Extraordinary Moments With God
From Around The World
Duck, Duck, Goose
One cold evening several years ago, I made my way to the local hospital to see a friend who had been admitted to the emergency room. As I neared the door, I noticed two large ducks huddled together near the right side of the electronic doors. They were obviously suffering the wrath of the cold air that was blowing around them....
The Weight that Held Me Down
I was visiting my family at our lake house one day. I decided to take the row boat out into the middle of the lake to read my Bible. I paddled out to the middle of the lake dropped the anchor and began to enjoy the uninterrupted lull of the water slapping up against the boat. I sat in the quiet for quite a long time. All of a sudden a storm began to blow up...
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God Whispered in the Wind
When I was a freshman in high school, I had started to go to Young Life with some of my friends. My father was Jewish and my mother Methodist. They had decided to expose me to both religions, and then let me make my own decision about my faith...
God's Reassuring Light
It was early Spring of 1995. In January, I had lost my husband, age 48, to a blood clot. He had lived with addiction and pain and the loss of a daughter. Before he left us, God had spoken to his heart again and he had recommitted his life to our Lord. We were active in our church and had good jobs. Our children were making their own way in life and we were happy and proud. I was driving into town on a somewhat cloudy day that promised rain. I was missing Tom...
God Showed up at the Office
One day I was at work and the sun was coming in through the blinds in my office onto the floor. The shadows of the sun through the blinds made the beautiful cross on the floor and made the cross look like it was on a hill. It was framed by the sunlight in the most beautiful way. I had worked in that particular office for a little over 6 months and this had never happened before and never happened again the 3 years I worked in that office! The Lord had called my Daddy home about 6 months prior to this and I felt like it was God's way of letting me know that my Daddy was with Him and that everything was okay. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
Teresa Hubner
Losing My Son
My son Jim was killed in a car accident 14 years ago. The day we buried him I was in the closet praying. 'God, I can't do this, I can't put my one and only son into to the grave and just throw dirt upon him. It was at that nanosecond that God lifted me up and said...
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Hope in the Midst of Autism
I wanted to share one of my extraordinary moments with you. I am a single mother of two beautiful sweet children. I have a six year old daughter and a four year old son. My four year old has been diagnosed with autism. Some days have been very challenging in the past; filled with crying and screaming all day....
Fireflies that Lit my Path
We had just moved to Minnesota from a urban city in New Jersey. I lived in New Jersey all my life and knew where everything in that town was. There are many walking trails where we live. My daughters wanted to go exploring, but it was getting late and I was not sure of the area. ..
Butterfly Moments
I was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 years ago -when I was 53. I would walk in the fields around our home talking to God , asking why and feeling so alone...
One Hundred Dollar Miracle
I am a single mother of two little boys, one 7 and the other 5. I work full time and work diligently in the ministry that we attend. I noticed that my finances lately had been falling a little short...
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Surprise! You're Pregnant!
After 12 years of crying and trying to have a baby we decided adoption was the course of action for us...even though God had specifically promised me years earlier during one of those intimate Hannah moments with him that He would give us a child.So we adopted the most perfect baby boy one could ask for and life was good. When he was 14 months old I began to get ill with intense headaches. After a couple of months and some test we discovered that I had an non-operative brain tumor without a lot of hope...
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A Marriage of Violence transformed into A Marriage of Victory
Before I can tell you all the other wonderful things God is doing in our lives, I have to tell you about the painful past that preceded the victories. It is a disturbing story to tell and to hear, yet my hopes are you can see that it is truly a love story, about a woman, a man and the God who brought them together for His glory...
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No More Stinkin' Thinkin'
One day I was having an all to frequent melt down in the form of "crying excessively" (frequently it is in the form of blowing up and losing all patience). Unfortunately this occurred in the presence of my small children (2,4,and 6). This behavior contributes to my complete feeling of worthlessness, failure as a mother, and lack of feeling in control of my self and my life...
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Relief from Depression
I read your devotional about how Satan uses our own thoughts to deceive and discourage us. You gave a very good hint - attach "In Jesus Name" at the end of that thought to tell if it was of God. I felt a prompting in my spirit to send it to my sister. I didn't know how it affected her until she called me this morning...
