The fast day was a glorious day, such as London has scarce seen since the Restoration. Every church in the city was more than full, and a solemn seriousness sat on every face. Surely God hearth prayer, and there will yet be a lengthening of our tranquility. Humility was turned into national rejoicing for the threatened invasion by the French was averted.
John Wesley's Journal
2017
My flight from LGA to Dulles left late, so I sprinted to my gate with prayer warriors on their knees! I was greeted at my gate (two terminals away) with news that they hadn't started boarding! Praise the Lord! He gets the glory! I detected a Kenyan accent, so I said "Asanti sanna." (Thank you in Swahili). She beamed! I told her my mother grew up there and knows a few phrases in Kikuyu. She beamed brighter! I said "Wim wega?" (How are you?) She happily replied, "Dim wega." (I'm well.) And so am I as I'm relaxing onboard my flight to Detroit for this evening's rehearsal for Journey to the Garden on Good Friday and Resurrection Day!
2017
My back went out during a performance, so I wasn't able to stretch immediately, which typically prevents the pain and stiffness from settling in. I recently spoke with a friend who denied that God performs miracles today, and I was thinking of how the Lord has taken pain away from my back at least three times when we prayed. I've been struggling with the pain for a couple of days, and it dawned on me that I hadn't prayed over it yet. I prayed and the pain left again! Praise the Lord! He's not a magic box, but it's remarkable to me how slow we are to go to Him with our petitions!
I grew up hearing the story of how my grandfather's family was out of coal. Great Grandfather Ostema was a pastor with ten children, so they were praying for provision. A truck spilled coal outside of their home.
Joyce prayed over my hands, and all but two nodules from Dupytrine's syndrome were healed. The Lord waited on those until Danielle Papageorgiou prayed over them at the Christian Worldview Film Festival.
2023
I was flying home from Christ Over Career Houston, and I had a four hour layover in Dallas. I was on the standby list for an earlier flight, and as I boarded my train I noticed three college students from Pace Univeristy. Several of their students used to attend our church, so I prayed the Lord would bless them. Turns out they were planning to take the same flight I was. Two of them boarded, but one was flying standby. She was quite upset that she might not fly with her friends, so when I got my standby seat, I felt led to give it to her. I felt like I was answering my own prayer that He bless them. 🙌 That turned out to be the last seat, but the agent put me at the fourth position (out of about a dozen) on the standby list for the next flight, which had already begun boarding.
I was the last one to get a standby on that flight, too. I even got a window seat (my favorite)! 🙌 They made up about half an hour in the air, and I landed just in time to log into a church meeting I thought I’d miss. 🙌🙌🙌
2023
Glory to God! We’re praying 2 Chronicles 7:14 at 7:14 as often as we’re able in the run up to Jesus Revolution, so this was such a blessing to see the following post by Becky Bartlett immediately after we prayed the verse this morning:
♥️This is a Miracle Post♥️
Schools are closed today due to sleet and ice on the roads. I had to take my daughter to a vital appointment 30 mins away. My car completely lost control once we hit an iced overpass, causing us to spin and crash into a concrete wall…ricocheting us into a near 360 spin before finally stopping. Thankfully no other cars were around. My daughter and I were quite shaken, and I slowly continued onto the interstate and exited at the first spot possible to check the damage.
I cannot express the absolute shock I felt to see ZERO damage! Not even the tiniest scratch of paint missing. The entire back right portion of my car should be caved in, as we hit the concrete wall hard enough to send us spinning again further down the overpass.
But God. 🙌🏼
*Before leaving the house, I asked my husband to pray for our safe travels. My daughter and I also prayed before we left.♥️
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
A woman reported finding her keys, an answer to a prayer we prayed the night before.
3/19/16
Headache prayed away before my performance of Beyond the Chariots.
After performance heard from a young man who rededicated his life to the Lord after that play two years ago.
3/20/16
Divine appointment (we pray for them every day) on the plane from San Antonio to Dallas: I was able to sit next to a former student and teammate during Sochi Olympics.
Rode shuttle from EWR with a woman who does 1-woman plays and lives three blocks north of us.
3/22
A few blocks after praying for Divine appointments ran into a former student.
3/31/16
Dropped prayer shawl on the streets of NYC. Prayed with Joyce. Found within ten minutes.
4/4/16
Had a Divine appointment with a waitress went to high school in a town in China when I performed Beyond the Chariots there during the '08 Olympics!
