When you knew for sure God touched you...

LadyChocolate · #1 12-18-2007, 04:08 PM

I was doing things around the house like I usually do, I started to sing one of my favorite songs. "Jesus, There is Something About That Name". And, immediately my mind ran back to a Sunday morning, I had been teaching Sunday school to the 8-9 year old class. I left the class a little earlier and went to the sanctuary where the altar call was taking place. I walked in on the part of the song where it says, "Master, Saviour, Jesus....let all heaven and earth proclaim!" I remember that tears were instantly falling from my eyes. I don't know what message was preached. All I know was that in a moment, it was just me and my God. I was there before him, just me. Nothing to hide, nothing to prove. Just me. And he was drawing me to him... The feeling that I felt, I could never forget. The power of God that was so strong, was all over. No I wasn't running, shouting screaming. I wanted to cover my face and because in that moment I felt so incredible unworthy, and yet honored that God would let me feel His awesome presence!

I have had many many many and I should add, MANY encounters with God... Some of them just stand out more...

What about you? Do you have any of those moments you'd like to share?

Scott Hutchinson · #2 12-18-2007, 04:19 PM

Sometimes in the midst of being frustrated at things ,The Lord will let me feel His Spirit very strongly and I feel peaceable.
Sometimes out of the blue He'll bring to my rememberance something out of His word that I haven't considered before.

Praxeas · #3 12-18-2007, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by LadyChocolate

I was doing things around the house like I usually do, I started to sing one of my favorite songs. "Jesus, There is Something About That Name". And, immediately my mind ran back to a Sunday morning, I had been teaching Sunday school to the 8-9 year old class. I left the class a little earlier and went to the sanctuary where the altar call was taking place. I walked in on the part of the song where it says, "Master, Saviour, Jesus....let all heaven and earth proclaim!" I remember that tears were instantly falling from my eyes. I don't know what message was preached. All I know was that in a moment, it was just me and my God. I was there before him, just me. Nothing to hide, nothing to prove. Just me. And he was drawing me to him... The feeling that I felt, I could never forget. The power of God that was so strong, was all over. No I wasn't running, shouting screaming. I wanted to cover my face and because in that moment I felt so incredible unworthy, and yet honored that God would let me feel His awesome presence!

I have had many many many and I should add, MANY encounters with God... Some of them just stand out more...

What about you? Do you have any of those moments you'd like to share?

I love moments like this. One thing always strikes me...how unworthy we "feel"....I put that in quotes for a reason. We FEEL so unworthy (and we are)...and we want to run and hide...yet it's faith that makes us stay there in His presence unashamed and unafraid because of the blood of Jesus. His righteousness is what God looks at. His blood covers my shame

(Heb 4:12) For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
(Heb 4:13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
(Heb 4:14) Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
(Heb 4:15) For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.
(Heb 4:16) Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

(Heb 10:14) For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
(Heb 10:15) The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after He had said before,
(Heb 10:16) "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"
(Heb 10:17) also He adds, "their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."
(Heb 10:18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
(Heb 10:19) Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus,
(Heb 10:20) by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;
(Heb 10:21) and having a High Priest over the house of God,
(Heb 10:22) let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water.
(Heb 10:23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),

LadyChocolate · #4 12-18-2007, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

I love moments like this. One thing always strikes me...how unworthy we "feel"....I put that in quotes for a reason. We FEEL so unworthy (and we are)...and we want to run and hide...yet it's faith that makes us stay there in His presence unashamed and unafraid because of the blood of Jesus. His righteousness is what God looks at. His blood covers my shame

(Heb 4:12) For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
(Heb 4:13) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
(Heb 4:14) Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
(Heb 4:15) For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.
(Heb 4:16) Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

(Heb 10:14) For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
(Heb 10:15) The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after He had said before,
(Heb 10:16) "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"
(Heb 10:17) also He adds, "their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more."
(Heb 10:18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
(Heb 10:19) Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus,
(Heb 10:20) by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;
(Heb 10:21) and having a High Priest over the house of God,
(Heb 10:22) let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water.
(Heb 10:23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),

It reminds me of that song, "When He was on the cross, I was on His mind"... He knows all about me, and yet He still loved me! While we were still sinners, Christ loved and died for us!

LadyChocolate · #5 12-18-2007, 05:56 PM

I also remember a day, walking from one class to another during highschool. I had been thinking about the service we had the night before and I longed to be back in that kind of atmosphere.....................

..so I got in my car and skipped the rest of the day. I found my way to the prayer rooms at my church and just began to talk to God. I remember laying there on the stairs that led to baptistry and I just communed with Him. I found that I was surrounded by His presence once more and He filled my soul with joy! Sometimes, I pray; I give God a "to do" list and I feel good and all... You know, the needs and forgiveness... the "search my heart today Lord"... Those prayers... But when it really, really matters to me is when I commune with him. It isn't just me, but rather, me and HIM.

Praxeas · #6 12-18-2007, 05:59 PM

I’m not on an ego trip, I’m nothing on my own
I make mistakes and sometimes slip
Just common flesh and bone
But I’ll prove some day just why I say
I’m of a special kind
For when He was on the cross
I was on His mind

A look of love was on His face
The thorns were in His head
The blood was on that scarlet robe
And stained it crimson redThough His eyes were on the crowd that day
He looked ahead in time
For when He was on the cross
I was on His mind

He knew me, yet He loved me
He whose glory makes the Heaven’s shine
So unworthy, of such mercy
For when He was on the cross
I was on His mind
For when He was on the cross
I was on His mind

LadyChocolate · #7 12-18-2007, 06:16 PM

I just found that song on rhapsody and I am listening to it now! But Ricky Dillard is singing it! I love it!

Monkeyman · #8 12-18-2007, 06:52 PM

Driving my car, ticked off about a situation that someone done did to me, playing my iPod, a song by a worship leader by the name of Eaghan Heathslip, the song was, "All That Matters", reminding me of why I do what I do and WHOM it is for....had to pull the car over is all I'm gonna say...

Fiyahstarter · #9 12-18-2007, 08:39 PM

I call it "breaking through" ... that's what it's like for me.

At these moments, it is just me and God. The service, music, whole world around me ceases to exist... it's like I'm in a vacuum... and uncontrollable tears always flow like rivers down my face... And my tongues seem different at these times... It's the best feeling in the world... warmth, love, peace ... and it is during experiences like these that God reveals things to me. I find answers. I'm never really sure in the end if I've heard an audible or if it's just a "knowing" . . . a realization. But I know I've heard from God. And there is an humbling of "why me... why do you commune so with me, Lord?"

I call these moments my "breakthroughs". They come on a LOT during intercessory prayer. It's like, I start out praying for others, and in the end, God blesses me and gives me personal answers!

There's none other than Jesus!

LadyChocolate · #10 12-18-2007, 08:42 PM

I have had those moments in the car also... too many tears for sure... There have been many times I sat down at my keyboard just to play and while I was playing, God would just fill the room... Oh, those moments when you feel God so strong that you can hardly move....!!!! I have shed many a tear over my keyboard... and steering wheel... and pillow! LOL