Comments on: Searching For God http://sheworships.com/2009/08/25/searching-for-god/ Christian theology for the every day woman. Thu, 17 May 2012 17:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sharon http://sheworships.com/2009/08/25/searching-for-god/#comment-5271 Sharon Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:57:38 +0000 http://sheworships.com/2009/08/25/searching-for-god/#comment-5271 For me, God's presence has felt like different things at different times. Sometimes it's an overwhelming sense of the transcendent when I'm worshipping in church or when I'm looking at something beautiful in nature. Sometimes it's an unshakeable peace in the midst of a rocky time in my life. Other times I sense God in an answer to prayer--especially when the answer catches me by surprise, as if I wasn't sure He was really going to answer. Sometimes He answers before I even ask--like when I'm feeling discouraged about something and I need some encouragement, and He sends someone to minister to my soul exactly the way I'm needing. Which leads me to the last way I feel God's presence--through other Christians. I will never forget the day I was in Haiti on a mission trip when my family called and told me that a family member had died. I was there working with an orphanage and one of the Sisters who cared for the kids came sang songs about God's loving comfort, rocking me in her arms as I sobbed. I felt God in that dark moment too. God is infinite so there are SO many different ways He can express Himself. I think we generally expect writing in the sky, which leads us to miss His voice when it's only a whisper (1 Kings 19). I hope that is helpful, Chris! For me, God’s presence has felt like different things at different times. Sometimes it’s an overwhelming sense of the transcendent when I’m worshipping in church or when I’m looking at something beautiful in nature. Sometimes it’s an unshakeable peace in the midst of a rocky time in my life. Other times I sense God in an answer to prayer–especially when the answer catches me by surprise, as if I wasn’t sure He was really going to answer. Sometimes He answers before I even ask–like when I’m feeling discouraged about something and I need some encouragement, and He sends someone to minister to my soul exactly the way I’m needing.

Which leads me to the last way I feel God’s presence–through other Christians. I will never forget the day I was in Haiti on a mission trip when my family called and told me that a family member had died. I was there working with an orphanage and one of the Sisters who cared for the kids came sang songs about God’s loving comfort, rocking me in her arms as I sobbed. I felt God in that dark moment too.

God is infinite so there are SO many different ways He can express Himself. I think we generally expect writing in the sky, which leads us to miss His voice when it’s only a whisper (1 Kings 19). I hope that is helpful, Chris!

]]> By: Chris http://sheworships.com/2009/08/25/searching-for-god/#comment-5269 Chris Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:16:00 +0000 http://sheworships.com/2009/08/25/searching-for-god/#comment-5269 When you feel His Presence, what does it feel like? When you feel His Presence, what does it feel like?

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