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0f7c5c No.547722

>Be me, new to Christianity, insecure about my faith, feeling down and ashamed of my unfaithfulness

>Was out all the day attending my classes at university

>It's night, I'm alone making my way home

>Suddenly a young man come to me

>"Sorry I know it sound awkward coming to you speaking of such matter, but do you believe in the One true god ?"

>start talking about Christ and the Almighty with all his heart, atheists must've thought he was crazy, even me was thinking this at first

>Respond "Yes I am actually a Christian (I said it without much confidence because of the problems I currently face with my faith)

>"Be blessed, I don't know your denomination or your beliefs or whatever but you must know that Jesus Christ love you"

>Say goodbye to him

>Afterward I've checked my pockets because I was stunned of what has just happened

>Feel something coming to my mind

>"Has God just sending this man to ease my pain and prove me that He care ?"

>Start feeling overwhelmed by such thoughts

>I feel for the first time True Happiness, the one brought by God.

Is my interpretation of this event appropriate ? Did something like this happens to you ? Can you share your stories ? I'm shocked

1d0e86 No.547731

>>547722

I actually had something like that happen to me.

>be atheist moron

>screwed by the world one too many times (nothing too serious)

>lost all hope and ready to suicide

>can't because mother, grandmother and sister still love me and would be sad

>go to empty church to talk to a non existing (?) God to help me even though I denied him my entire life

>pray to empty room and ask for a sign

>get tapped on the shoulder by random dude foreigner in country

>wants to talk about his current situation

>says he wants to learn German, needs money

>say I want to give him the money he needs for his Journey, already talked to the priest, he didn't provide

>he denies

>I insist to give him his 15 euros

>he hugs me and I leave

That was about 1 and a half years ago. I had serious anxiety and depression then, it's all gone. I'm still not the Christian I want to be though.


a21596 No.547736

File: 97df9ee39f3a3d7⋯.jpg (189.97 KB, 1600x1067, 1600:1067, Happy-Business-Meeting-wea….jpg)

It's a nice story anon, one could chalk it up as just a coincidence, and that that man could have happened upon anyone and the probability of him coming to a non-believer was high assuming you're in an atheist-dominated country. But what I love to remember is that, if Christianity is true (and I'm still working through this stuff too) is that there are no coincidences with God. Everything is sovereignly ordained by the Him. I love it when some thing happens to an anon and they're like "omgosh this *insert seemingly random insignificant thing that happens all the time to people* and I just know/think it might have been God talking to me/showing me a sign XDDD" and anons come back with "meh maybe probably just coincidence that you're reading into these things happen to people all the time." Maybe that's the case but the way I look at it is that, owing to the fact that everything sovereignly ordained by God, if you choose/happen to see God in it, and it gives you faith and hope and makes you contemplate His goodness, mercy, justice, power etc. then by all means I don't think there's anything wrong with taking it that way. In essence, we're supposed to see God in everything, to a certain extent, due to this divine sovereignty (except for sin and evil ofc, and even that to an extent, just finished praying about how thankful I am, in a sense, to be where I am now, provided with the opportunity to overcome my sin, knowing that I can with Him, and that He will be glorified in my obedience, in the heat of the moment, to turn away from sin and to turn to Christ - see Genesis 50:20*).

So long as the thing you've seen/experienced isn't leading you to dwell on/obsess on material benefit, empty pleasure derived from something other than God and go into crazy heresy (what prosperity gospel is as far as I can tell) and instead it provides you with a prompt to dwell on His goodness, what he achieved for us on the cross, etc, and worship and revere him more, then go for it. I may have had experiences like yours, maybe not quite on that level, but the little tiny things that make me think of God's role in placing me in that time and place and makes me think of Him (although I feel I may have only experienced snippets of the lovely feelings you describe) that maybe most others would again chalk up to coincidence. But like I say, if we are in Truth, there are no coincidences. However, of course, just because you experience these things does not necessarily make it (Christianity) true. We rely on a range of other things to testify that, although again personally depending on the circumstances/experiences I would say there's nothing actually wrong with incorporating those into your catalogue of reasons you believe. Unfortunately the skeptic in me still has the niggles that remind me of this fact (that such experiences do not make it true) and that if not true, I am literally reading into experiences like these things that are not actually there, but praise God I still feel like He is wooing me and I am growing in faith.

TL;DR some may brush it off as coincidence, but there are no coincidences with God. To an extent, ultimately it's up to you to do what you do with your experiences and how you relate them to God.

God bless

>*As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good


7dfb25 No.547746

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>>547722

Awesome, that's a cool tale.

I wasn't ever sent a stranger but I did an interesting message on a computer.

>Be 7th grade "Skeptic™" before it was hip.

>was being taught naturalism in classes for the last few years

>no one to turn to towards guidance, family wasn't very religious

>In technology class, it's layout is that it's a backwards shaped L-Room with computers lined up on the interior of the L.

>anyway after telling us what we were going to do that day the teacher tells us to go the computers per usual

>I get set up and as windows xp boots up I start typing in prayers to the God

>"Are you there?" "Show me a sign" "I want to know please send me a message" You know, the same things every Skeptic™ thinks in a time of crisis

>Computer boots up normally and I sign in while the kid sitting next to me says "What the fuck is this" or something along those lines

>I swivel my head left and my balls jumped to my lungs

>i am alive

>dead in the fucking screen of white, black system text that says "i am alive"

>I started screeching in my head and thanking God whilst sweating bullets

It's fun to think back on it now, although I think I've told this here already.


be38d9 No.547747

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There are no such things as random coincidences. Just orchestrated events by God to aid you spiritually, what you choose to take out of those events is up to you always. As long as you as you interpret events as always helping you sanctify yourself no matter how tragic or happy then you are on the right track.


a21596 No.547750

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>>547746

I remember when this was posted before…xtremely cool




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