Miracles and Signs through the saints He has chosen. So that through these Miracles people learn about God, or at least remember Him and really think about their lives - are they living correctly? Why do they live in this world - what is the meaning of life?..

DEATH IS NOT THE END

A few testimonies from the professor

Andrey Vladimirovich Gnezdilov, a St. Petersburg psychiatrist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor of the Department of Psychiatry at the St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, scientific director of the gerontological department, honorary doctor of the University of Essex (Great Britain), chairman of the Association of Oncopsychologists of Russia, tells:

« Death is not the end or destruction of our personality. This is just a change in the state of our consciousness after the end of earthly existence. I worked in an oncology clinic for 10 years, and now I have been working in a hospice for over 20 years.

Over the years of communicating with seriously ill and dying people, I have many times had the opportunity to verify that human consciousness does not disappear after death. That our body is just a shell that the soul leaves at the moment of transition to another world. All this is proven by numerous stories of people who were in a state of such “spiritual” consciousness during clinical death. When people tell me about some of their secret experiences that deeply shook them, the extensive experience of a practicing physician allows me to confidently distinguish hallucinations from real events. Not only I, but also no one else can explain such phenomena from the point of view of science - science by no means covers all knowledge about the world. But there are facts that prove that besides our world there is Another World - a world that operates according to laws unknown to us and is beyond our understanding. In this world, into which we will all end up after death, time and space have completely different manifestations. I want to tell you a few cases from my practice that can dispel all doubts regarding its existence.”

I'll tell you one interesting and unusual story that happened to one of my patients. I would like to note that this story made a great impression on academician, head of the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva when I retold it to her.

Once they asked me to look at a young woman named Julia. During a difficult operation, Yulia experienced clinical death, and I had to determine whether there were any consequences of this condition, whether memory and reflexes were normal, whether consciousness had been fully restored, etc. She was lying in the recovery room, and as soon as we started talking to her, she immediately began to apologize:

- Sorry that I cause so much trouble for the doctors.

- What kind of trouble?

- Well, those... during the operation... when I was in a state of clinical death.

“But you can’t know anything about this.” When you were in a state of clinical death, you could not see or hear anything. Absolutely no information - neither from the side of life nor from the side of death - could come to you, because your brain was turned off and your heart stopped...

- Yes, doctor, that’s all true. But what happened to me was so real... and I remember everything... I would tell you about it if you promise not to send me to a psychiatric hospital.

“You think and speak completely rationally.” Please tell us about what you experienced.

And this is what Julia told me then:

At first - after the administration of anesthesia - she did not realize anything, but then she felt some kind of push, and she was suddenly thrown out of her own body somehow.
then a rotational movement. With surprise, she saw herself lying on the operating table, saw the surgeons bending over the table, and heard someone shout: “Her heart stopped! Start it immediately!” And then Julia was terribly scared, because she realized that this was HER body and HER heart! For Yulia, cardiac arrest was tantamount to the fact that she had died, and as soon as she heard these terrible words, she was instantly overcome by anxiety for her loved ones left at home: her mother and little daughter. After all, she didn’t even warn them that she would be operated on! “How is it that I’m going to die now and not even say goodbye to them?!”

Her consciousness literally rushed towards her house and suddenly, strangely enough, she instantly found herself in her apartment! She sees her daughter Masha playing with a doll, her grandmother sitting next to her granddaughter and knitting something. There is a knock on the door and a neighbor enters the room and says: “This is for Mashenka. Your Yulenka has always been a role model for your daughter, so I sewed a polka dot dress for the girl so that she would look like her mother.” Masha rejoices, throws the doll and runs to her neighbor, but on the way she accidentally touches the tablecloth: an old cup falls from the table and breaks, a teaspoon lying next to it flies after it and ends up under the tangled carpet. Noise, ringing, turmoil, grandmother, clasping her hands, shouts: “Masha, how awkward you are! Masha gets upset - she feels sorry for the old and such a beautiful cup, and the neighbor hastily consoles them with the words that the dishes are beating for happiness... And then, completely forgetting about what happened earlier, the excited Yulia approaches her daughter, puts her hand on her head and says: “Masha, this is not the worst grief in the world.” The girl turns around in surprise, but as if not seeing her, she immediately turns back. Yulia doesn’t understand anything: this has never happened before, so that her daughter turns away from her when she wants to console her! The daughter was raised without a father and was very attached to her mother - she had never behaved like this before! This behavior of hers upset and puzzled Yulia; in complete confusion she began to think: “What's going on? Why did my daughter turn away from me?

And suddenly I remembered that when she turned to her daughter, she did not hear her voice! That when she reached out and stroked her daughter, she also did not feel any touch! Her thoughts begin to get confused: "Who am I? Can't they see me? Am I already dead? In confusion, she rushes to the mirror and does not see her reflection in it... This last circumstance crippled her, it seemed to her that she would simply go crazy from all this... But suddenly, among the chaos of all these thoughts and feelings, she remembers everything that happened to her before: “I had an operation!” She remembers how she saw her body from the side - lying on the operating table, - she remembers the terrible words of the doctor about her heart stopping... These memories frighten Yulia even more, and in her confused mind immediately flashes: “At any cost, I must be in the operating room now, because if I don’t make it in time, the doctors will consider me dead!” She rushes out of the house, she thinks about what kind of transport she could take to get there as quickly as possible in order to be on time... and at the same moment she finds herself in the operating room again, and the surgeon’s voice reaches her: “The heart started working! We continue the operation, but quickly, so that it doesn’t stop again!” What follows is a lapse of memory, and then she wakes up in the recovery room.

And I went to Yulia’s house, conveyed her request and asked her mother: “Tell me, at this time - from ten to twelve o’clock - did a neighbor named Lydia Stepanovna come to you?” - “Are you familiar with her? Yes, I came." - “Did you bring a polka dot dress?” - “Yes, I did”... Everything came together down to the smallest details except for one thing: they didn’t find the spoon. Then I remembered the details of Yulia’s story and said: “And look under the carpet.” And indeed, the spoon was lying under the carpet...

So what is death?

We record the state of death, when the heart stops and the brain stops working, and at the same time, the death of consciousness - in the concept in which we have always imagined it - as such, simply does not exist. The soul is freed from its shell and clearly aware of the entire surrounding reality. There is already a lot of evidence for this, this is confirmed by numerous stories of patients who were in a state of clinical death and experienced a post-mortem experience at these moments. Communication with patients teaches us a lot, and also makes us wonder and think - after all, it is simply impossible to write off such extraordinary events as accidents and coincidences. These events dispel all doubts about the immortality of our souls.

HOLY JOASAPH OF BELGOROD

Then I studied at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. I had a lot of knowledge, but no real faith. I went to the celebrations on the occasion of the discovery of the relics of St. Joasaph with reluctance and thought about the huge crowd of people thirsting for a miracle. What kind of miracles can there be in our time?

I arrived and something stirred inside: I saw such a thing that it was impossible to remain calm. The sick and crippled came from all over Russia - there was so much suffering and pain that it was hard to watch. And one more thing: the general expectation of something wonderful was involuntarily transmitted to me, despite my skeptical attitude towards what was to come.

Finally, the Emperor and his family arrived and a celebration was scheduled. At the celebrations I was already standing with deep emotion: I didn’t believe it and yet I was waiting for something. It is difficult for us now to imagine this sight: thousands and thousands of sick, crooked, demon-possessed, blind, crippled people lay and stood on both sides of the path along which the relics of the saint were to be carried. One crooked one especially attracted my attention: it was impossible to look at him without shuddering. All parts of the body have grown together - some kind of ball of meat and bones on the ground. I waited: what could happen to this man? What can help him?!

And so they carried out the coffin with the relics of Saint Joasaph. I have never seen anything like this and I am unlikely to see it again in my life - almost all the sick, standing and lying along the road, WERE HEALED: the blind began to see, the deaf began to HEAR, the dumb began to SPEAK, scream and jump for joy, the cripples - the sore limbs straightened.

With trepidation, horror and reverence I looked at everything that was happening - and did not let that crooked man out of sight. When the coffin with the relics caught up with him, he spread his arms - there was a terrible crunching of bones, as if something was tearing and breaking inside him, and he began to straighten up with effort - and STANDED to his feet! What a shock it was for me! I ran up to him in tears, then grabbed some journalist by the hand and asked him to write it down...

I returned to St. Petersburg a different person – a deeply religious person!

