2007-06-06 16:56:37 · 17 answers · asked by mwj81 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
one i have many......
here to some it up. i was a drug addict an alcoholic and all messed up. i cried out and asked the God to please help because i want to die and not live this way any more. i prayed angry and then i prayed with the want to change deep inside and then and only then did God say okay now i can work on you move so i can show you that i can take this way of life you came to be so accustom with. and now PRAISE THE LORD MY SAVIOR I HAVE BEEN CLEAN AND SOBER FOR SHORT OF 2YEARS AND ONLY BY THE HEALING HANDS OF GOD HAVE I STAYED FREE OF THIS ADDICTION AND ALCOHOLISM. this is the greatest way that God influenced my life and changed me for his honor and glory. i thank him everyday for my salvation.
2007-06-06 17:08:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
at the start Who do you're saying God is? John 17:3. Mentions 2 human beings, the only genuine God and Jesus. so once you may understand that Jesus is Gods son John 3:sixteen. there is in easy terms one genuine God Psalm 80 3:18 So no science would supplement yet isn't absolute - Gods strategies are greater Isaiah 55:8-9 earlier Jesus ascended to heaven he advised his disciples to evangelise to the full inhabited earth. 2 Timothy 4:a million-2 Our days could be likes the day s of Noah's Matt 24:37-39. human beings taking no word of the seriousness of the area we are in. 2 Timothy 3:a million-7 describes the quantity of time we live in. Then it is going directly to checklist the undesirable ingredient many would be doing. Matt 7:13-14. Tells of two roads a million street is extensive and an incredible style of contain on it maximum well known off into destruction. the different is narrow and few are looking it besides the undeniable fact that it ends up in existence.
2016-11-07 19:40:29 · answer #2 · answered by edmondson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up as a christian person " knowing " many things about the Lord and about the church. During my late 20's i found my heart becoming so hard and indifferent toward the Lord. The direction my life was taking was very sad. There was no joy in my being. In my youth I had " tasted and seen that the Lord is Good" So how is it that my heart is a lump of stone in me?
I prayed .. simple little prayers asking the Lord to NOT leave me to my hardness.. To cause someone to pray for me. That i'd be taken out of this pit that i found myself in.
Soon.. through these small turns the Lord was able to open my heart so wide to Him .. that one day i called out and re consecrated myself afresh to Him.
I never thought i'd turn.. but He made a way .. directly chipping away at my rock hardness and restoring me once again back to the Love and Enjoyment i once had with Him and even making it richer and sweet than the times before
2007-06-06 17:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I was 6 years old when I first remember going to church with my Grandmother, It was a blessing to get to go to church, because none of the other children in my neighborhood got to go....I thought I was special, In my Sunday school class I was ask to bring someone to church with me, But none of the neighbors would let their children go.At 6 years old the Lord was holding my hand, and guiding me He allowed me to be smart enough to be able to come home and preach what I had learned,in Sunday School to all my neighborhood Friends and I would walk for several blocks to gather children together so I could tell them about Jesus.Keep in mind that I was only 6, I gathered them in my back yard where I lined up all the garbage cans I could find and made me a place to preach from I can remember if I thought they where not listening I would bang the lids to those cans together to make sure they where listening to me..I was telling them about Jesus and all of a sudden I noticed their where a lot of grown ups listening to. Including my Daddy ,you see I lost my Mom when I had just turned 6, And my Daddy got mad at God for taking My Mom and leaving Him with 4 small children,That day the Lord used me to say the words My Daddy and a lot of others needed to here, And ever since the Lord has influenced Me and My Life By wanting to Help and guide others to Him...Thanks for asking, Smile Jesus loves you.By the way My Daddy has now passed and Is in Heaven now, And God gave me the wisdom to prepare and direct my Daddy through the valley of the shadow of death.And even in my Dad's death was God directly guiding Me...to witness His spirit when He came and took Daddy Home.
2007-06-06 17:51:09 · answer #4 · answered by patricia 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there was one recent instance when God influenced my life directly, that is, no man was involved in my decision making- only God giving me the right decision.
my friend's father was needing blood donation. certainly, i could donate but i did'nt think i would. i have fear of needles and also of hospitals. i could have just pray for them and ask God for donors. but it turned that i would be selfish in a way. so God let me see that there was more important thing to do than keeping myself safe and not taking the risk.
after praying, i got the confidence. then, i donated 450cc of blood.
it was my first time...",)
2007-06-06 17:10:49 · answer #5 · answered by bryan john m 1 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Oh it is a very long story. PLEASE CARE TO READ. It is my way of showing gratitude to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Lord Jesus.
Ok I was born a Hindu. Recently, I was suffering from a painful sorethroat for nearly 40 days. I went to the temples and prayed for relieve. I did not feel the assurance that I seeked for.
I was really scared. I am 17 okay. I thought I was going to die. Imagine suffering and you don't know what exactly it was. I went to 3 doctors and none of their medicines helped.I was just siting down and thinking.
Suddenly, a name of this Church just came into my mind. I logged onto the net and typed. I read those thaksgiving letters written to the Blessed Mother of Perpetual Help. I really cried hard as I read. In me, I realised that I have found hope and faith.
