Double Edge,
Let me tell you my experience with thinking that God saved me.
I was a newly wed and had just moved 400 miles away from all of my family and friends. I was raised in the JW faith, but quit attending after I was an adult (mainly because I never agreed with most of the JW teachings).
I have a brother who is 14 yrs. younger than me who wanted to spend some of his summer vacation with me. My father agreed, with the condition that I took him to the Kingdom Hall. I agreed and took him to all of the meetings.
Fast forward a week.... I decided to sign up with a temporary employment agency, so I could make some extra money, while learning how to get around the city. Well the temporary agency sent me and another lady to the same work assignment.
Since I was there first, they told me I would be the person to keep the assignment. But I heard her say, I really needed this assignment to make my car payment. So I told her that she could work the assignment, because I still had a lot unpacking to do.
Walking to my car, I hear someone hollering my name. So I stop and the lady that I gave the assignment to, says, "Come back, they have another position that you can have."
We were both heading out to lunch, when she ask, "Can I buy you lunch?" I agreed to lunch and told her that I would drive, because my car was closer.
She gets in the car and there is a song book, bible with a watchtower folded between the pages. She ask me if I'm a JW. I tell her NO WAY, that my brother was just visiting and I agreed to take him to the KH. She tells me that she is a JW, but not very active, because of a nasty divorce from her elder husband. But, that her mother and sister are pioneers and would I like for one of them to stop by. I agreed, because I thought this was Jehovah anwering my prayer. Because on the way to that job that day, I prayed for God to direct me to where I needed to go spiritually.
But the story is not over. Because of my taking on this temporary assignment, I needed child care. So while my husband was putting our son on the bus, he met a very nice lady. And she agreed to watch our son, but he told her that I would want to meet her.
So when I arrived home from work, he told me that he had made arrangments for me to meet this nice lady he met at the bus stop. When I walked through her door the first thing I say on her coffee table were copies of the Watchtower and Awake, plus a copy of the the New World Translation (the old green one). I broke out in tears, because I knew Jehovah was telling me to come back to him (lol).
I'm going to end the story by saying, I did meet her mother. Had my bible study and was baptized.
So if praying to god will get you the same results. God is one sick SOB. Because my being baptized has been pure hell. And almost was the death of me.