Miracle of healing from deafness from the Iveron Icon in Moscow

The newspaper “Modern Izvestia” published a letter from one person who was healed in Moscow in 1880 (newspaper No. 213 of this year). One music teacher, a German, a Protestant, but who did not believe in anything, lost his hearing, and at the same time his work and means of livelihood. Having lived everything he had acquired, he decided to commit suicide - to go and drown himself. It was July 23 of the said year. “Passing past the Iveron Gate,” he writes, “I saw a crowd of people gathered around the carriage in which the icon of the Mother of God was brought to the chapel. I suddenly had an uncontrollable desire to go up to the icon and pray with the people and venerate the icon, although we are Protestants and do not recognize the icon.

And so, having lived to the age of 37, I sincerely crossed myself for the first time and fell on my knees before the icon - and what happened? An undoubted, amazing Miracle happened: I, having heard almost nothing until that moment for a year and 3 months, who was considered by doctors to be completely and hopelessly DEAF, venerated the icon, at the same moment - I again RECEIVED the ability of HEARING, I received it to such an extent completely , that not only sharp sounds, but also quiet speaking and whispering BEGAN TO BE HEARD quite clearly.

And all this happened suddenly, instantly, painlessly... Immediately, before the image of the Mother of God, I swore an oath to sincerely confess to everyone what had happened to me.” This man later converted to Orthodoxy.

MIRACLE FROM THE HOLY FIRE

This incident was told by a nun living in the Russian Gornensky monastery near Jerusalem. She was transferred there from the Pukhtitsa Monastery. With trepidation and delight she set foot on the Holy Land...

This is the first Easter in the Holy Land. Almost within a day, she took a place closer to the entrance to the Holy Sepulchre, so that she could see everything clearly.

It was noon on Holy Saturday. All lights in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher are extinguished. Tens of thousands of people are looking forward to the Miracle. Reflections of light appeared from Edicule. The happy Patriarch took two bunches of lighted candles from the Edicule to convey the fire to the jubilant people.

Many look under the dome of the temple - there blue Lightning CROSSES it...

But our nun doesn’t see lightning. And the candlelight was ordinary, although she watched greedily, trying not to miss anything. Holy Saturday has passed. What feelings did the nun experience? There was disappointment, but then the realization of my unworthiness to see the Miracle came...

A year has passed. Holy Saturday has arrived again. Now the nun took the most humble place in the Temple. The cuvuklia is almost invisible. She lowered her eyes and decided not to raise them: “I am not worthy to see the Miracle.” Hours of waiting passed. Again a cry of jubilation shook the Temple. The nun did not raise her head.

Suddenly it was as if someone forced her to look. Her gaze fell on the corner of the Edicule, in which a special hole was made through which burning candles are transferred from the Edicule to the outside. So, a light, flickering cloud SEPARATED from this hole - and immediately a bunch of 33 candles in her hand LIGHTED up by itself.

Tears of joy began to boil in her eyes! What gratitude to God there was!

And this time she also saw blue lightning under the dome.

MIRACLE HELP OF JOHN OF KRONSTADT

A resident of the Moscow region, Vladimir Vasilyevich Kotov, suffered severe pain in his right hand. By the spring of 1992, the hand had almost stopped moving. Doctors made a presumptive diagnosis of severe arthritis of the right shoulder, but were unable to provide significant help. One day a book about the holy and righteous John of Kronstadt fell into the hands of a sick man; while reading it, he marveled at the miracles and wondrous healings of the sick from their illnesses that were described in this book, and he decided to go to St. Petersburg. On August 12, 1992, Vladimir Kotov confessed, took communion and served a prayer service to the holy righteous Father John of Kronstadt and anointed his hand and entire shoulder with blessed oil from the lamp from the saint’s tomb.

At the end of the service, he left the monastery and headed to the tram stop. Vladimir Vasilyevich hung his bag on his right shoulder and carefully placed his helpless hand on it, as he usually did lately. While walking, the bag began to fall off and he automatically adjusted it with his right hand, without feeling any pain. Stopping dead in his tracks, still not believing himself, he again began to move his sore arm. The hand turned out to be completely healthy.

The mother of one person had a heart problem, had a stroke and was paralyzed. She couldn’t even move, he was very worried about his mother, and as a believer, he prayed a lot for her, asking God to help his mother. And the Lord heard his prayers, he accidentally met one, already old, nun, the spiritual daughter of the holy righteous father John of Kronstadt, he told her about his misfortune and she consoled him. She gave him a mitten that the saint of God, Father John, had once worn, and said that this mitten has great power and helps sick people, you just need to put it on the sick person’s hand. I served a water-blessing prayer service to Father John of Kronstadt, dipped my mitten in holy water and, when I came home, sprinkled my mother with this water.

Then he put the mitten on his mother’s hand, and... immediately the fingers on the sore hand began to move. When the doctor came to the patient, she couldn’t believe her eyes - the former paralyzed woman was sitting calmly on a chair and was healthy. Having learned the story of the patient’s healing, the doctor asked for this mitten. But the point here is not the mitten... But the mercy of God.

NICHOLAY THE PLEASE HEALED A PARALYZED WOMAN

In Moscow, in the lower Cathedral of Christ the Savior, there is an amazing miraculous icon of St. Nicholas, donated to Russia by the state of Italy. This icon is unusual, it is made of mosaic, small multi-colored stones. Approaching the icon, I doubted the power and miraculousness of this icon, because I saw that the icon was not at all like ordinary handwritten icons and thought to myself: “Like, how can the Italians have something good, especially holy and miraculous?” , they are not Orthodox, and the icon itself is somehow incomprehensible and does not look like an icon”? A year later, the Lord dispelled all my doubts and showed that God, all His saints, all their icons and relics possess Divine miraculous power, which heals all the infirmities of people and helps the suffering in everything, all who turn with faith to the holy saints of God.

Here's how it happened. About a year after this incident, one of my relatives told the following incident. She had an adult son, who lived with his wife in a family hostel, where they had their own room. His mother often visited him, and that day she came to visit him as usual, but her son was not at home. She decided to wait on watch for her son to return, and got into a conversation with the woman watchman, and she told her the following story. Her mother has three children, two sons and a daughter, that is, herself. They had a misfortune, first the father dies, and then the youngest son dies after him and the mother could not stand such a great loss, she was paralyzed, and besides this, she fell into an unconscious state. They didn’t take her to the hospital because they considered her hopelessly ill and said she wouldn’t live long. The daughter took her mother in and looked after her for more than two years. Of course, everyone in her house was very tired from such a heavy load, but the daughter continued to care for her paralyzed and insane mother.

And then they just brought this icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Italy, and she decided to go. When she approached the icon, she thought about many things to ask “Nikolushka,” but when she approached the icon, she forgot about everything and only asked Saint Nicholas to help her mother, venerated the icon and went home.

Approaching the house, she suddenly saw her sick, paralyzed mother walking towards her, on her own feet, approaching her and, well, being indignant: “What is it, daughter, you made such a mess in the room, there is so much dirt, it stinks, some rags are hanging everywhere.” It turns out the mother came to her senses, got out of bed, seeing that the room was a mess, got dressed and went to meet her daughter to scold her. And the daughter shed tears of joy for her mother and a great feeling of gratitude to “Nikolushka” and to God for the miraculous healing of her mother. For a long time, the mother could not believe that she had been unconscious and paralyzed for two years.

SAVED FRATE SERAPHIM

This happened in the winter of 1959. My one-year-old son is seriously ill. The diagnosis is bilateral pneumonia. Since his condition was very serious, he was admitted to the intensive care unit. I was not allowed to see him. There was clinical death twice, but the doctors saved me. I was in despair, ran from the hospital to the Elokhovsky Epiphany Cathedral, prayed, cried, shouted: "God! Save your son! And once again I come to the hospital, and the doctor says: “There is no hope of salvation, the child will die tonight.” I went to church, prayed, cried. I came home, cried, then fell asleep. I see a dream. I enter the apartment, the door of one of the rooms is slightly open, and a blue light comes from there. I enter this room and freeze. Two walls of the room are hung from floor to ceiling with icons, a lamp is burning next to each icon, and an old man is kneeling in front of the icons with his hands raised up and praying. I stand and don’t know what to do.

Then he turns to me, and I recognize him as Seraphim of Sarov. “What are you, a Servant of God?” — he asks me. I rush to him: “Father Seraphim! My child is dying!” He told me: "Let's pray." He kneels down and prays. I stand behind and also pray. Then he stands up and says: "Bring him here." I bring him the child. He looks at him for a long time, then with a brush, which is used for anointing with oil, he anoints his forehead, chest, shoulders in a cross shape and says to me: "Don't cry, he will live."

