Just one,to get everyone started.I was still pretty young,and had to drive from New Carrollton metro station back to my parents home every night.it was very snowy and icy and getting dark.crossing over the main road in front of retail stores,with an exit into the stores on the right.a car swerved in front of me,I hit the brakes and started sliding.i closed my eyes for the crash.nothing happened.i opened my eyes,there was no car in front of me.no car.empty road.at least I did know enough to thank God for what had happened.i think of my journey through life and know how much He has blessed me.

Thanks for share time,Don.may we all be encouraged.

Faith

Hi Don,

I haven’t posted before but I do read all the comments and love the discussions all of you have. Your blog is truly a blessing to me and I was so happy when you began writing again. I don’t have a ghost story but I do have a story of when I was clearly protected by God. I currently live in Illinois and I’m from Northern Texas. My Memaw lives way out in the country on a dirt road with very little usable plumbing so when I visit I usually go around the corner to my aunt’s house to shower. My aunt and uncle do not lock there house so I go inside start looking at the new pictures she has put out of family and proceed leisurely to her bedrrom to take a shower. I see a dresser drawer on the bed that has been sifted through but I just thought oh my uncle must have been looking for something and being lazy just left it there. Seriously I had no alarm bells going off whatsoever! So I take my shower and go on about my day. That night my aunt told me that they had been robbed and I scared them off. They had gotten the jewelry and had broken the lock on the gun case and unplugged the elctronics and were about to finish when I came over. They hid in a closet until I got in the shower and took off. I have no idea if they would have actually harmed me if I had been aware that something was off and confronted them in some manner. I praise God for allowing me to remain clueless about the entire situation and for protecting me. I also could have taken my children with me to watch TV and so thankfully for whatever reason they didn’t come with me that day either. I’m sure others will have even more fantastic stories but this one is mine and I thought I would share. Have a blessed day!!

Hi Don,
I was Born Again at the tender age of 26. A couple of years into my new life, I was in church and during worship, while I was singing and worshiping the Lord, all of a sudden, I had this sensation that my whole body became transparent and like a clear crystal. It was just dropped into my mind and was quite exciting to say the least. It was etched into my mind and I will never forget it. Perhaps a foreshadow of things to come!
One other thing… about 12 years ago, during winter, with snow on the ground, I was in my home and all of a sudden, I had this strong motivation to pray so I went to my normal “prayer place” and since I didn’t really know where to start, I just began praying in the spirit. After awhile, the burden lifted and I stopped. Later that afternoon, my son who was about 14 at the time had been sledding down a winding road that had been closed as it was treacherous. He and a friend were on a large sled coming down when as they rounded a corner they saw a full size pickup with chains on barreling up the road. My son Lann said he was sure they were going to get run over… sure of it! when all of a sudden they were past it and he to this day is not sure how! I explained to him the motivation I had to pray and he confirmed it was during the time when they were in the midst of the situation. It has stuck in both of our hearts as an answer to prayer! He is an Awesome God!
I will look forward to reading other peoples experiences.
Thanks for posting this.

Don,
what do you think of the reports coming from the middle east of muslims converting to Christianity after getting dreams and visitations from ‘the man in white’?

A few years ago I was in a very dark place spirituality. I was literally wrestling for my soul salvation. After having had experienced a horrible religious lie for many years. Well I stopped going to church all together, one good thing about all of this is i came across Don’s web site and have learned so much from reading his prospectuses. Well one day my husband and I went to Barnes and Nobles and my spirit was heavy and grieving i was in my mind, trying to sort out all of this questions I had about salvation. We walked into the book store and we headed towards the back where the cafe was, facing the cafe was a man in a wheelchair he had his back towards me and was ordering something. And when I saw him in my heart to myself I said, awh that poor man it must be awful to be in wheelchair. After that my husband and I went and sit down to read and there were chairs and Sofa’s and people all around us. I set on a chair facing other people and my husband. Soon after the man in the wheelchair parked, stopped in front of me looked right at me and said God Bless you. I looked back at him and said God Bless you to. I was shocked that that happened to me, was he just a man send by God to comfort me? Or was he an angel in human form send by God? All I know is I was blessed that day and when ever I’m going through hard times I think back on this day and it brings joy to my heart.

It was 1992 and my mother was in the hospital dying. I’m a runner and went to my local park to go for a run. I needed to do something to get my mind off what was happening. I was having a hard time running because I was crying. Very hard to run and cry at the same time by the way. I had stopped to catch my breath and a woman came up from behind, walked by me without even looking at me and said “Jesus loves you” and handed me a sheet of paper with a prayer on it. 1 of the lines in the prayer said “to lay your burdens upon the Lord.” This woman never turned around, never said anything else and I never saw her again on any of my runs after that and I’m a regular at that park. I truly believe she was an angel sent by God.

