When have you felt closest to God?
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when i cant explain!\nWhen i feel there is someone looking and helping.\n~peace for ur nice question
663959
Today I do feel blessed!\nThanks for reminding me, of how blessed I am.\n\n"Sing to the Lord, bless his name;\nproclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day"\n-Psalm 96:2
1076753
absolutely prayer changed everything for me on several occasions.  There have been times when I couldn't find a solution to a problem on my own and by praying about it I found the solution.  I have felt so sinful and then prayed to the God of my understanding and found redemption and forgiveness.  I can feel anxious about something and pray about it and find relief.
666276
Oh boy, I happened to have a few. My first one was when I was about eight or nine. I was very best friends with Mary. Well, Mary's family had to go to church every single Sunday. This one particular Sunday I had the worst case of gas I have ever felt!! And of course, you can probably guess the rest, but I'll tell anyways. During a prayer; there was dead silence, you could have heard a pin drop, I let one go, and as you know pews in a church are made out of wood. That makes it echo like you wouldn't believe! Well, the whole church turned around and looked right at me, my best friend Mary, and her sister who were trying so hard not to laugh,it was obvious who did it. The Mom was horrified and kept telling us to shhh, but every time she did, we'd laugh harder. Very embarrassing...\nAnother brilliant move was; at a party. A grown up party as I seen it, I was 17 and the average age at this party was hmm..around 21 or so, so I felt like a big girl!! Well, everyone was out on the deck. I was drunk (when wasn't I?) and wanted to go out on the deck with all the "big girls". So what did I do? The doors going out to the deck were glass, I thought the door was open, everyone was looking although to this day I don't know why, and I, looking cool with my beer, smiling, walked smack dab into that window falling on my bum, making everyone laugh hysterically! Another very embarrassing. But before I go, I have to tell you ONE more. THis time I was a bit older, working at a bar helping out with my college funds. I was about 26, it was busy, PLUS this bar had two sliding glass doors going out to the deck in this bar. Now, I was carrying food, and about 15 beer on one tray. I knew everyone was looking at me, seeing if I would drop a beer. I knew I wouldn't as I was a good bartender, but little did I know, that my boss changed the door that was open, and closed that one, but opened the other one. Needless to say, she was just yelling out to me to "be carefu......." when SMACK! The tray I was carrying got pushed into ME, the beer all fell, the food was smushed right into my clothes, and the bar was packed!!! It took all of my being not to run out and never ever come back, but I knew I couldn't do that. So, I just left for a minute, trying to clean up my clothes, and just carried on. I then looked to make sure what sliding door was open and which wasn't. Everyone was still kinda snickering, so I told them "ok..laugh and get it out of your system!!" Which they did, but whenever I waited on them, they would all say things like "oh boy, look out...here she comes again"..I didn't live that one down for YEARS! So, there ya go. THREE embarrassing moments, not just one! Thanks for asking! lol.\nGOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS!!
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I have been on both sides of this issue. I was raised to believe, but rationally I could not except the idea that God was the judgmental insecure fruitcake my religion portrayed him as.\n\nSo I stopped believing.  Then this happened to me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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At one point in my life I was really depressed. i'm talking clinical depression here, the kind you get when the chemicals in your brain get mixed up. i was a Christian at this point, but had been drifting away from God.\nanyway, i was standing by my window one day. at this point i was closer to committing suicide then i had ever been, and was contemplating the action right then. as i stood there, i suddenly felt this overwhelming prescence.\ni can't really describe what happened next, (it's too personal) but God came to me. i spent some time in prayer, just pouring out my heart. when i left my room, i felt like a completely different person. everything literally looked brighter.\n5 years later, i'm still following the Lord and couldn't be happier. i really believe that God saved my life that day, both spiritually and physically.
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I know without any doubt that God Loves us..ask yourself this question? Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life? Can marrying the right person fill that gap? Can having enough money fill it? Can having good health fill the emptiness? For everyone that has asked themselves that question and they have found out that the answer is no..The emptiness that we feel is the separation from God, when we accept His son Jesus into our lives, then the Holy Spirit will come into our hearts, then a veil is lifted from your eyes, and the Truth shall be revealed, and the pit in your stomach shall be made whole..For God is Love..and satan is death..Amen!!\n\nIn answer to your question, I was not brought up in any church, God was NEVER mentioned in our home, my mom abused me as a child, my dad molested me also..I was going to commit suicide when my brother asked me to go to church, so I went to make him happy, I hated being in church, I called everyone there Jesus freaks..the next Sunday, I could not stand the emptiness any longer, so I said well I tried everything else, I will try God..Praise the Lord..I am glad I did..Amen!!
