Please share your spirtual experiences

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I think a lot of people won’t reply because their story would take a whole book, at least mine would. But I will sum it up VERY briefly:

raised a Baptist–accepted Christ as Savior, baptized etc.
left home and basically quit going to church
married a non-practicing Catholic
we went to Catholic church a couple of times and quit
got involved with Jehovah’s Witnesses but read one of their books on Revelation and it was a total joke so “saw the light”
went back to Baptist church
Baptist church had a split
the split I was with folded
started going to the Covenant church
Hubby started going too but never liked it
stumbled into Mother Angelica on EWTN about 5 years ago
started reading Scott Hahn and others
started reading early church fathers
my husband stopped attending Covenant church
I kept feeling closer to the Catholic church
asked my hubby if I became Catholic would he go back
he said yes
I’m in RCIA
Hubby is back at Catholic church–first confession in 45 years
I will be confirmed Holy Saturday

That’s my journey in a nutshell. I now regret that we didn’t keep going to the Catholic church way back when. But I have a good 20 years left on this earth in which to attend. I’ve met many wonderful, dedicated Christians who love Jesus. http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Its chaotic.

It rebels against antbiotics.

it is the end result of nuclear rockects.

it eats away order, and regurgitates vomit!

we are wise to stay away from it.

Yet it attacks human logic.

It destroys human reason.

But runs away from Gods prophets!

It seeks to devide

It will eat you alive

But cannot defeat you with Jesus on your side!

It can hide under stones

But the light will expose

The chaos that thrives on are body and soul

God bless. :cool:
 
The first time I was really sure that God was present was at my first mission at our Parish Retreat. The moment was short and uneventful, but I knew I had just experienced God. A few seconds in time that I will never forget and cannot explain.
 
thank you for sharing your experience. 👍
I have had moments like that too, where i knew for a fact, there there is a God! God bless you, and peace be with 🙂 👍
 
🙂 when the illogical sounds reasonble.

Thats how satan has conquered Gods people.

He speads wikidness and evil.

Hes is the most decietfull.

They call him the king of lies.

Yet many believe him.

They see innocents in his eyes.

because its not god who they are seeking.

They are looking for sweets and they are looking for cakes.

even when its rotting there teeth, they praise its wonderful taste.

There knowledge is weak and badly misplaced.

lets prey they escape a life of disgrace.

The devil doesnt care who he destroys.

It could be a man, it could be a boy.

He sucks there minds dry, and leave only a void.

I say that he’s real! but thay call me paranoid.

Do they care? when they make there choice.

They call me sick, they call me insain.

yet it is they, who will beg for mercy on the lords day.

I warn them, i say, dont look at satans buety, look away, look away!.

but their “hearts” have turned to stone from the meduesers display.

Oh lord, free us from the worlds opressive chains

That tangle us in sin and leads us astray.

lets prey for those who have lost their way.

so the son of perdition is cast away.

God bless! :cool:
 
Gosh, I don’t get to use this verse very often, but this seems to be just the spot.

John 21:25 There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written.

See? Like the earlier post said, people could write books about what Jesus has done in their lives. The best place to see what God has done in our lifes is to look in the Bible and to follow the guidance of the Church for the correct understanding of it. (See the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 51 to 141, in particular)

My life has seemed like a junkyard at times… Occasionally I have found something worthwhile.

The best parts of my life are always my Catholic education and time before the Eucharist.

It is sometimes difficult to jump on to somebody’s else’s spirituality, because one’s own is not so developed. If you don’t go to church, you might say of people who do “I could never do that” because it just doesn’t feel right for you at the time. But, if you recognize the truth and keep searching for it, you will likely find that you have changed, never to turn back.

We need conversion every day of our lives. We need that “daily bread” that we pray for in the Lord’s prayer. We need to praise God and thank God, as scripture says, “always”.

If nothing else “works” then you should focus on nothing else but Jesus on the cross. He suffered and died for us, in atonement for our sins. God’s word has been expressed in various ways: God spoke and there was creation. God spoke in the scriptures and there was a covenant of His love and commitment to us. God’s word was made flesh in Jesus Christ (John, Ch. 1). Because of Jesus’ death, He has sent us the Spirit to comfort us, and He has given us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist, the Lord’s supper.

