Experienced any Supernatural Encounters with God?

Through the word from the Word, Robert! The scriptures!! Everytime you and I get into the word---we get the Heartburn on the Highway of Holiness!! God speaks to me through scriptures---the most reliable, infallable, inerrant, inspired, truthful source!!

 

Beautiful story.

 

Yes, many times, and a handful of them are very dramatic. One is so dramatic that it would likely warrant public attention - and that particular one can be proven empirically. But I won't share them publicly, and I've rarely shared them privately.

Why? Because I love my brethren. The supernatural intervention of God's grace and power in someone's life is a personal, yet subjective experience. There are thousands upon thousands and thousands of my brethren who have never experienced the supernatural intervention of God in their lives in a direct way - that is to say, God has not supernaturally imposed His will upon the natural order of things in this time-space continuum on their behalf. Yet they are much greater than I in the Lord and lived more obedient lives, people to whom I will soon become subservient. It's almost like Jesus said to Thomas - "blessed are those who have not seen, yet believed." I dare not glory in the grace of Almighty God. And most importantly, I dare not cause a brother or sister to feel, even for a moment, that they might be any less important to God for lack of such an experience.

 

Every encounter with God is supernatural, from salvation to the Holy Spirit revealing truth, to giving understanding of scripture, a call to service, worship and giving.

 

I had an event awhile back that I believe to be supernatural.

I was at work (McDonald's). I was managing the Drive-Thru, and completing orders. I heard one of my employees (The young lady taking the orders) tell me through the headset that the guy ordering was really creepy. I had seen creepy guys before and thought, he can't be that bad.

He then pulled up to my window, I calmly handed him the bag and said quickly "Thank you sir, have a nice day."

Then our eyes locked. I have NEVER felt anything like that. It seemed like his eyes penetrated me. He looked at me with his eyes wide open and said "Thank you." But he continued to stare at me, as he did I physically felt like his hands were grabbing my shoulders and chest and back, even though he was almost 6 feet away, and 3 feet lower.

I couldn't move. But somehow I was able to break free, I went right around the corner to get out of eyeshot. I felt like throwing up. I then looked to see if his car was still there and it was.

Now I was raised with the mindset that a man sometimes needs to take the lead, just buck up and get done what needs to get done.

I knew that whatever he was, he needed to be gone, and I felt a responsiblity to get rid of him. I felt an obligation to protect the rest of my employees (it was early in the morning and only me and three women were working) and get it done.

I went back up to the window and asked deliberately "Is there something wrong, sir?" He looked at me with his eyes still opened as wide as can be and quietly said "Where's the reciept?" I again felt the hands on my body. I pointed to the part of the bag out of his sight and said "Right there!" He saw it and looked straight at me, eyes still huge, and drove off while staring at me.

I was in excellent shape, still am, but the rest of the day I felt sick to my stomach, and my whole back was tight, sore, and I felt like I was going to throw up.

I do not know what exactly happened there, but I do believe it was supernatural.

One other thing I know was that my Saviour was with me, and protected me.

[ January 18, 2005, 03:34 AM: Message edited by: RonJon ]

 

Almost every time I open the Word of God I have a supernatural encounter with God. When a holy God sees fit to communicate with me in His Word it is supernatural, amazing, and out of the ordinary.

Whenever someone gets saved I see a divine, miraculaous, encounter with God.

Everytime He gives me grace in a trial I see His mighty hand in a supernatural way.

 

Absolutley! On two seperate occasions I have had a vision where I have seen Jesus.

I cant describe what it was like because words dont do justice to it. Yet what I have come to learn is that when we do experience something that we can only term Supernatural, often what we have seen is meant for us to see, but not for anyone else. God has a personal relationship with each of us, and my Experience is not another persons experience with God.

 

Yea, but Ben??? Can you be absolutely and positively SURE--beyond a shadow of a doubt that what you saw was Jesus??? What if it wasn't---what 'cha gonna do????

 

You ever been sitting in church and the Holy Spirit uses His Word to smack you upside the head like a 2x4 to wake you up to some sin in your life?

That's pretty supernatural to me!

 

I always stand amazed at the power and working of our Lord God. He is awesome! He loves us! He will protect us and take care of us!

 

Supernatural protection;

When in a backslidden state I was riding in a van with a couple friends. The driver was speeding and we were all drinking. Not good. The van hit a spot on the highway that had just been chip sealed. We swerved back and forth. This was on a mountian road. As the van approached the edge of the road (side ways) that was on the cliff side, it tilted up onto two wheels. I looked out the window and saw only the cliff, which was about a hundred feet to the bottom. I quietly said simply, ;"Jesus!".

The NEXT thing any of us could remember was that we, all three, were standing on the OTHER SIDE of the road, the van was on its side, the wheels still spinning, and all three of us were unharmed except I had a 2" cut on my head. That's IT!

I can't/haven't explained it any other way than God did SOMETHING. I was saved at the time, but living like the devil. I think God still helps even His wayward kids.

And yes, for reasons only He knows, He still intervenes in the affairs of men. BTW, I had only been saved a couple years. So I did not know much about how God does things. This happened in 1982 and I have never thought of God as anything BUT personally interested in me since then.

In HIS service;
Jim

 

One instance that comes to mind for me is my husband getting immediately healed. He was pretty sick with the flu. He was upset and just feeling horrible. I was in the bedroom and so was my oldest son. He said let's please pray for me. We did and in that very instant he was healed. We could hardly believe it. He was crying and shouting Praises to God the rest of the evening. We will never forget that.

We have no idea why God chose that time to do that, and not other times. Like with his diabetes, high blood pressure, and other things. I don't understand it, but I'm thankful to the Lord daily for His Love, Mercy, and Grace.

Rachel

 

Exactly. I have a friend who would make fun of my God encounters until it happened to her one day.