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Catholica7
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Examples please.
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Ad_Orientem
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What’s the context?
I think people generally mean something which God does not normally or routinely do, but does in a particular instance.
God could expedite someone’s death, for instance, before they carry out some evil plot. It wouldn’t have to be a spectacular intervention; the person could die from natural causes, but under the circumstances people might say, “God intervened” (with which skeptics would have a field day). Or it might be a spectacular miracle, as in Christ appearing to St. Paul and knocking him off his horse on the road to Damascus. Talk about intervention!
Sometimes people say it (half) humorously, for example, your boss gives you an undeserved raise, and you say with a smirk, “Must have been divine intervention!”
I think people generally mean something which God does not normally or routinely do, but does in a particular instance.
God could expedite someone’s death, for instance, before they carry out some evil plot. It wouldn’t have to be a spectacular intervention; the person could die from natural causes, but under the circumstances people might say, “God intervened” (with which skeptics would have a field day). Or it might be a spectacular miracle, as in Christ appearing to St. Paul and knocking him off his horse on the road to Damascus. Talk about intervention!
Sometimes people say it (half) humorously, for example, your boss gives you an undeserved raise, and you say with a smirk, “Must have been divine intervention!”
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Evania
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Divine intervention means that God intervened. There are tons of examples, but you can simply look around you to see the examples you are seeking. For instance, If God withdrew his intervention, we would cease to exist.
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RedFox0456
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Praying and having an instantaneous reaction would seem to be one form of divine intervention.
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SinnersAnonymus
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I was working with a very troubled person and everything we (family, medical personal and such) tried did not work. In the end I was confronted with the possibility that they were dealing with demonic interference and decided to help them anyway. My life became very difficult. I was a very lapsed Catholic and hardly practiced at all. I suffered horribly for almost a year but I refused to give up on the person and kept praying. My marriage was strained, our finances crashed, everything seemed to offer one form of problem or another. It was reaching a point people wanted to give up on the person.
Finally going to daily mass one day (I started the year prior) it hit me. Love. At first it was a trickle which in a few days burst into a flood. It was such a powerful feeling love that I thought I would burst in church. I would suddenly break out in tears after receiving communion it was almost impossible to hide it until I could get someplace to private and just weep for hours with this divine feeling of love. It was paralyzing.
After that things changed. My marriage was strengthened, our finances stabilized and events lined up to ensure we found how to help this person. Today they are living a normal happy life.
If that is not divine intervention, I do not know what is.
Finally going to daily mass one day (I started the year prior) it hit me. Love. At first it was a trickle which in a few days burst into a flood. It was such a powerful feeling love that I thought I would burst in church. I would suddenly break out in tears after receiving communion it was almost impossible to hide it until I could get someplace to private and just weep for hours with this divine feeling of love. It was paralyzing.
After that things changed. My marriage was strengthened, our finances stabilized and events lined up to ensure we found how to help this person. Today they are living a normal happy life.
If that is not divine intervention, I do not know what is.
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fred_conty
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While God does take control and make things happen, it is difficult to prove since it could be argued that it happened thru happenstance. And we have no proof, but only our faith to go on. I’m not saying that God dosen’t, but that it is difficult to prove.Examples please.
A miracle is certainly one in which God makes it happen. The flight out of Egypt under the direction of Moses was certainly one intervention.
Another type of intervention is spiritual, when a person decides to turn their life around very suddenly. This is the intervention of grace from God.
Many pray to St. Jude for impossible things and they do happen from time to time.
And it works because of the prayers of people, and St. Jude.
Mary has given us the miraculous medal, named so because at times it has miraculous effects, both physical and spiritual. This is the intervention of Mary and because of one’s faith.
May God our Father give you grace and peace.
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