I feel like my whole life has been a freaky experience. There are too many to even mention but I’m still here. I don’t even understand why God has allowed that. Keeping the tone of this thread here’s one where God most probably intervened and saved my life.

I was 22 when I moved to Las Vegas the first time. I fell in with people who lived outside the law. My “friends” were a hit man, high dollar call girls, professional thieves, heroin addicts, pimps, and one Dallas Cowboy who moved on after he realized the situation. He offered to help me get away but I just said thanks and stayed where I was.

There was this one addict who was so crazy burned out on everything he had put in his body over the years he was never lucid. We considered him insane. One night he got mad at me about something, I don’t remember what, and pointed a loaded gun at my head. He threatened to shoot me. I looked him straight in the eyes and said, “Go ahead.” At that moment one of the other guys walked into the room and said,”Let’s not do this,” and he took the gun.

The end of that chapter was only a few weeks later when I stayed in a homicide detective’s apartment waiting for money from my parents so I could leave Vegas. A patrolman drove me to the airport. All I had was what I was wearing.

I’m not going to talk about why I was hiding out in a detective’s apartment.

I’ve only led one person to the Lord, but I hope I’ve planted many seeds or watered some that others had planted. I don’t feel like I’ve ever done anything significant for Him that He couldn’t have gotten done without me but like I said, I’m still here.

When I got married at 21 years old, before we had kids, my best friend from youth had also gotten married. He was working 3 to 11 shift at the plant. He got off work and drove 25 minutes out of the way to the farm where we were living. We were in bed asleep as it was midnight. I got up to see what he wanted. He said he had to talk to me about a dream that he had. He had a dream that he got killed in a car wreck and he was upset over it. I told him it was just a dream, that everyone dreams crazy stuff. He said it was no ordinary dream. That it was real. He described it in detail. He said the last thing in the dream he was hollering ” slam on the brakes”. A few days later he and his sister and another passenger were killed in a head on collision. The strange thing was that his underage sister was driving the car. I bet anything his last words were hollering to her to ” slam on the brakes”

Amazing story Tom, and I am so sorry for your loss. Along a similar vein, one of my oldest and dearest friends went to be with the Lord last December. He lived in Tampa and I in Colorado, so I couldn’t be there during those last hours. His wife tells me that at the end he was quite lucid, and he spoke of an angel standing there, just waiting until it was time. No one else in the room saw him. You’re right, it sends chills. I’ve heard of many of these kinds of stories.

My family always spent Sunday’s at my Greek grandfathers who was a painter, I was 5yrs old playing in the backyard in the leaf pile and I decided to lite them. The fire grew rapidly and in a panic I grabbed a bucket of what I thought was water but turned out to be paint thinner, I do not remember much more than a big fire and being scared but my mom looked at the window and said I was in the middle of huge flames and when they ran outside I did not have a singed hair.

Within a year of this event I was at the apartment swimming pool and I loved to check under the plastic lids that collected all the bugs/debris from the pool surface on the sides of the pool. I was at the middle of the pool where the rope crossed that had foam floats on them and something pushed me into the pool, I grabbed the rope and my last memory was sitting on the bottom of the pool holding the rope looking at it bend toward the surface with a float at the top. My mom cannot swim and I have no idea how long was under as I was unconscious but she got up and saw me on the bottom, starting yelling and 2 women jumped in pulled me out and pumped the water from me. I was at the YMCA the next week taking swimming lessons.

When I was 13 my family was staying at the Howard Johnson hotel in Mobile, AL. The hotel had a in ground concrete Jacuzzi that a friend and I had discovered if you pulled grate off the intake vent on the bottom you could sit on and hold your breath a long time since you did not have to struggle to stay under water. The friend and I snuck out at 10pm and were doing our same routine in the Jacuzzi alone. I was about to push up off the bottom when I was sucked into this 12” x 12” square vent on the bottom, it ripped my swim trunks completely off and folded me face to knees. I panicked and was splashing the water which was only 1’ above my head when I saw the other boy stuck on the bottom in front of me (he had found a second intake vent) which caused this vacuum effect. I knew I was about to die and had a sudden calm with my only thought was my parents finding me rolling on top of the water dead while on our vacation. I prayed to God to save me and not let my parents experience this. I cannot explain but was moved to push 1 more time and with the smallest of effort popped right up, my friend popped up shortly after me, he was crying uncontrollably and ran back to his room.

Two of my favorite scriptures is Psalm 50:10 “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” MARK 9:22 22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. I have experienced a few other near death experiences but will honor the 500 word policy.

I come from a European country, where paranormal activities rarely occur. About 13 ago I moved to Mexico, where the supernatural is so widely spread that people don’t even think about it. It literally is part of people’s daily life, believe it or not. I have witnessed many paranormal activities in the past 13 years in Mexico, and very few back in my homeland. I will tell you the most interesting one.

