'God Spoke': Miracles that Stunned Ray Comfort, Offered Powerful Biblical Evidence

December 16, 2025·21 min·1 clip

Ray Comfort reveals how 13 strange events, including a floating American flag balloon, convinced him God was directing his move to the U.S.

1. The Newsmakers podcast (CBN News) features host Billy Halliwell interviewing Ray Comfort, founder of Living Waters ministry, on the subject of miracles, unanswered prayer, and Christian suffering. 2. Ray Comfort is a New Zealand-born evangelical author and evangelist known for street evangelism and the Living Waters YouTube channel, which has passed 418 million views including its Spanish channel. 3. The episode's core question is how Christians should understand miracles — both the ones that seem to happen and the ones that don't — without falling into either denialism or a 'health and wealth' gospel. 4. Comfort opens by describing Halliwell's CBN documentary 'Investigating the Supernatural Miracles' as honest and well-produced, noting it moved him to tears at 5am when it arrived. 5. Rather than defining a miracle narrowly as a medical healing, Comfort describes his ministry's relocation from New Zealand as a sequence of 13 confirming events in three days, including a man buying his house on the spot and a balloon with an American flag floating in his backyard for an hour. 6. His father-in-law and his Jewish mother both independently reported that God had spoken to them three days earlier about the move to the US, before Comfort mentioned it to them. 7. On unanswered prayer, Comfort quotes Charles Spurgeon: 'faith may swim where reason may only paddle,' arguing that trusting God without a satisfying explanation is itself a form of faith rather than a failure. 8. Comfort cites Luke 13, where Jesus responds to questions about a tower collapse killing 18 men not by explaining God's reasoning but by redirecting to repentance, as evidence that God does not owe explanations. 9. He cites Matthew 12 verse 38-40, where Jesus tells the Pharisees who demanded a sign that only the sign of Jonah — a reference to his death and resurrection — will be given, to argue that the gospel is the primary miraculous sign. 10. Comfort describes his own conversion at age 22 as the personal miracle that convinced him Jesus is real: 'He transformed me from someone who was drinking iniquity like water, loving darkness' into a man consumed by doing God's will for 50-plus years. 11. He uses the Book of Job — specifically God's 70 unanswered questions to Job in chapters 36-38 — to argue that humans have no moral standing to question God's judgments because they cannot even create a flea or a grain of sand from nothing. 12. On the question of why some people receive medical miracles and others do not, Comfort points to the biblical contrast between Peter being freed from prison by an earthquake and James being killed by Herod's sword in the same period. 13. He uses a tree analogy — certain California trees whose seeds only open when burned — to suggest that suffering may deepen the roots of faith in ways that are not visible during the storm. 14. Comfort explicitly rejects both positions Halliwell describes as polar opposites: the cessationist view that miracles never happen today, and the prosperity gospel view that a lack of healing signals insufficient faith. 15. He says telling a dying cancer patient they 'don't have enough faith' is wrong, and that 'every Christian has faith' because God gives everyone a measure of it. 16. He uses the raising of Lazarus to illustrate the point — Jesus waited two days after being told Lazarus was ill, seemingly letting him die, 'because God's ways aren't our ways.' 17. Comfort ends with a recommendation that viewers share Living Waters videos by saying 'I'd love to know what you think of this' rather than 'watch this, it'll do you good,' because the first approach appeals to curiosity and ego rather than triggering defensiveness. 18. The interview tone is collegial and fast-paced, with Halliwell affirming Comfort's points frequently; Comfort uses humor at least twice, including a joke about moving mountains creating logistical problems. 19. This episode will appeal to evangelical Christians who want a theologically grounded, non-prosperity-gospel framework for understanding prayer and suffering. 20. Listeners looking for skeptical analysis of miracle claims, or who expect an examination of the CBN documentary's specific cases, will not find that here.

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A faith-first Christian interview that treats the new birth as the miracle that matters.

Ray Comfort steers this conversation toward a familiar Christian question: what counts as a miracle, and what kind of evidence actually changes a person.

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