I had a health scare recently with my oldest son. He is 100% okay but the incident really had me thinking about how often I thank God for his mercy and kindness.
As a brief backstory to what I thought would be a quick post: I grew up a sinner, and around the same year Q came into my life(2017) is when I decided to go up to the front of the church and ask God for his forgiveness. After a VERY direct conversation with God about my fidelity issues with my girlfriend, I did the unthinkable(in my mind) and told her that I had not been faithful to her when we first met. Girlfriend did not take it well, but she also did not leave me [Thank you God for giving my (now) wife the strength and compassion to stay with me]. What happened next was a ridiculous amount of "energy" transfer between me and the sky. I felt a beam of energy from my toes to my head and shooting out to the sky above. I asked a preacher a few years later what that was and he said the Holy Spirit was entering me.
Long story short, I never feel worthy of his amazing grace. It is an incredible feeling to have my health, my wellbeing, my needs all taken care of by God's grace and divine love. My children laugh, my dogs wag their tail, my flowers bloom. Thank you God for this life. I am trying every day to become a better version of myself to honor you.
Thank you for waking me up to the realities around me. Thank you for this community that is here to help me process everything that is happening. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of something greater than myself. Amen.
I love your story. God is an amazing God. My story is a little different than yours. My teenage son died of cancer early this year yet my recognition of God's greatness is more alive than ever. God took the experience of cancer, pain, trial, and heartache to bring our son closer to God, us-his family, and his church family. My son's faith in the Lord was on display for all to see as he was completely unburdened by his human frailty. God held our family close (as He still does) and has kept our eyes on Him, relieving our pain of this loss and helping us focus on His eternal work. I believe that God uses these kind of painful events in time to draw His followers closer to Him and help them invest in the eternal, because things of this earth will pass away.
Beautiful prayer. You will never be worthy - only Christ is. But I see that you know that now and are just enjoying your life. I can learn from you!
Thank you for sharing your powerful testimony...it touched my heart! 🙏🤍
God is AMAZING. Just like many others the majority of my life was filled with half hearted belief and half hearted faith..... you know, when it was convenient. Then, about 10 years ago, there was this slow awakening happening inside me. Things began to have different meanings and a clearer picture of my life started to emerge. But then about the time of Trump's appearance on the public stage, that awakening became like a huge force or pull toward my faith and belief. It was indescribable the awakening that started happening. I can only sorta describe it like being bathed in a warm bath of knowledge and a stripping of ignorance. God is awakening me. My hunger for his word, his grace, his love, his guidance, his forgiveness, his glory, and his blessings fill me daily. Everyday I thank God for every single blessing.... from each blade of grass to the sun that illuminates our world. The miracle of every aspect that God created for us. We are his greatest creation and we all need to be there for each other. We are awakening others and we are God's army of light. I can now see all the evil that has spread across this earth and to the people. My eyes almost can't believe what I see now. My heart is so broken. My mind can sometimes become so overwhelmed with the depth of evil that exists in every aspect of our world. We must be the light, we must help God turn this around, we must do our part to help save humanity, and we must not fail. Trump cannot do this alone. We are all sinners, but now we must be God's warriors. So, we FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.
I gave my son a book on quantum mechanics (you know, like every good dad should!). In going through it, he noted the wave/particle duality of light, and posed the question if people are both mass and light...it sure does explain the phrase "I am the light of the world" when you think about it.
My thanks for my life, my child and grandchildren and for all the incredible people I have known in my life.
A song for you:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKAN-nAsu8
God bless you all, frens!
I hear big daddy ain't so big anymore. I wonder how things are going for him
Well said.
Always keep the faith. I've never had any "experience" but I definitely believe in them. A brother asked me if I was concerned because I never had an "experience" and I told him no, that God didn't need to give me one to believe. Everyone that is called is called differently. Many don't need it, but many do. I thank God I didn't need it, but you should thank God he blessed you with it. God is good, God is love
Amen brother. I'm thankful for the good health of my wife and children. They are more important to me than any material possession I own, and I would gladly give it all if it meant my family is well. And even with that, the LORD still sees fit to give us an abundance in EVERYTHING.
That is good news for sure! You are not alone and God let you know it. I am glad your son is doing well!
I have been through a similar experience recently. Im not particularly adept at timid explanations but there is now a chord that resonates within me that feels anchored in harmony whereas before it felt tethered and I suffered intense loathing and resentment toward my gifts as a victim of my own choice.
The intensity of vibes is increasing and the only thing I can attribute my newfound marital harmony is that the level of joy in my life is exponentially increased through the test God put us through.
As a result of God pushing me into and pulling out of the fire I now have a greater breadth of understanding and really, Probably, more humbled than anyone would care to fafo..
The significance is that i had to go through a humbling experience to regain the forgone knowledge of humanity and restore it to a fuller radiance with the aid of the entire cosmos. There are certain perspectives that lead to destruction and those paths are not particularly well heeded nor marked.
Without the feeling of displacement or threat of loss of family I would never be able to restore the divine consciousness to my family unit, as didactic alpha numerical language necessarily and equivalently seeks.
This knowledge is something that 2nd or 3rd graders should learn but by 4th its too late for the time being. Its almost impossible that they would be taught a year after that but there is a small segment in 6th that can learn but only after the year+ blue pill has worked its way in digestion. The bile builds a lot of back and forth traversing in the tubes, often taking up to senior year or the 12th grade. From then on waking up in rebirthed feelings of love and harmony at what feels like 15 minute intervals, give or take 2-3 . So it is manageable, this incredible force of Gods love. The parlance and preservation of victory are modestly available to all.
When i was a cocky 18 year old I could never have seen the greatness because my family unity became inverted and self destructed without recognizing God.
Since then I have wandered in search of answers outside myself and God led me on a different path that provided questions that I could answer by seeking within. Unfortunately the level of aloneness and secrecy that is experienced reduces that joy to a region of the mind that could bring about the trait of insanity in scarcely an instant.
I beheld another lesson, one that I firmly walk with, and will carry with me through life. and that one which is, in all of us, God provides the answers to, and that desire to walk tall and keep a place for Him in the heart is what gets me out of bed every day to show His unending love through discipleship and parenting.
I witnessed a beautiful sunrise yesterday with my daughters. Gorgeous yellow and red hues and fading into deep blue as it crossed the highest point of glory in the sky. Its very easy to feel overwhelmed but what I remember most about my summer vacation is that just when it seemed my life was off the winners platform, God said Forget! Die to it this day and maybe we can still get you in the next heat, but you gotta keep that fire lit, fam!
Thanks to all the amazing anons who would never reveal themselves by remaining faithful along the way. I fervently pray for your success and am so grateful that you have been there to keep the love and hope for humanity alive and help me learn so much. I will always feel a great debt to this board and its contributing players. Live and love peaceably, make yuge families and win bigly!
I know exactly what you’re talking about. My relationship with Jesus started about, well I guess about four years ago now, and it’s been amazing. It’s a new life. Just wanted to comment and say thank you for posting. Also wanted to add, what we say in church a lot, and I hear others say…Lord may I be less like myself, and more like you. Thank you Jesus for saving my life. And that of my family. Something myself, nor anyone else could ever do. Your love is amazing.
Thankful we have been delivered out from among the operative influences of Satans Kingdom. Thanks to God who did it bybwaynof His Son, our Lord and risen Savior Jesus Christ.
Now we need to act and walk like it.
Dear God thank you for all that you do for me and my family.
Amen.
This post should be in the general chat.
I thank god every morning I wake up after this past year.
I thank Him everyday for His Love, Grace, and Mercy!! What an awesome God His is!!!