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I faced a tragedy from which there was no escape. It was a situation I had put myself in and had no alternate ways out. My only choices were to accept the fact that I was wrong about God, or suffer through life hoping and waiting to die. I now that sounds dramatic, but some of us are more hard-headed than others. \n\nThe secret is actually very simple: We are blinded by our own egos. They tell us we are good when we are not. They rationalize our irrational behavior. And the biggest one is that they tell us we are right. I learned that there are times when you can be right and times when you can be happy. And sometimes you have to choose between the two. I didn't know how to be happy without being right. Retraining was a slow process. But I saw that God was working in others' lives. I saw that they were happy & functional instead of bitter & barely making it. So I did what they did. I prayed to a God I didn't believe in yet. But I was willing to believe and that is the only requirement. As long as I was willing to be wrong about God, to say the He might exist, I could give Him the benefit of the doubt and I started reqping blessigns even before I actually believed. Also, I learned that helping others helped me see that God uses us and part of the reason is because it makes us feel useful & satisfies me like nothing I'd ever known before. If you'd like to discuss this further, feel free to contact me. God bless you & your search.
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When I have felt God's presence it was usually with a lot of other believers during a time of prayer and meditation.  When I have been meditating by myself, or when I have been mentally going about some depressing fact and She steps in to bring me back to reality.\n- Oh yeah stopping to take a breath and look at Her beauty in the world also has made me feel God's Precence\n\nSo I think the key here is being open to feel God's presence.  Meditation helps, but I think most of it is being spiritual and open, having faith and taking the time to listen to what God may be saying.
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No I can't say that i've known myself to laugh with God.But I know he's answered my prayers when i've been down in the pits.For example over here when we sign up for a home there's hundreds on the waiting list.At the time I was living with relatives and I was nearly due to have my baby and I just prayed nearly all week.The following week I get a phone call and i'm told they have got me a house,but the area they gave me i knew well and it was a bad street,teenagers doing drugs and picking on little kids that went to the shop etc,so i turned it down.My family and friends said i blew it and i'll probably stay at the bottom of the list.But i asked God that i didn't want to be pushed into a place that was unsafe for my children,next day o got another phone call and i am now in a good area for my children,nearby to schools and shops.God has done more for me but then that would take up a page lol.I moved into my home,early the next morning I had my baby,so i had my brand new baby and brought her back to her brand new home.I held on to faith even though at times it looked grim.
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I always feel God's presence in the abundant surrounding and at times within me. He is there always.
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o.k. this is really personal so please have respect. My mom was sick for a year and a half. Finally after her long struggle their was nothing more that the doctor's could do. During her last few weeks here on this earth, it became really important for me to hold her hand. I wished that if I could hold her hand and give up everything that I loved to do or ever wanted to do that somehow she wouldn't have to leave me. But reality as usual sunk in, and I decided that I wanted to hold her hand as Jesus took her to heaven. so Iprayed and asked God to let me be able to be with her as she died and to let me be able to hold her hand. A few days later we came into the hospitol in the morning to visit her, but she had taken a turn for the worse over night and they said she maybe had the rest of the day to live. Aout a half hour laterthings really went down hill. i was sitting in a chair at the end of her bed, when all of a sudden I heard someone ( not out loud for everyone to hear, but a voice none the less) telling me that i should go hold her hand. I felt as if someone was pulling at me trying to get me to move. I hesitated because someone was standing in the way. A moment later that person moved. I continued to hear that voice urging me to move and that fealing of someone pulling on me. I got up and held her hand. Aouple of minutes later she was gone. Because God loves me and knew how much this would mean to me, and it still means so much to me, He made sure that I was there at that moment, and He told me in His own way that that was the moment I needed to be holding her hand. Like I said, This is personal. This really happened so please have respect.
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Oh, I am so happy that I am not the only one that is weak in this.\n\nBut alas. . . we must stick with what we have chosen.  Our suffering for these 40 days is nothing compaired to that of Our Lord on the cross.  I think of that and somehow, I don't feel so weak.
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This was close enough ton a miracle for me.\n\nSeveral years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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pray and get close to God. ie Jesus
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Absolutely, 100% YES! Sometimes you feel alone and you feel that God might be ignoring you, but I bet that if you pray and talk to Jesus you WILL feel Him in your heart. Remember the Footprints in the Sand story, that when we feel our lowest it is then that Jesus is carrying you. It might sound hokey and to let you know, I am not a bible thumper and I do not attend Church on a regular basis, but I do believe in my heart and soul that God is ALWAYS with us, it's just that we don't take the time to "hear" what He is saying to us. Just listen.
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i have actually thought some of those things myself. I do feel selfish sometimes when it slips out when i ask God for petty things. i try to remember that God already knows what i need so theres no point in asking;   but i always pray for all the Mom's and babies in the world every day. and i always thank God for everything he has given me and my family. I hope that makes sense. I try to keep my prayers beyond winning the game etc. but i commonly ask God just to 'help' me or others just in general if they just need a boost.