Many people believe that miracles are limited to the Bible, but some claim that a higher power can really intervene in unimaginable ways.
And now they reveal their 'proof'.
Dr. Deanna Shrodes said that her own modern miracle led her to find others who had laid their faith in God and experience inexplicable events thanks to the power of prayer.
Shrodes, an author and doctor in the Ministry of South Eastern University, was in a decade search for the father she never knew. She finally found him, still alive in a nursing home, after Shrodes said that God whispered the name of the man she was looking for.
The 58-year-old experience with the miracle that helped her find her long-lost father, the minister trained to look for more 'verified' miracle stories.
In her new book, 'Uncommon answers', Shrodes revealed how a 19-year-old football player was diagnosed with a terminal case of lymphoma-all for doctors to discover that he was cancer-free after his grandmother's bed prayed at his bed.
In another wonderful event, a woman who fights infertility for 14 years said that God gave her specific instructions about what she had to do with her life and career – what ultimately led she gave the birth four times.
Shrodes' poses with her father, whom she never knew until the author claims that God sent her his name, who eventually broke open her decade -long search
Shrodes said that all these extraordinary events were fueled by the same – prayed to God, and that miracles do not only happen to special people.
“The Bible said that God is not respect for people, and so I don't believe that these things are only for bijters. I don't believe that. I believe that miracles don't have to be uncommon. We can see them happen more and more, “she said.
Shrodes believes that God whispered the name of her biological father to her after she had prayed for the help of the Almighty.
Her biological mother died without ever telling her who her father was.
So, after decades without answers, she developed a Facebook group to look for him – only knowing that he was Greek and had black wavy hair. Shrodes did a 23andme DNA test, but no similarities were found.
Then, for three nights, Shrodes remembered that she prayed to God and said, “Lord, you know I believe. This is not just what my church believed when I grew up – this is my faith. '
“I believe what I preach. And so, God, while I lie here on this floor that calls you, I ask you for one thing: give me a name! Give me my father's name, “she went on.
The minister said that on the third night the Holy Spirit “dropped a thought in her mind” and it was the name Gus.
It turned out to be the right name. A DNA competition discovered that he was 91 and was still alive in Virginia – where Deanna Shrodes was born.
It turns out that before Shrodes said she received this message from God, her search continued to miss gus because it was limited to people born within a certain date range – 10 years older or 10 years younger than her mother.
“When we found him, we discovered that my mother was 20 when she had me, and Gus was 36,” she explained.
The couple then reunited, first via Facetime and then personally.
'I was only his [child] In the world, and he was just back in a nursing home in Richmond, Virginia, where it all started, where I was thought of … That is my true hometown, 'Shrodes added.
Shrodes went looking for other individuals who experienced modern miracles and published their stories in a new book
Shrodes is an author and minister who found her biological father after God gave her his name during prayer
Another discovered wonder Shrodes was a young man named Mark Purkey, who had been given 'very little' time to live after the diagnosis of lymphoma – a kind of blood cancer.
His grandmother prayed in the hospital room to cure the football player.
That was then Purkey said that the presence of God entered the room and that a miracle took place, where Mark was eventually released with a clean bill or health.
“He received an incredible miracle after he heard that there was no hope for him to live, he has been a minister since then, traveling through the country for many years,” Shrodes explained.
Another miracle told in the book revolved around the experience of Shannon Howe, who prayed and listened to God while they fought for 14 years.
She said that never giving up prayer, fasting and obedience to what God told her, all helped 'getting an answer' of her prayers.
“He told her very specifically that she would become involved in everything she could do to do children, and she served in her church in every possible way,” Shrodes revealed.
'She literally became the head of [the] Daycare department. She started working with young girls in their girls' service. She did this for years, “the author added.
After 14 years, Howe has now had four children and her oldest is the pastor of the children of the same church that she visited.
'We are often not willing to receive the miracle that we have to receive, and we do not do that. We don't listen to what God said, “said Shrodes.
Shrodes said her book offers tips on achieving miracles in your own life, focused on the power of prayer
Scientists who are religious believers, such as astrophysicus professor Christine who have been done at the University of Durham, have argued that if someone believes in a supernatural God, it is also rational to believe that he can suspend the 'existence rules' to perform miracles.
Scientists have linked some biblical miracles to real events – for example how the Bible said: 'The sun stood still and the moon stopped' in the book Joshua.
Cambridge University researchers have linked this to a real ring -shaped eclipse (also known as a 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse) that took place on October 30, 1207 BC.
There are more than 80 wonders in the Old Testament, such as Daniel in the Leeuwenhol, the 10 plagues of Egypt and the farewell to the Red Sea.
There is a similar number in the New Testament, such as changing water in wine and Jesus that feeds 5,000 people.
Shrodes believes that to encourage miracles to happen, people must start listening to what God says' – and then have patience.
She said that people sometimes have to change, for example by helping others or by making sacrifices in their own lives.
“God answers the prayers of the righteous,” the author said, adding that she believes that praying with friends and family is even more powerful.
Shrodes explained that the sign that a miracle has taken place is that it is something that 'never took place' and something that only happens after a person has exhausted every avenue.
She hopes to help people who are 'desperately looking for an answer' to find their way to any kind of prayer – and to believe in the extraordinary.