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My Blood Wasn't Good Enough - But His Was
I got an exciting call one Wednesday afternoon that I was a match for a patient needing a bone marrow transplant! It had been many years since I became part of the registry so I was really caught off guard. The screener asked if I was still willing and able to be a bone marrow donor...
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Hope After Miscarriage
When my husband and I first got married we struggled to have a baby. I had 3 miscarriages in 2 years and I was absolutely devastated. The third one was extremely hard for us. I lost my baby boy at 3 1/2 months along, and it was a very traumatic ordeal. I was depressed and...
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God Sees the Big Picture
I was at a moment in my life where I really felt like I needed some direction from God and I was struggling with where my life was headed as a single woman. I got on a airplane headed back home from Seattle and while we were flying over the Rocky Mountains God spoke to me...
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How God Sees Me
For most of my adult life I have been on a quest to truly understand how God sees me. What does He really think of me? It is easy to read verses that speak to this question. But to really know it deep in my heart, to really believe it - that is the challenge. One morning as I was out for my daily walk I was really wrestling with this once again...
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Rainbow to Heaven
I am a recent widow. When my precious husband of 37 years went to be with the Lord last year there was a most extraordinary moment. My son and daughter-in- law were coming home from the hospital where my husband had just passed away. My son said "Look mama"...
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God Provided Worms and So Much More
...After the morning encounter with the bird, I walked outside to see if I could see any worms, but all I saw was the aluminum frame. No worms, nothing that even looked like a meal, yet I wondered if the bird would be back that evening and if he would be disappointed...
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The Bossy Boss
I was working for a long time friend of mine, but we weren't getting along very well. He seemed to be so different as a boss than as a friend. He was critical, rude an unforgiving at work, and I was at my wit's end...
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God Speaks Through Nature
The hummingbird flew up to the kitchen window (face to face with me) and
just hovered there, as if to say hello. I told my father, "God just said "hello...
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Never Alone
For the past many years I have been a single parent. After my husband and I had 3 wonderful sons, he was gone and I was left to parent alone...
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God is Bigger Than Autism
Not long ago, I was blessed by God to have the opportunity to care for a 7 year old boy named Aaron, who has autism. Aaron is such an angel--innocent, amazingly observant, and he has a contagious laugh that I will never forget! Children with autism have a hard time understanding the intangible such as time and dates. So when we started attending church, we were never sure how much Aaron grasped about Jesus and Christianity, since God isn't necessarily 'tangible'...
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Marriage on the Mend
...The Lord had blessed me with a wonderful, Godly man 11 years ago. During our yearlong courtship, we were faithful in our walks. . However, after our wedding day, the enemy had his way with us and we quickly got caught up in our worldly lives. Our marriage spiraled downward, away from each other and from The Lord...
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The Miracle Flute was no Fluke
My daughter always wanted to play the flute. I have always told her no when the opportunity came, because we couldn't afford it...
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Roses in November
Last summer my husband was undergoing chemotherapy for Lymphoma (stage 4) and we were in an auto accident in May...
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The Duckling who Lagged Behind
Ten of the ducklings made it safely up the hill and into the pond behind their mama, but there was one little duck that was left struggling to get up the hill..
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Two Rocks and a Hard Place
About two years ago, my husband and I moved next door to my parents after my dad had been put in jail for consecutive DWIs...
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Defining Moment
I am now in my mid-forties, but when I was 18 years old, God spoke to me in a way that has stayed with me through all my journey's thus far. We lived on the bay in Pensacola, FL...
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Little Moments
Ever since I have been nudged back to God (as I call it) I have many what I call "small miracles" or small extraordinary moments. I'd like to share two. A couple months ago I was sitting with my four year old son and he turned to me and said, "I love you."
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God is the Ticket Holder
When we got there (to the coliseum) I still did not have a ticket. I was in a strange town and no way place to go if God did not provide. Here is the extraordinary part of my story...
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God is the Best Map Quest!
When we finally reached West Palm Beach, Florida, I called my sister to direct us to her house. All of the phone lines were down for repairs! I thought, "Not now, God. We are exhausted." My sons were tired and cranky, my husband had driven the last 10 hours straight and we all needed a good hot bath...
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God Hears our Silent Dreams
For the first 11 or 12 years of marriage I often dreamed that one day I would have a house with this or that...
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