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The Jebster
Joined: Jan 2002
Location: Concord, MI
Age: 38
Posts: 636
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If he came down and showed everyone what he could do then everyone would believe, the only problem is it wouldn't be because of your faith, it'd just be because of his tricks. God doesn't want to win you over with cheap tricks, he wants you to have faith and believe in him.
When you become a Christian and you begin to grow in your walk with Christ, you will be amazed at how some people can not acknowledge him at all. When you actually have a relationship with him, you will feel so much better! God has shown himself to me in AMAZING ways.
I'd like to address one of your points. The Bible never says that their weren't dinosaurs. Infact, it says that there WERE. The only difference is that they called him "behemoth" instead of "dinosaurs". It says that behemoth blows fire from his nostrils, and has skin like armor, and that there is no beast as mighty as him. Sounds like a dinosaur if you ask me.
Anyway, here is one of the spectacular things that has happened to me, which I am convince was from God.
A few years ago my family and I were camping at lake Michigan. We all wanted to go swimming, so we all got ready. My Mom decided that she was going to stay home because she was tired and wanted to take a nap. So my Dad and the rest of my siblings took off to the beach.
When we arrived, the waves were really big. We didn't realize it at the time, but they had one of those red flags out that meant there was an undertoe and that it was dangerous to swim. Since I hadn't seen the flag I ran down to the lake and got in. I was having a great time in the waves, smashing up against them and stuff. However, the farther I went, the harder I found it to swim. When I finally realized what was happening, there was no way for me to get out. I started screaming like crazy. I had never been so scared in all my life. No matter how hard I swam, I just kept going back. After a minute or so of screaming my head off, some of the people that were swimming a little ways back realized what was happening. My Dad saw what was happening and came out as fast as he could. It didn't do much good though because know he was stuck as well. Neither of us could get out no matter how hard we tried.
Meanwhile, back at the trailer which was a mile and a half away, my Mom had been sleeping. Suddenly she awoke with a start and had an overwhelming desire to pray for her son. She didn't know which one of us it was, but she knew that something was going wrong. She couldn't shake this feeling that she was being urged by God to pray for her Son (me), so she did. Once she was done, however, she just thought "oh, I must just be paranoid." So, she went back to sleep. However, after about 10 minutes she woke up again, with another overwhelming urge to pray for her Son. By this time she was starting to the she wasn't just paranoid, because no mateer what she did she could not get rid of the feeling. She prayed again, and went back to sleep.
Back at the beach my Dad and I were still caught in the waves. By now more people had caught on, and were trying to get stuff out to us so we could stay afloat. By then though, we were so far back that they were having a very hard time doing it. One of them finally got one of those little floaty things and started trying to throw it to me. My Dad was about 15 feet behind me. Finally after about 7 throws, he got it out far enough that I was able to reach it. After a little while, I had floated in far enough that I was able to get out. However, my Dad was still in caught in the undertoe, and they didn't have another floaty. Besides, he was about 15 feet behind me so there was no way they would have been able to get one to him. That's when the strangest thing happened, my Dad had a floaty! He doesn't remember where he got it, but he had it. Thankfully, he was then able to bring himself in. When we got to the beach we were both exhausted. It had been about 15 minutes of complete struggling. Once we were able to move, we tried to locate an owner for my Dad's floaty, but couldn't find one anywhere.
There's no way that that was just coincidence. There IS a God, and he IS real. If this had happened to you, there would be no doubt in your mind that God is very real.
We've had other things that were just as awesome as this happen to us as well. I can tell them if anyone is interested in hearing them.
You guys may not believe me, but that's ok. I'm not sure I would have believed it if it hadn't of happened to me. But let me assure you, it DID happen, and I will never forget it.
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