Has GOD ever gotten your attention?

Blueblades

If so,please tell us how.Some have said that God uses a number of ways to capture our attention.For example:Have you ever had an important message to tell someone,but you couldn't get that person's undivided attention,yet you persisted and finally got their attention.There probably was a number of ways you tried.

Has this happened to you personally?Has God ever gotten your attention?What number of ways do you think it took for God to get your attention? I realize that the answer to this question would have to be a personal experience that only you could believe has happened.

Please share your experience in this regard for me,as it has not happened to me yet.

Blueblades

Tatiana

Have I ever gotten His?

bebu

Yes... several times. But one in particular stands out. And (obviously) I wasn't looking for it when it happened.

I was at college, and a friend was trying to convince me to go to a Christian college conference. (I was a Christian already; it wasn't a matter of conversion here.) I pretended to listen, and was trying to figure out how I could tell her "no", because I didn't have ANY money for the trip, etc., and I didn't know how to turn her down with some other good excuse.

So, I said, "Well, you know, I just don't think ..." and right after I spoke those words, it was like something intruded into my mind from absolutely nowhere, "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK." It was like God simply entered my head and stamped these words, or thundered them, all over all my own words and thoughts; I'm not sure I could say I audibly heard it. But it was very clear.

I was so completely shocked, I just stopped in mid-sentence with my jaw dropping. My confused friend finally began to talk, changing the subject even. Eventually, I closed my mouth and reached over and took a registration form and filled it out. I've never experienced anything like that since.

I don't know if something like that experience is what you meant. ? (I don't stake my faith on it, btw.)

I'm confident that there ISN'T a requirement for something to "happen to" you, at least like you might imagine. That's like thinking that grass must snap up out of the ground, or else all its growth is invalid. If you have a wrong assumption, you can feel frustrated when the result doesn't come.

It seems to me that you God has gotten your attention, despite your thoughts to the contrary.

So, here is an interesting chapter on searching for God, by AW Tozer (I think he was a presbyterian minister). The subject is about our searching for God. (It has, unfortunately, several typos in it.)

http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/tozer/5f00.0888/5f00.0888.01.htm

bebu

imallgrowedup

Blue,

I have an incredible story to share, but I have to put my son down. I only give you this little "teaser" because I don't want you to let me get away without sharing it! I'll post soon, and if I forget, please remind me!

growedup of the "can't remember anything" class!

LittleToe

Many, many times.

The first time was a "rebirth" experience, which involved a bible scripture.
There have been many similar, and many completely different, since.

(if I can find this thread again, later, I'll perhaps post more)

LyinEyes

There were many times as a JW that I just knew God was listening to me and telling me by way of a talk or magazine article , that He was trying to tell me something. After all the "brothers" told us that every new Watchtower magazine was like a personal letter from God.......And yeah, I really did believe that.

I won't discredit all those years , that there were many times in my life that I had a feeling about something and acted on it, little things , some of them huge,,maybe they were messages from God. But at the point I am now, not sure what I believe about God's dealings with us, I dont know.

I still find it hard to believe that God cares that much about me, I might go to him and tell him a problem I am having , but I end up feeling that he is not listening to me at all. The reason is because of the terrible things that other humans are suffering thru,,,,,,,those starving babies with Aids all over the world, the really sick, the innocent child who may be praying for help somewhere, yet their prayers are not answered.

Sorry to be so pessimistic about this , but I really hope one day God will get my attention,,,,, I just hope he does so gently and not with a foot up the butt for my lack of faith. I hope he will understand.

I would love to have the spiritual awakening that LittleToe has had, but I think it is just not my time, for whatever reason , to have it. But I am not giving up on the hope that it will happen.

frankiespeakin

Lying Eyes,

If you want a spiritual awakening read about St John of the Cross or St Teresa "Interior Castle" and I think you will have one, I'm just guessing here but I think it might be true.

As reguard the theme I like to add:

I think when God's get your attention it may be felt by things other than the physical senses, but eventually it reaches there if God wills it.

RubyTuesday

If there is a God I don't think he would waste his time with a little nobody like me.

I have had many near death experiences...but think I just pulled through with luck.

czarofmischief

My fiancee and I were having a lot of problems, and this was at the time of our comedy troupe. Things were going very well with the troupe, but the czarina and I prayed for direction in our lives.

The next week our entire troupe fell apart. Overnight. It was vicious. And we had to completely stop talking to every single member of that troupe. Within a couple of months, with more time together, we got married. We renewed our commitment to our family life.

So, it was like a fierce slap across our face, to send us in the right direction, the direction that was good for us as a family and as individuals. In retrospect, we are both very happy that it ended, because we were very tired and under a lot of pressure.

And I've prayed for my wife, when she was suffering from depression and anorexia, and suddenly she joined a gym and was acting and being much happier with herself and with me. Which, we've been together for three years, and she's never uttered the slightest interest in joining a gym - and now she goes every day. what kind of change in her brain chemistry is required to let her get up off the couch and move on with her life? It's a miracle, in my estimation.

Again, it's nothing that someone who is determined to dismiss can't dismiss as coincidence or delusion, but in the end, those kind of people wouldn't believe even a rain of fire.

Hey Ruby, the first thing you need to learn is that you are the center of the universe as far as you are concerned. You are very important to the scheme of things. You are here for a reason. Only you can accept God for yourself. In that way, you have sovreignty over yourself that even God won't supplant. But he wants to become what you need. At least, that's my experience. I have no dogma, or doctrine, or creed, or sacraments to offer you. Just my experience.

Plus, I've had some time with the Tarot deck. It's interesting, the results sometimes.

CZAR

Elsewhere

I tried to get it's attention but nerver heard anything back.

Has GOD ever gotten your attention?

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