Friday, 12 December 2008
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God Spoke to Me Audibly and Turned My Life Around
Guest post by flying_nutshell
When I was thirteen, I suffered from severe depression. I was terribly antisocial and had only two or three friends. Many times I would crawl into my closet and contemplate committing suicide. I really, really wanted to die.
Then my parents persuaded me to go to church camp for a week. It didn't make things better. I barely spoke to anyone and spent most of my time reading or sitting alone.
The night before camp ended, my small group leader - she was a college student - pulled me aside and said, "I need to talk to you." She must have seen the alarmed look on my face, for she laughed and added, "Relax. This is just standard procedure. As the small group leader, it's my responsibility to get to know all the girls in my group. I'm doing this with everyone, not just you." I relaxed.
We sat down on the steps outside the worship hall, and she said, very gently, "I think you're not very happy. Are you okay?"
"No," I said and burst into tears. It was the first time anyone had asked me that question, and I couldn't stop crying. She sat there with her arms around my shoulders as I sobbed and sobbed into my hands. I think it went on for about twenty minutes. I wept, she kept handing me tissues, and she prayed for me. Before then, I'd never seriously believed in the power of prayer, but when I heard her asking God to give me strength and joy and peace, I was moved beyond words. After a while, I finally stopped crying. I looked at her with swollen red eyes and thanked her in a hoarse voice.
"Are you ready to go back in now?" she asked. I nodded. She walked me back into the worship hall, and we parted. It was later that I learned - through correspondence with her - that she had actually lied that night. She never met with any of the other girls in the small group; it had just been me.
I found an empty corner in the worship hall and got down to my knees to pray. There was only one prayer I could say, over and over again: "Dear God, please, please, please make everything all right. Please God, please help me, please let everything be all right, please let everything be all right. Help me God, I really need your help. Please God, please let everything be all right. Amen." I still say it sometimes, when I'm in trouble or pain, because it seems to be the only appropriate prayer for me. "Please let everything be all right."
As I knelt there, praying, I began to cry again. And it was then that I heard a voice in my head. It was a whisper, but it was clear and real as any spoken words:
"It's going to be all right."
I looked up. There was no one near me. The next day, I made my first friends at camp. The next month, I entered high school and made friends in all of my classes. Today, I am happy to be alive and well. God spoke to me, and He made everything all right. Praise to the Lord.
How has God comforted you lately?
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Comments (71)
Awesome story
Thanks so much for sharing it with all of us.
Great Story! Thanks for being awesome!
That's amazing! Praise God!
Wonderful testimony sis and so true that He has sent the Comforter :)
Aww, I really enjoyed reading that!!
God is so marvelous.
God is good....
to answer your question... ummm... i don't know how to answer that question...
Thank you for this story and thank God for leading me to this story.
that would be an awesome story.... if I believed the voice was anything other than your imagination. I'm not saying God CANT speak to people but why the heck would he? The mind is a funny thing it can make imaginary things seem real.
What a great story and experience. The important part isn't that He spoke to you, though. It's that you listened!
I am boycotting the dumb questions that revelife adds, though.
@jhaguar13@xanga - Why wouldn't He? Let's just pretend you are God. You are the omnipotent, omniscient creator of the earth and heavens and you created a being in your own image and favored them above all others and loved them so much that you gave them your only Son. You transcend time and space so it's not like you are on a schedule. Why wouldn't you talk to someone?
I too believe I have heard God speak to me. I was 13, attending church camp as a firm athiest. I only went there because my aunt was paying for the horsemenship part of the camp. It was two days before the last day and it was during praise and worship. I was sitting not participating. And I heard someone whisper in my left ear, I know You and know what Your going though, don't give up. That night, I gave my life over to the Lord.
yeah, when I was in middle school, I was unhappy for a long time until I decided to follow God. Thanks for sharing this story!
God has moved my life, and everyone around it... I have a half sister who i haven't seen since 2004, prior to that i never knew of her existence... few days ago i got to talk to her, and there she was telling me her goals, that she too is a christian like me, i pray her faith is strong like our cousins, but she's been through so much, now she's going to off on about now... wanting to be a violinist...
Amazing, God has also gotten me to be able to connect with people easily because of my humility(not wanting to act proud or anything) since i'm always willing to share what i've been through, if it was happiness, sadness, sins, blessings, etc...
I felt connections like in the story some moments in my Life, Awesome stuff! May God Bless!
I loved your story and I am sure that The Lord SPOKE to you, too...I too, have prayed SO MANY TIMES, just for everything to be all right....and, just in the past month, alone, ...my daughter came home (safely) from a tour of Duty in Iraq,... and my babygirl was just awarded a 4-Year Full Ride Scholarship to Northwestern University.. I, even used to pray for the Lord to speak to me and I believe he has, in so many ways! He is an Awesome God and we are, oh so Blessed !!
I know exactly how you must have felt.
I've had depression for years now and I still struggle with large crowds, meeting new people (even though I enjoy it) and still get heart palpitations and anxious moments.
Your story is amazing!
I hope you're feeling better now and take care girlie
xxx
This story was great. I used to be the same way, but then I started turning my attention to God and he's opened me up a lot.
That's such a great turnaround story. I'm glad your happy. I hate to see perfectly good people down like that.
Funny thing is, even after hearing this, I still can't find myself to believe in God. Not that I want to, not that I have anything against him either.
Thank you Jesus that you care about our small, seemingly insignificant problems. They aren't small to us, and because of that You care about them.
I love the way He sees us, in our troubles, in our pain, and fear, and He cares, and He loves, and He comforts.
Great story thanks for sharing it.... I hope that Christ Jesus is where your hope and joy and peace is found now and forever!
I don't know what to make of the voice. Can God speak? Sure He can! Does he still? I believe yes but through His word and the church. I have heard and talked to a great number of people who have turned their lives around because they heard a voice as clear as day. The problem is that some of these people were Mormons and others were Muslims. Yet I hold strongly that those are false Gods. If two people hear voices and then join two different religions yet both change their lives for the better; who has the real god? better yet, suppose a Christian hears a voice and turns their live around from depression and a Muslim hears a voice and turns their life around from drugs, sex and violence then they win a million dollars on top of that! Who has the better God?
@MC_Shann@xanga - I think you are afraid of God working. Yes we have to discern if its God or not, but why should he be limited? Just because we are in the "Technology" age does not mean we created a mute button for God.
Thank you for sharing that wonderful story i am glad God spoke to you in that way!
@MC_Shann@xanga - exactly thank you for voicing my opinion in a more articulate manner =)
@squanto_07@xanga - nobodies suggesting we've created a mute button for God. However if God were still speaking to people then that opens the door for additions to the Canon. We start having to accept the Book of Mormon and the koran as true and from God. Bothe of the founders of those religions (technically mormonism is a cult) believed that God spoke to them and told them things contrary to what was already in the Canon.
The thing about hearing God speak today is that it must line up with the Word of God. That is how we know we have the right God. Is what "the voice" saying to you consistent with Scripture? If it is then we know it is God speaking to us.
great story. thanks for sharing