It was about 4 AM some 8 years ago when I woke up next to my ex-wife. We used to leave our bedroom’s door open, so I could see my then 2.5 year old son’s bed right from mine. His bed was almost exactly like this one (http://nextdaycargoshopping.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/600×600/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/A/F/AFG-Kimberly-Convertible-Crib-and-Changer-Combo-with-Toddler-Rail-Cherry.jpg)

Sometimes he would wake up at night and crawl over the changer which was right next to his bedroom window, and would stare out the window for 5-10 minutes, then he would crawl back to his bed and fall asleep. That was the main reason we used to leave our and his bedroom doors open. That night he was awake and staring out the window. In about 1 minute he turned his head to me and looked at me. I smiled. He smiled back. And then his smile turned into the most horrible, malign, condescending, hateful smile one could imagine. He was somehow looking down on me, hating me, cursing me without even saying a word. No human face can express such violence or hatred. I got to his bed in less than a second. No one was sitting on the changer. My son was sleeping calmly. I didn’t wake up my wife, didn’t go back to bed either. Got online and started looking for baby demons. Found nothing. Kept searching for baby demons on the internet for 3-4 years after that night. Didn’t find any picture or information.

Last Wednesday I met one of my ex-wife’s cousins on the street. She told me that like 8 years ago my ex-wife had started visiting a witch in my city. That must be somehow related to what I saw. One morning, about 7 years ago, a voice like a thunder woke me up at 8:03 AM saying this: Your wife is cheating on you. That same day I checked her messages, phone calls, emails, MSN Messenger. Yes, she was cheating on me.

I am a Christian. Why would I be otherwise visiting your blog and learning from you for years if I wasn’t? When I married her, she was supposedly a Christian, too. I have no idea of the meaning of what I saw. I don’t know why I saw it, I don’t know why I was shown all this. It scared me, it didn’t change me. It didn’t build my faith, it wasn’t the turning point where I finally realized that demons exist. I already knew that. It’s just a paranormal activity. One of many.

On the way to an appointment in Des Moines 20 years ago I had this thought that came to me that said “be careful”. I felt that something was going to happen in traffic and I need to be ready for it. I forgot about it and I went to my appointment. On the way home I was still feeling especially watchful that the holy spirit is spoken something like this to me and as I neared my exit a car suddenly decided that they were going to take the exit and cut in front of me. I had to apply maximum brakes to prevent an accident. I continued the rest the way home not realizing until the moment I pulled into my parking spot that I had blown my brake lines out and I had just enough breaks left to stop the car. To this day I’m amazed that I didn’t go off the road on that tight exit about 5 miles before I got home. I know in my heart that God saved me.

Tom,
I read your post with interest since in my family we have had a couple of instances similar to yours. My cousin had a daughter born with a very rare and severe heart defect. She lived for 18 years with much medical attention along the way, but her heart problem could not be fixed. The defect was so severe that her motor and speech skills were much diminished, although it seemed her mind was intact, and she used a lot of sign language to communicate. Our grandfather (we called him Popie and he was a minister and a church planter) had died when she was a little bitty girl, but on her deathbed while the immediate family was in her room, she signed the sign for “church” and verbally said the name “Popie” as if he were there with her, which was amazing to us because she hardly remembered him. We all think that he was there to comfort her.

The other event was when my father was dying. All of us had gone home from the hospital for a rest and my uncle had stayed with my dad. My uncle told us later that my dad had been resting/sleeping and then all of a sudden raised himself into a sitting position (which was amazing since he was dying of COPD) and exclaimed in a loud voice of greeting while looking into the distance, “Well, hello there!” Again, we believe my grandfather was there and possibly my grandmother too. Who knows. It might have been many people. It was certainly someone my dad was happy to see. When I think about these two instances, I get cold chills and my heart fills to bursting. We will see them again – I know that for a fact. And because of God’s Amazing Grace, I know that I will be in heaven to meet them again. Praise the Lord!

I have commented 2 or 3 times in the past and asked questions of you via email when I thought “stay on topic” did not cover what was on my mind. Was planning to comment several weeks ago but got busy so this thread may be closed but wanted to tell of one incident anyway.

