Have you had a spiritual experience that had impacted how you view life and the world?

Question

I have heard of people who has ahd life-transforming religious or spiritual encounters. I have had one myself and have never been the same person ever since. How about you? Can you tell me what happened and how it has changed you or your thinking?

Answer 1

Jesus Christ spoke to me at age seventeen. I was on the beach and wondering about how I could have eternal life. I was thinking maybe Doctors or Scientists would come up with something and we would never grow old. The thought entered my head even if they did, what if I was in a car wreck or some other kind of accident and died. Maybe there would be a nuclear war and all mankind would be killed. So I said to myself again, how can I have eternal life, and from behind me a voice said,"What about God?" It was so loud I turned around to see who was behind me.

A few days later while walking in the forest I heard a loud voice again from above me say," What are you going to gain if you gain the whole world, and lose your own soul?" I became very concerned what was happening, where did that voice come from. I even said to myself it must be my imagination. The very next day as I went walking in the same forest again I heard a loud voice above me say,"What are you going to gain if you gain the whole world, and lose your own soul?" I was becoming alarmed, thinking I must be losing it.

I told my best friend, and he said next time it happened to talk back, and tell the voice to leave me alone. A few days had went by and as I walked in the same forest I heard the voice again say,"What are you going to gain if you gain the whole world, and lose your own soul?" I looked up and said, God if you bring my Father home, I will follow you.

I know many will find this story hard to believe, and I have shortened it somewhat, but believe it or not the next day when I came home from school, my Dad was home, after living in another town away from my Mom for years. I asked him why was he back, he looked at me and said nothing, I said,"Thats OK I know why you are back" I kept my deal with God and invited Jesus Christ into my heart, to be my Lord and Savior. (Long story short)

TRUE STORY

That was in 1972, Today I live my life for Jesus Christ and every day, all day long I think about him, and how to be a better Christian. I feel God's Spirit so strong I feel high most of the time. God has opened my eyes and reveals many secrets about life.

Many who read this will think I'm crazy, but that's alright. God has given me faith to where I have no doubts whatsoever. I believe every word of the Holy Bible. Jesus Christ is very much alive and is coming back to earth very soon.

Answer 2

Definitely! A couple months ago, I have a real satisfying bowel movement. As I went to push the toilet lever, I noticed that the feces look just like JC. It was an Epiphany. Since then, I've never felt the same way. Now, I always check the content of the toilet bowl, before flushing. It just goes to show, divinity can come from the damnedest places. By the way, the meal I had that preceded my holy movement was garlic cheese grits. Praise Jesus!

P.S. I kept that pius poop in the freezer. I'd be glad to send a picture to anybody interested.

Answer 3

OK- although mine isn't something I discuss a lot.

I was hiking in Boynton Canyon near Sedona when I was a teen, and was up high on a ledge. I am afraid of heights and was terrified. I had a vision of an old, native man who told me I had nothing to fear, everything was as it should be, and that I was never, ever alone. He talked to me all the way back down.

I have never been the same since, and have never felt alone either. Thanks for reminding me, it's been a rough day.

Answer 4

I was laying on my bed one night when God stepped in! I saw Him high and lifted up, like Isaiah, I felt the holiness of God, without a covering, the wrath of God without a mediator, I saw Hell looming up before me, but in that instant as well I also wanted to find out who this God was who revealed Himself to me, I knew where to look because He revealed it to me, the HOLY WORD of GOD! God was still ordering my footsteps, now it was different, I was hungering to know this God, hungering and thirsting for this God. The revival came shortly afterwards of my attending the church in Deepwater Mo, shortly God's timing is always perfect, and He is never late, nor is He ever early, He knows what we have need of, shortly, if my memory serves me correctly, which it don't always, (inside joke) it was about a month, maybe less. I wanted something I didn't know how to get it. During the revival service, God prompted my heart, saying I am who revealed myself to you, I am He." I went forward, knelt at the altar and gave this humpty dumpty to God. What followed was a slobbering, snotty flow, of such magnitude I think I used a whole box of tissues and about a half hour or more of bawling, and snotty flow, I would get ready to get up, and another wave would come. Each more flowing as the night wore on. God's light was turned on and He was home in my heart.

Answer 5

A year ago, I was suffering the pain of my divorce. It was an abusive situation that was getting worse and worse. One night, I cried myself to sleep, and then, at 2:00 in the morning, I was startled awake. And I mean AWAKE!

I heard God's voice in my head, so audibly, saying "You are where I want you."

Right then and there, I knew I was "where He wanted me" and I began to serve Him, putting the past behind me, and the protection and peace I have now, knowing that I am in His will.

I believe God took me out of that abusive situation, because it was getting dangerous.

It taught me that God is in control. I just need to hang onto Him, and I will be all right.

Answer 6

i knew that it was something missing in my life that i could not quiet understand i search,and search for something to filll that void so one day my daughter introduce me to GOD at a time in my life when i needed comfort and someone to hold on too. i found it in the father and i have being serveing him every since sure times still get rough but i know that god will take care of everything in his own time

Answer 7

When I truly got Saved and was filled with the Holy Spirit; it almost incapacitated me and I could feel God's presence through my entire body.

Answer 8

Every discreet moment of every day. The fact that reality IS is evidence enough to induce an enlightening moment.

Answer 9

yes that has happened to me before, but then my head started hearting and then the feeling went away. So for a second i was starting to feel like i should change, but then it kinda went away.

Answer 10

I had an NDE and have had multiple OBE's.

How I came to experience and NDE is quite personal... but I opened my eyes and found myself in a dimly lit cave. I looked over and saw a huge wolf, easily my size, that I instantly recognized as Fenrir Wolf from Norse mythology. I reached up to place my hand on his shoulder and he wrapped his forepaw around my arm to place his paw on my shoulder in return. Nothing was said, but I knew that it was a gesture of recognition and that I was welcome back any time.

The first time I returned as an OBE, I was undergoing some pretty intense but willing pain, and I found myself cognitively pushed out of my own head and for a moment 'looked down' on myself as I experienced the physical experience, then found myself back in the same cave. Fenrir was waiting for me and he showed me a deep wound in my heart that I'd known about and for a brief moment, he shared his heart with me as a promise that I would one day feel whole, and for that brief moment he shared himself in his aspect of the lone omega, lost and alone with no alpha, no pack, no family, no one to howl back in recognition.

When I returned from that experience, I found I could barely move, I couldn't speak, I had to fight to get myself to my feet and I struggled around into this secluded spot behind a tree and let loose a howl that will haunt me to my grave, to know that a human could actually feel that much PAIN -- it was the sound of utter agony, the sound of a heart being shattered by its wounds. I collapsed, sobbing, and did not stop sobbing for three hours. Christians sorely misjudge the usefulness of Hell to scare me -- Hell pales by comparison to the agony I felt, no words could describe it.

Another time I went over, we were simply talking and I noticed he had lifted his eyes to meet mine. Being that I am an omega-heart, I went to lower my gaze in deference to the Alpha, but he lifted my chin and looked back into my eyes and said, "No. I am your truth. Do not look away."

Despite these experiences, and the overwhelming intensity of them -- I am still a convinced atheist, because I know the neurological bases for these sorts of experiences, and why Fenris is how these experiences manifest, because the symbol of the wolf is the overwhelming symbol of my life and in my life.

Knowing how these experiences arise does nothing to detract from the inherant truth, the personal revelation, the sudden awareness of connection to something greater than Self.