Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. And the title of our post today is

Extraordinary Miracles. The Bible speaks of special miracles being performed by the hands of Paul

at Ephesus. The New American Standard Bible uses the word extraordinary.

Weiss, great literal translation, says of these miracles, quote,

not the ordinary kind known to the apostles, but uncommon, extraordinary ones.

One would think every miracle is special, uncommon, and extraordinary.

It seems, however, that to God, most miracles are, well, just regular old miracles.

Then, on rare occasions, he decides to elevate his game and perform special

miracles, like he did for Ronald Coyne. In 1948, Gordon Lindsay started the Voice of Healing magazine

to publish testimonies of healing that were occurring throughout America

and other nations. He later founded Christ for the Nations Bible Institute, which Tim and Carol,

C.C. and I, Greg Hood, and of course thousands of others have attended. In his book, Gifts of the Spirit,

Volume 3, Gordon Lindsay tells Ronald's story. In May, 1950, the coin family moved to

Sapopa, Oklahoma. One day in August of that year, while the mother was taking a nap,

she was aroused by a cry coming from her son, Robert, who was down the street a short distance.

His brother came in and said Ronald had stuck a wire into his eye. At first, the mother thought

little about it, but the boy continued to cry. And late in the afternoon, she noticed a white

spot on the eyeball. The parents took the boy to a doctor, and later to one of the best eye specialists in Tulsa, Dr. Otis Lee, at the Springer Clinic.

He realized the seriousness of the accident and rushed the boy to St. John's Hospital.

Surgery was performed in an attempt to save the eye, but during the operation,

it was discovered that an abscess had formed, and there was no way to drain it. The mother was

informed that Ronald might lose the other eye, or he might even lose his life,

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