4/5/16
During the Christian Worldview Film Festival and Guild I stayed with the same host family as Nathan Ashton. We've had at least one collaboration featured at the Film Festival every year of its existence, so we prayed we'd have another next year. We just found out we'll be working on the same short film: "One Day."
The Divine appointment on 4/4/16, with the woman from China, was 17 hours before my article inspired by that same trip to China would post: "Smile."
4/6/16
Had a Divine appointment with a Coptic Christian. He left Egypt after 88 churches were burned in one day. He said friends who fled to Europe have had a better Christian reception than he's felt in America.
4/7/16
A booking came through that we were praying would happen.
5/4/97
Joyce and I met at a singles retreat. I asked her if she wanted to go on a boat ride, but she pointed out that it was raining. We both went away and prayed that if the boat ride should happen the weather would clear. Within ten minutes it stopped raining. I went back to her and pointed out that it had stopped raining. We took our boat ride. :-) :-)
10/?/0?
We went on a gondola ride in Central Park and had a Divine appointment with the gondolier who served us 10/4/97, when I proposed on the gondola in Central Park.
4/7/16
We had prayed that a certain woman would attend the NYC advanced screening of Rather to Be Chosen, and she was there.
We had asked Patricia Mauceri if she could attend the screening of Rather to Be Chosen on her birthday. She was kind enough to say yes, and because of that, the screening fell on a date that Dan Rupple and Jackie Granger, leaders of Mastermedia, were out from LA, setting up a Divine appointment for them to be able to attend the screening.
4/25/16
Woke before alarm to make breakfast in bed for my bride's birthday.
4/28/16
10 Divine appointments
5/3/16
The Lord answered our prayer that it stop raining before a four mile bike ride.
5/5/16
Released an hour early, which allowed us to get to District Assembly on time!
5/6/16
Stopped raining before 4 mile bike ride.
Prayed I'd finish worship slides by 1pm. Finished at 1:00pm.
Since coming across Brother Lawrence's writing in college I've tried my best to live each moment as an act of worship. On the way home just now I passed a restaurant with tables on the sidewalk. I had a hankering for a single oyster and a cappuccino. I dismissed it entirely. Not because it's a weird combo--I've had stranger! It was because I never stop to eat alone at restaurants unless I'm out of town! All of a sudden it dawned on me that the Lord may have given me that hankering because He was setting up a #DivineAppointment. My radar was attuned. A man passed by and asked for a dollar for a bottle of water. I told him to sit down and I'd order him a glass of water. He was off saying he might want something to eat, but I was able to pray for him specifically. Pray for him now, won't you?
Then the check came in a guest book! After jotting a note about how much I loved my snack, I was able to write an invitation to the upcoming NYC screening of The Screenwriters.
Upon entering my building I had short chats with two friends. Conversations I wouldn't have had if I'd ignored that hankering.
Then I walked in to see this post by Rebekah Cook at the top of my Facebook feed: God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24 was beautifully laid out over a sunset over the ocean, and Rebekah wrote, "Through Christ we can dwell continually in God's presence, living each moment as an act of worship." I started to share the post, but after starting the process I couldn't see what she'd written about the verse, so I opened another tab, where I found she'd posted twice since this one! The Lord overrode the Facebook algorithm! :-)
I worked with a former quadriplegic who now jogs and does 150 pushups every day, He writes about it in his book, A Walking Miracle.
6/9/16
I accidentally bought a round-trip shuttle ticket to Newark Airport. Onboard I realized I'll be flying home through La Guardia. The ticket is quite clearly non-refundable, so once I checked my luggage I took the return ticket to the shuttle which was planning to go back to NYC. No one arrived before it pulled out, so I asked the ticket agent if he'd bless someone with it. He bought the whole round-trip ticket from me and sold me a single. Miracle!
Got a voice mail from a friend: A woman was completely cured of a blood disorder and thyroid condition. She asked people to pray for her, and now, "She doesn't need surgery; she doesn't need pills; she doesn't need nothing. So, thank you Jesus!"
Within a week of praying the Lord would use their films in a special way to touch hearts for Him, I asked a filmmaker if he could send his film to a prison ministry.
2016
Performed "Lazarus" for 34 gang members imprisoned on Riker's Island. All 34 seemed to pray aloud to give their lives to the Lord!
