I'm not looking to shoot anyone down. I'm just looking for a little inspiration. Any experience with God that has left a lasting impression on you.
2007-02-17 07:42:17 · 9 answers · asked by Cori 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First, find God within you, be open to all teachings that point to truth, not belief. The test for truth is in your own experience, this is so we cannot be hoaxed.
2007-02-17 10:18:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One day my inner space was intruded by a little worm that me, myself and I had allowed to enter. My life was lost and my dreams were shattered because there was no conformity in anything that was accomplished by me and even though my thoughts were always with the supreme being above and looking for answers that just could not surface. I often wondered about him.
For the life of me no matter how hard I tried to understand what is of what was or what will be laid in the hands of my very own failures and it was time to turn those failures into succeses and this would take many years of work and understanding.
My lucky days were suppose to be my luck or just coinicidence that I had won may times. Was it God or was it luck was a question that bothered me many times.
Soon after my Mother in Law had died a mysterious fog appeared to me at my home one evening an entity of phenomena that would last in my mind forever and I would cherish it as such.
That story is in my blog.
God had visit me in person by spirit and it didn't change my conformity in how I would lead my life and neither did I pick up a book and start preaching.
What happen that day was that my Mother in Law was allowed to visit me by the spirit of God to make peace and to help me understand that there is a heaven that had burden me all my days.
My life has never been the same since, but what has changed in my life is that now I know that all my encounters from a day to day basis are all roads to be taken graciously and await the bigger and greater events to take place in my life and that makes me suttle.
I have spent nearly all my life waiting for a sign that God exhisted and I would not believe the Bible what so ever. I wanted to see the truth as if I demanded God to appear before me and show himself.
He did just that and it was not because I demanded it, it was because there was something more special in my life to accomplish that was chosen by God and I must follow his command now and that is my finest hour on this earth.
2007-02-17 15:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was 9 my Dad died in a car accident, I was VERY angry and I was raised to believe in God, so I turned my feelings towards God, and asked why etc. etc. I also read the bible, and I found that in the bible was so many answers, I also came across the verse where it says "I am a father to the fatherless" I don't know where it is off hand, but I said OK GOD you say you are my father so act like it, and believe it or not, it has been like a protection has been over me, also reprimanding, if I do something wrong, just like a father would say Oh, no that was not nice, not in a bad way but like a DAD would do. I don't know if you understand, I have always talked to God like a friend, I don't talk to him like he is in another universe but right there and I also complain. I feel I have a good relationship with God, and would not trade it for anything. God is not a crutch he is my friend and with me really through the thick and thin of it all. I also acknowledge the devil, which I am finding that many people that believe in God do not. ( Not sure why) Hope this helps you understand but this is my personal experience.
2007-02-17 15:49:50 · answer #3 · answered by whattheheck 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When my mother-in-law was alive, my wife and I always had lunch every Sunday at her house (about 30 minutes away). One Sunday we were lazy (it had happened before) and missed going. Later, I had this "idea" to have my wife call her Mom and tell her that we would stop by for a visit on Wednesday night after work and bring some take out food (barbeque). Now by nature, I'm a selfish person when it comes to my time after work so it was definitely not in my nature to suggest this. But we went and had a wonderful visit. Then, the next day we got a call to come to the hospital ... my wife's mom had a sudden heart attack ... we were with her when she passed. People can say what they want but I know in my heart that the "inspiration" to go to her house the night before did not come from me.
2007-02-17 15:56:28 · answer #4 · answered by Capernaum12 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well LOTS of personal things but yesterday this man in the army came to talk to us and he said that when he first joined the army, the doctors said that he has testicular cancer. after 3 months of chemotherapy and treatment, they gave him alist of things that he could not do: father his own children, couldn't stay in the army much longer, or do some jobs in the army. well today, he is the father of his own natural born son, and he has been in the army for a long time. plus the job that they said he couldn't do (which happened to be his dream job)? he's doing it now. I love God.
2007-02-17 15:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by ReRe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Catholic, but my specialty was sin. I was a terrible liar and thief by age 10. I was drinking and smoking by age 13. Sexually abusive by age 15. Smoking pot daily and indulging in LSD, speed and whatever else I could get my hands on by age. 17.
I was part of the 60's generation. I became very disillusioned with God, blaming Him for all my personal problems and the problems with the world.
(Proverbs 19:3 says: "A man's folly undermines his way, then his heart rages against the Lord")
So I told God to get out of life. Didn't think much of it - He never seemed to listen to me before. But a clear change came over me, where I felt like everything good was removed from me. I lost the ability to laugh and smile. I felt within me like I was sinking into a bottomless pit. Day by day I got more depressed. I tried desperately to search for something true, something meaningful, to restore a sense of hope, but the more I searched the more I became convinced everything in life was worthless and hollow. It started to become too much for me. I came home one day, fell on my face and started crying, when a voice spoke into my heart these words: "Maybe Jesus really did die for your sins."
Suddenly a profound change came over me. I felt a sense of love, acceptance, peace and joy, hope and light flood my soul, driving out the gloom and emptiness. I felt as if I had been lifted from the lowest pit to the highest mountaintop, and for the first time in my life, I understood the truth, about who I was, and who God was, and what His attitude was towards me. I realized the story I had heard so many times wasn't a fairy-tale, but the truth. I understood God really loved me, and sent His Son to die on a cross for my sins; but that He was risen from the dead, and He was the one effecting this marvelous change in my soul. I never heard of anyone else having such an experience, but a year or so later I was reading the Bible, and in John's Gospel, chapter 3, I read about something Jesus referred to as being born again. I knew immediately that was what had happened to me - I had been born again. Since then I have become a diligent student of the Bible, and have proved the truths it teaches in my own experience, time and time again. I live now with a confident expectation of eternal life and a place in God's Kingdom. I have met I suppose hundreds who have had a similar experience to mine, and have experienced the genuine love and kindness for one another that Jesus taught to His disciples. Jesus Christ is everything to me - He is exactly what He says, The Way, the Truth and the Life. I hope you too come to the same assurance of faith, so that you too may have a share in His Kingdom.
Peace to you.
2007-02-17 16:15:15 · answer #6 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quiet.
2007-02-17 15:45:41 · answer #7 · answered by ilikedagwoods 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry but What God and I do in Vegas stays in Vegas!
2007-02-17 15:46:06 · answer #8 · answered by jaypea40 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i played black sabbath at 78 speed man!
know what happened?
i saw god
he told me cheech and chong
are hilarious
2007-02-17 15:48:24 · answer #9 · answered by lost 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