Godly encounters daily

I had something happen like that a few years ago. I used to teach in Sunday school with third and fourth graders and when I was setting things up a fellow teacher came in and we had a long talk. During this time in my life I was doing a lot caring for both my parents, grandparents, and sister alone with all of the domestics in both houses. He was a rock I could go to for prayer and encouragement. We would do this every time as we were preparing. One Sunday, he wasn't there in fact he was out sick along with several other teachers, I was the only person there. I spent the previous day doing crafts and preparing for the lesson and was devastated when the pastor wanted the kids to watch a movie because of all the time I spent. Well, I put in a VeggieTales movie and as I watched the movie with twenty kids I felt the holy Spirit guide me in what I did next. I had the kids sit around in a circle and we had discussed how relationships and friendships were so important in both a spiritual and physical way. I had each kid list qualities what they appreciated about the person sitting next to them and applied how God loves everyone unconditionally and we need to share that same attitude towards them. Afterwards, I gave each kid a friendship bracelet and told them individually how blessed I was to know them. Little did I know the pastor was right outside the door and after the kids left he came in and told me the same thing I told them and he saw the hand of God over me as I went to each one individually.....after he left I was physically shaking because this was the first time I knew I was doing what God had called me to do

My Godly encounter wasn't one I expected. See for the past four days or so I have had such a horrible time sleeping even though my body is exhausted honestly it was an absolute nightmare when your body lacks sleep that much you feel insanely sick and just want to lay in bed and sleep but the issue was even if i lay there for half a day i just couldn't sleep and this went on for three to four days doubt and worry fear and anger kept creeping up in me I just wanted to scream to God why!? But even if i felt this way inside I kept saying to God I trust you and I thanked him for this trial.

I did ask him out of curiosity not out of doubt or anger why am I going through this horrible storm? Then suddenly I remembered my daily prayer to him in which I ask him Lord how can become closer to you? and always hearing him reply back walk through the fire with me. I then recalled the time when in the middle of the storm Jesus called peter out to meet him and then heard the words you wanted to become closer to me so meet me in the storm.

i was praying and others were youd get a church invitation God is so good aint he?

hallelujah! Yea I out of the sudden had issues with my sleep but tonight I slept like a babe. Its horrible when you cant sleep. Everything hurts and everything just seems too much. God bless ya brother

you ok honey? message if you need to I had spiritual pain and too many cares and worries the other week and everything seemed to much but like blain said thats a cry out to Jesus peter moment

the Jesus meeting Peter in the storm reminded me of this

"Fierce"
(feat. Chris Quilala)

Before I call
Before I ever cry
You answer me
From where the thunder hides
I can't outrun
This heart I'm tethered to
When every step
I collide with You

Like a tidal wave
Crashing over me
Rushing in to meet me here
Your love is fierce
Like a hurricane
That I can't escape
Tearing through the atmosphere
Your love is fierce

You cannot fail
The only thing I've found
Is through it all
You never let me down
You don't hold back
Relentless in pursuit
At every turn
I come face to face with You

Like a tidal wave
Crashing over me
Rushing in to meet me here
Your love is fierce
Like a hurricane
That I can't escape
Tearing through the atmosphere
Your love is fierce

You surround me
You chase me down
You seek me out
How can I be lost
When You have called me found
You chase me down
You seek me out
How can I be lost
When You have called me found
You chase me down
You seek me out
How can I be lost
When You have called me found

Like a tidal wave
Crashing over me
Rushing in to meet me here
Your love is fierce
Like a hurricane
That I can't escape
Tearing through the atmosphere
His love is fierce
Your love is fierce
You never let go
Your love is fierce
Even now You surround me
Your love is fierce
Always always
His love is fierce

Im fine so far. No worries sis

*You cannot fail
The only thing I've found
Is through it all
You never let me down
You don't hold back
Relentless in pursuit*
At every turn
I come face to face with You

wow that is so cool renewed

A couple weeks ago, my sister and I were talking about me learning Mandarin. I'm in a country where majority of the people speak both english and Chinese. I've been here for 3 years and I didn't wanna let time go to waste. Learning Chinese will help my career.

But since I have both school and work and serve at church, it would be difficult to find time for it. So I didn't bother.

