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Nope :P Hey at least I'm honest lol. I do enjoy watching other people getting blessed though since we are all one body.

Well it's not recent but I felt God really strong about a year ago. This moment was also one of the biggest reasons that brought me back to him.

It happened when we we're riding back home from a soccer match in one of my teammates car. It was getting dark and was a bit foggy and there was also some mud on the road. We had to avoid hitting a car from the opposite direction and therefore went off the road and drove into the water. Luckily nobody was injured really bad but we sure had a lot of luck. At that moment I felt God's presence, I didn't realised it at that moment but when i thought about it the night after (I couldn't sleep) I felt that it wasn't all 'luck' that made us get out of the car almost unharmed. I hardly wore a safety belt when i was sitting in the backseat normally and this time for some reason I did.. I thank God for saving me that day from getting hurt badly or even worse and for making me realise how great He is!!!

Gods bless!!

Soul Survivor this year... so pretty recent i guess lol.
Was amazing!

In the session on the monday morning i couldn't stop crying. Ali was doing the talk and i broke down in tears before she's finished her first sentene. So much had gone on, with a couple of my friends, in the past two days that was really hurting me emotionally and really getting me down. What she said really spoke to me, right into my heart, and i felt that God was telling me to just let it all go. Forgive and feel accepted and loved. Went up to the front, still crying, to be prayed for when they invited people to go there. A few friends were praying for me, and someone on the SS prayer team, and i just felt this huge burden being lifted off my shoulders (cliche i know, but it's true). I've felt like a better person since it happened, andi guess what had happenedt was a learning experience.
Also, on the next morning, I had this vision. (I'm sure i've explained it somewhere else on here, and it took ages, so i'll just be brief). Lay on the floor during a set of songs cos my legs were aching. Asked a friend to pray for me, and someone else joined here. I don't know what they were praying about or for, but all i know is that God, again, really spoke to me with images and motion pictures of someone worshipping on a stage, a worship pastor, at some big event like SS. She turned around and it happened to be me! Was amazing after my homegroup and i had been praying for about a year that God would show me what to do with my future - i had no clue at all until then! So that really secured me and made me feel at rest.
And then that night i went up to the front again to be prayed for the gift of tongues, and guess what... God gave it to me! Was awesome!

So they were 3 encounters within two days. I felt so close to God and i never want to let him go. It's amazing being able to help my friends in their faith as well... especially one who feels quite distant from God at the moment, so He's really helping me help her =]

God Bless
Nic
xxx

I think there is a danger here that people here may see an encounter just in terms of "feelings". Of course im not talking about the healings or Gods intervention i just think we can get swing the spectrum to far.
..just read the bible and you will be having an amazing encounter with God even though it doesn't always "feel" like it!
I don't mean that to sound patronising or being argumentative I just think it's important we rely on truth not just feelings or our faith will be up and down like a yo-yo....I learnt this the hard way when in soul survivor 2001 when i became a Christian it was incredible, I was having visions, people were prophesying over me etc... and in 2002 it felt like nothing happened and I got really down and thought God wasn't bothered anymore. It took a friend to really guide me to rely on truth and not just feelings.

Blessings

Kind of like what Chris pointed out... it’s all in how someone defines “amazing encounter with God”. That seems to make all the difference. Indeed, sometimes when I feel He is as physically distant as the Sun I find found Him closer than the warmth of the Sun’s rays. It is the times that are most austere, droll and dry which, somehow, can become the most incredible displays of me encountering God; but unfortunately I see this easier in my past. It is often much harder to see Him amidst the present.

Hey guys,

I've been having a tough time from around April and I really wanted the things that have been getting me down this year to be a thing of 2008 and not in 2009.

So I was praying about that I and I had an overwhelming sence of God's joy and started crying and laughing at the same time, it was pretty amazing!!!

I just had a feeling that what happened this year was for the best, and i have to take what i have learned this year from God (which is a massive amount!) into next year and that it will help me in the work that God has for me.

It hasn't been the best year for me personally, but spiritually its been INCREDIBLE!!!!

Hope God keeps up the amazing work and encounters in your lives in 2009 :)

God bless you all (more)!!!!

Jordan =D