Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Expect "Concrete" Miracles • followHIM Favorites • May 12 - 18 • Come Follow Me

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

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Hello everyone, welcome to Follow Him Favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson. John, we are in Doctrine and Covenants 46, 47, and 48, and you've told me you have a story. I want to hear it. Yeah, section 46, as you remember, has a list of spiritual gifts in there, and we had wonderful discussion on our podcast about it four years ago. We have another one this time. One of the verses here says, and again, to some is given the working of miracles. And I thought, whoa, how many stories have we heard in church history where there are miracles? You ask your average group, who is it that said that? Was this J. Ruman Clark? How many of you have been the conscious recipient of a miracle in your family? And most people will raise their hand and think, yeah, I think it's something.

I have. Yeah, me too. With my brother and the kidney and everything, it was amazing. There's a little book called Everyday Miracles and I read this story, I just loved it. In June of 1964, I think I was alive, you weren't, we were pouring concrete floors in the chapel in the recreational hall of the Poverty Bay District of Gisborne, New Zealand, Second Branch Chapel. There had been storms in the area for three weeks.

The boats had not been able to deliver cement to Gisborne. We had borrowed all the cement there was within 80 miles. And when we quit work for lunch on the last day of pouring we had just two bags of cement left and needed two and a half yards Cubic yards of concrete enough to fill an area of 15 feet by 13 feet This would have required 12 bags of concrete to complete the job as we returned from lunch. Everyone was saying Why even start it wouldn't even be worthwhile. I told them, start the mixer. That we were not only going to pour, we would complete our floors that day. Then, not knowing at the time how it could be done, I walked a short distance from the group and prayed.

I simply said, Father, you fed the thousands with five loaves and two fishes. Surely you can help us this day. We went to work and mixed two small one-fourth yard batches of concrete with the two bags of cement we had and started pouring. There seemed to be no end to the concrete as it poured from our wheelbarrows. The full pour was not only completed, we had to remove two wheelbarrows full when it was leveled out. There is no physical way this could have been done by men. It was indeed a modern miracle performed for his people of the latter days." Wow. That's biblical.

Yeah. I just wanted to give you a concrete example. There are miracles in our day and Hank that's one story I know that we could both come up with. Yeah hundreds but that's one I'm floored by. Yeah, that's good. John you're right that's section 46 verse 21. To some it is given the working of miracles. What a great thing you could focus on in your lesson this week is let's talk about miracles. You can imagine those people in that branch every time they met there. I bet they thought of that.

Yeah, exactly. Every week, a witness of a miracle right under their feet. We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it anywhere you get podcasts. We're with Danny Ricks, our friend from BYU, Idaho. This week, you are gonna love him. He is so fun. He takes these sections and he'll show you things

you have never seen before. Then come back here next week. We'll do another Follow Him favor. ["Follow Him"]