If you havent read my first blog about my "God Moments" please go and read it here before reading the rest of this blog.
The first God Moments blog was ultimately the most important event in my life. It was the Biggest God moment one person can have! It was the single most important day of my life. My other 2 “God Moments” steam from this first moment and would be meaningless without it!
My second “God Moment” would be December 31st/Jan 1st 2007! We were having a lock-in at my church for new years night. My church at the time was a small country Church that I absolutely Loved! It was the Church that a few years earlier took me to summer camp with them! It was the church that I learned a lot in! It was a traditional Church in every meaning of the word, but I LOVED IT and worshiped God there! The congregation was about 120 people and if I had to guess the average age was close to 50, but those are times I look back on with gladness!
So back to the Lock-in, It started like any other lock-in that I remember. We all (like 15 of us) showed up at the church around 8ish. We had enough pizza and soda to keep us going until well past midnight! We played manhunt, we watched a cheesy Christian movie, and we counted down the New Year. At the end of the night right before everyone was getting ready to go to bed we had a small bon fire! There is something about 16/17 boys and fire where we will just watch it burn for hours, and that’s just what I did. As everyone else made there way inside I just sat by the fire. I wasn’t seeking a big spiritual break through that night, to be honest if there was one word that described my walk with God up until that point it would have been nominal, but for some reason only known to God, He thought it best to meet with me that night.
I remember sitting next to the fire, it had to be 3am by this point, and in my head I remember thinking “maybe I should pray right now”. In that moment as real as a friend sitting across from you speaking to you face to face I heard God respond “you know I can hear you now”…… It absolutely blew my mind! The God of the universe heard my prayer! The God of the universe not only heard my prayer but He Cared enough to respond with exactly what I needed to hear! The next few hours were some of the sweetest times I’ve had in my whole life. I remember crying! I remember laughing! I remember think how if someone were watching me they would think I was crazy! I remember sharing my dreams with God like a 4 year old would share with their father I was giddy to talk to Him more! Still more I remember knowing at that very moment that I was His and that was all I needed to be happy!
I’ve tried everything since that day to try and manufacture the experience I had that night but have come to realize that no amount of human manipulation can ever substitute a super natural move of God even if you are well meaning! God moves in His timing and I am thankful his timing is infinitely better than mine!
Do you have any experences in your life were God forever changed the way you think about Him? What were they?
