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…but I just had to post this. Anyway, here it goes.
Today there was a storm out earlier, so the power flickered. Since the power flickered, the main computer downstairs restarted. All the computers are wired to the main one, causing the internet to, well, not work. Everyone here is an internet fanatic, so I, the “computer whiz” of the house, am the one to get the computers back up.
So I try the average routine, and it doesn't work. I try again, it doesn't work, and so on. I tried restarting, reseting the modem, etc, but it still wouldn't work. So I went to God for help.
I prayed to God to get the computers working. I expected it to be instant, in the exact way I wanted to be. Needless to say, I was disapointed. I tried praying several more times trying to get it to work, also trying several different ways to get it back up. It still didn't work.
It may not sound like much, but it was heartbreaking imagining if God “failed” me, or, even worse, didn't exist. I ended up on the couch in tears (Ain't I a weenie or what?) “Does God care?”, I thought, “Is he listening?” close to denying the existence of God.
All the sudden, the dog walks up, and sits down near me, which reminded me of that time in the Bible when thay guy (I can't remember his name) was fed by ravens commanded by God. And soon after that, my mom and little brother came down. They called dad to have him help. All the sudden, it was like God was proving he existed and was listening to me, again. Also, I barely noticed it when I was caught up trying to get the internet to work, but a little voice in my head was telling me, “Do what Dad does, you're not doing it right.” God was there all along! I just wasn't listening!
All that probably sounds silly, but oh well.
Does anyone else have any scripture regarding stuff like this?
This sounds like a troll thread, but if not here we go…
I've heard from many people that they prayed to God and had a positive response. Do people pray every time something goes wrong? Do things always go right for them? I don't pray at all, nor do I believe a god exists and I'd had bad situations get better, good situations go bad and so forth.
If a god did exist I couldn't see him catering to over 6 billion people's need around the world every time a problem occurred, especially something as petty as the internet not working. Have you seen what goes on in the world?
If God made the bad things good everytime something bad occured, what would be the point? Personally, i know exactly what goes on in the world, and i know, if God came in EVERY time something bad happened, we would know nothing…learn absolutely nada. God is like a judge. If you murder someone, and your in trial, you can list off a whole bunch of things you did good previously, but your still going to be judged because you murdered someone, no matter how good you did.
God sends His rain on the just and the unjust alike. He constantly has a positive influence on the activities of men on earth.
But He does not promise to answer the prayers of those who have not been born again into His family. That is their privilege.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and everything else will be added to you.
Mr. Bob…….I Don!t have any scripture to relate…..But I can relate a true experience I had of the existence of GOD and Prayer……..I had been married for 18 yrs at the time ,,it was a terrible rocky marriage…we had just moved to a farm in Oregon, something I always dreamed of…I am a alcoholic, my drinking had caused me and my family much unhappiness…
My wife left me again for the umpteenth time in our marriage, and after getting my chores done one morning, it was Super Bowl Sunday Jan 15th 1978, I went up to the hay field to sort out my life and to get a handle on things,,,this had gone on to far and to long,,,my life was miserable and happiness was something for other people…I spent a little time wandering up and down the field trying to see what it was that caused me all this misery….I looked back to see if ever I had been Happy,,,It wasn!t in my married life,,,and it wasn!t the years I had been in the U S Navy,,,it wasn!t in my teenage school years,,,,,It wasn!t untill I remembered as a young boy,, 11 or 12 or so, my mother dragging me along to a Baptist Church in town, there I had met Jesus, was saved by His Grace, sang in the choir, ….that was the only time in my 38 yrs that I could remember in my life, being able to look at myself ,,,as being decent and happy….WITH ME……
That!s when I remembered GOD, and it had been so long since I thought of HIM, other than to take His Name in Vain, I wondered if there even was a GOD, and if there was, would HE have anything to with a vulgar, dirty, unmoral , human being as me.? …the tears were comming now , I was so unhappy that if this was living, if all I could expect was ,,my children almost gone and I would be alone…in my misery…….than I couldn!t see the use in continuing on,…it
wasn!t worth it….I looked up there and with the tears streaming down my face
I asked GOD, and if HE was there ,,,would He please make me happy….I would straighten up , I remember telling myselg I would do everything on my part to help and to me a better person in HIS eyes,,,,,,,I knew I couldn!t be a religious person, I would be lying to HIM and myself,,,but what I could do was quit my drinking,,,,,,I could do that,,,,I knew HE didn!t like my drinking…..and for the first time in my life I knew I was going to quit……You see I had told and promised my wife a hundred time in our marriage I would quit, but they were all postponements,,
but this time I walked down off that hay field knowing in my mind,for the first time ,,,in 20 yrs of alcohol,,,,that I was not going to drink…..the rest of the time I had been lying to myself………that was Jan15th 1978,,,,I remember telling myself that I was going to go thru life without alcohol, and if I couldn!t be happy without, and I certainly wasn!t happy with it…..then I could go and blow my brains out……..there was a sense of satisfaction with that……….In all the years I went to Alcoholics Anonymous, I never heard a story quite like mine,,,,,,GOD is mentioned four times in the Steps,,,,,I had already done them………You see I asked GOD and GOD answered…..I had no Idea my addiction was my unhappiness……nor did I have any intentions of quitting before that little wander in my Hayfield……..OH yes there is GOD and HE saved my life ……thank you for listening
DuaneI can also relate to your subject. I've been through the same things, including the computer/internet complications. i just prayed to god to give me patience and knowledge to fix the puter and it worked. of course. God is awesome. He is always there and everything happens for a reason. if he dones't answer your prayer, he has greater things in store for you.
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