Forget New Age Miracles (turn to God instead)
The world is full of people offering to sell you ‘miracles of manifestation’ in order to lead a happy life. But most of these miracles are for things that are not really that important (parking spaces, new cars etc). Who knows why good people suffer and die? But what is known if you read closely, is that most of the people selling you miracles are not happy themselves, and charge a lot!
Far better to get yourself to a good church, and pray a lot! If you take the effort, you’ll find that often there are way more ‘miracles’ happening for those that give up New Age fakery, and go to the real Man! And at least then ‘if you don’t get what you want’, you at least get some inner peace (real inner peace).
Catholic Nuns in a Galway Convent
Sr. Colette is one of the cloistered Catholic nuns living in the Poor Clares order in County Galway, Ireland. A former accountant, she used to party like St Francis of Assisi, until she felt her calling to the faith.
One reason she wanted to be a nun, was after witnessing an old boyfriend who was instantly healed from a damaged back from a car accident, which had required him to take a year off work. She writes that she saw many other miracles in her own family, from daily prayer.
English Catholic Saints (with miracles!)
St Cuthbert (the patron saint of Northumbria) was the first ‘environmentalist saint’, who used to protect eider ducks, and mostly lived on the holy island of Lindisfarne.
He was known to perform many miracles including healing the sick, calming storms by changing the winds, exorcising demons and quenching fires with his tears. He even saw St Aidan’s soul ascend to Heaven.
The loveliest story about this hermit saint, is that otters loved him so much, they would dry his skin with their fur, after he had been for a dip in the icy north-eastern sea!
Hertfordshire’s St Alban was the first Christian saint, killed for his belief. The story is that his execution was delayed, as the fast-flowing river that he could not cross dried up, allowing him to escape. When he was eventually beheaded, his head rolled down a hill and a spring immediately created fresh water.
The executioners were so surprised, they began to revere him as a saint, and the well still stands today at Holywell Hill. Who needs reality TV?
Saint Giles (also known as St Aegidius) adored wild deer. The story is that when a royal hunting party pursued a creature into his hermit cave, he made the deer invisible so the arrow wounded his hand, instead of the deer. Leaving the hunters confused and dumbfounded!
Northumbria’s Saint Aidan once made a stag invisible, so it would not been seen by hunters. Wouldn’t that be lovely if someone could do that today?
Old Canadian Ladies Help A Man Find God
This is a really nice story, for those who believe that they have to see ‘signs’ that there is another world. David was a successful Broadway star and songwriter, whose career ended when his voice went, sending him on a spiritual discovery.
He attended many retreats and meditated for hours each day, visiting psychic fairs and then studied under his ‘guru’ for several years. Who told him he would be as ‘spiritually advanced’ as Jesus if he followed his instructions (the guru, not Jesus).
One day while back in Ottawa (Canada), he had just left a New Age meeting. His feet accidentally kicked a torn page from a magazine that said contained some Scripture to warn him off, so he decided not to take the course he had signed up for.
Still shrugging off the warnings, he was starting to get ‘slimy feelings’ that he should change his ways. But still he pursued the same route, deciding to mix Jesus into his strange beliefs! He caught a bus to Montreal to begin his training with a Swami. But got lost, and ended up by a big Catholic church. So he decided to go in for a few minutes.
David writes that this was what changed his life. After years of paying others to ‘find peace’, he saw old women whispering prayers with bowed heads, and knew that they had the real peace that had been lost on him for so many years. He prayed to Jesus, gave up the occult, got his voice back, married and had a family, and has run a Christian music ministry ever since.
And here’s the thing: people in the New Age often look for ‘coincidences’ like white feathers and music playing on the radio, thinking this only happens outside traditional churches. But when David recently revisited where he had his conversion – it had the same street name as the one he grew up on as a child. Proving that perhaps this conversion was always going to happen!
A Warning Story for New Age Devotees
Sharon Lee Giganti grew up in California, a beautiful young blonde who became Miss San Diego. This led her to becoming an actress, and she soon fell into the New Age, teaching A Course in Miracles.
This book was ‘channelled’ by a woman who on her deathbed, was in ‘the blackest depression’ her priest friend Father Benedict Groeschel had ever seen (yet the book is taught to help people be happy, even though the creator was not?)
Sharon spent years teaching the book, until one day a woman visited her home to say she was suicidal, and she was concerned what her family would do, if she killed herself.
Sharon told her that they would only be upset if that was their reality. The woman stayed overnight, then went home, drank bleach and died.
Still so caught up in her beliefs, Sharon continued to preach the New Age, even though people were suggested her brother (who had mental health problems) needed medical help. She said positive thinking would heal him. It didn’t, and he killed his young son (her nephew).
Obviously then it all fell apart, and Sharon went running back to her Catholic faith she had been raised in. Today, she warns of the dangers of ‘false prophets’ and counsels those who need help in finding true peace. She never wants anyone to go through what she and her family did.
How ‘new age’ can pull you from God
Some new age practices seek guidance from spirits or hidden knowledge. Scripture warns against that, not because God wants to withhold comfort, but because He wants to protect His people (see Deuteronomy 18). In Acts 19, people who came to Jesus didn’t keep their old occult items “just in case”. They turned away fully.
Even when a practice seems to “work”, it can train your heart to bypass God. You start scanning for numbers, omens, and inner prompts, instead of asking, listening, and obeying. You might also begin to fear bad energy more than you fear sin. Over time, that flips the Christian life upside downs.
Subtle shifts in belief that can damage faith
“You are divine” turns into self-worship, while Christianity says God made you, loves you, and calls you to depend on Him. “Truth is whatever works” replaces truth with results, while Jesus calls Himself the truth. “The universe will provide” swaps a personal God for an impersonal force. “Good and evil are the same energy” blurs right and wrong, while Scripture treats sin as real and grace as costly.
Another shift is sign-chasing. Instead of praying with honesty, you wait for a “confirmation” in a number plate. Instead of trusting God’s character, you try to force clarity through readings. That habit can starve faith, because it teaches your heart to demand proof on your terms.
Turning to God instead: real peace
Turning to God may feel slower at first. It often includes honesty about pain, not a quick bypass. It also places your life back into the hands that made you. That’s a safer place than chasing signs.
Start with a plain confession. Tell God what you did, why you did it, and what you wanted from it. Ask for forgiveness, and trust that Jesus is enough.
Next, renounce the practice. That means you choose, in prayer, to break agreement with it. If you have objects tied to it (tarot cards, crystals used for rituals, charms), remove them from your space. For many people, that practical step brings clarity.
Then reach out to a trusted pastor or mature Christian. Don’t do this alone if you can help it. A simple prayer can be as short as this:
Jesus, I turn to You. Please forgive me and free me from anything not from You. Fill me with Your peace and lead me in Your truth.
Healthy ways to pursue healing
Start small and steady. Read a Gospel, such as John, and notice what Jesus is like. Pray in your own words each day, even if it’s messy. Join a local church where Scripture is taught clearly. Ask for prayer in person. Choose worship music that points you to God, not to self.
If you’ve been “manifesting”, replace it with asking God, giving thanks, and taking faithful action. You can still plan, work hard, and hope. You just don’t have to carry the universe on your shoulders.