Then I woke up and looked at the clock. It was five o'clock in the morning. I quickly got dressed and went to the hospital. I'm coming in. The charge nurse picked up the phone and said: "She came". I stand, neither alive nor dead. The doctor comes in, looks at me and says: “They say miracles don’t happen, but today a miracle happened. Around five in the morning the child stopped breathing. No matter what they did, nothing helped. Just about to leave, I looked at the boy - and he took a deep breath. I couldn't believe my eyes. I listened to the lungs - almost clear, only slight wheezing. Now he will live." My son came to life at the moment when Father Seraphim anointed him with his brush. Glory to You, Lord, and the great Saint Seraphim!

IT CAN NOT BE

I work at Moscow airport. Once at work I read in the book of Hieromonk Tryphon “ Late miracles"about how Saint Seraphim of Sarov appeared to people. I thought to myself: “This simply cannot happen. These are all just common inventions.”

After a while I go to the plane and see Father Seraphim quietly walking towards me. I couldn’t believe my eyes, although I recognized him immediately, exactly the same as in the icon. We caught up. He stopped, smiled kindly at me and said, without opening his mouth: “You see, it turns out that this can happen!” And he moved on. I was so amazed that I didn’t answer anything, didn’t ask him anything, I just watched him until he disappeared from sight. Valentina, Moscow.

HOW TO QUIT SMOKING

I live in Italy, in Rome, I go to the Orthodox Church. I saw your book in the library of this church “ Late miracles", dear Father Tryphon. Low bow to you for your work. I read it with great pleasure. Here, abroad, there is little spiritual literature, and each such book is of great value. I am writing to you about what happened to me. Maybe someone will benefit from knowing about this.

Once, in one book, I read a short story of a man who smoked a lot, as they say, one cigarette after another. One day, while traveling on an airplane, he was reading the Bible. There were no other books. Having reached his destination, he was surprised to discover that during the entire four hours of the flight he had never lit a cigarette and did not even want to smoke! This story stuck in my heart because I myself had been smoking for a long time, but I consoled myself by smoking no more than three to five cigarettes a day. Sometimes I didn’t smoke for several days to prove to myself that I could quit at any time. What self-delusion for all smokers! As a result, I eventually started smoking a pack a day. I was scared to think what would happen to me next. After all, I also suffer from bronchial asthma, and smoking for me, especially in such quantities, was simply suicide.

So, after reading this story, I decided to try to quit smoking by reading the Bible. Moreover, I was absolutely sure that the Lord would help me. I read it avidly all my free time. And at work I had one desire - to quickly work for the book. 1,306 large format pages of small print were read in three months.

During these three months, I STOP smoking. At first I forgot that I hadn’t smoked in the morning. Then one day the smell of smoke seemed disgusting, which was very surprising. Then I noticed that I was literally forcing myself to smoke out of habit: I still didn’t understand what was going on. And finally, I thought: “If I don’t want to smoke, then I won’t buy a new pack for tomorrow.” A day later I came to my senses - I didn’t smoke! And only then I realized that a real miracle had happened! God bless!

WHEN CHILDREN ARE SICK, YOU SHOULD TRUST IN GOD’S HELP

I got married early. I had faith in God, but work, household chores, and everyday bustle pushed faith into the background. I lived without turning to God in prayer, without fasting. It’s easier to say: I have grown cold towards faith. It never even occurred to me that the Lord would hear my prayer if I turned to Him.

We lived in Sterlitamak. In January, the youngest child, a five-year-old boy, fell ill. A doctor was invited. He examined the child and said that he had acute diphtheria and prescribed treatment. They waited for relief, but it did not come. The child became weak. He no longer recognized anyone. I couldn't take medicine. A terrible wheezing escaped from his chest, which was heard throughout the apartment. Two doctors arrived. They looked sadly at the patient and talked worriedly among themselves. It was clear that the child would not survive the night. I didn’t think about anything, I mechanically did everything necessary for the patient. The husband did not leave the bed, afraid to miss his last breath. Everything in the house was silent, only a terrible whistling wheeze could be heard.

They rang the bell for Vespers. Almost unconsciously, I got dressed and said to my husband:

“I’ll go and ask you to serve a prayer service for his recovery.” -Can't you see that he is dying?

- Don't go: it will end without you.

“No,” I say, “I’ll go: the church is close.”

I enter the church. Father Stefan comes towards me.

“Father,” I tell him, “my son is dying of diphtheria.” If you are not afraid, serve a prayer service with us.

“We are obliged to give words of encouragement to the dying everywhere.” I'll come to you now.

I returned home. The wheezing continued to be heard throughout all the rooms. The face turned completely blue, the eyes rolled up. I touched my legs: they were completely cold. My heart sank painfully. I don’t remember if I cried. I cried so much during these terrible days that it seems that I cried out all my tears. She lit the lamp and prepared the necessary things.

Father Stefan arrived and began serving a prayer service. I carefully picked up the child, along with the feather bed and pillow, and carried him into the hall. It was too hard for me to hold it standing, so I sank into a chair.

The prayer service continued. Father Stefan opened the Gospel. I hardly got up from the chair. And a miracle happened. My boy raised his head and listened to God's word. Father Stefan finished reading. I kissed myself; The boy also kissed. He put his little arm around my neck and finished the prayer service. I was afraid to breathe. Father Stefan raised the Holy Cross, blessed the child with it, gave him to venerate and said: “Get well!”

I put the boy to bed and went to see the priest off. When Father Stefan left, I hurried to the bedroom, surprised that I did not hear the usual wheezing, tearing my soul. The boy was sleeping quietly. The breathing was smooth and calm. With tenderness, I knelt down, thanking the Merciful God, and then I myself fell asleep on the floor: my strength left me.

The next morning, as soon as they struck for matins, my boy stood up and said in a clear, sonorous voice:

- Mom, why am I still lying there? I'm tired of lying!

Is it possible to describe how joyfully my heart beat. Now the milk was warmed up, and the boy drank it with pleasure. At 9 o'clock our doctor quietly entered the hall, looked into the front corner and, not seeing a table with a cold corpse there, called out to me. I responded in a cheerful voice:

- I'm going now. - Is it really better? - the doctor asked in surprise.

“Yes,” I answered, greeting him. - The Lord showed us a miracle.

- Yes, only by a miracle could your child be healed.

A few days later, Father Stefan served a thanksgiving prayer service with us. My boy, completely healthy, prayed earnestly. At the end of the prayer service, Father Stefan said: “You need to describe this incident.”

I sincerely wish that at least one mother who reads these lines will not fall into despair in the hour of sorrow, but will KEEP faith in the great Mercy and love of God, in the goodness of the unknown paths along which God’s Providence leads us.

ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PROSKOMIDIA

One very great scientist, a physician, became seriously ill. The invited doctors, his friends, found the patient in such a condition that there was very little hope for recovery.

The professor lived only with his sister, an old woman. He was not only a complete non-believer, but he had little interest in religious issues; he did not go to church, although he lived not far from the temple.

After such a medical verdict, his sister was very sad, not knowing how to help her brother. And then I remembered that there was a church nearby where I could go and submit a proskomedia for my seriously ill brother.

Early in the morning, without saying a word to her brother, the sister gathered for early mass, told the priest about her grief and asked him to take out the particle and pray for her brother’s health.

And at the same time, her brother had a vision: as if the wall of his room seemed to disappear and the inside of the temple, the altar, was revealed. He saw his sister talking about something with the priest. The priest approached the altar, took out a particle, and this particle fell onto the paten with a ringing sound. And at the same moment the patient felt that some kind of Power ENTERED his body. He immediately got out of bed, something he had not been able to do for a long time.

At this time the sister returned, her surprise knew no bounds.

- Where have you been? - exclaimed the former patient. “I saw everything, I saw how you spoke to the priest in church, how he took out a particle for me.”

And then both thanked the Lord with tears for the miraculous healing.

The professor lived for a long time after this, never forgetting the mercy of God that was towards him, a sinner. I went to church, confessed, took communion, and began to observe all the fasts.

They say that God's miracles cannot be hidden. So I decided to tell you how the Mother of God saved me from destruction. This happened many years ago.

FAITH IN GOD SAVED ME

I used to live in a village, and when there was no work, I moved to the city and they bought me half of the house. After some time, new neighbors moved into the second half of the house. Then we were told that our houses would be demolished. The neighbors began to offend me. They wanted to get a bigger apartment and told me: “ Leave here for the village" At night they broke my windows. And I began to pray every morning and evening, “ Alive in Help“I’ve learned it, I’ll cross all the walls and only then I’ll go to bed. On weekends I prayed in church.

