Karima Magazine May-June2107
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BODY, SOUL & MIND<br />
Do Miracles Still Happen?<br />
Pictured: Jeff Rostocil (author), Meljone<br />
(author’s wife), and their children.<br />
Are miracles real or<br />
perceived? Are they acts<br />
of a Higher Power or<br />
convenient coincidences<br />
contrived in the minds<br />
of well-meaning,<br />
gullible people?<br />
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Surprisingly, science doesn’t rule out what we<br />
might consider a miracle. We know that matter can be<br />
converted to energy. This is easy. Every time we enjoy a<br />
campfire, wood (matter) is being converted into energy<br />
(heat). But can energy be converted back into matter? Science<br />
says yes.<br />
While it would take an astronomical amount<br />
of energy to do so, it is theoretically possible that<br />
energy can be converted into matter. This means, given<br />
the right amount of energy, doctors could grow fingers,<br />
toes, ears and organs if they had the technology and ability<br />
to harness that energy. This is beyond our current medical<br />
capabilities, but imagine the medical possibilities.<br />
So, when my wife’s leg grew out on our first date<br />
while I prayed for her. When a deaf mute could hear and<br />
speak her name for the fist time at a prayer meeting in<br />
Lamin, Gambia. When three-month old Katie Metro’s organs<br />
came to life in Lodi, CA as we gathered around her<br />
hospital bed in prayer. It all could be coincidence, yes. It all<br />
could be explainable, sure. Or it all could be scientific. Perhaps<br />
just enough universal power was released to make<br />
a leg grow out, cause deaf ears to open and bring a child<br />
back from death’s door.<br />
And what about those two smiling young men<br />
who assisted my children out of the wreckage only to vanish<br />
into the night air. Angels perhaps?<br />
Try to say otherwise to my kids. Whether<br />
you are a scientist or an atheist, when you’ve seen<br />
too many of these coincidences you cannot rule<br />
out the God-factor. Given the evidence, it would be<br />
foolish and unscientific for me not to consider that<br />
maybe there is an all-powerful, universal God who sends<br />
angels and works miracles on our behalf.<br />
Jeff Rostocil travels full-time as a Kingdom communicator speaking<br />
to adults and youth nationaly and internationally. Jeff has written two<br />
books: Unshakable: Living Your Life Anchored To God’s Kingdom (2009)<br />
and Bulletproof: Accessing The Favor And Protection Of God In The Secret<br />
Place (2013). He founded SoleQuest International in 2002 and holds a master<br />
degree through Wagner Leadership Institute. He and his wife Meljoné live in<br />
the San Francisco Bay Area with their three children.<br />
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