Proof of God

What a great dream! AND AN EVEN GREATER GOD who spoke comfort in the midst of the STORM!

SG, I can so totally relate to your post. My uncle and I (he was only 10 years older - the same age gap as my brother and myself) were so so so close and he died from trying to quit drinking. He began having Grand Mal seizures and the last killed him. It was so devastating. I am praying you and my heart is grieving with you. Love,

I can totally relate. While cleaning this morning, which is when I meditate - LOL! Which is WHY I clean - I was meditating on how oru surroundings have such an effect on us and I was thinking how important it is to be in positive places OR, and this was big thing; to find another Christian to hold onto in those dark places because two can put 10,000 to flight. Is there another Christian there that you can hook up with until you can get out?

When I feel butterflies deep in my stomach, or a blowing up inside of me, it is the Holy Spirit and any words that I get inside of me at the same time are from Him and are prophetic. Sometimes it will happen when a certain person walks by me and I know a word is for them.

Amen! Preach it Pastor!

Great answer JJP!

Thanks everyone!

Aemilk, Praise God. Your post is a serious blessing to me!

Thanks guys! Your wishes are going to go a long way toward it being a blessed day.

You are NUTS D!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE to see God work like that and I am always so excited when He does. I mean REALLY excited like a little kid who just found out they are going to Disney Land.

Woohoo. PRAISE GOD!!!!

When I was first born again a televagelist came to our church. He was twenty years older than I was (at least). He asked me out to lunch and since I was barely saved two months, and all the older ladies said, "He is a mature man of God, it must be God." So, I went. After lunch I drove him to the airport and he went back to his head quarters across the country, but called me daily and sent me things from his ministry; tapes, books, etc. He asked that I send him some pictures and then he planned on sending me plane tickets so that I could meet him the next time he was ministering on this side of the country. This went on for several weeks/months. But before that meeting came he started calling me later and later and saying things that a very niave twenty year old was shocked to hear. Around the same time, my church began to fall apart because of other leadership inquity being exposed and I thought, My worldly friends are more honest than this. At least they aren't pretending to be holy. So I left the church for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time. At least a decade, probably more like fifteen years. During that time I wanted to get close to God but I wasn't having anything to do with the going to church business, so I started listening to some Joyce Meyer tapes that someone had given me. I can remember listening to the first few tapes with a total attitude. I didn't trust this Joyce man (couldn't figure out if it was a man or woman) on the tapes I was hearing and I totally didn't trust any new preachers. I was totally on my guard all the time, and I probably still am. At first when I started listening to Joyce Meyer it was with an attitude that was waiting for something about her to pick apart so that I could throw her tapes away and be done with it. But God really used her to help me. First, she wasn't a man. She was woman and at that time I really didn't trust men preachers. Then, her honesty about her own shortcomings helped me to let my guard down without even realizing I was letting my guard down. Slowly but surely I was healing toward Christianity. I definitely didn't want to be around any Christians yet, because I had lumped them all in the same category as the sinning ministers, but I wanted God . I couldn't understand why, after listening to Joyce Meyer 24/7 for months, I still didn't feel like I did when I first was born again. I felt like there was a block between God and I, so I asked Him, "What is wrong? Why can't I get back where I was?" He answered me immediately. It was the first time I had heard from Him in fifteen years. It was like He was waiting all this time for me to ask, and His answer was, "Unforgiveness." I realized it was true. Up until then I didn't even realize I had a chip on my shoulder. But I was still really mad at the people who had offended me - mostly the televangelist that I felt like had defiled me with his mouth over the phone. I decided to forgive him then and there. I made the decision to let it go but I still have to work at letting it go because my feelings aren't always lined up with my decisions. Today I am still very guarded about people, especially Christian leadership. I'm not that way on purpose. It's just a scar left over from the trauma. Through this I've learned that just because a person is leading a group of believers does not mean they are infallable. I completely understand John 2:24 and why Jesus didn't trust people because He knew what was inside men. My outlook is now: People will fail to be perfect Christians. Understanding that in advance, I am not set up for failure. I no longer expect people to be perfect because they can't be, and I totally mean this in a healthy way. It's easier for me to love people if I expect them to have weaknesses. As a matter of fact, I tell people in advance. I'm a lousy example of a Christian but a perfect example of God's grace. Don't expect me to be any more perfect than you are. As a matter of fact, expect less of me because God uses the weak and foolish things of this world to confound the wise. I have probably more struggles than the average person and I don't mind admitting it. As Paul said, I will boast in my weaknesses that God's power would rest on me. I've learned through this that the only person to look up to with respect and admiration is my Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus. The rest of us are people like Paul: 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.c For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! Father, I pray for Sirianta that she would not be scarred by this encounter. I pray that she be delivered of any ill effects of this situation and that she be restored to her former innocent condition. I take comfort in your Goodness Lord; that you love Sirianta and would protect her from damage as the result of vile behavior. Thank You Lord that you are The Restorer and our Shelter and Strong Tower, and we can take refuge under the shadow of your wing if we would just run to You. You are Glorious Lord and I praise you that you are even now sending ministering to this situation. In the Power of Jesus' Precious, Holy & Beautiful Name. Amen

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you,

I choose to believe that the people in the news articles have God to thank and not concrete. This was the first storm with EF5 tornadoes since the Greensburg tornado three years. Typically, when I read about people going through tornadoes I am never very affected by it, I don't know why. It's news. It's normal. I can't conjur up empathy. I'm immune to the news. But when I dream about people going through these things and then I read about them, and then talk about the people in the stories - in relation to the dreams that I had preceeding them... For instance, I dreamed about the people in the above story and felt their terror.... In that light, I am terribly affected by the stories, in ways that I cannot begin to explain. It's truly heartbreaking.

"We were in the bathroom holding on to each other and holding on to dear life," said Samantha Nail, who lives in a blue-collar subdivision in the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove where the storm slammed heavy pickup trucks into ditches and obliterated tidy brick houses, leaving behind a mess of mattresses, electronics and children's toys scattered across a grassy plain where dozens used to live. "If it wasn't for our concrete walls, our home would be gone like the rest of them." Or maybe it was because God sent a prayer request for these people a month ago......... because I see the things that will be written up before it happens and it was this paragraph... people locked together and the children.... symbols for the toys.

In today's news...... "We were in the bathroom holding on to each other and holding on to dear life," said Samantha Nail, who lives in a blue-collar subdivision in the Birmingham suburb of Pleasant Grove where the storm slammed heavy pickup trucks into ditches and obliterated tidy brick houses, leaving behind a mess of mattresses, electronics and children's toys scattered across a grassy plain where dozens used to live. These sure did make the news. Let's pray that God does some miracles in the process of finding live victims that are currently missing.

Wow. I will be keeping you in my prayers for a rapid healing! Praise GOD for early detection! Please keep us posted! Love you! Mia

I just saw this. I'm praying for you Lurdys. God is so good. The testimony about the song was awesome, and that He's sending you dreams of comfort is SO HIM! Praying for you dear sweet sister. All my love, Mia

Usually when I dream about tornadoes they make the news and I don't live in a tornado area. The last one I dreamed about was Greensburg and others of note. I think tornado season is coming up. I know it is for someone because I had a dream about a tornado at night. I saw some person looking out the window and a light that was normally visible was suddenly blocked out and they knew a tornado was headed for their house so they got the two little children they were with and got down and put their hands over their heads with their arms all locked together. Please pray for these people.... and anyone else that comes in the path of tornadoes. I believe in prayer and I'm praying for an injury free tornado season!

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