One day my neighbors offended me very much. I cried, prayed, and during the day I lay down to rest and fell asleep. Suddenly I wake up and look - there is no grill on the window. I thought that the neighbors had broken the bars - they were intimidating me all the time, and I was very afraid of them. And then in the window I see a Woman - so beautiful, and in Her hands is a bouquet of red roses, and there is dew on the roses. She looked at me so kindly, and my soul felt calm. I realized that it was the Most Holy Theotokos, that She would save me. From then on, I began to trust in the Mother of God and was no longer afraid of anything.

One day I come home from work. The neighbors had been drinking for about a week then. I just had time to go home, I wanted to lie down, but something told me: I need to go out into the hallway. I realized later that it was the Guardian Angel who told me. I went out into the hallway, and there was already a fire there. She ran out and only managed to cross her house. And I really asked St. Nicholas the Wonderworker to save my house so that I wouldn’t be left on the street. The firefighters quickly arrived and flooded everything, my house survived. And the neighbors died in the fire. Faith in God saved me.

HOW I SAVED MY SON’S LIFE BY HOLY BAPTISM

When my son was three months old, he fell ill with bilateral staphylococcal bronchopneumonia. We were urgently hospitalized. He was getting worse and worse. A few days later, the head of the department transferred us to a solitary ward and said that my little one did not have long to live. My grief knew no bounds. I called my mom: “A child dies unbaptized, what should I do?” Mom immediately went to the temple to see the priest. He gave mother Epiphany water and said what prayer should be read during Baptism. He said that in emergency cases, when a person is dying, a layman can perform Baptism. Mom brought me Epiphany water and texts of prayers.

Father said that if there is a danger of a child’s death and there is no way to invite a priest to him, then let his mother, father, relatives, friends, and neighbors be baptized. While reading the prayers “Our Father,” “Heavenly King,” “Rejoice to the Virgin Mary,” pour a little holy water or Epiphany water into a vessel with water, cross the child and dip three times with the words: “The servant of God is baptized(here you need to say the child’s name) in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen". If the child survives, the baptism will then be completed by a priest.

The room had glass doors, and nurses were constantly scurrying along the corridor. Suddenly at three o'clock their meeting began. Our nurse assigned me to monitor my son's condition while she attended the meeting. And I calmly, without interference, baptized my son. Immediately after Baptism, the child came to his senses.

After the meeting, a doctor came in and was terribly surprised: “ What happened to him? I answered: “God helped!” A few days later we left the hospital, and soon I brought my son to church, and the priest completed Holy Baptism.

EVERYONE WILL RECEIVE ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS

One man bought a house in the village. In this village there was a chapel that burned down, and this man decided to build a new one. He bought timber and boards, but, to his surprise, none of the residents of this village wanted to help him. It was spring, vegetable gardens, sowing, planting - everyone had their hands full. I had to build it myself, after planting my own garden. There was so much work on construction that we had to forget about weeding and watering the plantings. By autumn the chapel was almost ready. Guests arrived - colleagues with children. The guests had to be fed, and then the builder only remembered about his garden. I sent summer residents there - what if something grew? The garden greeted them with a wall of overgrown weeds. "Impenetrable taiga"- the guests joked.

But, to everyone’s surprise, along with the weeds, the plantings also GROWED, and of enormous size. The fruits of the plants turned out to be just as huge. Residents came from all over the village to see this miracle.

So the Lord rewarded this man for his good deed. And in the village, all the villagers had a bad harvest that year, even though they watered and weeded their gardens...

Everyone will receive according to their business!

WE NEVER TELL THE TRUTH

One woman I know, no longer young, became addicted to talking with “Voices.” The “voices” conveyed to her various information about all her relatives, and at the same time about other planets. Some of what they reported was false or did not come true. But my friend did not consider this convincing enough and continued to believe them. As time went. She began to feel unwell. Apparently, doubts crept into her soul. One day she asked them directly: “Why do you often tell lies?” " We never tell the truth» , - answered “Voices” and began to laugh at her. My friend felt terrified. She immediately went to church, confessed and never did it again.

WHAT CAN I TELL YOU WHEN YOU CALL ON GOD?

Nun Ksenia told the following about her nephew. Her nephew is a young man of 25 years old, an athlete, a bear hunter, a karateka, who recently graduated from one of the Moscow institutes - in general, a modern young man. At one time he became interested in Eastern religions, then began to communicate with “voices from space.” No matter how Mother Ksenia and her sister, the young man’s mother, dissuaded him from these activities, he stood his ground. For some reason he was not baptized as a child and did not want to be baptized. Finally - this was in 1990 - 1991 - “Voices” made an appointment for him at one of the ring metro stations. At 18.00 he was supposed to board the third carriage of the train. Of course, his family tried to dissuade him, but he went. Exactly at 18.00 he got into the third carriage and immediately saw the man he needed. He understood this by some extraordinary power emanating from him, although outwardly the man looked ordinary.

The young man sat down opposite the stranger, and suddenly he was overcome with horror. Then he said that even on a hunt, alone with a bear, he had never experienced such fear. The stranger looked at him silently. The train was already making its third circle around the ring when the young man remembered that in danger he must say: “Lord, have mercy,” and began to repeat this prayer to himself. Finally he got up, approached the stranger and asked him: “Why did you call me?” “What can I tell you when you call on God?”- he answered. At this time the train stopped, and the guy jumped out of the car. The next day he was baptized.

REPENTANCE OF AN ATHIOR

“I had a close friend who got married. In the first year, her son Vladimir was born. From birth, the boy struck me with an unusually meek character. In the second year, her son Boris was born, who also surprised everyone, on the contrary, with his extremely restless character. Vladimir passed all classes as the first student. After graduating from university, he entered the theological academy and was ordained a priest in 1917. Vladimir embarked on the path to which he aspired and was chosen by God from birth. From the very beginning he began to enjoy the respect and love of the parish. In 1924, he and his parents were exiled to Tver without the right to leave the city. They had to be constantly under the supervision of the GPU. In 1930, Vladimir was arrested and executed.

Another brother, Boris, joined the Komsomol, and then, to the sadness of his parents, became a member of the Union of Atheists. During his lifetime, Father Vladimir tried to bring him back to God, but he could not. In 1928, Boris became chairman of the Union of Atheists and married a Komsomol girl. In 1935, I came to Moscow for several days, where I accidentally met Boris. He joyfully rushed to me with the words: “The Lord, through the prayers of my brother, father Vladimir in heaven, brought me back to Himself.” This is what he told me: “When we got married, my bride’s mother blessed her with the image of the “Savior Not Made by Hands” and said: “Just give me your word that you will not abandon His image; Even if you don’t need him now, just don’t leave him.” He, who was really unnecessary to us, was demolished in the barn. A year later we had a boy. We were both happy. But the child was born sick, with tuberculosis of the spinal cord. We spared no expense on doctors. They said that the boy could only live until he was six years old. The child is already five years old. My health is getting worse. We have heard a rumor that a famous professor of childhood diseases is in exile. The child is feeling very bad, and I decided to go and invite the professor to come to us.

When I ran to the station, the train left before my eyes. What was to be done? Stay and wait, and my wife is there alone and suddenly the child dies without me? I thought and turned back. I arrive and find the following: the mother, sobbing, is kneeling by the crib, hugging the boy’s already cold legs...

The local paramedic said these were the last minutes. I sat down at the table opposite the window and surrendered to despair. And suddenly I see, as if in reality, that the doors of our barn open and my dear late brother Father Vladimir comes out. He holds in his hands our image of the Savior. I was stunned: I saw him walking, his long hair fluttering, I heard him open the door, I heard his steps. I was as cold as marble. He enters the room, approaches me, silently, as it were, hands the Image into my hands and, like a vision, disappears.

Seeing all this, I rushed into the barn, found the image of the Savior and put it on the child. In the morning the child was completely HEALTHY. The doctors who treated him just shrugged. There are NO traces of tuberculosis. And then I realized that there is God, I understood my brother’s prayers.

I announced my withdrawal from the Union of Atheists and did not hide the miracle that happened to me. Everywhere and everywhere I proclaimed the miracle that happened to me and called for faith in God. They baptized their son, giving him the name George.” I said goodbye to Boris and never saw him again. When I came to Moscow again in 1937, I learned that after my son’s baptism, he, his wife and child, left for the Caucasus. Boris spoke openly everywhere about his error and salvation. A year later, being completely healthy, he died unexpectedly. Doctors did not determine the cause of death: the Bolsheviks removed him so that he would not talk too much and stir up the people...”

Saint Alexander of Svirsky suggested

It often happens to us that we make mistakes, and we know that we are doing wrong, but we continue to make them, without even realizing their significance. And then they come to help from above. Either you recognize something in a book, or someone tells you, or you meet the right person, but God’s providence is in everything.

