Do I have a witness? Has anyone had an experience that couldn't be explain anyway but by divine intervention?

Question

Share with me your experiences where you knew for fact that only God could have been involved.

Answer 1

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

We can never know for fact that only God could have been involved. But that doesn't mean we can't say God was involved. Sure, we have no evidence proving God's existence, but that doesn't mean we have evidence against God's existence. Each person interprets events differently. When they have religious experiences (according to William James, they are mystical trances, but according to John Dewey, they are simply broadly defined feelings of epiphany), such as a near-death experience, they might just pat it off as natural and say there is no evidence of God being involved. But they might also say that God was involved. Neither side can actually prove their belief true and there is no sufficient evidence to close the debate. Indeed, if I asked you to give me enough evidence for your existence, then I doubt you can satisfy me Even as Renee Descartes once said, "I think, therefore I am") Therefore, we must have unquestioning faith in their belief in God or no God. I think that there are actually no experiences that couldn't be explained any way but by divine intervention. You can always say that something else caused the experience. But you employ faith to say that. And you employ faith to say that God caused it as well. I believe in God, so I would say that the experiences were by divine intervention; numerous things occurred to me that I believe were from divine intervention, such as surviving a serious car crash or such (even with seatbelts).

Answer 3

I was a member of a Law Enforcement Task Force, with the task of raiding drug houses where some of the gangs in the area were "cooking" designer drugs and processing cocaine. In one of the raids, I had entered into one of the back rooms and found myself looking straight into the barrel of a 44 mag in the hands of a 24 yr old banger. He smiled at me as he pulled the trigger, and when it clicked on what seemed to be an empty chamber, I was able to wrestle him to the ground and restrain him. As I was lifting him off the floor, the gun that still lay there suddenly fired. The gun had been loaded, and by all rights should have fired into me at point blank range. I have NO DOUBTS, that there was a Divine Intervention involved, as there is no way that delay can be explained otherwise!

Answer 4

Sorry, I don't.
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Cheese has a good point. But claims of intervention have been made, and it always seems as though God intervenes just a little bit.

For example:
In the news, "God" miraculously made a breathing hole available for the kidnapped person in the trunk of a sweltering hot car. Then later on the person is beat-up some more and severely injured, then finally escapes to safety just by sheer luck.


That's nice and all, but why go through the efforts of "making a hole", when a device called a latch is already installed in the car. With very little effort, God could have just open it for the poor person trapped in there? Let them escape without harm.

Would God waste miracles on such obtuse scenarios?

Answer 5

I noticed you asked for a devine experience, not if God existed. I think it's interesting when people try to disprove God, because they won't ever win that arguement. My experience: There are so many things that have happened to me that people would call coincidence but I know God protected me. One is that my son was born a stillborn. he was alive during the contractions but died on the way out. i was too tired to know what was going on but i remember his ghostly white skin. somehow he came back to life, and i know that wasn't anyone but God.
oh, Cheese. Yes bad things happen. That's because of the fallen angel, Satan. He causes bad things and we have a choice on whether or not we follow God or Satan. Bad things will continue to happen until Jesus comes and satan is killed. The only way you can completely disprove God is by first reading the Bible cover-to-cover. Then you can have a better argument. How is it that all these men/women that wrote the books of the bible are able to talk about the same thing but lived years and years apart?

Answer 6

The fact that my wife and I are still married! LOL, no just kidding. But I will say this. A lot of circumstances happened for my wife and I to meet and stay together. God definitely has a hand in our relationship, and us coming together in the first place. There are far too many things that happened for this to be coincidence. I'd be interested in hearing some of your experiences and I have many other things that have happened in my life that only God could have done.

Answer 7

I of course say yes. I was in a truck accident with my husband. A drunk driver hit us from behind. Our truck was demolished with my side totally collapsed. My husbands side was still fine but over turned. He passed away at the scene while I was thrown from the vehicle to land on a two lane high way. At the scene I saw what I thought was a white clad paramedic go to my husband in the truck. I lived he did not. So there is in deed Devinne intervention from some where. For it was a miracle I lived. After all was said and done I got to meet with some of the people who came to my rescue. I questioned them about the white clad female paramedic at the scene. There was no such person there, paramedic's are not clad in white when they go to accident scenes. So if it is a matter of belief or not I am not sure but I thank my lucky stars to have been the one to survive. And still mourn the passing of my husband and rejoice in each day that is given to me and give thanks too boot.

Answer 8

I have. My littleToyota was hit by an 18 wheeler and I lived to tell about it. The car was damaged but there was not a mark on me. Explain that if not divine intervention?

Answer 9

I was seriously depressed for a long time at a young age. I was hospitalized for attempted suicide. Before my family found out, a friend took me to a junior/high school youth group presentation where a production company put on a show about the different events that young people go through. After wards I met one of the actresses and she had gone through the same thing I did. I talked to the youth pastor and told him what was going on. After that, my family found out and sent me to get help. I know that if it wasn't for God introducing me to these people, I would be dead.

Answer 10

First was when I was 10 my older brother was burn bad in a fire. I put the fire out on him with my hands. That night I dreamed I saw him he told me not to worry that he would be all right. For 7 days it was touch and go. His doctors didn't believe that he would make it and told my mom to prepare for his death. But after 7 days they took him out of the oxygen tent which I might add was nothing short of a miracle.

Back in Dec. of 86 I was 22, I was hit by a car on my motorcycle. A lady ran a red light and t-boned me on my bike. The force of them impact knocked my bike 150ft away from point of contact and wedge it under a parked car. I was knocked straight up into the air, I saw everything as it happened, the car went under me without touching me. I landed on the back of my head and right shoulder in the middle of the road. I sat up and walked away with only bruises.

Luck had nothing to do with it, I should have lost my right leg where the car hit, from the knee down. the marks on the bike show that her bumper clearly hit where my leg should have been. Still I walked away.