I talk to God last night. Found this forum today.
Leaving the Jw's is a very good thing. I still believe in Jehovah God, and will never turn my back on him.
So, Was It Just "Luck" Or Did "Jehovah" Intervene At Times For You?
by minimus 19 Replies latest jw friends
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cofty
I talk to God last night. Found this forum today
Thank god or thank google?
Welcome to JWN. Never say never.
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NewYork44M
So, PJoseph are you suggesting that god communicate with mankind through this website?
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Mad Sweeney
He hasn't done squat for Mad Sweeney.
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clarity
Hmm ..I believe strongly that..........
I will always find a parking spot near the door......
and I do!
clarity
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WTWizard
No, joke-hova always did whatever it could to make the situation as bad as it could. How many times Satan intervened for us and joke-hova would get credit--worse yet, we would drive Satan and His Demons away from us at such times. Invariably, joke-hova did everything to make sure my life would be as blah as it could make it.
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likeabird
When in I had many things happen that convinced me that there was some kind of divine intervention going on.
As soon as I woke up, I still had amazing things fall into place, just minus the prayer. It was a big eye opener for me.
I would answer no to both your possibilities as I don't believe in luck either. More a question of hard work paying off now and previously not setting high expectations.
In any case, for the number of times a prayer has been "answered", how many times has it gone unanswered?
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Acluetofindtheuser
I could probably count 3 times in my life but only after I started thinking for myself. I thought it strange that a two congregation memorial observance could be thwarted by a forgetful school janitor, without any divine intervention.
For me, one instance was a million to 1 shot. The second and the third could have been an amazing coincidence.
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cobaltcupcake
The tipping point in my gradual awakening was realizing that Jehovah either doesn't exist or doesn't help us one damn bit.
As a 17-year-old girl I was starting to get some male attention, so I prayed fervently (on my knees, in tears) that Jehovah help me to find the right marriage mate.
A man I knew returned from Bethel a couple of months later and started hanging around with my family. I didn't really pay any attention to him until one day, to my absolute shock, he proposed. Thinking this was Jehovah's direction I accepted.
Flash forward 27 years. I'm miserable. The man is a sexual fiend who has raped me frequently over the course of our marriage and generally made my life miserable in a zillion different ways. I stayed with him because I believed it was Jehovah's will for us to be together and it would work out well in the end.
One day I had an epiphany. In my childish faith I had asked Jehovah for the proverbial egg and had been handed a scorpion instead. Malicious sadist.
If Jehovah existed but would not intervene in the way I expected why didn't he lovingly let me know? Why would he spit on my faith in him by allowing me to marry a monster and suffer for decades? If he didn't exist then why the heck was I wasting my time in a bad marriage and a stupid religion?
No matter what the answer was to those questions I was in a lose-lose situation and needed to cut my losses. My husband picked up on my changing attitude and in short order I realized I was in danger and escaped.
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Satanus
I can't think of any instances where it could be construed that jehovah did a miracle in my life.
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