Interview with god? What did you think & what did you do?
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That sounds neat? I like my spirituality in soft, non-threatening packages, give us the link!!\n\nu know, just by posting this, u r exposing more people to the lies.  shame on you.   Oh, I'm an atheist by the way :)
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Dear Deebster, I would like to tell you my testimony.\n\n\nI was your average, person, a very “nice guy.”  I loved my mom and dad, had a decent home, played little league, and even went to church.  Whenever I thought about life after death I had no fears at all.  After all, I believed in God and Jesus… and I thought I was a pretty good person.  I felt that if anyone could end up in Heaven, I probably would. Then came the shock of a lifetime!  Let me explain by asking you a couple of questions…\nHave you ever lied (even once--fibs, white lies, etc.)? Ever stolen (anything--the value is irrelevant)? Jesus said, "Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already with her in his heart." Have you ever looked with lust? If you have said "Yes" to these three questions, by your own admission, you are a lying, thieving, adulterer at heart; and we’ve only looked at three of the Ten Commandments. \nWhat a shock!  God didn’t see me as the “nice guy” I imagined myself to be… and he doesn’t see you that way either. Nothing you’ve ever done is hid from His holy eyes. Will you be innocent or guilty on the Day of Judgment? Listen to your conscience. You know that you will be guilty, and therefore end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He provided a way for you and I to be forgiven. \nHe sent His Son to take our punishment: "God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He was bruised for our iniquities. Jesus then rose from the dead and defeated death. \nYour own so-called “goodness” can’t get you into heaven any more than mine could.  Jesus is the only way to Heaven. He is the "Door," the only "mediator." There is salvation in no other name, so pray something like this: "Dear God, I repent of all of my sins (confess them). This day I put my trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Please forgive me and grant me your gift of everlasting life. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen."
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I have definetly felt the pressence of GOD. Right before Christmas in 2004, our first ond onlt child, a son, passed away. This was a very hard time for my husband and I, and we stopped going to church. We didn't celebrate Christams that year, and my husband started to smoke cigarettes again. I quit my job to stay home, because being around people was so ahrd. I tried to convince myself that everything was okay.\n\nAbout a month after he passed away, i was going through some of his old belongings and looking at his phot album. I broke down, and it felt good. I dont know what it was for sure, but i felt like someone was hugging me; i felt warm, happy, and that everything was going to be okay. I like to think that our son is our gaurdian angel. \n\nGod has recently blessed us with a new baby boy. I think our first son saw how sad we are, and told GOD to give us another baby....
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A few years ago, I thought everything was going great.  I had just gotten married, and we had recently moved into a new house.  I thought I was right where God wanted me.\n\nThen it happened.  The company that my father and I were working on building together lost its largest client and, with that client, went 40% of its revenue.  Obviously that was a major blow, and it threw our life into a major upheavel.  In order to help supplement our income, my wife stopped working for me and went to work for our church full time, and I started working there part time a few months later.\n\nI began to feel like God was telling me something, but I didn't want to pick up my life, go back to school, and start a new career when I finish school at 36.  Then at a Christmas Eve service, the pastor preached a sermon about how the wise men were late, but it was never too late to do what God is calling you to do.\n\nSo, I prayed and told God that I needed to know for sure that he was calling me to do this, and within a few weeks, I was hit with even more financial difficulty.  The lesson here is:  be careful what you pray for; you just might get it.\n\nSo, I decided that I would do what I felt God calling me to do and started looking at schools.  I ended up at The Divinity School at Wake Forest University, which was not my first or even second choice.\n\nI won't say that everything has been perfect, but everything has worked out to get me where I am now.  The house we bought had appreciated enough in value for us to be able to pay cash for the small condo we live in now, etc.\n\nIn the end it came down to this.  I KNEW that God was calling me into the ministry, I had no doubt about it.  I think the majority of people are sure.  They may argue with God about it, like Moses who basically responded "Here am I, send Aaron."\n\nIf I could sum it up, I guess I would say if you have significant doubts that you are being called into ministry, you probably aren't.
