A Sign For You Now

Aim of this step: To share my experience that I believe you can also have.

 

As discussed, I spent some time researching and delving into this new spiritual awareness over a period of time. I hope that this section will help you build faith, trust, hope and love in your life through the experience that I had. At the end I said the prayer in the previous step when I was ready, and continued on my information search as I wanted to know more and more, including reading the New Testament. What I didn’t realise was that my sister (a Christian) had been fasting and praying for me to change my ways and get my life back on track.

 

Around the time of asking Jesus to reveal himself to me, I went to India with my sister and my best friend. One afternoon, as we were visiting Mother Teresa’s tomb in India, I prayed to God to teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others, like Mother Teresa did.

 

Sitting in the taxi, I prayed the prayer for quite a period of time. At that point I had seen some horrible, sad and incredibly unfair things happening to people across India. I was also at a difficult point in my life. Work had been extremely tough and I didn’t feel like I was making any progress or achieving anything I wanted. So I prayed along the lines of this for a period of time silently in the taxi, asking for some of that light of Jesus’ love.

 

Exactly three nights later, I had the most vivid, unbelievable, real, immense dream of my life. I mean you have dreams that you remember for a little while, but this one I will never forget. It is like it was last night in my mind. The experience/dream went like this:

 

I was in the street and a truck was attempting to make a turn and there was a motor bike on the side of the road which was in the way of the truck. To help out the truck driver I moved the motor bike to the side so that the truck could get past. Then the owner of the motor bike got upset with me for touching his bike (even though I was making a good gesture) and started throwing stones at me. There weren’t any words spoken. I retreated onto another truck to get out of there. As we were driving away I leant over to the front where I realised my best mate was driving the truck. He looked different though, a dishevelled look, unshaven. It was a little bit eerie. As I swung around the front of the truck and came to my mate we laughed, then we embraced in a strong manly embrace.

 

This next part is incredibly difficult to explain. I will attempt to do my best.

 

Instantly I was in another place, however he still had arms wrapped around me. I was without a body, just a spirit of some sort. The being holding and embracing me was also in spirit form. Instantly I recognised it from the stories I had heard from a number of near death experiences. I’m not saying this was exactly the same, however, it fit with their explanation on numerous levels. 

 

This feeling of being held was completely mind blowing. I felt like I was in a completely different space and that I wasn’t human anymore. It was more like I was a being of some sort, in existence without my body. It felt awesome. Warm and safe. I had arms around me I couldn’t see. Just felt them and it felt so good.

 

Immediately I thought, “wow, this is what those people were talking about”. As crazy as it sounds there was a knowing that it was our lord Jesus embracing me. An enormous “Ahhhhh” relaxing feeling. It felt so good I cant say that enough.

 

Slowly, the arms around me started to let go. When I would think thoughts like “I love you God”, “I know you are real” sort of thoughts, energy, crazy warmth and a burst of light would be shot into me and it would feel great. I continued to do this numerous times until a wind started blowing on me.  When the wind started whooshing I continued with my pleasant thoughts towards God, which resulted in bursts of light for each thought, but as the wind got stronger and stronger the burst of light wouldn’t be as great as the wind and whooshing was getting in the way. Soon, the wind became so strong that I felt like it was going to rip me apart, and I began to get scared due to its sheer power and ferocity. I felt as though God was showing his sheer power and control over all things, and that I was not in control. For a very brief moment I became terrified, however, when I realised this I thought “it’s okay, I have faith in you and trust you”. Immediately as soon as I thought this, the wind disappeared. I was then still floating in this black space which I had been in the whole time. I thought “ I love you God”. As I thought this, I rose up a little closer to the ceiling. Then I just started repeating it over and over and said it quicker and quicker. As I did this I started rising very quickly to the point where I burst through the roof.

 

It was at this point I thought I woke up. For some reason I couldn’t speak or move and was squirming in my bed desperately trying to speak to tell my friend what had just happened. Soon he realised something was up and got out of his bed and came over to me. Then I actually woke up. I thought I had earlier but I actually hadn't. It was about 4am in the morning. I was completely blown out by it. It was completely still and dark in the room with everything as normal as when we went to sleep. I was so emotional that my nose kept running for the next hour or two as I attempted to write it all down in fear of forgetting. I didn’t have a cold or anything, my nose just wouldn’t stop running which was really odd.

 

Turns out I didn’t need to be worried about forgetting as it has remained very clear in my mind ever since. As you know, we all forget dreams, sometimes very quickly. This one happened nearly a year ago now and it is still so clear in my mind like it happened yesterday. I can’t say that I can recall any other dream in such a way. I would say it was more of a lucid dream or vision than a dream.

 

Some months later after returning home, I continued praying for another experience after the one I had had in India, to have “more”, which is a thing that only as natural humans I guess we would want.

 

One afternoon I was talking with my sister on the phone for about an hour on a drive home. We were talking about God (which was unusual between us). This would have been the first time I spoke about God in any discussion since a conversation with a doubter.

 

My house is at the top of a hill in a subdivision. You don’t really see that many people walking around. As I pulled into my driveway and got out of the car, somebody yelled out “hey!”. I got a massive shock and spun around to see a young guy, about 16-17 years old, in my driveway. I didn’t see anyone in the street as I pulled in and as no one had ever approached me before from off the street. It was rather odd.

 

He was holding an empty plastic bottle, asking if he could have some water. I said “sure”, took the bottle off him and told him the tap was at the side gate. I expected him to wait in the driveway so was shocked again when I turned around after opening the gate to see him standing right next to me. I filled up the bottle with water, all the while thinking this guy must have been on drugs as he was oddly dressed and requesting water. As I looked at him, he didn’t look at all like that was the case. He also didn’t say much. More than anything it seemed like he was introverted.

 

As I tightened the lid, I asked him what he was up to. To which he responded that he was walking to the shopping centre down the road, but didn’t say anything else. I thought about giving him a lift but decided against it. As I handed him the bottle, he thanked me and walked away. He took about 5 steps before he stopped, reached into his pocket, spun around and said “here, I’ll give you this”.

 

It was a piece of paper which I took, as I watched him walk off up my driveway and down the road. The piece of paper had a computer typed sentence written on it. It said “If you were looking for a sign, this is it. :)“!

 

The whole time my sister was waiting on the phone. In shock, I told her what just happened. And said I was going to go and find him to ask him what’s going on and give him a lift, to which she replied: “you won’t find him”. I hung up the phone and immediately jumped in my car. My sister was right. I couldn’t find him. There is only one way to the shopping centre from my house and I saw him take off in that way. There is absolutely no way he could have gotten there in the time it took me to drive towards the centre. I did four passes on the street before I went back home. Make of this what you will!

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This story will not be as impactful for you as it was for me. We all need to have our own experience and our own story with God. My story may not be pursuasive for you and that is okay. But I can guarantee your story will be :)

 

If you still doubt a true and living God, I urge you to keep on searching and praying to God to deal with your doubts. I guess everybody is different, and you need to find out for yourself in your own way. I urge you to continue on your search. There may be something I have missed which is your switch to enlightenment.

 

It may take an hour, or years, but I guarantee you that you will have a revelation like I did if you pursue God with all your heart. God is not a liar and cannot lie.

 

Jeremiah 29:12 says: 'Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14'I will be found by you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,' declares the LORD”

 

Matthew 7:7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened"

 

With 100% conviction I state that you will prove the Christian God to be your true God.

 

With love, God bless : )