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    Desperate for a Miracle: Touching the Heart of God
    Desperate for a Miracle: Touching the Heart of God
    Desperate for a Miracle: Touching the Heart of God
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    Desperate for a Miracle: Touching the Heart of God

    By Ora Holloway

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    This real-life inspirational testimony of defeat and victory will touch your heart as it reveals the author’s pursuit of a miracle. It reveals her struggles, pain, suffering, disappointments, and times of joy.

    During her eleven year journey with God, it was through faith and persistent prayer that Holloway learned to trust the guiding hands of God and His manifest power in answering her prayers. Her story of defeat and victory will touch and stir your heart to never give up because miracles have many ways of manifesting.

    Desperate for a Miracle offers encouragement and loving guidance along with practical examples and prayer principles to rebuild faith and hope when life shatters your dreams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 28, 2019
    ISBN9781796016598
    Desperate for a Miracle: Touching the Heart of God
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    Ora Holloway

    Ora Holloway is motivational speaker, preacher, teacher, prayer coach and author. She is the founder of Touching Lives Soul Outreach Ministry, a non-denominational, multi-cultural, humanitarian food relief organization, which ministers to those hurting, hungry and/or homeless. She is also the founder of Igniting The Fire Prayer Center, a ministry designed to equip, train, educate and mobilize a generation of mature believers in fulfilling priestly and kingdom assignments as they guard the Ecclesia and guide the next generation in advancing God’s Kingdom.

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      Desperate for a Miracle - Ora Holloway

      Copyright © 2019 by Ora Holloway.

      ISBN:                Softcover                978-1-7960-1627-7

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      Rev. date: 02/27/2019

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      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1     Keeping Hope Alive: My Personal Testimony Of Victory

      2     How To Deal With Grief

      3     What Is Prayer

      4     How To Pray

      5     Why Pray?

      6     Name Above Every Name

      7     Praying In The Spirit

      8     Types Of Prayers

      9     Does God Answer All Prayers?

      10   Voices Of Victory

      11   Reasons For Unanswered Prayers

      12   Healing And Health Confessions

      13   The Majestic Names Of God

      14   God Is Faithful

      About The Author

      To all God’s prayer warriors and other who dare to be persistent in prayer.

      Acknowledgments

      My sincere appreciation to Elder Eugene and Missionary Ora Stokes, to whom I am deeply indebted.

      To my spiritual mentors, Bacteria and Elder Green, and finally, special thanks to Pastor Lonnie Earl and Evangelist Rhonda Posley for their unmovable faith, which inspired the book Desperate for a Miracle.

      Introduction

      Miracles are happening all around us every day. Miracles come in a variety of ways, sizes, and forms. According to Webster’s dictionary, a miracle is an event that can’t be explained as an act of man. A miracle is a marvelous event manifesting the supernatural power of God. Miracle is an occurrence that goes beyond nature and man’s ability to perform.

      In ministry, I have seen miracles of healing—blind eyes opened, childless women conceived, bound men and women set free from drug addictions, broken hearts mended, and sick people healed. These are all manifestation of God’s miracles.

      Desperate for a Miracle is written as a motivational tool to increase one’s faith for a miracle and how to deal with our own personal grief. Miracles can occur in any situations but most often seen in a desperate situation or when all other means are exhausted.

      God is still working miracles; I am the recipient of two of His wonderful miracles. Therefore, I encourage anyone to have faith, be persistent in prayer, and expect your miracle.

      Chapter 1

      KEEPING HOPE ALIVE: MY PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF VICTORY

      It’s certainly a challenge to press eleven years of one’s life into a few pages of a book. In doing so, maybe I can pour life back into the lives of those who are hurting in pain and feeling hopeless. Perhaps the path traveled in my life and in prayer will lead those who have fainted along the way a new wave of faith, answers, and hope. And, most of all, bring inner healing, peace, and closure to a painful situation.

      Desperate for a Miracle gives a vivid account of the many struggles encountered on my road called prayer. Many find themselves frantic, anxious, distressed, worried, and desperate about various situations in life and will do reckless things to bring them into reality. When one is desperate, we lose sight of what’s really real. All hope is gone, and we don’t see a way out of the situation or know how to fix it. Many times, we’ll go to the extreme to bring our desires into reality. In today’s world, we need a miracle, the supernatural hand of God working in our families, cities, states, and nation. This is where prayer comes in. We need to know how to pray our way through situations and circumstances. We need to know how to trust and wait patiently for God, which is not easy at times.

      When one is desperate, they will go beyond the normal, ordinary means to obtain results. Webster’s dictionary defines desperate as being reckless, in a state of despair (hopelessness). That’s when miracles are needed. A miracle is an unexplainable supernatural act of God that defies natural reasons; it’s the hand of God in a situation and cannot be explained by medical or natural means.

      After having numerous miscarriages, I was desperate to embrace my own child. I ached inside and knew God was my only hope. After going from doctor to doctor and having various tests and procedures performed, the doctor still was unable to find a reason to my situation. In many ways, I was like the woman in the book of Mark, "a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years. And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be healed. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague" (Mark 5:25, 29, emphasis added)

      After exhausting all natural and medical means, my focus turned to the church for help running from one healing lines to another in search of a cure. I was like an addict in need of a fix.

      My search intensified as I turned to God’s Word. In searching the Bible, there are many examples of women who were unable to conceive; they prayed and received their miracle. Jacob’s wife, Rachel, said, to him, "Give me children, or else I die" (Gen. 30:1). Doesn’t this sound like desperation and hopelessness? After petitioning God, she conceived. God remembered Rachel, and hearkened to her, by opening her womb (Gen. 30:22, 23). And she conceived, and bare a son … Rachel’s desperation and longing for a child left her in a stage of depression, despair, disheartenment, discouragement, sadness, unhappiness, and unwillingness to live.

      Hannah

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