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Well God. i did the 'help' prayer and God helped. i KNEW God existed when my youth leader prophecied over the youth group and he told me something i had thought not even talked about. i was left with two choices either my youth leader was physic or God existed. since then god has blessed me with a whole host of spiritual gifts and now i just KNOW.\n\nno one sees the wind you can only feel it. i have also studied evolution recently and that it is biochemically impossible. the more i learn about the New World Order, seal of solomon etc and illuminati on dollar bills it makes more sense... you cant argue with fact... the more i read the bible the more it makes sense. for example, the fact that psalm 22 talks about roman torture aka crucifixion which is not Jewish and yet it was written 1000 years before JC was born same as scripture in Daniel, Micah , Isiah etc\n\ni am now hoping to go to bible college and become a minister...\n\nthis is a paper i wrote enjoy...\n\nEvolutionary scientific discoveries unwittingly make the human creation in the book of Genesis feasible to the point of affirmation.\n\nIntroduction\n\nIn the beginning “male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1, 27) This statement has been contested ever since the Age of Enlightenment when human beings with their development of knowledge set about challenging God’s authority in the world around them. Immanuel Kant’s motto “Dare to know” really symbolises the dominant modernistic attitude that was and continues to be embraced by humanity. God has no problem with us gaining knowledge- he invented science and has got it to a perfect art seeing as he spoke all the necessary components into being. Indeed knowledge is God-given to the point that it is one of the fruits of the spirit. Besides, if God really wanted us to remain ignorant of the world he wouldn’t have given us the Word. I therefore want to emphasise that it is only when we think we got here on our own, without God that we come into dispute with God and the truth. But rejection is nothing new to God, who is neither surprised nor shocked by our choices or actions. Before God even created the world he had sent his son to die “it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him” (Isaiah 53, 10) and before he created the universe God knew we would “turn our backs on him and look(ed) the other way.” (Isaiah 53, 3). The fact that Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species caused some controversy and drove people to reject Jesus as the truth was not a ‘heavy blow’ for Him. For one thing, and I say this tongue-in-cheek, if God is anything like me he had probably gotten ‘bored’ of waiting. After all there’s quite a bit of waiting between before the Planck epoch (for those who are interested the Planck epoch is the time between zero and 10-43 seconds of the beginning of the universe) and 1859! Regardless of this publication and the later The Descent of Man (1871) His plan would still prevail over all His creation. The plan had already succeeded before we emerged on day six. Everything else had already been put in place: Jesus’ death and resurrection and all the animals and plants. EVERYTHING! God did NOT need our help or our approval and if he didn’t need it then, he certainly doesn’t need it NOW. What is interesting is that as God allows our knowledge to deepen and technology to improve evidence, particularly genetic and fossilised, appears to be pointing towards the feasibility if not the affirmation of the ‘story’ of Adam and Eve foretold in Genesis.\n\nAssumptions of the Author\n\nBefore I go any further I am making the following interpretations and/or assumptions:\n\n•Evolution (at least in humans) does occur but only within species. I believe that whilst other animals may evolve we wouldn’t as we are God’s chosen creation made in His image. He never changes and thus nor have (or will) we. Within our species implies that if women suddenly found blue-eyed men to be a turn-of
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yes, I have conversations with GOD daily...many times a day actually..and HE does answer back...there are times that HE actually initiates..\n\nI was washing dishes the other week complaining to myself in my mind about all the difficulties I was having and how I didn't want to fool with any of it anymore...thinking to myself now...then HE spoke to me...HE told me that I was put here on this earth to do HIS will, and if I didn't want to do HIS will, then my purpose for being here was done, and I could be removed...\n\nHumbling, very humbling..\n \nThere are times that HE speaks to me, but not like the above mentioned incident.  HE has spoken to me concerning my husband's healing and health issues, HE has held me and comforted me through the death of my best friend...There are times that I talk and it's like HE doesn't hear because HE doesn't answer immediately, BUT, it is to teach me patience and the fact that it is worth waiting on GOD's answer.\n\nGOD BLESS YOU
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O.K., I love to tell this.\n\nWhen I became a Christian, I could no longer tolerate my unsaved, drinking, running around husband.\n\nI prayed, "God, please, give me a Christian husband instead."\n\nI knew God doesn't like divorce, so I didn't have any idea what He would do.\n\nYa ready?\n\nHe saved my husband. God is great all the time.
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I believed in god very much.  Bible camp counsellor.  On the bible quiz team.  Memorized books of the bible.  I went to a Baptist Bible College to study the bible in depth.  Imagine my surprise when the "small little holes" in the bible became huge GAPING holes when studied in the original languages.  It was the last thing I expected to happen at bible college.\n\nAfter a few years of trying to hold onto my faith, it vanished all together.  I tried shutting myself in a closet and praying every night.  To stop "thinking" and just will myself to believe.  Nothing worked.\n\nBasically, the first thing to go was "the bible isn't correct."  After that it was the morality of god (eternal punishment for a finite sin?  All of humanity being punished for a chick munching on fruit?)\n\nEventually, getting a degree from a "secular" university in history helped me think my way out of religion.  \n\nHope that is what you were lookin for.
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I prayed for comfort because someone I really love hurt me in a way that I never thought he would. I was so hurt, feeling so lost and ashamed. So, all I could think to do was pray and pray. God DID comfort me that night-all night long. He answered me by giveing me strength and lots of patience to handle the situation the right way instead of getting him back.
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Here is what I did.\n\nI stopped dwelling on his faults and took a good, honest look at my own. \n\nWhen I began to concentrate on how I could be a good wife regardless of his behavior, that entitled me to place HIS behavior in God's hands.\n\nWhoa. You should have seen how the Heavenly Father worked with him!\n\n1. Ask God to show you your faults.\n2. Ask Him to forgive you for them.\n3. Choose to change.\n4. Sit back and watch what happens.\n\nLike you, I really wanted my marriage to survive for many different reasons. It's obvious you have a wonderful heart for wanting to do the right thing, or you wouldn't even be asking this question.\n\nI faced this situation in 1980 and we are still happily .....most of the time :).....married.
