Posts Tagged ‘Miracles’

I’ve just returned from a holiday with my family to the south island of New Zealand. It has been the best holiday we have ever had. 10 days of train rides, light plane rides, helicopter rides, white-water rafting, snow, cruises plus more. No expense was spared because it was in fact a celebration of the past four years since starting OE Design - The Web Designers. For more information about my business go to http://www.oe-design.com.  But to see the joy on the faces of my family was more than enough to satisfy this guy.

But in achieving that memorable time in New Zealand there was one little challenge that had to be overcome along the way.

On the very first day we arrived in Christchurch we hopped on a tram and headed for the Botanical Gardens. We had a new camera and my youngest daughter asked me to jump into the air as she took my photo. After walking around the gardens we spotted people paddling and punting in the Avon River. That was exactly what we wanted to do. So off we took to organise it. On arriving at the boat sheds I reached down to get my wallet and to my horror it was gone.

For well over an hour we searched and searched and searched and in our searching I even at one point lost my family. But all members of the family continued to pray as they looked desperately for the lost wallet. This holiday was a miracle and we knew that God had provided for it, so nothing was going to destroy it. Finally we were able to find each other, but still no wallet. All cash, all credit cards, all licenses stolen would prove an incredible interruption to our holiday, especially as we were due to hop on a train the very next morning and hire a car on the other side of the island.

My eldest daughter and my wife said, ‘We need to go to the police station.’ Now there just happened to be a huge sign POLICE on top of a building a number of blocks away from the gardens, but I have to admit that both my son and I weren’t convinced as we followed their directions and headed down the road to the police station to report the lost/stolen wallet. We must have looked like a bunch of lost ducklings as we filed in one after the other.

The policewoman in attendance asked me to start filling out forms and as I completed one form she walked over to a box and before my very eyes pulled out my wallet. All the cash was still in it and nothing had been removed. A man had walked in and handed it in and had not given permission for their details to be handed out. I said to the policewoman that I wanted to give him a $100 as reward, but she refused to give me his details. So I couldn’t even give my money away.

The following week when we returned to the Avon River and rowed and punted, the punter who was pushing our boat stated that he was constantly fishing out of the river, that passed through the gardens, empty wallets - totally cleaned out - but I turned to my wife and simply smiled.

If God be for us then who can be against us!

It was a miracle, and as my youngest daughter stated later ‘ Dad it must have been an angel.’

Who knows?

Here is a copy of an email I sent to my staff at ‘OE Design - The Web Designers’ during what we have called MIRACLE WEEK….

I just want to encourage you to pursue your own ‘Petitions’ for your own personal financial needs and heart’s desires….and if you need someone to agree with you and sign your petition, I would be more than happy to accommodate.

The great thing I have found, and that has been demonstrated by the following testimony, is that GOD IS OUR SOURCE.

I have discovered a long time ago that OE Design, or Outasight Enterprises (which is what the OE stands for), is not my source. God is!

And by the way, the word OUTASIGHT originated from the scripture ‘we walk by faith and not by sight’ and also from the fact that everything we do is outasight (meaning ‘done with a spirit of excellence’)….

So be encouraged. Dream big for 2006. God is not limited by hourly rates, pay packets or even businesses. He can get you and I money - any which way He chooses. Remember that He is a very creative God.

Throughout my life I have had people chase after me (actually physically pursue me) and pay my bills after I put my last dollar in the offering bucket. Money has been put anonymously into my bank account. I’ve even found money in toilets(now that’s a story). Cars have been given to us - oh and we’ve given away a few too. Remember…..give and it shall be given….. Total strangers have handed us money in our time of need….and to share you many of the other miracles would take forever to explain…..how God has always provided for the Sinclair family.

So where does that lead us?

Well I simply want to thank you for being a part of the miracle that is better known as OE Design - The Web Designers!

And may I encourage you to continue to give thanks for what God is about to do with OE Design. I am very excited and know that God has BIG plans for this business…

Anyway, have a great day and enjoy reading the following testimony….

Peter

And here is the email that was sent to the associate pastor at our church….

Hi Josh

Just thought I’d share this testimony with you to encourage you….

Here’s a little miracle that you should enjoy reading….

After you spoke of the book ‘In The Footsteps Of A Prophet’ on Sunday, Shelley was prompted by the Holy Spirit that I should read it…but didn’t tell me that until Monday morning after I had in fact finish reading it, and was reminded once more about the Prayer Of Petition on page 233. I had read half of the book previous to this but had never finished reading it.

God really challenged me to then type up a petition for our weekly goal for NEW BUSINESS to come into our business every week. Once we hit those targets, cash team bonuses would start to kick in for our whole team.

As you read the following petition you will see that it was written at 7.22am on Tuesday. Shelley and I met for coffee and both signed it at about 11.00am that same morning. By 3.00pm that afternoon we were simply a few hundred dollars short of our weekly target….

So in just four hours the prayer was just about answered…

But wait…..there’s more….early Wednesday afternoon I was challenged by the Lord to get the Christian staff I have working in the office to join me in prayer agreement by laying hands on the piece of paper that the petition was written on.

One client, whom I met the previous afternoon, who had told me that he wasn’t going to proceed until the end of the month, then rang me later on that same afternoon, which was Wednesday afternoon and said that an urgency had been placed upon him to proceed immediately. The sale was made.

So the end result to date was that as of Wednesday we have already exceeded our weekly target by 30%.

Here’s the petition…..GOD IS GOOD and His Word is true!!!!!!