2016
From a friend: "The day before yesterday the doctor told Carolyn that she had a leak in her stomach due to a perforated intestine and if it wasn't repaired immediately she would be dead by morning. Because the prognosis wasn’t good they life-flighted her to a hospital in Columbus for the emergency operation they had to perform on her due to stomach acid that was draining into her abdomen and causing sepsis! They did two scans that showed the perforation and prepared everything for surgery. Then they did another scan but this time the perforation was closing. The doc ordered another scan. He showed Carolyn and Ray both scans and the doctor told them, "I don't understand. It seems to be healing itself," but it is clear that with all the prayers being offered that it was GOD doing the healing. Tomorrow she’s leaving the hospital! She didn’t have to have the operation because SOMEHOW her perforated stomach/intestine is no longer perforated! Somehow she’s healed....THANK YOU GOD YOU ARE SO GOOD. Thanks for all your prayers from friends and family.
Many of you probably didn’t even know what was happening. Mostly because everything happened so fast and we were all an emotional wreck. I cant imagine life if I lost another child. I cant stop thanking God for HIS healing Carolyn and for His wonderful love. Pearl
2016
The miraculous landing of the Southwest flight when the engine exploded.
My bride Joyce prayed in front of the Turkish House across the street from the UN last Saturday, praying that the Lord will not allow them to harm Israel through their relationship with Hamas. On Monday the IDF took out a Hamas terror cell harbored in Turkey while they were planning a terror attack in Israel! You can hear the prayer in the first video and answer reported in the second video at https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/honoring-israel-in-nyc
One of our pastors was healed miraculously fast from Bell’s palsy. During the latest checkup the doctor thought it was the opposite side of the face! Glory to God!
You can find the story behind why I'm posting all these miracles at www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/WarRoom
February 6, 1756
The fast day was a glorious day, such as London has scarce seen since the Restoration. Every church in the city was more than full, and a solemn seriousness sat on every face. Surely God hearth prayer, and there will yet be a lengthening of our tranquility. Humility was turned into national rejoicing for the threatened invasion by the French was averted.
John Wesley's Journal
2017
My flight from LGA to Dulles left late, so I sprinted to my gate with prayer warriors on their knees! I was greeted at my gate (two terminals away) with news that they hadn't started boarding! Praise the Lord! He gets the glory! I detected a Kenyan accent, so I said "Asanti sanna." (Thank you in Swahili). She beamed! I told her my mother grew up there and knows a few phrases in Kikuyu. She beamed brighter! I said "Wim wega?" (How are you?) She happily replied, "Dim wega." (I'm well.) And so am I as I'm relaxing onboard my flight to Detroit for this evening's rehearsal for Journey to the Garden on Good Friday and Resurrection Day!
2017
My back went out during a performance, so I wasn't able to stretch immediately, which typically prevents the pain and stiffness from settling in. I recently spoke with a friend who denied that God performs miracles today, and I was thinking of how the Lord has taken pain away from my back at least three times when we prayed. I've been struggling with the pain for a couple of days, and it dawned on me that I hadn't prayed over it yet. I prayed and the pain left again! Praise the Lord! He's not a magic box, but it's remarkable to me how slow we are to go to Him with our petitions!
2017
I wrote this short film based on a true story about answered prayer: www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/milk-and-oranges
2021
Here’s a 27-year-old prayer the Lord answered: www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/ThreeDaysLater
1930s
I grew up hearing the story of how my grandfather's family was out of coal. Great Grandfather Ostema was a pastor with ten children, so they were praying for provision. A truck spilled coal outside of their home.
9/4/21
We prayed and a boy came back from the dead: www.RichDrama.com/AliveAgainAgain
9/5/22
Joyce prayed over my hands, and all but two nodules from Dupytrine's syndrome were healed. The Lord waited on those until Danielle Papageorgiou prayed over them at the Christian Worldview Film Festival.
2023
I was flying home from Christ Over Career Houston, and I had a four hour layover in Dallas. I was on the standby list for an earlier flight, and as I boarded my train I noticed three college students from Pace Univeristy. Several of their students used to attend our church, so I prayed the Lord would bless them. Turns out they were planning to take the same flight I was. Two of them boarded, but one was flying standby. She was quite upset that she might not fly with her friends, so when I got my standby seat, I felt led to give it to her. I felt like I was answering my own prayer that He bless them. 🙌 That turned out to be the last seat, but the agent put me at the fourth position (out of about a dozen) on the standby list for the next flight, which had already begun boarding.