I used to think that the form of clothing for an Orthodox woman does not matter much: whether I went in trousers or a miniskirt today, it doesn’t matter, the main thing is to come to church as it should be, and in the world as I want. And somehow I had a dream, I entered the church, there was an icon to my left, I approached it, and Alexander Svirsky came out of the icon to meet me. He tells me: “Put on your body simple women’s clothing and wear it as it should be, and pray to Saint Zosima.”

Subsequently, the priest explained to me the importance of the words spoken to me by Reverend Alexander. Pants on a woman, a short skirt and other tight clothes cause temptation. And so, imagine, you entered the subway in similar clothes, and how many men looked at you and even sinned in their thoughts - for so many people you will be the cause of their sin. After all, it is said: “Do not tempt!”

Healing from blindness

When the water is blessed, a wonderful prayer is said, in which HEALING POWER is asked for those who use this water. Consecrated objects contain spiritual properties that are not inherent in ordinary matter. The manifestation of these properties is like miracles and testifies to the connection of the human spirit with God. Therefore, any information about the facts of the manifestation of these properties is very useful to people, especially during times of temptation and doubt in faith, that is, in the spiritual connection of a person with God. This is especially important nowadays, when there is a widespread misconception that such a connection does not exist and that it has been proven by science. However, science operates with facts, and denying facts simply because they do not fit into a given scheme is not a scientific method.

To the numerous manifestations of the special healing properties of consecrated water, we can add one more completely reliable case that took place at the end of the winter of 1960/61.

The elderly retired teacher A.I. was sick with her eyes. She was treated at an eye clinic, but, despite the efforts of doctors, she became completely blind. She was a believer. When trouble happened, she prayed for several days and applied cotton wool moistened with Epiphany water to her eyes. To the surprise of the doctors, one truly beautiful morning, she began to see well again.

It is known that in patients with glaucoma such dramatic improvements are impossible with conventional treatment, and relief from A.I. from blindness - this is one of the manifestations of the miraculous healing properties of Holy water.

Unfortunately, not all miracles are recorded, even fewer end up in print, and we simply don’t know about many of them. The miracle that I spoke about will obviously be known only to a narrow circle of people, but we, who by the grace of God are honored to be among them, will give thanks and glory to God.

THE POWER OF FAITH IN GOD

One woman told a story about her father Romashchenko Ivan Safonovich, born in 1907, about how at the end of 1943, on the false denunciation of a traitor who collaborated with the Nazis, he ended up in a camp for 10 years. And how many difficult trials he had to endure there. In addition, he was seriously ill with tuberculosis, which is why he was not taken to the front in 1941.

Even while there, in incredibly difficult conditions, her father continued to be a true Orthodox Christian. He prayed, tried to live according to the Commandments, and even...keep fasts! Although it was hard, exhausting work, and the only food he could eat was gruel, he still LIMITED himself in food on fasting days. My father kept a calendar, knew and remembered the days of the great church holidays, and calculated the day of the main bright holiday of Easter. He told his cellmates a lot of interesting things about the saints, sacred history, and knew by heart many prayers, psalms and passages of Holy Scripture. My father especially honored the main Orthodox holidays, and first of all, Easter.

One day he refused to go to work on this bright holiday, for which, by order of the camp leadership, as disobedient, he was immediately taken to the so-called “Knee Bag”. This structure really resembled a narrow bag, but made of stone. A person could only stand in it. Those who were guilty were left there for a DAY without outerwear or hats. In addition, a bright lamp was burning, and cold water was constantly dripping onto the crown of the head. And if we take into account that in the North during this period of the year the temperature is minus 30-35 degrees below zero, then the outcome for the father was known in advance - death. Moreover, from numerous experiences, everyone knew that a person in this “Stone Bag” could survive no more than a day, during which he gradually FROZEN and died.

And so my father was locked up in this terrible, deadly structure. Moreover, having learned that Easter had arrived, the camp authorities and guards began to celebrate it. The prisoner locked in the “Knee Bag” was remembered only at the end of the third day.

When the sentry sentry came to pick up his body to bury him, he was dumbfounded. The father stood - Alive and looked at him, although he was completely COVERED in ice. The sentry got scared and ran away to report to his superiors. Everyone came running there to see the Miracle.

When they took him from the “Sack” and placed him in the infirmary, they began to ask how he was able to SURVIVE, because everyone before him DIED within 24 hours, he answered that he did not sleep for all three days, but constantly PRAYED to God. At first it was terribly COLD, but by the end of the first day it became warmer, then even warmer, and on the third day it was already HOT. He said that the heat came from somewhere FROM INSIDE, although there was ice outside. This event had such an effect on everyone that the father was left alone. The head of the camp canceled work on Easter, and even allowed my father not to work on other church holidays for his great Faith.

But then the camp authorities changed. The former head of the camp was replaced by a new one, just an animal, not a man. Cruel, heartless, not recognizing God. Holy Easter has come again. And although there was no work planned that day, at the last moment he ordered everyone to be sent to work. Father again refused to go to work on this bright holiday. But his cellmates persuaded him to go to the work site, otherwise, they say, this beast without a soul and heart will simply torture you.

My father came to the work site, but refused to work in the forest clearing. Reported to the boss. He ordered to immediately set dogs on him, specially trained to catch up and tear apart a person. The guards released the dogs. And so, more than a dozen large dogs rushed at the father with an angry bark. Death was inevitable. All prisoners and guards froze, waiting for the end of the terrible bloody tragedy.

The father, having bowed and crossed himself to the four cardinal directions, began to pray. It was only later that he said that he read mainly the 90th Psalm (“Alive in Help”). So, the dogs RUSHED in his direction, but before they reached him 2-3 meters, they suddenly seemed to FALL INTO some kind of Invisible BARRIER. They jumped furiously around their father and barked, at first angrily, then quieter and quieter, and finally began to roll around in the snow, and then all the dogs fell asleep together. Everyone was simply dumbfounded by this obvious Miracle of God!

So once again this man’s enormous Faith in God was SHOWED to everyone, and God’s POWER was also demonstrated! AND “How close the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call on Him.”(Deut. 4, 7). He did not allow the death of His faithful servant, who loved Him.

My father returned home to his family in Mikhailovsk in December 1952, where he lived for almost 10 more years.

Yes. A perspicacious elder served in our church. He healed people with prayers. He was also an exorcist. He was also my confessor. Sometimes I got to see his work with people when I came to services

Once, I came there with a friend of mine, whom doctors had given a terminal diagnosis. She was very worried and I persuaded her to turn to the elder in our church. She said that maybe he could help her. The friend had never been a particularly religious person and at first she didn’t want to go, but then she agreed. They approached the elder with her. She is not a talkative person, but immediately, as if on spirit, she laid out the news about her diagnosis and burst into tears. The elder looked at her and said, “You’re lying to me, Anastasia. (He even has a name knew her. Although she came to him for the first time) You can’t die. It’s too early for you. And you don’t have any illness. You need to pray more often and believe in God.” The friend refused to believe, but admitted that after her visit to the elder, she my soul felt lighter. Then, when she underwent a follow-up examination,...

The best stories about Miracles

There is an ancient cross in France with words about the Lord Jesus Christ engraved on it.

If there were no Miracles of God, then there would be no Orthodox Faith!

All over the world, at all times, MIRACLES have always happened, and are still happening today - amazing and inexplicable phenomena and events from the point of view of science. There are a lot of them, thanks to these miracles, many people on earth gained faith in Almighty God and became believers. History stores a large number of reliable facts of all kinds of amazing incidents and events that really happened on earth, and therefore people believe in God or not, but these miracles, as they happened before, they still happen in our time and help people find true faith in God.

Olga was born into a large peasant family in the village of Ilintsy, 30 kilometers west of Chernobyl. During the offensive of the Nazi troops in 1941, she was left alone with her blind mother. The headman appointed by the Germans covered for her and said that she was alone with her mother, whom she had to look after. Out of pity for them, the Germans did not take her to Germany. But in fact, Olga had three more brothers and two sisters, who all fought. One sister was a pilot and one was a nurse.

The miracles are not over. Vadim and Tanya Dear friends, peace to you! We would like to testify to the miracle that God has done in our lives. Nowadays, few people believe in God's miracles. Some Christians even hold the opinion that the gifts of healing, miracles and prophecy operated only during the time of the Apostles of the first church and during the time of our fathers, who suffered persecution and were imprisoned, and in our favorable times God works differently. But we believed and believe that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is unchangeable. In our favorable times, He has His servants whom He uses to perform healings, signs and wonders, because our God is living. He has always, according to Scripture, demonstrated Himself through these actions among God's people.