The 1st time I went to a Church...oh god...It was like as if I was in heaven. So peaceful. I felt hope and faith. Most of all, I felt assurance. I knew that my life is totally going to change. Whenever, I pray to Jesus or Mother Mary, my mind is totally unto them. It doesn't get distracted. But I whenever I prayed in temples, my mind was always thinking something else.
I went in there as a Hindu. But I came out as a Christian. My life totally changed.
Ok..so... I was referred to the hospital. Before my first visit..I went to the Church. I pray to the Lord telling him that I was willing to suffer but asked him to make anything curable. I also seeked guidance from the Holy Mary.
She made sure that I had someone to follow me through all my 3 appoinments.
During my 3 visits to the hospital...both Mother Mary and Lord Jesus have made their presence known in the form of Our Mother of Perpetual Help potrait. On my 1st visit...after the examination..near the lift lobby..I saw a nurse cubicle with many Our Mother of Perpetual Help potraits. On my 2nd visit, I was very worried cos it was a x-ray test. While I was in the taxi..a van overtook and I saw at the back was a Our Mother of Perpetual Help potrait. I felt at peace immediately. When I went to change into the X-ray gown, I saw three different pamphlets containing Bible verses there. The X-ray went well.
On my 3rd visit..I was in the taxi again and this time another car overtook and I saw another Our Mother of Perpetual Help potrait. This time, it had the words" Do you know I am here"? below.
The doctor told me that there wasn't anything wrong with me.
Even the tightness around my chest was gone. I really have to thank The Lord Jesus, Mother Mary, St.Joseph and St. Francis.
My heart felt gratitiude to Lord Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary for being there for me and giving me the sense of hope and peace that I have been searching for 17 years.
Next,,,I am praying that my journey to becoming a Christian will be a smooth one. Cos not many people in my family knows or like it.
2007-06-06 17:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Just one of many example I could give...
I was suffering from a dibillatating disease that was causing great pain...which in turn was starting to make it impossible for me to continue fulfilling God's purpose in my life...i.e. ministering to prisoners and staff at a corrections facility. I (and others) prayed for healing of the pain. In just six hours, it was gone and has not returned. I still have the disease...but not the pain.
2007-06-06 17:03:42 · answer #7 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well here it is. My family always fought over stupid things then one day I read in the Book of Mormon in 3rd Nephi that contention was of the devil and not of me. At that moment i felt this overwhelming burst of heat that seemed to consume my body but it didn't hurt it just felt like God had testified to me that my family should stop our useless fighting and love one anther, also I was in a class room with some other kids who where fighting and they where jst so loud but after the scripture it silenced them and left a feeling of peace.
2007-06-06 17:06:43 · answer #8 · answered by Carson 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
How can any of us, absolute babes in the stream of time, have the audacity to claim that there is no God when we know next to nothing compared to even the men of old who lived until a good old age of 969 like Methuselah (Genesis 5: 25) or wise King Solomon or Christ who could raise the dead and read the hearts? How can anyone be so sure of what God is, did, does, etc., or even question Him for anything as to what we, puny humans that we've become, can ever dream to think? How relevant is it anyhow? I know He has the last word and wouldn't dream of going one day without His blessing in my life. The fruit of his spirit alone make my this "virtual reality of a life" that is ours these days, such a joy that it can't even compare to what it would be without.
As to the ridiculers of Him, they were there for thousands of years... such as when the Egyptian Pharaoh asked Moses: "Who is Yahweh? I don't know this God?" He soon found out who He was, didn't he? It cost him his life, but not before he witnessed the death of his son and of all oldest sons of the land of Egypt except for those who had the mark on their doors, from the blood of the lamb. The same blood of a much greater lamb is what saves all who put their faith and trust in the ultimate sacrifice, the last one ever required, ever, from Christ, the Lamb of God, who always did the things pleasing to his Father (John 7: 28-30) since the beginning of times when they created all things together after he himself was begotten by the Eternal God who never died for a split second... but who allowed his son to come and take be born from a human young girl by the name of Mary... who had many other brothers and at least one sister... who loved us so much from the beginning of our creation that he didn't mind giving up the priviledge of a human body forever (after he went back to heaven) so that we all could get back what was robbed from us thanks to the small "g" god of 2 Corinthians 4: 4 and the influence that his sacrifice had on my life is such that I now have all of his well-recorded and wonderfully kept only book on earth claiming divine inspiration, full of its heavenly secrets (Daniel 12: 4) on how to live in peace today but how to live forever in the coming paradise. I know I'd be dead long ago without this conviction! and absolute promise from a God who cannot lie. Hebrew 6: 18; Titus 1:2.
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Don't mistake how it is not right to question God as to call Him a liar with asking him for what we need to know in prayer in spirit and in truth (John 4: 24) as we turn to him for the truth of all things... We must be so careful as to not lead anyone to any misunderstandings in such a serious matter which results after all in life and death... Eternal life and eternal death! It's up to us all to make the best choice and to make sure of all things leading to these two eventualities.
2007-06-06 17:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by Terisina 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When God gave me the strength to stand up against my ex-husband...If it wasn't
for GODS strength I never would of been able to do it...I have so many more things I could say, because God truly changed my life .....
2007-06-06 17:01:49 · answer #10 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