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Subject My Testimony ...How does God get your attention ??

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Things could not have been worse. There I was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean feeling like no one knew me or loved me. In a world of 5 billion people I felt all alone... and I was. I was at the end of my rope. I hadn't the strength to go on. Suicide was not an option. I firmly believed there was a way to be happy but what was it? Loneliness was ruining my days while nightmares were stealing my nights. My heart was sick; my brain fried.  The guilt of so many stupid choices was making it difficult for me to hold my head up high.  Like a directionless zombie I staggered through my empty days. After twenty-two years of a meaningless existence and agonizing pain I sobbed like a broken child.  I wept like never ever before. I had heard of Jesus and believed he exists but did not know how to trust my life to him. I said, “Oh Lord, I promise I’ll be good, please take away this loneliness.” I collapsed onto the floor weeping, my face buried in my arm. My eyes were tightly shut but I could see Light. I saw myself through the eyes of Jesus Christ. He felt an overwhelming compassion for this young man lying helplessly on the floor. He descended to touch me. I struggled to get up, making it only to my knees. He surrounded me. His Holy Spirit began to penetrate my rib cage. I raised my arms and looked from side to side. I could not see anything but felt Jesus. The terrible, debilitating loneliness was washing away. I knew in an instant that Jesus loved me too!, that his power is real, and that heaven is a reality. I understood that this is the "Stuff" that raises people from death.  God has forgiven me!  Suddenly, my life had meaning! Great sorrow was being replaced by joy. I understood that this Holy Spirit is the One that brings eternal life.

Jesus is a Presence, seperate and apart from anything or anyone I had ever experienced. Like millions of other people I experienced the love of Jesus Christ because I called out to him in truth. My life would never be the same again. This whole revelation was the beginning of a Higher Education for me.

One of the first things I did after this miraculous experience from God was to purchase a Bible. I read about the life of Jesus and how he loved all people. What he did for me - and countless others like me - he also did for people in Palestine two thousand years ago. Jesus walked throughout the land proclaiming the Good News. This good news is the fact that we are all part of God’s creation and that there is a purpose to our lives. God loves us all and sent his son to show us the way to heaven. Like God himself, heaven is a holy place. Those who turn from sin and accept Jesus will receive eternal life. Those who stubbornly choose their own selfish, self centered life style will never know the wonderful things God has prepared for them.  
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Very true.

Yes, the power of God IS real.  If you have encountered Him, then you will understand.

Now, concerning my own story, I don't want to go into too much detail, but the Turin shroud you have as your avatar played some part in it, I believe, at least in an indirect or circumstantial way.

Many years ago, I was low in my life.  I mean very low.  Desperate and helpless.  I had been praying very earnestly for maybe a week or more.  My life was broken.  And at that time I came across an article about the Turin shroud, with a picture of it, in a Readers Digest magazine.

So, all this time I was praying, and day after day I would keep this page about the shroud open, looking at it, and wondering...I was sort of fixated on it..as though it maybe represented some kind of glimmer of hope that there might be something else...that Jesus might be real and able to do things in our life today after all.

Anyway, after a week or two of this intense praying, I was listening to some lay preacher about 10 o clock one morning, and I heard him say something about a 'slippery slope' and how we need to get off it, with God's help.

At that instant, God hit me like a freight train.  Instantly.  He was there.  He was REAL!  I walked away from that preacher as though I was walking on air.  And I went straight back to the Readers Digest article and looked at the picture of the shroud.  I looked at the shroud, and my mind was racing.  Then I looked up, and Jesus was there!  He was there, right beside me. I didn't see Him with my physical eyes.  I saw Him with my spiritual eyes.  But He was there, for real.  More clear and stronger than the room I was sitting in.  I looked down at the picture again, and remember thinking this must be real...there must be something in all this...not that I knew whether or not the shroud was real, but I knew at that instant that Jesus was real.  So I looked up again, and Jesus was still there.  Several times I looked at the picture and then at Jesus.  He just stood there silently.  It was like looking at a 'before and after' picture kind of thing.  He was alive!  He was alive, and He was right there with me.  And He was all powerful.  I could barely take it in. It was staggering!  The shroud represented death, and yet Jesus was right here, right now...and He was alive!

That is a true story.  That's exactly what I experienced.

I don't know if the shroud is genuine or not.  I don't believe that they have proven it to be fake.  In fact, I was just re-watching a video of it the other day, see below.  Not a new video, it was made a while ago.  I don't know if the shroud is genuine, but I do know what it represents...and that is that Jesus died, and then He rose up again from the dead.  He did.  It's true.  And I am a witness to this fact. If I said it wasn't true, then I would be lying.

Anyway, here is the vid:

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I love wildlife of all kinds and God knows this in me, my first encounter of wildlife and God was at 12. I was riding in a car with my cousin and he was a reckless teen, it was a time of no airbags or seat belts, he was traveling on a small county road about 75mph, when he thinks it would be so cool to drive without lights on as it was dark, my Spirit had me say this "turn the lights on now there may be a cow in the road" just as he pulled on the lights, there was a big black cow, I told my sister in back to lay down and grab seat and I grabbed my seat and prayed. Well, we hit the cow and a cement drain car was totaled and we had to crawl out a window. We all walked away unhurt and God has blessed me with never hitting another animal , as I cried for days for that cow. If we had not turned lights on it would have been head on with cow and I cant imagine any of us living.

The reason I write this now, I see so many people struggling and they post those struggles even here on GLP, I will share what I was shown today, what happens when you leave the Hand of God.

I have 2 dogs I love dearly , I walk them 2x everyday and in the last 8 months God has put me through training with this.
Once the small dog went out in the lake to far and got tired(dogs will drown) it was to far for me to get him, so I prayed God please bring him back safe and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah came to me , so I turned away and even though I wanted to look back , I placed my faith in God
When it was time to go home I turned and my dog was at my feet wagging his tail( I got weak).
So this grew my faith, so each time I walk them , I lift them up to God and we all return together safe(I hate leashes).

Well I bought this book about numbers in the Bible and had started reading it but noticed some errors, did not think to much about it, but when my dogs did not return today , I ask myself what have I done, I went and got the book and threw it away and ask for forgiveness for getting off the path, and in about 3 minutes my dogs came back.

I know some of you will not understand , but ask yourself how do I listen to God and am I. We all have different Spirits and Souls, he will speak to you if you listen and reward you when you do. God Bless

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