Miracles in My Life

By

Rev. Laughlin Mackay

Here are chapters one and two and the table of contents

Chapter 1 -- In The Beginning

Miracles are a testimony to the reality of God. I would like to tell you about miracles that I have personally experienced. They either happened to me or I was involved in some way. These are not stories I was told or read about in books. These are real, verified by time or expert medical opinion. My hope is that as you read them you will want to know more of the reality of God for yourself.

It was early in 1966. My background was one of never going to church and I really had known nothing about God until that Spring. A pastor in Las Vegas, Nevada, where I lived, shared with me about Jesus Christ. He talked about Jesus in such a way that I listened to what he had to say. I made the decision to commit my life to Christ.

Very shortly thereafter, I felt God was calling me to go into full-time ministry. Now, I wasn't really too sure what ministry was at that time. About all I knew was to see a pastor preach on Sunday morning. In order to go into the ministry, I felt I needed to return to school and complete my education. My pastor encouraged me in that direction, but I needed a job.

I had recently quit my job at the post office to step out and try a new business venture which hadn't worked out. My neighbor, Doyle Lee, was the manager of the Industrial Relations Department of the Titanium Metal Corporation in Henderson, Nevada. When he came to me and asked me what I planned to do now, I told him I wanted to go back to school so I could go into the ministry.

A day or so later, Doyle called me and said, "Lock, I know you need a job and I assume you need one at night so you can go to school during the daytime. We have an opening for a night janitor. It pays just as much money as you were making when you worked for the post office. If you want the job, it's yours."

I thought, "Boy, this is great! God has provided me a job so that I can go back to school."

A couple of days later I went out to the Titanium plant and went through the process of being interviewed and taking simple tests for the job. Everything went well. After I finished all these preliminary steps, Doyle called me to his office and said, "You'll have no problem getting this job. It only remains for you to take a physical tomorrow. They'll be taking seven X-rays of your back."

"We are doing this because we recently hired two different men who started work and, after being here a short time, claimed they injured their backs on the job. They collected some very large amounts of compensation from us. Although we couldn't prove it, we felt that these injuries were already there when they came to work for the company. So, Titanium has instituted this policy of taking seven X-rays of everyone's back to make sure there are no back injury claims of any kind."

Doyle continued. "Lock, if anything shows up at all, there isn't anything I can do for you. That is one thing I can't change. If there is a problem, you won't get the job."

I didn't say anything, but inside my heart sank. One day, when I was about 12 years old, I was running a foot race with another boy. I tripped on a curb and I literally sailed through the air across a narrow two-lane street. I landed with the small of my back against a high concrete curb and at the same time broke my left arm. The impact had been very hard. I was so afraid of the things that were going to happen to me when they set my arm, I decided not to tell anyone about my back. So for the next 18 years, from time to time I had suffered with shooting pains across that very area of the small of my back.

I spent the rest of that day being quite agitated over the situation I faced. I knew this was the right job for me, but now this obstacle was in the way. I wasn't really sure how to handle it. That night, I was sitting in the bathtub. The pain was going through my back and I had spent a good deal of time that day worrying about not getting the job. I said, "Lord, I remember reading in the New Testament where you healed people when you were here on earth. Now, Lord, could you heal my back so I can get that job?"

The next day I went into the clinic, got my X-rays and waited with a good deal of anticipation for the results. A day or so later, I finally heard from Doyle. "You can start the job on Monday."

I wanted to make sure, so I said, "How did the physical come out?"

"Oh," said Doyle, "no problem at all. Your back was perfect."

That got me excited! I know it was a miracle. It has been almost 25 years and not once since then have I had any pain in that area of my back.

Chapter 2 -- The Reluctant Healer
A number of years later, I was in full-time ministry, pastoring in Las Vegas. The wife of a friend of mine was scheduled to have some pretty serious surgery--a hysterectomy that she had put off much longer than she should have. I went to the hospital on this particular day thinking that she was going to have surgery the following day.

However, I had somehow mixed up the dates and arrived just shortly after they brought her out of the operating room. My Youth Minister was with me at the time and when we walked into the room, she was screaming at the top of her voice from the pain. My friend said, "She's calling for you."

I have never been comfortable around people who are sick or in pain, but I went over to her bedside.

She reached up, grabbed my hand and screamed, "You've got to pray for me! They've done everything they can and I can't stand the pain."

At this particular time in my spiritual life I had become what is known as a professional minister. I knew enough to know that she wanted me to really pray and believe that the pain would go. But instead, I began a very professional prayer: "Father, I ask you to comfort her right now in her hour of pain and to help her overcome the struggle that she is having." Suddenly, without intending to at all, I stopped in the middle of that rather pompous prayer and I said, "Pain, you leave in the name of Jesus!"

Instantly, she closed her eyes and went to sleep. The pain was gone.

I was honestly shaken up, even by my own prayer! But I was even more shaken up by what had happened. My Youth Minister, who had been standing over by the wall, was now being held up by the wall. In my very best professional manner, while my knees were still shaking, I walked over to her husband, laid my hand on his shoulder as though I were in complete control, and said, "She'll rest well."

We stayed with her husband in that hospital for almost an hour. When we left she was still asleep. There was no more pain. Less than a week later when I went to visit in their home, she met me at the door, almost completely recovered from that very serious six-hour surgery.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 -- In The Beginning
Chapter 2 -- The Reluctant Healer
Chapter 3 -- Watch a Miracle Happen
Chapter 4 -- Another Testimony
Chapter 5 -- The Post Office Convert
Chapter 6 -- A Back is Healed
Chapter 7 -- A Startling Testimony
Chapter 8 -- Legs Healed
Chapter 9 -- The Shoe Doesn't Fit!
Chapter 10 -- Now They See It, Now They Don't
Chapter 11 -- Mexico Ankle
Chapter 12 -- She Had Faith
Chapter 13 -- Ready to Receive
Chapter 14 -- You'll See a Miracle
Chapter 15 -- A Birth Announcement
Chapter 16 -- Free at Last
Chapter 17 -- Small Miracle
Chapter 18 -- Tire-less
Chapter 19 -- Satan's Revenge
Chapter 20 -- A Deliverer is Healed
Chapter 21 -- Another "Impossible" Healing
Chapter 22 -- A Faith Child
Chapter 23 -- They Needed Another Miracle
Chapter 24 -- More Faith Children
Chapter 25 -- Knees are Healed
Chapter 26 -- Healing on the Job
Chapter 27 --  "Just" Laying on Hands
Chapter 28 -- "Lord, We Need it Now"
Chapter 29 -- All Glory to Jesus
Chapter 30 -- Pass it On
Chapter 31 --   " and There Shall be no End."
Chapter 32 -- A Word Just for You

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