Nowadays, medicine has reached a high level. Often we rely more on the help of doctors than on God's healing, and, without calling out to God with faith, we run to the doctors. Of course, we are not against doctors. The Lord often performs healing through...

Natalia Pravdina I am gaining strength! Miracle Healing Practices

Inhale the divine energy of Heaven, saturate yourself with the power of the Earth, and you will feel the magical changes that will happen to you. Then you can rightfully say to yourself: “I GET POWER!”

Natalia Pravdina

Good afternoon, Natalia Borisovna!

In your books you call people to beauty. You give us self-confidence, convince us that everyone has the right to wealth and great happiness. You have an innate, invincible, enormous power of Love for Man. You are transforming the world!

I am very glad that you returned from America to Russia, to your homeland! Only by reading your books can you recover, become smarter and find a way out of any situation.

We are grateful to you for your love and advice on how to move towards a better life.

Be happy. I wish you good health and long, long life.

Tamara P. Nizhny Novgorod region.

Dear Natalia!

I've read a lot of your books and...

stories of Orthodox Africans testifying to the presence of God in their lives, which were collected and published in 2002 by missionaries of Kolwezi (Republic of the Congo).

"They must have great power..."

In the village of Kizamba there is a church in the name of St. Mena. Subdeacon Apostolos, a catechist, spoke about the miracle that happened to him:

“From January to May 2002, rebels ruled our village. All residents took refuge with their belongings in the forest. And my wife Despina and I did this: we hung the icons of the Mother of God and St. Minus from our “red corner” on the front door, lit a candle in the room near the iconostasis and, having collected some things, left the house.
The rebels came to the village together with the head of our community. Approaching our house, they asked him: “There is a candle burning in this house, but we don’t see the front door. Who lives here? They were never able to find the door to enter the house.

And they also asked: “The roof is thatched, a candle is lit inside - and the house...

Is a miracle of healing possible today?

Good afternoon, our dear visitors!

Miracle of healing from illness. What can we do to receive this miracle? Of course, not to get it guaranteed, but in order to increase its probability?

Priest Vitaly Bespalko answers:

“First of all, I want to remember the Gospel. Without this, we simply will not be able to speak, because the Lord came to heal us from illness and death.

Christ was asked: “Who sinned, he or his parents, that he was born blind?” This means that in order to understand how to be healed, you need to realize that illnesses are always associated with sin. For healing to occur, it must...

Miracle healings

Are miraculous healings performed by the spirit of God or not? Are modern miracle healings similar to those performed by Jesus and his first disciples? Does it matter how a person was healed? Isn't the main thing that he recovered?

Healing

Definition. To heal means to cure a person of a physical, mental or spiritual illness. Some Hebrew prophets, Jesus
Christ and some early Christians were able to perform miraculous healings through God's spirit.

Can we say that today miraculous healings are performed by the spirit of God?

Can anyone other than the true God bestow the ability to perform miracles?

Moses and Aaron, appearing before the Egyptian Pharaoh, asked him to release the Israelites into the desert to offer sacrifices to Jehovah God.

To show that God had sent them, Moses told Aaron to throw down his staff, and the staff turned into a large snake. This miracle was performed by force...

The topic of our conversation is the miracle of healing from illness. What can we do to receive this miracle? Of course, not to get it guaranteed, but in order to increase its probability?

First of all, I want to remember the Gospel. Without this, we simply will not be able to speak, because the Lord came to heal us from illness and death.

There are various stories in the Gospel about how the Lord heals. The healing of a man born blind is especially significant. It was such a great miracle when an organ that had never been healthy in this person was healed. What conclusions can we draw from this story?

The Lord answers: “Neither he nor his parents sinned, but this was so that the works of God might appear in him.” And this answer tells us...

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The World Christian Doctors Network (WCDN), whose main office is located in the capital of South Korea, Seoul, serves in different parts of the world, collecting information about medically confirmed cases of healing, reports the Christian Megaportal invictory.org.

Each year, WCDN holds conferences around the world seeking God's miracles of healing. The founder of this network is the senior pastor of the Korean mega-church Manmin, Jay Rock Lee, who himself received supernatural healing from a number of different diseases. The main goal of the ministry of Christian doctors is to identify throughout the world and present to the public through the media documented cases of Divine healing. It is for this purpose that the World Network of Christian Doctors holds conferences in different parts of the world. Thus, the 2012 WCDN conference was held in Kenya, Africa, in 2011 Christian doctors met in...

In this regard, the words of Jesus spoken before his next healing of a man are noteworthy:

“We must do the works of him who sent me while it is still day. The night is coming when no one will be able to act” (John 9:4).

Jesus spoke of a period of symbolic “night” during which no one would be given the opportunity by God to perform such actions. Until the time of this period, while the symbolic "day" lasted, Jesus, as well as his apostles, had such a gift (Compare Isa. 60:2; Luke 2:29-32; Rom. 13:12; Eph. 5:8 -14). Jesus called himself “the light of the world,” and gave the same definition to the apostles (John 8:12; Matt. 5:14). While the apostles served God, the light of truth continued to shine in the world, confirmed by the supernatural gifts entrusted to them from above. With the death of the last apostle, the spiritual “light” began to fade, giving way to the “darkness” of apostasy and worldliness (John 3:19-21; Acts 20:29,30; 2 Pet. 2:1,2; 1 John 2 :18).

In Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and...

Very often, people, faced with serious illnesses, find themselves on the verge of life and death. Some people fight to the end, some are helped by their relatives and friends to overcome the disease, and some simply give up and wait for death.

At a time when medicine turns out to be powerless, even those people who considered themselves atheists all their lives begin to rely only on Higher Powers, praying for healing and promising to become kinder, better and more merciful.

Doctors cannot explain how healing occurs in cases where there seems to be no hope. However, such cases occur before their eyes. Doctors, who are guided in their work by scientific facts and knowledge, are forced to simply throw up their hands, because they have no logical explanation.

There are enough stories of miraculous healing in the world to tell about them all. Therefore, it makes sense to focus on the most famous ones.

So, in particular, one boy from Britain was practically resurrected for...

A “miracle not made by hands” happened in the Church of St. John the Russian (Prokopi, Evia). The shocking fact that occurred left the pilgrims and clergy speechless.

During the pilgrimage, one of the women, a pilgrim, secretly wanted to take away the Saint's belt. According to her, in this way she wanted to cure a seriously ill close relative.

Unable to feel her feet, the pilgrim left the temple with a group of people, putting the belt in her bag and went to the KTEL station, intending to then leave for Athens.

But a miracle happened! There is no other way to describe the subsequent events.

For some unknown reason, the bus could not move, without any visible technical breakdowns.

And then, on top of that, the bells began to ring.

The unfortunate thief realized that in this way the Saint was giving her a warning: “I see everything!”

Having muttered to the uncomprehending bus driver: “I urgently need to return to the temple what I took from there,” the woman took off and ran to...

Miracle healings in our time - are they from God?

I will cite one episode described in the Bible. The man had been ill for 38 years. “Do you want to be healthy?” - Jesus asked Him. If you were this person, would you not immediately answer in the affirmative? Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your mat and walk.” What was the result of these words? “And he immediately became well, and took up his bed and walked” (John 5:5-9).

This was just one of many healings from God performed by Jesus during His earthly ministry (Matthew 11:4, 5). Today's miracle workers claim that God still performs such healings, and thousands who are confident of their healing through them are of the same opinion.

Significant differences.

A study of the Bible reveals, however, a number of significant differences between the healings reported in the Bible and those reported by miracle workers today. For example, Jesus and His disciples never demanded payment for healings. “Freely you have received, freely give,” Jesus taught (Matthew 10:8)….

In 1943, the Germans retreated, this time their attitude towards the local residents turned out to be more cruel. The Nazis scoured the courtyards in search of people hiding. Olga ran in fear into a small closet with firewood near the house, pressed herself against the wall, crossed her shaking arms over her chest and prayed with all her heart: “Lord, if You exist, please save me. I will believe in You all my life." The door opened and a fascist with a machine gun appeared in the doorway. Looking at Olga, or rather, through her, he turned without a single emotion and closed the door. Many in that village were shot or burned, all the rest were taken to Germany. Of the entire village, only two were saved - Olga and another boy who went to join the partisans. Olga soon left the Komsomol and became a deeply religious person for the rest of her life.

Many years passed, Olga’s son Sergei transported her to Blagoveshchensk-on-Amur, but throughout all these years Olga constantly retold her story and could not fully understand with her mind why that fascist, having looked at her, immediately turned back.

So, what is it, and how should we treat it? Is God's caring hand involved in our lives, or are we just observing a cold coincidence of circumstances? Do we even need to talk about anything supernatural when modern man is looking, first of all, for reasonable, rational justification?

