(October 17, 2012 at 6:58 am)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: Hello my atheist friends.
I usually share testimonies with my Christian friends, but I thought I might as well share with you guys (and girls).
My intentions are not to coercively "prove" that God exists or even to argue for His existence from this...but rather just to share.
I'm currently on a work trip, yesterday I was in Huntsville, AL and today I am in Collegedale, TN. After arriving in Collegedale with a long day of work behind me I wanted nothing more than to just eat and sleep.
However, I felt strangely compelled to go to a coffee shop that I had heard about in downtown Chattanooga (Rembrandt). I didn't want to go as I was exhausted so I just rationalized the impulse away as weird and proceeded to a local Thai restaurant with plans to head on back to the hotel afterwards.
It just kept bugging me though, I felt like the Lord wanted me to go and I would be disobeying the Lord if I didn't go. So...I grudgingly headed downtown towards the coffee shop.
When I got there, I didn't know what to do, I didn't see anyone I knew, I didn't feel like I was suppose to talk to anyone.
I bought a cup of tea and felt impressed to sit at a table that was away from the crowd in a corner.
I felt stupid for being there....I argued with God and told Him that I'm only going to stay there only as long as it takes to finish the tea.
I sat, and sat, and sat.....as I reached the final sip of my tea...still nothing.
Then I heard it, a couple had sat down directly behind me and they were having a "troubled" discussion. I felt the Lord say to me, "This is why you are here."
I told the Lord, "I don't know what to say...I'm going to look ridiculous or offend them or something terrible!"
He told me, "trust in me and I will give you words."
I stood up, approached their table and apologized for the awkwardness. I told them that I'm just traveling through town and I felt impressed by the Lord to come to that coffee shop and that I had something to say to them.
I turned to the man (it was a man and women in their mid 20s) and said, "You know what you're suppose to be doing, trust in the Lord and He will provide. You don't need to know all of the details, you know the next step to take, trust God and He will provide with all the details."
The man brightened up and shook my hand. He had been on the fence about deciding whether or not to go into ministry. They thanked me and I left the coffee shop, gladly headed back to the hotel and had a wonderful nights sleep.
Muslims think they talk to their god and so do Jews. Talk to a pink unicorn or talk to a dog like the Son of Sam, people want to put you in a rubber room. But talk to a god like a child talks to Santa and you are considered vertious. But we are the crazy ones?
So somehow you out of all the 7 billion humans magically have the tin foil antena that allows god to talk to you. Take a number bud, lots of humans claim to talk to a variety of gods and have as as much evidence as you do.
Your sappy sweet steamy pile of a story only proves that you fell for a superstition and the people you spread it to.
