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How do I know God is real? I have these moments I call my "God Moments", nothing crazy or over the top, but enough to make me stop and think "was that?" then realize "it was!" There are 3 main moments that I can think of where I can 100% say God intervened. The first was when I was 18, and like a dumb teenager I tried drifting my front wheel drive car on a dirt road. I was going to fast and wasn't able to pull the car out of the drift and I ended up crashing. The car landed on top of a stone wall after hitting some fallen trees on the ground. It missed a giant tree landing 2 feet to the right of it. I'm 6'2" and I couldn't wrap my arms around the tree that's how big it was. The car also landed on top of two propane tanks, luckily they were empty, and to top it off I landed on top of a wasps nest. I walked away from all of this. The day I almost legitimately drowned was the second moment I can 100% say God intervened. It was July 4th, 2024 I think and we were out on a river / reservoir with family and friends relaxing on a boat. A cheap beachball that some of the kids were playing with fell into the water and started floating away. Common sense unfortunately did not prevail against my ego and I dived in after this cheap $1 beachball. I'm an athletic guy, but swimming is not my specialty, I got about 20 yards from the boat before I started feeling like I was in trouble, but thought I could still reach the beachball. 10 more yards and my arms and legs started getting really tired and heavy. 5 more yards and I realized I needed to reach that beachball so I could use it to float otherwise I was going under. I finally reached the beachball, probably 40ish yards from the boat, exhausted. I was so tired I couldn't get my arms up enough to grasp that dang beachball. I was in trouble, I looked back to the boat, signaled for help, and thoughts flooded my mind of how I was going to drown. How I was gonna be that guy that makes the news for drowning on the 4th of July, cause there is always one news article about that happening. How my kids were going to grow up without a father, and right then I heard a voice, "Lay on your back." I remembered from swim class when I was 5 years old how if you laid on your back, put your belly to the water's surface and spread your arms and legs you could float on top of the water. I did what the voice said and help came soon after. The third moment was when God gave me a "vision". Every morning my wife and I workout in our basement, sometimes we bring our kids if they are awake. Our third was just born a few months prior so would bring her down and put her in a baby seat. We had this one spot we always put her, but on this day as I was carrying her downstairs I had a vision of the boxing heavy bag we had hanging falling on top of her. It didn't sit well with me so for no other reason I mover her seat to another part of the gym. 30 minutes later the older two were playing with the heavy bag pushing it back and forth, since it was able to swing, and it fell, right on the spot we would put our third. I believe God saved our little girl that day. These are just the God Moments I can remember vividly. I'm sure He has given me many more that I can't recall or they were so subtle I didn't even notice. The reason I share all of this is to make the point that God is real, and He is with us every moment of every day.
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