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i would like to put aquestion in front of you\nmy question is do you believe in GOd?\n\nif yes , then please keep faith in him\nhe has never shut the doors of his heart for anyone who came to him for help\n\nplz pray to him, know him better because he is the only one who can understand you better\n\nand later in your life one day you may realize that this problem had come to you so that u could come closer to God as i have
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A very close friend of mine, Teresa, died a while back from cancer. She was young, just starting a teaching career, full of life, enthusiasm and love for people, especially kids. She was diagnosed with cancer a few days before her wedding (not to me) and died a few weeks after their first anniversary.\n\nAt her funeral I absolutely expected God to raise her from the dead - God had done it before after all. Then we were at the graveside and still no knock on the coffin lid.\n\nWhen her coffin was lowered into the ground and I tossed my flower in on top my world collapsed. I hated God with an absolute passion. I cursed God, swore at God, I told God just how big of a b*stard "he" was. I kept going to church but I wouldn't sing or pray (although every time I abused God I was actually praying, ironic hey). I went to church for the sake of appearances - I was a longstanding youth leader at my church. I kept asking all of the WHY questions but didn't get a single answer.\n\nEventually (a couple of months later), still in my anger and bitterness, God spoke to me (understand that however you like) and said ... \n\n"Will you trust me even if you don't understand?"\n\nI didn't expect that response from God. But here I am a few years later, finally able to talk about Teresa without crying and studying to be a pastor of the Lutheran church. \n\nTime does help to heal these wounds. But being honest with God, even in your anger or confusion is also helpful. Ultimatly you probably won't get an answer to the why questions. But I hope that you can eventually receive the peace that God is offering to you in your grief.
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Yes. I not go into detail much, but, I have heard God verbally once in my life. The other times God just responded to my requests and helped me. Then there were times He not do anything, maybe I did not need what I wanted or He teaching me patients to wait for some things.
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I have been on both sides of this issue. I was raised to believe, but rationally I could not except the idea that God was the judgmental insecure fruitcake my religion portrayed him as.\n\nSo I stopped believing.  Then this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile 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.\n\nThree 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. \n\nI 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.\nDuring 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. \n\nI 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 is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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T'was during the service of the Evil Stepmother (for real) when the priest asked everyone to pray so that her soul may ascend to heaven. At that moment lightning struck twice. I almost burst out laughing out loud! Now I believe there is a God!\n\n2nd time, it was a fieldmouse desperate to get out of the hole, jumping up n down on the casket.
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Yes! Please pray for Chad, who is very confused in his belief of GOD.  Thank you very much! I will pray for you also!  Have a great year.
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My testimony? Where do I begin? \n\nAll I can say is Jesus personally raised me.  I grew up in a home filled with drugs, violence, "sexual immorality" (for lack of a better word), and family curses. I've even seen several people die and kill one another. It was nowhere near a Christian environment. Yet though I did not yet know God, as a child, I knew these trhings were wrong. How? Before I even started school, I was pressured with drugs and sex, and violence was all around me, but I never got involved in any of it. To this day I have never tried drugs, gotten drunk, smoked anything or slept with anyone except my husband. Again how? One thing I had going for me was my dad baught me lots of toys and books and he left me alone with them alot. I don't remember how, but I did read before kindergarden. One of the many books I read was a Children's book of bible stories. Though I did not really know God, somehow I accepted the stories as fact and the other children stories as fiction. When I did start going to school, another advantage I had was that because I was ignored at home, I had freedom to go anywhere and do whatever I wanted. God blessed me and gave me lots of good friends, one of whom took me to church. There I met lots of others and came to know the Lord. Of course I have never been anywhere near perfect. I was in and out of church and made plenty of mistakes. I've also had alot of hurts and pain in my life, but God has healed my heart and filled it with an undescrible peace, joy, and mad, passionate love for him. God alone was the one who raised me and got me where I am today. He blessed me and put some great people in my life for which I am truly thankful. I should have been raped, beated and killed many times, but God always saved me from all of that. He has always protected me and cared for me. To this day I can't explain it. Why would he love me like that? All I can say is tht is the kind of God He is. He's filled with mercy, love and compassion. He loves everyone just as he loves me and he longs to save, heal, and draw all men unto him.  I can't describe the love and passion he has caused to overflow in my heart. I often refer to it as a consuming fire. That's what God is. \n\nHis healing fire is there for the asking. For anyone who wants a new life. There is no limit to what He can do. There is no sin or anything a person can go through that God cannot heal and restore that person. There is absolutely no limit to his love. The only limits are the limits we place on God. Jesus said, "ask and you shall recieve. Knock and the door will be open unto you."