Can you have proof God exists? Jesus said "Blessed are those who believe and have not seen" (John 20:29)
But here are 4 of DOZENS of true events I've experienced that serve as a reminder to me that God is REAL, He knows me personally, He loves me personally, He really shows me the truth of things I could never have known, and He's not just "in my head", "a figment of my imagination", or a man-made religious myth.
True Even #1
When I was 10 years old, I was in a church sermon and heard the Bible verses on Hell...instantly in my mind, it was a big, black, bottomless pit, about the size of a football field, and I had just enought light to see myself walking down a dirt path leading to hell. I went home, asked my dad "I'm going to Hell. How to I avoid that?" He said "Oh...that's something you have to talk to Jesus about." He led me in a prayer to a man named Jesus who was alive in Heaven, confessing every known sin, and asking Him to come into my heart. Before I could finishing saying "Jesus, please come into my heart..." it was if a waterfall in the sky opened up and washed away all my heavy guilt, fear, and shame. INSTANTLY, I KNEW I would NEVER go to Hell, and I was so excited, I jumped up and ran down the street to tell my best friend Michael. That was 21 years ago. Michael is not a pastor in seminary.
But some may say, "But that was all in your head. That's not proof." To which I say "Ok. It was proof to me, but I understand"
However....
True Event #2
I didn't experience God again until college. A fiery street preacher was at my university, and I was watching him talk to the crowd. A man came up and invited me into a Christian group for Bible study. I ended up going on a Florida evangelical, spiritual growth summer trip. During that summer of 2005, during a worship service, I felt compelled to leave, so I went on the beach, in the dark, and began weeping for my family to be saved. After praying, I heard a still small voice (aka a internal thought in English) say to me "Get up and go across the street" This made no sense because it was dark and nothing was there, but it seemed exciting, so I walked over the highway to find a pier full of night fisherman. I froze because I knew God wanted me to tell them about Jesus, but I was embarrassed. Finally, I gave in, and walked up to a couple and his father, who turned around to face me, and I simply pulled out a Bible, flipped it open, and read the first verse I saw. The verse was Ephesians 5:25 ("Husbands, loves your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her. Wives, submit to your husband as unto the Lord.") The couple, and their older father just STARRED at me... in shock they asked..."Where did you come from?" I said, "From across the street. I'm with a Christian group of students down here for the summer" They said "That is unbelievable!!! Do you know why we are out here?" "No" I said. They said "We have been having marital problems, and we were meeting with my dad, one last time, before we were going to get divorced." They were ecstatic that God had given them directions to save their marriage, and they wanted to drive me back to the motel across the street, so I obliged."
Now some may say, "That was just coincidence!" to which I'd say "Ok. But can you even fathom the odds of that happening?"
But there's more.. MUCH MORE.
True Event #3
After becoming an active follower of Jesus Christ and hearing God's voice for the first time in college, I began to listen for God's Voice (the Holy Spirit) and do more of what He said.
I had been attending a lovely Assemblies of God church, full of people who loved to worship Jesus Christ. One night at home, the Lord was speaking to me, so I called my dad and said, "Dad, God is speaking to me". My dad, who was a christian by religion, but not by personal experience (his own testimony) told me "Well, write it down like a journal so you can have it to look over, and see what happens." So I did. It was 4 paragraphs. It made sense until all of a sudden God said "I know the harm caused to you by those who claim to be your 'pastors'". I dropped the pen and thought "Ok. This is crazy. This is just me, not God. My pastors are super nice, great men." For some reason, I still typed it onto my blogspot site.
1 month later, on a Sunday in church, a denominational leader overseeing the state of Indiana stepped up and said that 3 of the 9 pastors (1/3rd) had been under investigation for adultery with dozens of women over 10-15 years, including each other's wives. We listened to taped recordings of these "men of God" telling the women to "keep in the kitchen" and that confessing their sins publicly would just "throw oil on the fire" and hurt "God's work". They had also been pilfering money from the collections and increasing their own salaries secretly.
(Note: My blogpost is still there, with the original upload date, and you can read about the corrupt 'pastors' in the Indianapolis Star newspaper, dated about 6 weeks after my blog)
But some may say..."Ok. That was just your subconscious because you could sense they were bad people" To which I'd say "How, when there was NOTHING I knew consciously that would have even given me a clue?"
But ok...I'll share 1 more..