I was the last one to get a standby on that flight, too. I even got a window seat (my favorite)! 🙌 They made up about half an hour in the air, and I landed just in time to log into a church meeting I thought I’d miss. 🙌🙌🙌
2023
Glory to God! We’re praying 2 Chronicles 7:14 at 7:14 as often as we’re able in the run up to Jesus Revolution, so this was such a blessing to see the following post by Becky Bartlett immediately after we prayed the verse this morning:
♥️This is a Miracle Post♥️
Schools are closed today due to sleet and ice on the roads. I had to take my daughter to a vital appointment 30 mins away. My car completely lost control once we hit an iced overpass, causing us to spin and crash into a concrete wall…ricocheting us into a near 360 spin before finally stopping. Thankfully no other cars were around. My daughter and I were quite shaken, and I slowly continued onto the interstate and exited at the first spot possible to check the damage.
I cannot express the absolute shock I felt to see ZERO damage! Not even the tiniest scratch of paint missing. The entire back right portion of my car should be caved in, as we hit the concrete wall hard enough to send us spinning again further down the overpass.
But God. 🙌🏼
*Before leaving the house, I asked my husband to pray for our safe travels. My daughter and I also prayed before we left.♥️
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/2ch.7.14.ESV
https://www.richdrama.com/blog/tag/Jesus-Revolution
2023
Rich Swingle said...
Here's an awesome story of healing from the Asbury Outpouring: "A Testimony of Healing from Asbury": https://ifapray.org/blog/a-testimony-of-healing-from-asbury
You can find the story behind why I'm posting all these miracles at www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/WarRoom
3/18/16
A woman reported finding her keys, an answer to a prayer we prayed the night before.
3/19/16
Headache prayed away before my performance of Beyond the Chariots.
After performance heard from a young man who rededicated his life to the Lord after that play two years ago.
3/20/16
Divine appointment (we pray for them every day) on the plane from San Antonio to Dallas: I was able to sit next to a former student and teammate during Sochi Olympics.
Rode shuttle from EWR with a woman who does 1-woman plays and lives three blocks north of us.
3/22
A few blocks after praying for Divine appointments ran into a former student.
3/31/16
Dropped prayer shawl on the streets of NYC. Prayed with Joyce. Found within ten minutes.
4/4/16
Had a Divine appointment with a waitress went to high school in a town in China when I performed Beyond the Chariots there during the '08 Olympics!
4/5/16
During the Christian Worldview Film Festival and Guild I stayed with the same host family as Nathan Ashton. We've had at least one collaboration featured at the Film Festival every year of its existence, so we prayed we'd have another next year. We just found out we'll be working on the same short film: "One Day."
The Divine appointment on 4/4/16, with the woman from China, was 17 hours before my article inspired by that same trip to China would post: "Smile."
4/6/16
Had a Divine appointment with a Coptic Christian. He left Egypt after 88 churches were burned in one day. He said friends who fled to Europe have had a better Christian reception than he's felt in America.
4/7/16
A booking came through that we were praying would happen.
5/4/97
Joyce and I met at a singles retreat. I asked her if she wanted to go on a boat ride, but she pointed out that it was raining. We both went away and prayed that if the boat ride should happen the weather would clear. Within ten minutes it stopped raining. I went back to her and pointed out that it had stopped raining. We took our boat ride. :-) :-)
10/?/0?
We went on a gondola ride in Central Park and had a Divine appointment with the gondolier who served us 10/4/97, when I proposed on the gondola in Central Park.
4/7/16
We had prayed that a certain woman would attend the NYC advanced screening of Rather to Be Chosen, and she was there.
We had asked Patricia Mauceri if she could attend the screening of Rather to Be Chosen on her birthday. She was kind enough to say yes, and because of that, the screening fell on a date that Dan Rupple and Jackie Granger, leaders of Mastermedia, were out from LA, setting up a Divine appointment for them to be able to attend the screening.
4/25/16
Woke before alarm to make breakfast in bed for my bride's birthday.
4/28/16
10 Divine appointments
5/3/16
The Lord answered our prayer that it stop raining before a four mile bike ride.
5/5/16
Released an hour early, which allowed us to get to District Assembly on time!
5/6/16
Stopped raining before 4 mile bike ride.
Prayed I'd finish worship slides by 1pm. Finished at 1:00pm.
Since coming across Brother Lawrence's writing in college I've tried my best to live each moment as an act of worship. On the way home just now I passed a restaurant with tables on the sidewalk. I had a hankering for a single oyster and a cappuccino. I dismissed it entirely. Not because it's a weird combo--I've had stranger! It was because I never stop to eat alone at restaurants unless I'm out of town! All of a sudden it dawned on me that the Lord may have given me that hankering because He was setting up a #DivineAppointment. My radar was attuned. A man passed by and asked for a dollar for a bottle of water. I told him to sit down and I'd order him a glass of water. He was off saying he might want something to eat, but I was able to pray for him specifically. Pray for him now, won't you?