Although we fail miserably along the way, we go on because of we connect the moments in our lives that He has been especially present to us, especially in other people.

Jesus is not simply to be contemplated by the riverside, but He can be found best in the suffering and poor.

I met a small old man in a nursing home. He was so weak, he couldn’t turn himself in bed. But, he said to me, “you know, I am a happy man, because I know that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.”

When life has taken everything away from us, we can see that God has given us everything that cannot be taken from us.
 
Raised Catholic from birth, prayed the rosary as a family every night, attended stations every Lent never missed Sunday Mass, could recite the Baltimore Catechism word for word.

At 18 moved in with my boyfriend turned my back on the Church.
(Funny every Lent I would go to Church and Easter Sunday.)Marrried in the Courthouse the following year.
My parents never stopped praying for me.
Lied to the priest to have my first two children baptized telling him I was married in the Church.
My husband lost his job, you name it it happened. (Little did I know my mother was praying this conversion prayer for my family)
Went to get a tubal ligation and on the way home from my blood work my husband and I got in a car accident.
Ok fine I will get on the pill. Got pregnant not long after that.
In the meantime my Grandmother died who suffered in a nursing home for 11 years. I was blessed to be at her bedside as the family prayed the rosary constantly around her bed the last 5 days of her life. From that point on I was ready to climb back up.
Got married in the church after experiencing what I know now as a St. Peter conversion. (While pregnant with my third son I began attending daily Mass, my third son was born on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Right to life Sunday)
Had many small conversions like this. Then one day I woke up and had a Saint Paul conversion and decided that I wanted to be like Saint Paul and never jump back into the sewage of sin I had once thought was ok to live in.
Today I teach religion fulltime and in a parish one night a week.
Trying hard to collect souls for Christ.
A long journey of faith but at 46 I am here to testify to the truth.
 
Thank God people like you exist, God bless you
all the days of your life, and thank you for your experiences, it gives me hope. 👍
 
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Crumpy:
Gosh, I don’t get to use this verse very often, but this seems to be just the spot.

John 21:25 There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written.

See? Like the earlier post said, people could write books about what Jesus has done in their lives. The best place to see what God has done in our lifes is to look in the Bible and to follow the guidance of the Church for the correct understanding of it. (See the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 51 to 141, in particular)

My life has seemed like a junkyard at times… Occasionally I have found something worthwhile.

The best parts of my life are always my Catholic education and time before the Eucharist.

It is sometimes difficult to jump on to somebody’s else’s spirituality, because one’s own is not so developed. If you don’t go to church, you might say of people who do “I could never do that” because it just doesn’t feel right for you at the time. But, if you recognize the truth and keep searching for it, you will likely find that you have changed, never to turn back.

We need conversion every day of our lives. We need that “daily bread” that we pray for in the Lord’s prayer. We need to praise God and thank God, as scripture says, “always”.

If nothing else “works” then you should focus on nothing else but Jesus on the cross. He suffered and died for us, in atonement for our sins. God’s word has been expressed in various ways: God spoke and there was creation. God spoke in the scriptures and there was a covenant of His love and commitment to us. God’s word was made flesh in Jesus Christ (John, Ch. 1). Because of Jesus’ death, He has sent us the Spirit to comfort us, and He has given us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist, the Lord’s supper.

Although we fail miserably along the way, we go on because of we connect the moments in our lives that He has been especially present to us, especially in other people.

Jesus is not simply to be contemplated by the riverside, but He can be found best in the suffering and poor.

I met a small old man in a nursing home. He was so weak, he couldn’t turn himself in bed. But, he said to me, “you know, I am a happy man, because I know that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.”

When life has taken everything away from us, we can see that God has given us everything that cannot be taken from us.
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thank you for your contribution to this thread. God bless you all the days of your life, and afterwards!. 👍
 
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freesoulhope:
Thank God people like you exist, God bless you
all the days of your life, and thank you for your experiences, it gives me hope. 👍
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Keep on hoping! That was one of the greatest gifts I received from birth those three virtues, faith, hope and charity.
If I told you how bad, bad really was you might have a little better concept of my life. But I figured I would make it short and sweet. We are all sinners and the blessing of it all is to know. The Church is not a home for Saints it’s a house for sinners.
Hang in there Freesoul, God really never gives us more than we can handle.
 
