When Miracles Are Needed: Recent Episodes
Lee Greer
Can a person really hear God's voice and experience miracles? True stories based around the book by the same title, WHEN MIRACLES ARE NEEDED by Lee Greer
More true stories of miracles resulting from hearing God's voice. This episode starts with a section of chapter 1 about the small boy and the Reverend, part of the Christian Fiction novel, then goes into true stories related to the fictitious story. This will be the format of many of these podcasts as a way to tell more true stories of hearing God's voice and miracles.
The importance of praying with others. How it supports your ability to hear God’s voice and gives validity to miracles that result from obeying what you and others hear.
Stories of real-life miracles that resulted from actually hearing the voice of God. The Book, When Miracles Are Needed, serves as a source of topics, as well as personal stories not covered in the book. The free videos are the complete narrated novel illustrated with over 200 paintings with music.
Real life experiences with hearing God’s voice and miracles that result from doing what God says to do when He speaks. As the first podcast, this is an overview of too many topics to even identify in one podcast. The Book, When Miracles Are Needed serves as a guide to focus the discussions.
The video edition of When Miracles Are Needed is illustrated with over 200 paintings rather than one illustration for each chapter. The audiobook and audio podcasts have no illustrations. This section refers to the illustrations in the printed book and eBook audiobook editions but is relevant as a statement of purpose, and an introduction to When Miracles Are Needed. I am Lee Greer,the author, illustrator and narrator of When Miracles Are Needed.
About the IllustrationsThere are 49 chapters and 50 illustrations. The illustrations are connected to the story on many levels. Some connections are obvious and some are hidden beneath the surface. Art and literature can mean different things to different people, and are supposed to make you think and wonder what does this mean? What is this about? A painting or a story can seem as simple as pretty or interesting, but can really be as deep as the mysteries of God. Perhaps God is right here among us but hidden in the obvious. Perhaps God is hidden because He is much deeper than what we think we already know. God has proved to those who know Him, that He does show Himself to those who ask.
If things are not what they appear to be, then how can we know what is true and what is real? Perhaps God can tell us what is truth, and what is not. Not church, but God. How can God tell us anything if we can’t hear Him speak? Few people talk about actually hearing God’s voice, but perhaps God does speak today, like when He spoke to people in the Bible. Does God still do miracles through people today like in the Bible? Can God tell people how to live each step of their lives today, like how He led Abraham and others to do in the Bible? Does that really work today, or did God just leave us here to figure out life on our own?
The painting of the angel and the fawn, and the angel on the cover might lead you to believe that this is a book about angels and miracles. Angels no. Miracles yes. There are no angels in this book, but the Holy Spirit appears all through the book. He does not appear in a recognizable form like a person, but He is known by what He does. He does what only God can do, because He is God.
It ispossible to illustrate what an angel might look like, but impossible to illustrate the Holy Spirit, because He is Spirit. Angels represent God’s power in a form that we can comprehend, but God’s power is not limited to angels. God does more than people give Him credit for. We don’t see all that God does because we are more comfortable with what can be explained. Like the blind man in the Bible who could see. People said that’s not the blind man, it just looks like him. If you don’t want to see what God does, you won’t see any more than what you think already know.
About the angel with the fawn and the flowers. There are no fawns in this book, so why the fawn? I think a wild fawn would only follow a creature reassembling its top predator if that creature had the supernatural peace and tranquility of an angel. And that would come from being in the presence of God. Like the fawn, I am also attracted to the presence of peace and tranquility. I’ve never seen an angel, but I know the presence of the peace and tranquility of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit also displays wisdom, and many of other characteristics of God that are not natural to man.
Why is the angel carrying perfect flowers carefully arranged in a basket? The picture suggests that she might have picked the flowers while walking in the field, but how did she find flowers like that in a wild field? And how did they become so perfectly cut and arranged unless she raided a florist shop or stole them from a greenhouse along the way. God’s angels don’t steal and raid, but angels have the power to create beauty. The power to create beauty is a characteristic of God. Evi