Wonderful Truths from God

This will be my collection of special answers God has blessed me with - verses God has given me which in some way I find supernatural. Remember none of this happened because of something I did. Most of them occurred without an expressed or even considered prayer, let alone any verbal use of "magic" words. This is because God knows what it is we desire, and it always pleases Him to glorify His Word. It is however, easy to mis-apply this. One cannot expect blind verse finding to work whenever one wants it, because that would glorify the one doing the finding, not the Source of truth Himself.

Verses can only be Supernatural Verses when the seeker really wants to know from the Holiest of all sources, and is willing to take whatever answer comes at least intending to apply it however possible. Virtually every incident where I was looking for an answer occurred when I had the feeling God had one ready for me. Not every case was like that though. If there were many incidents where I tried to blindly find verses and nothing made sense, then many of the below would be mere chance. I have tried that and failed to make sense of it perhaps twice.

On the cost of failing the duty to defend others for selfish purposes. After a long period of concern about many Americans betraying Liberty and Justice for All, my son and a friend were playing with a long tube in the swimming pool. One pulled it behind his head and the other pretended to cut it off. Later we watched TV show about a supernaturally strong but fallen hero. The following Sunday morning without connecting that, I picked an illustrated children's Bible story of Samson to read to the boys. That night I realized that could not be a simple coincidence, and decided God wanted me to read about Samson, but I didn't realize where that was in my Bible. God's hint gave me the boldness to put my finger in a new Bible blindly. My finger was on Judges 14:1. Judges 14-16

On where America was then (in 1994) in the parable of defenders giving away their duty to defend others for selfish reasons. My finger was blindly on Judges 16:19

On how seriously God takes the calling of those who know Him, and trusting in the works of men rather than in Him. This came by email and radio sermon the same week my Southern California employer was considering a contractor to do Y2K fixes in our business critical software. The consultant we were to interview was unable to come because he was the man in Southern California who contracted an infection of the flesh-eating bactieria in his leg (fortunately he recovered). Isaiah 50:4-11

In the midst of a long list of descendants of Judah, is a two sentence story about a man named Jabez, whose prayer was granted. The "Prayer of Jabez" was a classic short Christian book about this prayer. I remember praying it once seriously. I am a computer manager, and one of my primary job concerns is security of our network and user PC's. Shortly after that, the Code Red virus set a new standard by spreading automatically between Microsoft web servers. I was probably one of a handful of people who realized Microsoft's solution for Code Red directly led to serious issues when Code Red II appeared. Code Red (the original) was only a memory resident nuisance, so Microsoft advised installing the patch to prevent it and simply rebooting the server which clears out that memory. Code Red II (so named by its author) used the same software flaw to infect Microsoft web servers while installing a software means of spreading after the server was rebooted. So Microsoft's solution led to many web server administrators eliminating the obvious Code Red nuisance while missing the fact that their webserver was compromized with installed Code Red II. Later the virus Nimda spread between Microsoft web servers in part by using Code Red II installed security holes, part of Nimda also infected browsing PC's through a flaw in Internet Explorer. Perhaps this doesn't meet my requirements for a supernatural verse, but I think of it as one. Has this prayer done what was claimed for me? Well it could have meant an impressive start on a career in computer security then, but I haven't been continuing with it since. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

A friend at work once asked me for a Bible in Vietnamese. I ordered it via the Internet. The day I was going to give it to him, I sat in my car and wondered what verse would be good to quote for him. I got that boldness again, and my finger found a verse in a language where perhaps only one letter out of three looked familiar. I had to figure out what book I was in from the table of contents, fortunately (actually by the Designer) the numbers were familiar.
The verse was Amos 4:13

I still struggle with computer gaming addiction, because I am disobedient about focusing upon Christ to distract myself from what is wrong. Lately my gaming interest is in games played with many other people on the Internet. I rationalize that I can somehow serve God's purpose as a witness for His Word through the player friends I make. One certain weeknight I stayed up until 2 AM or so. I took a break for some water, and "on impulse" turned on my personal radio (which I haven't done at night any other time). Just at that very moment a Pastor was giving the verse for a sermon. Warning: this applies to all forms of fantasy, including pornography, computer games, and fiction books or movies. Proverbs 28:19

In the late 1990's there was twice a law passed by Congress to prohibit a particularly awful form of abortion called partial birth abortion (related articles by the American Medical Assn). Our President at the time (whose name I will not glorify) vetoed those two laws. When he vetoed the second one, I again got that boldness, and this time my finger found a verse I had studied before but never considered related to the question of whether abortion was a good thing. It is part of Mary's song about being the unmarried mother of the unborn Messiah and His purpose for coming. Luke 1:54-55

As perhaps you can tell, I have been very concerned about what Gun Control means for our continued Liberty as a nation, which is why I first wanted an answer about the duty to defend others (what the Second Amendment provides for is the means for our citizens to fulfill that duty as government by and for the people, called the Militia). At one point I felt lead to try another blind finding of a verse about that concern. What I found was David, at the time anointed as Israel's next king but a fugitive from the current king, outraged that his outlaw band (a real life model like Robin Hood's supposedly was) was insulted by a land owner, and giving in to his outrage and on the verge of betraying the duty to defend even an enemy. 1 Samuel 25:13

I had another blind verse finding about the foolisness of trusting in swords. Psalm 44:3

Earlier when prohibiting partial birth abortion was up for Presidential decision, I fasted hoping it would not be vetoed. My finger blindly found this Psalm to the tune of "Do not destroy" about unjust judges, birth, wombs, lies, and stillborn children. Psalm 58