If you want something inspirational to read about, I would read “St. Pio Man of Hope”. It’s the most amazing book I have ever read. St. Pio has helped me in believing in God and how He really does give us miracles.

My conversion isn’t very inspirational. I’ve always believed in God and been in the Church but recently I had an experience with something predernatural and it has made me come closer to God. I wrote about it in another thread but I can’t remember which so I’ll write it here.

I was asleep having a nightmare and at the end of it, I was in a dark room and saw a demon in the darkness. I struggled to wake up because I had felt incredible fear the moment I saw the demon. It didn’t take long but when I woke up still felt that presence. In fact, it was stronger. I realized that my body felt as though it were sinking and had a weight on it. I tried to cry out for help to my parents and family but I was physically unable to speak. The demon wouldn’t allow me to cry out for help. It was the most terrifying experience.

After a few seconds of this I thought of Jesus and I prayed, “Jesus, save me.” I was able to speak those words after being unable to cry out to my parents for help. Immediately the weight left me and I was able to speak again.

Before this stuff happened, my brother had already experienced the same things like once having a weight on his chest. The only difference is that with him he says he was chased up the flight of stairs in our house by the demon.

My mom has spoken in tongues before and she also once played with a ouija board before and the thing shook. My dad once went to a mandatory tolerance-in-the-workplace seminare for his job and the thing turned out to be part of a gay-agenda. He stood up (which he definitely wasn’t supposed to) before houndreds of people and started speaking things that he didn’t even know he was saying condemning and telling the Truth. He sat down not knowing what he had just said. After everything was over, people came to thank him and one lady even said that she stopped believing but that she decided she would go to church again.

I’d tell you more but I think if this gets too long no one will want to read it anyway.
 
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johnben:
He stood up (which he definitely wasn’t supposed to) before houndreds of people and started speaking things that he didn’t even know he was saying condemning and telling the Truth. He sat down not knowing what he had just said. After everything was over, people came to thank him and one lady even said that she stopped believing but that she decided she would go to church again.

I’d tell you more but I think if this gets too long no one will want to read it anyway.
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I will read it! :eek: that sounded deep!

I want to hear more i tell you, MORE!

Thanks for the inspiring thread, it shows me that jesus reacts when you reach out.
your story is a bit scary. I havent had deamons chase me, but i had pains that where not real, that i couldnt get out of my head, and vivid thoughts that i felt might manifest in to reality, but when i preyed to Jesus, they dissapeared. The mind is a strange thing indeed! But i have seen demons work in people, and i dont even think they knew it was happening.For instance they would say degrading things about me that i only knew about ( things that where not obvious), and somtimes just say somthing spitfull out of the blue for no reason. The devil uses different techniques for different people, hoping that you will break down or bend to his will, but Jesus is there when we need him, thank god. You will be in my prayers, please prey for me also, ive been a bit lazy in my faith of late. God bless you, and have a safe journey all the way to heaven!. 👍
 
I shouldn’t have used the word more. There aren’t too many other supernatural experiences that my family or I have experienced, but what I meant to convey was that I want to tell people about God and could go on and on. God is good!

I think the ultimate story though, besides those of Jesus and Mary, is St. Pio’s. He truly is one of the greatest saints and he is so modern! If you haven’t read about him please read about him because he such a better witness than me.

You wanted to hear another story so I’ll tell you another one about my dad. Once when he was really little (like a first grader) my grandma told him that he had to walk home after school that day but when school was over that day, he forgot about what she told him. After awhile he began to cry because he was scared. After about an hour, he chose to pray to his Gaurdian Angel. Just when he finished the prayer, he instantly knew he was supposed to walk home. The last part of the Gaurdian Angel prayer asks your Gaurdian Angel to be your guide. “guide” is even the last word used in the prayer and just as my dad finished praying he remembered what he was supposed to do. His angel became his guide.

And yes I will pray for you too. I thought of you in my prayers last night and will continue to pray for you (for awhile at least!). 👍
 
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