Then the check came in a guest book! After jotting a note about how much I loved my snack, I was able to write an invitation to the upcoming NYC screening of The Screenwriters.
Upon entering my building I had short chats with two friends. Conversations I wouldn't have had if I'd ignored that hankering.
Then I walked in to see this post by Rebekah Cook at the top of my Facebook feed: God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24 was beautifully laid out over a sunset over the ocean, and Rebekah wrote, "Through Christ we can dwell continually in God's presence, living each moment as an act of worship." I started to share the post, but after starting the process I couldn't see what she'd written about the verse, so I opened another tab, where I found she'd posted twice since this one! The Lord overrode the Facebook algorithm! :-)
I worked with a former quadriplegic who now jogs and does 150 pushups every day, He writes about it in his book, A Walking Miracle.
6/9/16
I accidentally bought a round-trip shuttle ticket to Newark Airport. Onboard I realized I'll be flying home through La Guardia. The ticket is quite clearly non-refundable, so once I checked my luggage I took the return ticket to the shuttle which was planning to go back to NYC. No one arrived before it pulled out, so I asked the ticket agent if he'd bless someone with it. He bought the whole round-trip ticket from me and sold me a single. Miracle!
October 29, 1942
My grandfather came back from the dead telling about Heaven: https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/how-cliff-married-family
2016
Got a voice mail from a friend: A woman was completely cured of a blood disorder and thyroid condition. She asked people to pray for her, and now, "She doesn't need surgery; she doesn't need pills; she doesn't need nothing. So, thank you Jesus!"
2016
NUMEROUS miracles on the set of "One Day": https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/one-day
2016
Within a week of praying the Lord would use their films in a special way to touch hearts for Him, I asked a filmmaker if he could send his film to a prison ministry.
2016
Performed "Lazarus" for 34 gang members imprisoned on Riker's Island. All 34 seemed to pray aloud to give their lives to the Lord!
2016
From a friend: "The day before yesterday the doctor told Carolyn that she had a leak in her stomach due to a perforated intestine and if it wasn't repaired immediately she would be dead by morning. Because the prognosis wasn’t good they life-flighted her to a hospital in Columbus for the emergency operation they had to perform on her due to stomach acid that was draining into her abdomen and causing sepsis! They did two scans that showed the perforation and prepared everything for surgery. Then they did another scan but this time the perforation was closing. The doc ordered another scan. He showed Carolyn and Ray both scans and the doctor told them, "I don't understand. It seems to be healing itself," but it is clear that with all the prayers being offered that it was GOD doing the healing. Tomorrow she’s leaving the hospital! She didn’t have to have the operation because SOMEHOW her perforated stomach/intestine is no longer perforated! Somehow she’s healed....THANK YOU GOD YOU ARE SO GOOD. Thanks for all your prayers from friends and family.
Many of you probably didn’t even know what was happening. Mostly because everything happened so fast and we were all an emotional wreck. I cant imagine life if I lost another child. I cant stop thanking God for HIS healing Carolyn and for His wonderful love. Pearl
2016
The miraculous landing of the Southwest flight when the engine exploded.
2/14/16
God answered my prayer to be coming out of the AMC Empire Theatre after seeing a film I was in: https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/the-escalator
While helping prepare our family farm for sale I came across a booklet we
picked up in London during the 2012 Olympics. It used the story of Eric
Liddell to present the Gospel.* I prayed we'd have something like that to
give out at my performances in Europe**, and the day after our team's prayer
letter went out, the director of Summer Madness -- where I'll be performing near Belfast, Northern
Ireland -- sent me one they'll be ordering. I sent it to the Plasters of Paris who are organizing my
performances there before and during the Olympics, and she was holding one
in her hand when she read my note! Now we'll have two! Glory to God!
*www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/MyPassion
**www.GiveSendGo.com/ChariotsParisEdinburgh
My bride Joyce prayed in front of the Turkish House across the street from the UN last Saturday, praying that the Lord will not allow them to harm Israel through their relationship with Hamas. On Monday the IDF took out a Hamas terror cell harbored in Turkey while they were planning a terror attack in Israel! You can hear the prayer in the first video and answer reported in the second video at https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/honoring-israel-in-nyc
One of our pastors was healed miraculously fast from Bell’s palsy. During the latest checkup the doctor thought it was the opposite side of the face! Glory to God!