Let's try to be impartial. If you remove a miracle from the Gospel, then there will be nothing left of the Gospel. A miracle is itself from the Virgin, a miracle fills the life of the Savior and is manifested many times in the deeds He performed on earth. Walking on water, healing with one word the hopelessly sick, the resurrection of the dead, including the shining of Divine light on Mount Tabor, the Resurrection on the third day after death, the Ascension and sending of the Holy Spirit to people - all these are milestones in the history of the salvation of people by Jesus Christ, and these milestones are filled with Divine miracle

A miracle, in principle, cannot be explained by science, no matter how much its tools are improved.

The fact is that where God acts, there is always some kind of miracle. A miracle is something that cannot be explained scientifically. And not only from the point of view of modern science, but in general can never be explained from the standpoint of science. Because science, no matter how much microscopes and telescopes are improved, is always an earthly gaze, turned to the earthly and explaining everything from the perspective of the earthly, and a miracle given by God is a merciful gift sent from above, from a world greater than our material created world, and therefore the miracle is not subject to earthly explanations.

Atheists rush to deny miracles. “Since there is no God,” they reason, “there can be no miracles.” And people, accustomed to relying only on themselves, believe that God cannot interfere in our lives. Thus, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, the greatest writer with an extremely tragic worldview, compiled a book from which he eliminated everything miraculous and explained the miracles of Christ only as ordinary natural situations. For example, he explained the healing of a sick man who lay for 38 years at the Sheep Pool (see: John 5: 1-9) in such a way that there was a weak man who, like others, superstitiously believed in the annual descent of an angel into the water, but did not managed to be the first to rush into the bathhouse. Here is how Leo Tolstoy himself writes: “A sick man has been waiting 20 years for a miracle, and Jesus tells him: don’t expect anything, what is in you will happen. Wake up. There is strength to get up and go, and go. He tried it, got up and walked away. This whole passage, taken as a miracle, is an indication that miracles cannot happen and that the person who expects miracles is sick, that the greatest miracle is life itself. The event itself is completely simple, it repeats itself incessantly among us. I know a lady who lay in bed for 20 years and only got up when she was injected with morphine; After 20 years, the doctor who injected her admitted that he injected her with water, and, having learned this, the lady took up her bed and went" ( Tolstoy L. Connection and translation of the four Gospels). But if everything were so simple and everyone would get up as soon as they wanted, then medicine would soon disappear. There are so many people in hospitals who would like to get up just as quickly, do without operations and expensive medical supplies, but the disease is often stronger than the person, relying only on their own strength is naive.

At one time, the philosopher Hegel also attempted a “natural” reading of the Gospel: in his book “The Life of Jesus,” he portrayed Christ simply as a great teacher, but eliminated everything miraculous as something invalid. As a result, with the crossing out of miracles, the presence of God in people’s lives is eliminated: God does not act, it is impossible for Him, He is somewhere out there, outside the Universe, and maybe He does not exist at all. The Orthodox faith says: The Lord God is next to us, He sees and hears, He acts and helps when there is nowhere to wait for help.

This is what happened to people close to me. They, while still students at the Moscow Theological Academy, went to the Arkhangelsk region. It was a missionary expedition, whose participants talked with local residents about faith, answered questions, baptized those who had not yet been baptized, and performed prayer services (clergy were among the participants). The plans of the expedition included visiting the site of the ancient monastery of St. Cyril of Chelmogorsk.

On the way to the ancient monastery there was a large lake. On this side of the lake there was a village in whose church the Liturgy had not been served for 70 years. And so the priests, after so many years of desolation of the temple, performed a divine service, and then everyone decided to cross to the monastery. The day was sunny, the sky was clear, but the locals, by some signs known only to them, foreshadowed a storm. And yet our missionaries decided to go ahead, hiring four motor boats with drivers. At first everything was calm.

Alas, the observations of local residents turned out to be prophetic. It began to rain, lightly at first, then more, and in a matter of minutes the sky became covered with a gray blanket. Then the waves rose and began to overwhelm the boats. They were scattered from each other in different directions, they had to bail out the water, and one of the expedition members, close to the author of these lines, thought that, apparently, they would have to be left without all the equipment, camera, shoes and swim on their own. They fought the elements as best they could. And then everyone saw the worst thing: a dark blue cloud was approaching the boats ahead, lightning was flashing, the rain was approaching like a gloomy wall, and the wind was driving a powerful wave of waves straight towards the boats.

People on shore watched the tragedy unfold. And suddenly... all four boats disappeared at the same time

More than once, fishermen died here from waves and thunderstorms. The prevailing natural conditions did not spare those who lingered on the lake. And one must imagine the chagrin of the local residents who saw the bold, seemingly thoughtless step of our missionaries. Now, seeing this dark wall of rain blazing with fiery flashes, everyone on the boats prayed, even the unbelieving drivers. The wall was getting closer and closer, now it would overwhelm the boats. It was at that moment that the incredible happened. People on the shore watched the tragedy unfold and saw four dots - boats - against the background of a dark cloud. And suddenly all four boats simultaneously disappeared from sight. By the way, this dark cloud reached the shore, the hurricane damaged trees and buildings. What about our missionaries? They themselves did not understand what had happened: they had just prayed with all their hearts and saw a dark blue wall with lightning in front of them, when suddenly it appeared behind them! One recalled: it was as if she stepped over us without overwhelming us at all and without causing the slightest harm. Thus, the Lord God, to whom people prayed with all their hearts, miraculously delivered them from the unfolding natural disaster. At the site of the remains of the monastery, the missionaries blessed the cross, and when they swam back, the water was smooth as a mirror.

So what is a miracle?

God does not violate His own decrees. Therefore, a miracle does not violate the laws of nature - it exceeds them

Sometimes you can hear that a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature. But the laws of nature themselves - so precise and expedient - are also a miracle of God. And if someone had told me that the laws of nature appeared by themselves, out of chaos and emptiness, then I would never have believed it. From chaos comes chaos, and clear laws come from the Lawgiver. The laws of nature are established by God (and therefore they are also a miracle), and God does not violate His own regulations. Therefore, a miracle does not violate the laws of nature, but, let’s say, it exceeds them.

A miracle is a special act of God that goes beyond the everyday course of events. This is an action of God that exceeds the created limitations of the world. Let's give a comparison. If you take a piece of clay and leave it to the natural course of natural processes, then nothing special will happen, this clay will only dry out and crack. And if you give clay to a talented craftsman, he will be able to fashion a vessel, a vase, a decorative object, that is, he will do with clay something that would not happen to it in the natural course of things. But the talented master did not violate the laws of nature, he only actively influenced the material of his creativity. Likewise, a miracle is God’s active influence on our created world, changing it as God pleases.

Here's another example. An airplane consists of elements that are all found in the nature around us, but an airplane will never appear from nature by itself; this requires the intervention of the mind, creative action. So, God, who is All-Powerful, All-Wise, can influence all of us and the world around us, He created this world and can restore health, save in a hopeless situation, pacify the unfolding cataclysms, just as a reasonable master transforms drying clay.

In addition to the laws of our visible world, there are also laws of the spiritual world, which exceeds our limited world. It's like two geometries: Euclidean and Lobachevsky. In Euclidean geometry, if a line and a point lie in the same plane, then through this point only one line can be drawn that does not intersect the first line. And in Lobachevsky geometry, through this point it is possible to draw at least two straight lines that do not intersect with the first straight line. Lobachevsky geometry operates on hyperbolic space, and this turns out to be in demand in cosmology. Thus, more advanced science relies on laws that are not understandable at a lower level. God's miracle is a manifestation of the laws of the higher world, we call it supernatural, it exceeds our limitations, and the Lord, by His mercy, sometimes reveals the laws of this world here.

One person very close to me, Elena Aleksandrovna Smirnova (she is a literary editor and was preparing one of my books for publication), told the following story - I would like to quote it verbatim:

“This is the miracle that happened in our family. My mother had Parkinson's disease for several years. This illness shook her to such an extent that she even jumped on the bed from shaking. She was already a bedridden patient, and I took care of her. Before that, when I took her to church, literally everyone on the subway stood up when my mother, shaking, entered the car. It was Christmas 1996 and my mother had a heart attack. They called the doctors who diagnosed a heart attack and a mini-stroke, they said that she had at most two or three days left to live and that we should prepare for this. I told my mother that I urgently needed to call a priest so that she could confess her entire life from the age of seven. Although she had gone to Confession and Communion before, every person can forget something. And she might have forgotten something, which is why this illness was allowed to happen.

