Do You Believe In God Encounters?

 

 

 

My question is, "Do you believe in God encounters?" I most certainly do and wanted to share a recent encounter with you.  If it doesn't give you chills then I don't know what possibly could.

 

Just yesterday I experienced a sneak attack from Satan.  The experience was personal and not important to share.  What I can share is that I was overcome with intense panic.  Thoughts flooded my mind and I could not seem to push them out. Many emotions welled up, one of them was anger and the desire to "give up" on my current situation.

 

Earlier that morning, I read a very encouraging quote from Beth Moore.  It read, "God is for us in the battle.  He knows if we don't have to fight to take the ground He wants to give us, we won't have the muscle to keep it."

 

Hours later, I found myself in battle. I cried out to God in my distress.  Questions went flying from my mouth until I was a heap of misery.  A sweet angel, whom I will leave nameless, texted me with, "Take it to God, right now. God knows right where you are. Just bring it to Him." I started to pray. In my prayer I heard nothing from Him. 

My Bible was sitting next to me on my bed.  I should mention that this particular version (Application Bible) had been shelved for ten years.  I had recently brought it out as just another resource. Once again, I decided to just open it randomly (I understand that is not an encouraged practice, but it's the Bible, something encouraging should appear).  It opens to Ecclesiastes 11.  The title of this chapter reads, "The Value of Diligence." I begin to read and am moved by these words, "As you do not know what is the way of the wind or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything." Ecc. 11:5 The chapter continues on about the importance of diligence.

 

At this time, I wonder how my favorite and well-worn Bible (NIV) interprets this passage.  I reach for it expecting to flip through many pages to find this passage. I open it and out of all 1,352 pages it opens to Ecclesiastes 11.

 

My response was quite juvenile, to be honest. My words went something like this, as my eyes looked upward to my God, "Are you freaking kidding me, right now?  Did you just do that?" And then I cried. My body trembled in disbelief.

What are the odds?

 

The NIV version reads, "As you do not know the path of the wind or how the body is formed in the mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well."

 

 

God encounters are for everybody. He is alive and moving at great speed even though we may not always think so.

 

He calls me to be diligent.  What is He calling you to be?