True event #4
In the fall of 2015, I had just been offered a promotion, and I got a bad headache so I left to go to the hospital in Greenwood, Indiana. It was my nearest in-network hospital, so I made the trip.... on the way down there, I was just trying to relax and enjoy the sunlight, and God began to speak things that were physically calming me down. I rode on like this for a while and suddenly realized I had missed the road for the hospital and I had ended up in a small town shopping district call Edinburgh Indiana. I found a small park next to a warehouse, so I decided to park my car behind the warehouse where it would be out of the way. Then I went for a walk in the park. It was beautiful. The glistening dew on the grass, the green trees, the joggers on the track, people with dogs, and God just kept whispering things like "Be still and know that I am God." I decided to explore a bit, so I left the park on foot, walked around the other side of the warehouse, stopped at a small firehouse and made small talk with the firefighters washing the trucks, and took a stroll past some shops with cowboy boots and hats in the windows. Then I saw this large dog walking down the sidewalk. He looked well-kept with a collar, so I followed him, hoping to get his owner's info, but he got away. I looked up, realizing I had got turned around and didn't know which direction I'd come from. I found an older man walking the sidewalk, and asked for directions, but he directed me to a high school track instead of the park by which I'd parked my car behind the warehouse. I suddenly began to be afraid. I was in a new town, without a phone (I left it in the car intentionally for some peace and quite), and all I had were my keys. I pressed the key fab alarm but heard nothing. I became very afraid, but the Holy Spirit whispered "Don't be afraid. Just follow Me." And He directed me straight ahead. Suddenly He said "Turn Left" so I did. As I looked down the street, I noticed small shops on either side, and on the left, under the black and white sign of a small plumbers shop, sat MY CAR!!! It was parked perfectly on the curb. I could barely believe my eyes and thought it was just someone else's of the same model. But when I used my key fab, the lights lit up and I started it. I had to touch the door handle and get inside before I really believed it. Nothing was broken, nothing was dirty, and it was still locked. Those cars will only shift out of park with the key in the car, and your foot on the brake. It's a push button, electric start 2014 Ford Fusion.
Not only did God's Spirit lead me straight back to my car, He BROUGHT MY CAR TO MEET ME HALFWAY!!!
I drove home with the real sense of my Almighty Father God escorting me home in His own Chariot/Limousine.
I have DOZENS and DOZENS of other true stories like this, but my point to anyone who thinks God is a myth or a lie, is that you just need a tiny grain of faith in Jesus Christ to ask Him into your heart, but once you do, God will PROVE Himself to you as the all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, loving, Father. He will walk with you daily, if you'll walk with Him. He'll even speak to you, if you need it.
But here are 4 of DOZENS of true events I've experienced that serve as a reminder to me that God is REAL, He knows me personally, He loves me personally, He really shows me the truth of things I could never have known, and He's not just "in my head", "a figment of my imagination", or a man-made religious myth.
True Even #1
When I was 10 years old, I was in a church sermon and heard the Bible verses on Hell...instantly in my mind, it was a big, black, bottomless pit, about the size of a football field, and I had just enought light to see myself walking down a dirt path leading to hell. I went home, asked my dad "I'm going to Hell. How to I avoid that?" He said "Oh...that's something you have to talk to Jesus about." He led me in a prayer to a man named Jesus who was alive in Heaven, confessing every known sin, and asking Him to come into my heart. Before I could finishing saying "Jesus, please come into my heart..." it was if a waterfall in the sky opened up and washed away all my heavy guilt, fear, and shame. INSTANTLY, I KNEW I would NEVER go to Hell, and I was so excited, I jumped up and ran down the street to tell my best friend Michael. That was 21 years ago. Michael is not a pastor in seminary.
But some may say, "But that was all in your head. That's not proof." To which I say "Ok. It was proof to me, but I understand"
However....
True Event #2
I didn't experience God again until college. A fiery street preacher was at my university, and I was watching him talk to the crowd. A man came up and invited me into a Christian group for Bible study. I ended up going on a Florida evangelical, spiritual growth summer trip. During that summer of 2005, during a worship service, I felt compelled to leave, so I went on the beach, in the dark, and began weeping for my family to be saved. After praying, I heard a still small voice (aka a internal thought in English) say to me "Get up and go across the street" This made no sense because it was dark and nothing was there, but it seemed exciting, so I walked over the highway to find a pier full of night fisherman. I froze because I knew God wanted me to tell them about Jesus, but I was embarrassed. Finally, I gave in, and walked up to a couple and his father, who turned around to face me, and I simply pulled out a Bible, flipped it open, and read the first verse I saw. The verse was Ephesians 5:25 ("Husbands, loves your wives as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her. Wives, submit to your husband as unto the Lord.") The couple, and their older father just STARRED at me... in shock they asked..."Where did you come from?" I said, "From across the street. I'm with a Christian group of students down here for the summer" They said "That is unbelievable!!! Do you know why we are out here?" "No" I said. They said "We have been having marital problems, and we were meeting with my dad, one last time, before we were going to get divorced." They were ecstatic that God had given them directions to save their marriage, and they wanted to drive me back to the motel across the street, so I obliged."