As we know, priests are always very busy during the days of the Nativity Fast, on the days of Christmas itself and the following days. But still, when the Christmas service ended, I called the priest. This was Father Vladimir Sakharov, then he still served in the Church of St. Nicholas in Pyzhi. Father was warned that my mother was dying and that we had called him to offer unction to the dying woman. Despite his busy schedule, he came and offered unction to my mother. Mom confessed to him for a long time before the Unction, I sat in another room and heard her crying. It seemed to me that almost two hours had passed since she confessed: she spoke for a long time and emotionally. Then the priest came out and said that my mother confessed very purely, that every person should confess like that before her death. After Confession and Unction, he gave her Communion, and we went to the evening service together, and after Communion, my mother fell fast asleep. The service was dedicated to the Cathedral of the Mother of God - this is the first service after Christmas, and the priest and I prayed hard there. There were few people in the temple.

I couldn’t tear myself away from sleep, I just heard my dying mother get up and go open the door.

I arrived home, my mother was still sleeping, I kept going up to her, I was still afraid that she would die without me, and so I did not sleep all night. In the morning I suddenly fell asleep, then the doorbell began to wake me up, but I couldn’t understand what was going on, I was sitting in a chair and couldn’t tear myself away from sleep, I only heard that my mother was getting up and going to open the door, but the thing was that she had not gotten up for a long time, I took care of her when she was lying down. Then I heard someone screaming and then I finally woke up and rushed to the door. I saw a doctor standing at the door, a local police officer, who was shouting: “Pelagia Ionovna, what’s wrong with you?” And her mother says to her: “Like what? What should happen to me? “So you’re not shaking!” - the doctor says with surprise. And my mother answers her - she was so witty: “I’m not afraid of you. Why should I tremble when I see you? And then it dawned on us that my mother was standing completely straight, her hands, lips, and chin were not trembling, she was not shaking, that is, a completely healthy person was standing in front of us. We were terribly amazed, the doctor began to ask what had happened. The fact is that they called her from the ambulance, they said that my mother was supposed to die today, and then she came. We realized that a miracle of God had happened, that the Mother of God had mercy and begged Her Son for the salvation and healing of my mother. Mom then lived until 2011, Parkinson’s disease completely disappeared, and it is known that this disease is incurable, you can read about it in any encyclopedia, it shakes a person to death, and a cure for it has not yet been found. However, Unction, warm, sincere Confession, Communion and the prayers of loved ones saved the person from this deadly disease.

Many times later she was called to councils of various doctors and professors, and each time my mother spoke at these councils as a confessor of Christ, each time she began her story: “My daughter called the priest...” Everyone was terribly amazed listening to this story, but at first no one I didn’t believe it, they tried to find out what medicines they used to treat her, they thought that a cure had finally been found, but it turned out that for the last year they had only given her very strong vitamins, that is, they practically abandoned her, and only the Lord God healed my mother. When they unctioned her, they thought that she would die, although prayers were for healing, but the Lord heard such a prayer. After that, my mother planted a whole garden around our house, she herself brought bushes, trees, flowers, and now this garden serves as a reminder of her for all the residents of our house and for the surrounding houses, but in fact this garden serves as a reminder of the miracle of God and , maybe about the Garden of Eden, which we are striving for.”

For a person, the visible and tangible is of great importance. We are not only a soul, we live in a body, we are in the sensory world, and a miracle is an action of God that becomes obvious and visible evidence of God’s presence in the material world.

Every miracle is a special mercy of God, which confirms that God really cares about us and does not forget about us in our suffering. A miracle shows that the Lord God is not indifferent to us, He loves us, and He is also so close to us that not turning to Him in suffering and troubles is very naive and strange. Well, we entrust the fulfillment of the request into the hands of God, because Heavenly Father knows better than us what is really useful for us.

The Bible tells that once upon a time, through the prayer of the righteous, the sea parted and the sun stood still. The lives of saints describe cases of healing the sick and even raising the dead. But all this is “a thing of the past,” and what miracles happen through the prayers of believers in our time? Can getting a job or a happy marriage be considered a miracle?

Any believer who prays not occasionally, but constantly, can tell more than one or two stories that can be considered a miracle that happened in response to prayer. Or you can simply perceive it as the fulfillment of the gospel words “ask, and it will be given to you.”

Miracle No. 1. One woman was expecting guests in the morning and decided to bake a pie in the evening. She had already started preparing the dough when she suddenly discovered that the milk required by the recipe was not in the house. What to do? It’s late, the store has been closed for a long time, there are no 24-hour retail outlets near the house, and there is no Internet in the apartment either. The woman began to pray: “Help, Lord, I really want to treat my friends to this pie.” After some time, she decided to go out onto the landing and saw that between the two doors of her apartment there was... a bag of milk. How it got there is a mystery, but the pie was ready when the guests arrived.

Miracle No. 2. One young man was mortally bored with his work. At the same time, there was a crisis in the yard - simply going “nowhere” was risky. And he has already dreamed up a new position and a somewhat new type of activity: “the head of such and such a department.”

For about a month, the young man constantly cried out to God with a request: “Lord, help me become the head of such and such a department. I will fulfill my new duties well, I promise You.”

One day, a letter arrived in a young man’s mailbox, which at first he almost mistook for spam and did not delete. There was an advertisement: “Such and such an enterprise requires the head of such and such a department.” This was the very job he had dreamed of. The young man phoned a potential employer and went for an interview. He was very worried: after all, he had no management experience, he was applying for a position with a promotion. But a few days later the company called him back and said: “Congratulations, you have been accepted. We looked at about 30 candidates and decided that you were the best fit for us.”

Miracle No. 3. A pregnant young wife was about to undergo a paid ultrasound scan prescribed by her doctors and suddenly discovered that there was not a penny of money left in the house. Well, okay, you can live without an ultrasound, but what should you eat? At the same time, the only breadwinner in their family - her husband - was pleased at work with the news that the salary, which had already been delayed for two weeks, would be issued unknown when.

The woman began to pray, order prayer services in the church and ask various friends to pray for her. After the prayer, she felt that she had to remove such and such a book from the shelf. Having opened the book, the woman found between the pages... a thousand dollars. They never found out who, when and why they put money in this book. But they had an ultrasound, bought good products and gave birth to a healthy girl.

Is it correct to call such stories miracles? After all, they are all quite mundane, nothing supernatural happens: fire does not descend from heaven, and stones do not speak.

"What is a trolleybus? What is energy? What is heat? Here we can give formal definitions related to the material world. What is a miracle? The question itself contains an internal contradiction. Because the subject of our research by its nature is not subject to full knowledge, research with a rational mind. When we formulate such questions, we are trying to pull ourselves up by the hair,” said Hieromonk Makariy (Markish), a teacher at the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Theological Seminary, in an interview with Pravda.Ru.

According to the famous priest, “when talking about a miracle, we go beyond the laws of the material world. And as soon as we go beyond the laws of the material world, then we cannot give a miracle a formal definition.”

“A miracle is our connection with another being. Does a miracle require a violation of the laws of nature? Of course not. We find a wonderful example in theology textbooks. Imagine, people landed on the moon and discovered that there... a steam locomotive was standing on rails. Of course, they "This would be perceived as a miracle. But there is no violation of the laws of nature here: the locomotive consists of the same parts that are present in the material world. But the fact of its presence on the Moon would be very miraculous," noted Father Macarius.

As he emphasized, this or that event will be miraculous, will reveal a connection with the invisible world “only through a person’s personal perception, through his personal destiny. Outwardly - well, you never know, he went around looking for a job, then found it. Well, what’s so special about that? “Internally, some new phenomena or events, invisible to the outside world, are already arising, which elevate this phenomenon to the category of a miracle.”

As an example, Father Macarius told the following parable:

One person comes to work very excited and nervous:

- Oh, a miracle happened to me, it’s really huge, I don’t even know how to thank the Lord!

They ask him:

- What exactly happened?

- Oh, I was driving to work... Suddenly, out of the blue, a huge truck flies out at a red light, rushes straight towards me and stops ten centimeters from me. And not a scratch, nothing. I moved on.

The second interlocutor says:

“And you know, a miracle happened to me today too.”

- What happened? Did that truck jump out too?

- No, I got there without any problems.

“It’s perceived as an anecdote. And now we’re looking at terrorist attacks all around, and you really don’t know whether you got home today, survived, the children didn’t fall into some terrible abomination—is this a miracle or what? God’s help or natural law?” - noted the hieromonk.

According to Father Macarius, “when we really see a storm on this worldly sea, every mile passed on this worldly sea can be perceived as a miracle.”

Have miracles ever happened to you? If so, let the editors of the “Religion” column talk about it.

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