PETITION FOR A HEAVENLY GRANT

Be it known this day, March 7 2006 7.22am that I receive a heavenly grant in the amount of $K of new business coming to OE Design every week. Father, in the Name of Jesus, I come boldly to the Throne of Grace and present your Word.

According to John 16:23, Jesus said, ‘Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.’

Jesus you said in Mark 11:24 ‘What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.’

Your Word states in Luke 6: 38 ‘Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.’

According to Matthew 18:18 I bind Satan and all his forces, and I render him helpless and unable to operate. They will not hinder my grant.

According to Hebrews 1:13,14, I loose the ministering spirits, and I charge them to go forth and cause my grant to come into my hands.

The amount of this grant is for the following:

$K cash flow from new business alone every week.

Jesus, you said in Matthew 18:19 ‘Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.’

Therefore, Shelley and I set ourselves in agreement, and we believe we receive now, and we praise you for it.

Have a great day!

Peter Sinclair
http://www.oe-design.com/
http://www.motivationalmemo.com/

If you don’t believe in miracles or in a miracle working God don’t read any further….

As a Christian I believe in miracles. I don’t go looking for them or chasing them…but they happen time and time again in my life.

As far as I am concerned - being alive is a miracle in itself.

But this past year I have personally experienced two miracles relating to my health and want to share it here in my blog….I trust that as I share my heart in this way that you may be challenged to BELIEVE in the miracle worker…

‘In the course of our discussion of the week’s questions in our weekly home group one of the members of the group was sharing some of his testimony and at one point started to share about the miracles that had occurred with people’s teeth he had prayed for….fillings turning to gold and silver.

As he shared his testimony I could feel a stirring in my lower jaw. It was as if Jesus the Dentist was starting to do a major surgical work within my mouth. And even as I type this testimony, some 10 hours later, that same sensation is still occurring in my lower jaw. Jesus hasn’t finished with my mouth yet. Because the sensation was growing and growing, as he continued to share, I urged him to pray quickly. I closed my eyes and put my two hands on either side of my mouth. At that moment God just dropped such a huge bucket of his love on me that I began to shed a tear or two. I knew for a fact that He was doing a major work on my mouth. This mouth, that from a little child has been a major battleground explored by dentist after dentist after dentist was now being worked on by the biggest dentist yet, God himself.

On returning home after the meeting the miraculous work was revealed as my daughter, my wife and I stared into our bathroom mirror with mouths wide open. My wife is now the proud owner of a set of gold fillings replacing the black and as I opened my mouth the presence of shiny silver had overtaken the black mass that had been there before.

But one tooth in particular has caught my attention. Up until last night it was entirely black. Only the shell of the tooth was holding in a huge amount of black filling. But after last night, in the midst of the black was appearing not gold, not silver, but in fact a brand new tooth. Even this morning, as I’ve had another look, the black is now turning to a lighter shade of grey and more tooth has appeared throughout the night. I can feel God working on that tooth even now as he is recreating a brand new piece of tooth molecule by molecule.

All I can say is ‘Praise the Lord’. I have known Jesus the doctor many times in the past, but to know Jesus as my Dentist is a blessing and a refreshing revelation. There is power in the word of our testimony. Nothing is impossible to Him. ‘

And here is the other miracle…

Fast asleep in my bed this morning I began to dream and the dream was this….

I, along with a whole lot of other people, was standing in a green field overlooking a beautiful valley. There was a man who was praying for various ones in this field on the hill and each and every one were being healed of some sickness or other that they were suffering from. There was one man, whom I did not recognise, not more than a few feet away from me, who was prayed for and he landed flat on his face straight into the green grass with a thud. It was rather comical to watch and I could sense a smile rising on my face as I observed it.

There was someone between me and that man who had landed face first in the grass, but the one who had prayed came over directly to me. I must have been standing because before I knew it I was flat on my back. Then the strangest thing happened. The one who prayed for me lay across the top of my chest. The very next minute I was up on my feet and I found myself talking to this one who had prayed for me. We were discussing about the owner of the fields and his response was that God was the owner. At that point he leant across to me and kissed me. Not a full kiss but a gentle kiss on the right side of my mouth.

And then this man moved off with another one walking down the hill and I mentioned to him that I would walk to the other side of the field. I had much to consider, because something special had just happened. I didn’t know exactly what. But something had happened.

It was at that point that I suddenly woke up. As I leapt out of bed, and it was 5.20 am at the time - I made it a point to look at my clock, I immediately lifted my right arm right above my head with my left arm doing the same simultaneously.

Why did I do that? Well last year I suffered what was called a frozen shoulder where my whole right shoulder was totally incapacitated. It was like the ball in the shoulder had had been locked with superglue. At one point I had acupuncture treatment (once only) and after that treatment which was an unpleasant experience, I decided that I would believe God for my complete healing. After a number of months I did receive a wonderful healing at home but still had only about 97% freedom in the movement of my shoulder. But this morning I have experienced a complete release - 100% total freedom of movement.

So after lifting both arms right up and above my head, something that I had not been able to do for the last twelve months, I was suddenly overwhelmed with emotion and began to weep and weep and weep. I suddenly realised that the one who had prayed for me, who had lain on me and who had finally kissed me had been Jesus himself. I was not crying because I had failed to recognise him like the two men on the road to Emmaus (though I must admit that I felt somewhat silly for not recognising him immediately), but it was the fact that I was loved.

Even right now as I write this testimony wave and wave of emotion keeps flowing over me, and the most wonderful thing that I felt and even feel right now is that I am loved, I am loved, I am loved.

For even as I lay sleeping in my bed, Jesus, through his precious love and grace decided that this here stiff shouldered fellow deserved a visit. Why? Not because I’m anything special, but simply because he loves me. WOW!