Now some may say, "That was just coincidence!" to which I'd say "Ok. But can you even fathom the odds of that happening?"
But there's more.. MUCH MORE.
True Event #3
After becoming an active follower of Jesus Christ and hearing God's voice for the first time in college, I began to listen for God's Voice (the Holy Spirit) and do more of what He said.
I had been attending a lovely Assemblies of God church, full of people who loved to worship Jesus Christ. One night at home, the Lord was speaking to me, so I called my dad and said, "Dad, God is speaking to me". My dad, who was a christian by religion, but not by personal experience (his own testimony) told me "Well, write it down like a journal so you can have it to look over, and see what happens." So I did. It was 4 paragraphs. It made sense until all of a sudden God said "I know the harm caused to you by those who claim to be your 'pastors'". I dropped the pen and thought "Ok. This is crazy. This is just me, not God. My pastors are super nice, great men." For some reason, I still typed it onto my blogspot site.
1 month later, on a Sunday in church, a denominational leader overseeing the state of Indiana stepped up and said that 3 of the 9 pastors (1/3rd) had been under investigation for adultery with dozens of women over 10-15 years, including each other's wives. We listened to taped recordings of these "men of God" telling the women to "keep in the kitchen" and that confessing their sins publicly would just "throw oil on the fire" and hurt "God's work". They had also been pilfering money from the collections and increasing their own salaries secretly.
(Note: My blogpost is still there, with the original upload date, and you can read about the corrupt 'pastors' in the Indianapolis Star newspaper, dated about 6 weeks after my blog)
But some may say..."Ok. That was just your subconscious because you could sense they were bad people" To which I'd say "How, when there was NOTHING I knew consciously that would have even given me a clue?"
But ok...I'll share 1 more..
True event #4
In the fall of 2015, I had just been offered a promotion, and I got a bad headache so I left to go to the hospital in Greenwood, Indiana. It was my nearest in-network hospital, so I made the trip.... on the way down there, I was just trying to relax and enjoy the sunlight, and God began to speak things that were physically calming me down. I rode on like this for a while and suddenly realized I had missed the road for the hospital and I had ended up in a small town shopping district call Edinburgh Indiana. I found a small park next to a warehouse, so I decided to park my car behind the warehouse where it would be out of the way. Then I went for a walk in the park. It was beautiful. The glistening dew on the grass, the green trees, the joggers on the track, people with dogs, and God just kept whispering things like "Be still and know that I am God." I decided to explore a bit, so I left the park on foot, walked around the other side of the warehouse, stopped at a small firehouse and made small talk with the firefighters washing the trucks, and took a stroll past some shops with cowboy boots and hats in the windows. Then I saw this large dog walking down the sidewalk. He looked well-kept with a collar, so I followed him, hoping to get his owner's info, but he got away. I looked up, realizing I had got turned around and didn't know which direction I'd come from. I found an older man walking the sidewalk, and asked for directions, but he directed me to a high school track instead of the park by which I'd parked my car behind the warehouse. I suddenly began to be afraid. I was in a new town, without a phone (I left it in the car intentionally for some peace and quite), and all I had were my keys. I pressed the key fab alarm but heard nothing. I became very afraid, but the Holy Spirit whispered "Don't be afraid. Just follow Me." And He directed me straight ahead. Suddenly He said "Turn Left" so I did. As I looked down the street, I noticed small shops on either side, and on the left, under the black and white sign of a small plumbers shop, sat MY CAR!!! It was parked perfectly on the curb. I could barely believe my eyes and thought it was just someone else's of the same model. But when I used my key fab, the lights lit up and I started it. I had to touch the door handle and get inside before I really believed it. Nothing was broken, nothing was dirty, and it was still locked. Those cars will only shift out of park with the key in the car, and your foot on the brake. It's a push button, electric start 2014 Ford Fusion.
Not only did God's Spirit lead me straight back to my car, He BROUGHT MY CAR TO MEET ME HALFWAY!!!
I drove home with the real sense of my Almighty Father God escorting me home in His own Chariot/Limousine.
I have DOZENS and DOZENS of other true stories like this, but my point to anyone who thinks God is a myth or a lie, is that you just need a tiny grain of faith in Jesus Christ to ask Him into your heart, but once you do, God will PROVE Himself to you as the all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, loving, Father. He will walk with you daily, if you'll walk with Him. He'll even speak to you, if you need it.
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