The power of God, blessings

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I am restarting a thread to stay within CAF guidelines. While these extraordinary blessings (aka unsubstantiated private miracles) do not contain any private revelations for others, they are still what we believe as individuals to be mighty and powerful acts by God that have transformed lives, especially mine.

I would like to share some of these extraordinary blessings and to hear from others who have had similar experiences. We all know the Vatican does not have the resources nor the time to substantiate every private extraordinary blessing and label it as a miracle, but we also know God can and does perform them every day.

Let us share our faith and the experiences that rocked our world and left us in awe of the power of God. Glory be to God and ALL honor and praise to Him, the Almighty!
 
The rock & and a hard place.

In the early 90’s I was in bad place in life, dejected by divorces, child custody battle, alcohol abuse, poverty, my van was my home. Life was real hard as I was in the valley of despair.

I went for a walk in the middle of nowhere along a dirt road by the river just to be alone, I actually contemplated given up, things were that bad. I had no faith, wasn’t even sure there was a God, and if there was, where was He?

So as I walked that old dirt road thinking and kicking stones, I had an angry thought, “Ok God, if you exist let me strike that tin can with this rock!” That tin can was way off in the distance, much further than I could normally throw. The impossible!

With all my anger and frustrations I hauled off and just threw the rock with all my might, yelling as I let it go. It went whizzing through the air. Then guess what! BOOM!!! It hits the can right smack in the middle! The can bounced and rattled, I fell to my knees apologizing to God for my disbelief and for testing Him.

That moment kept me alive, and I made it through some hard times because of it. Although it did not bring me back into the Church (yet) it did at least give me reason to believe in the existence of God. The seed was planted.

In hindsight I wish I had saved that can as a souvenir, a reminder that when life is hard, there is only one Rock to turn to.
 
Here’s one of mine. I had booked 5 day retreat at a Benedictine Monastery. It was a small monastery, guests pray and take all their meals with the monks. It would be like living the monk life for a few days. I was really looking forward to it.

Well, a few days before my trip I decided I wasn’t “worthy”, so I cancelled. Something inside of me wasn’t at peace with my decision to cancel, it kept telling me to reconsider. After some good prayer, I had the thought to open the bible at random for a decision.

I opened my bible and it went to Paul’s Conversion: “Now get up and go into Damascus and you will be told what you must do.”

I immediately called the monastery and made the retreat. It was the best 5 days of my life. While there, I studied a book on the topic of “Purity of Heart”.
 
Tim, that is really awesome and exactly the kind of things I love hearing about. Sounds like Satan was whispering his greatest lie, your not worthy, trying to discourage you. But God had other plans and you listened to His prompt. It is no accident that a verse of Scripture can be like a huge billboard when our Lord wishes to send us a message!!!

As a matter of fact I’m wearing a dog tag today that has Matthew 11:28 on it. Several years ago I had REAL BAD day at work, was pretty broke and got shafted out of a lot of money. I was mad and my heart was heavy when I went to bed. My last words I prayed before going to sleep was “Lord, what would you do?” I can’t say what happened at 11:28 PM because of respect for forum rules. I can say that when I looked up Scripture the next morning for that time I was awoke it was Matthew 11:28…

“Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. 29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. 30 For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”

I did just that, I let it go and rested my work burdens in the hands of Jesus. Now that person is not my enemy but my friend, and everyone of my customers mean more to me than money.

The lesson I learned and that changed my former way of thinking about work…“Don’t labor for money, labor for love!”

And oh yes Tim, by the way, welcome to the CA Forums!!
 
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I’ve mentioned it before but I started reading the alpha course book (basic uk Christian course ) and prayed the sinners prayer. When I went to bed was blasted by the Holy Spirit and felt Him for a while so powerfully that I couldn’t concentrate at school. I actually had to ask Him to take it away a little. Wasn’t even baptised at this point but sought to do so at 17 soon after
 
I am happy that you came out of the funk.

For the readers, do know that “testing God” rarely results in this sort of occurrence.
 
Your right about testing God, not a good idea. I only did it because I was at such a bad part of my life and was desperate. I did not set out to do it, was more of a reflex to how I was feeling. My parents were very strong in their faith and I know they were praying for me, so who knows but God, maybe He was cutting me some slack because of their love and prayers for me.

And although that did set me straight for a while, I did fall back into a life of sin for many more years. It would take much more than a rock hitting a can to really really convince me and put the fear of God into me. I’ve posted some of that story before and will do again eventually. It was a demonic attack, a night of pure hell, and a night of deliverance that would eventually get my attention for good.
 
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