However, last week, I was chatting with a part time admin staff at church and, she's taking her Masters in Chinese translation and then she told me that she used to teach Chinese in school. I did NOT even mention anything about learning Chinese and then she was there and her time is flexible and her rates are not high!! Someone with her education and experience could easily charge more than she does. I am sooo glad. We agreed to do it after I finish my 4th term in school and before I start my bachelors.

It only reminded me that God cares about the little things

today was just soo awesome. bunches of laughs and I ended up singing a duet with a Iranian girl thats 19 AND then was asked to pray for the african congregation. bunches of hugs and encouragement today. God is so awesome its unbelievable

im amazed i thought id take vitamins since im going off my meds its giving me hair loss so my parents didnt give such a difficult time and freakout they stressed me out over this God bless them tho i know God wants me to look after my health but i wasntt sure how much he was into my new vitamins how much so anyway long story cut short Sonflower on CC said she hasnt slept well this week and would need some sleep so I thought Id suggest 'sleep drops' a herbal liquid not rubbish i take sometimes which isnt as strong as those knock out otc sleeping pills so i was busy looking up whether health2000 website had international orders and then i put in 'sleep drops'in the search bar it came up with 'solgar vitamin E liquid' this important too it being liquid because I cant swallow capsules hardly any tablets unless theyre tiny as I have gag reflex it didnt come up with sleep drops so Ive know got vitamins ABCDE + others Praise our amazing God he wants us to look after our health he amazed by showing he really was interested he cares

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this is a true example of Hope and Faith! like Abraham and quite a few others!!!

we appreciate your understanding of what we were saying, Blain.
for some reason, we don't have the ability to give you a 'rep', there is a blank there...

no need to rep me my friend rep points don't matter to me

I had one today and honestly I can't say I am proud of it. I don't know why but I woke up today feeling so broken frustrated and severely irritated and I was about to break down so i went to take a shower as it's the only place I can cry at home without being made fun of or asked what's wrong and I just broke I was so irritate at God because I have wanted so much more of him so much deeper a love and bond with him yet always feel so underfed and I just broke down in tears and I fell on my knees holding stomach and couldn't help but to say oww in my tears because it hurt so bad inside that this is the limit that I just can't seem to find him like I so deeply crave.

Now I have a kindred spirit with David even at his lowest he was always honest with God even in his anguish and anger and like him I do not hold back I am completely honest with God and while I am not proud of this I almost screamed at him I tld him about what I was feeling and I said to him I know you know our pain because you experienced much of what we do but you don't know this kind of pain how could you? My conversation continued by me saying do you have any idea what it feels like to want someone so badly to want top know them and have a kind of love with them that is so deep and yet you never can because you are limited to how much you can know and have them?

Again I said you don't know this pain because you have always known you know our hearts to the deepest core you don't know what this pain is like. I told him I was sorry if I was out of line and if I was offensive in my words but I wanted him and I to have an honest relationship even in my anger interestingly enough after this after I let loose all of that I suddenly felt so much better i was calm at peace and happy no irritation no feelings of any kind of anguish I felt healed inside somehow

Whenever I would say out of the blue like that my mom would say " Yeah, out of the blue Holy Spirit". And it would always make me laugh.

Of course I should give God the credit, and I always do, but my mom has a way of making language more precise. So now I say 'out of the blue Holy Spirit'... when I remember...

Lots of things happen 'out of the blue' like that when we are paying attention. lol

I like experiences when the Holy Spirit energizes us----while waiting on God--- His Presence will be a fire burning upon and in us...He speaks confirmation or encouragement ---we can then be empowered to pray, prophesy, preach, witness, and be courageous...We walk by faith, not our feelings--- but God can bless us at times...

I have many of them but one find amusing was the time i finished praying and after a while i logged onto a game and this guy logged in right next to me.. I didn't think much of it at first, but i thought it was weird for him to be exactly where i was ingame, and that his name was "hashem" -which is Hebrew for God or The name, I just thought hmm coincidence cool, then logged out, and opened a different game.. I open a game where its 2vs2 and my opponents are "alpha" and "omega"... after seeing this i just closed the window without even playing them, and created a new 2vs2 game... my next opponents were "Adonai" and "Jesus C".. after seeing that i just shut the game down completely thinking to myself "wow what are the odds"...then for some odd reason it dawned on me to check my email... i check it, and i have about 50 spam invites from some random christian site.. after finally seeing everything come together i just closed my laptop and said "k fine i quit" and that was it lol.