Happened in ’74 after I got out of the military and was quote “going to college.”
Had not got serious about it and was partying too much which for me was drinking beer. BUT usually where we were at there was a lot of smoking pot going on and though I had puffed a couple times I stayed away from it as I didn’t even smoke cigarettes. Well after one of these foggy parties I drove home and walked into my room where I had a bunk bed set up as a friend was in need of place for one semester. Scott had went home for the weekend and I opened the bedroom door and wow what a ghastly sight and smell of brimstone. Hard to describe the smell but sulfur was part of it.
The object sitting on the bed though was pure evil. Very 8-9 feet tall. Somewhat human with wings extending from his back. All Black, Ugly as sin, Smelly, and Evil. Funny that I communicated but it did not seem we talked. IT let me know that I should let loose and enjoy his ‘tool’ ie. pot, drugs etc. that could lead to happy time. Funny most would say it was the devil but to me it was A devil. ONE of the fallen angels but not Lucifer. A henchman.
I said nope and quit going anywhere there was any drugs. Knew from that day forward that I was a Christian and that Jesus had died for my sins. Came from Catholic background so was really confused how God could ever love such a sinner as me. Quitly accepted that I had Jesus to believe in from that day and realized I could never be good enough to deserve saving if I went to confession every day. Became a Christian instead of a Catholic.

Just a comment on a possible angel encounter. At age 85, I was on top of a 10-12′ embankment. I was standing on a large stepping stone looking down when the stone shifted. I knew immediately I was going to fall down…I didn’t have time to feel fear. Probably within just minutes I felt my head hurting and my eyes opened to see that I was laying on the pavement at the base of the embankment. I don’t know how I got there — no memory of a fall at all. I was in a different area than I would have been had I simply fallen and tumbled down. I checked to see if I could move–no broken bones. I got up om my knees and crawled to a nearby chair. I pulled myself up and walked into my home and put ice on my head for a while. I had a vision that I was in the air in a dark environment for possibly just a second. That the only memory I have. Is it possible an angel carried me down? That’s the only thing that makes sense to me. After the fall I can stand in that same spot and have no feeling of fear if I had actually felt a feeling of falling. I just knew in an instant I was going to fall and that was all. I know of miracles in my life but I’m excited that possibly an angel was the savior in this miracle. I thank you for an opportunity to related this miracle. I, too, have studied Bible prophecy for about 30 years. I await a miraculous trip up to heaven. Thank you Lord Jesus.

I get them all the time since salvation. I just pretty much ignore it at this point. I get visually, spiritually, and whenever I somehow played a part in God bringing salvation to whomever he was trying to reach that day. I was a full time CNA not so much now- I have had moments where I didn’t really understand certain things I see/saw. Don’t really care at this point-saved for 18-19 years and spiritual realms don’t excite me like it once did. But before salvation? Nothing- not even once did I ever experience anything good or bad. I can’t say I’m special but I do know the father has been gracious enough to allow others to have planted the seed of the message before coming around my way. I doubt it would ever stop me from discussing salvation however-not my way. but it kinda wraps it up nicely and I can go about my way if they are ready to come to salvation. I’m aware of a few I waited to long the message and passed away and I’m pretty sure many Im unaware of as well.

As a woman born and raised in BKLYN NY- for lack of a better word, Im pretty straight forward on the message- somewhat fearless (hitchhikers every now and then), but always understood and still do, Im being lead by the gift of being spiritually sensitive by the holy spirit. It seems pretty clear, in terms of the fruits at least from my experience, it only works or tapped for supernatural acts if they tend to involve soul saving and it always correlates with scripture big time! Also pretty sensitive to kids-they seem to sense the spirit all the time, not sure why, I don’t really share or treat them differently- babies alike! That one always baffles me lol! Anyway that’s my story.

Warm regards..

How can I resist? I’ve had a few, but this one is easy to write and kind of cheerful. I was living out of town with my husband when a friend of mine who suffered from bipolar issues called. My heart sank: she wasn’t making a lot of sense and was clearly going into spin cycle. I had no money for the cel phone bill if she started her usual call me every 6 minutes thing, and I couldn’t go into town to be with her, but I had recently learned about the power of praising the Lord, so I cranked up the praise tunes and started singing and dancing all over the living room. About twenty or thirty minutes in, I suddenly felt electrified. I was, out of nowhere, absolutely certain she was ok! In fact, I was almost bouncing off the walls, telling my husband “She’s alright! She’s fine! I’m going to bake a cake!” (To celebrate. I know. It didn’t make a lot of sense at the time, either, but I was on fire and not making a lot of sense to anybody but the Lord.) She phoned back minutes later, perfectly coherent.
” If we ask anything according to His will He hears us, and if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from Him.” 1John 5:15. Sounds like a moment when I knew what that meant!

I must be the most recent but last one or near that. I love these Testimonies about how God shows up in our lives. I had also many of both kinds. But I am glad to say now since My life in spite of my Past has seemed to have done a 180% turn. many more of the God kind of Experiences. Feel I can call myself a Christian now because I Love God & interested in His Word. Not so much before. There is a couple of Testimonies I would like to share with you all. One was not too long ago May of 2017. I will never forget it. I went to bed this particular night one night & slept very well. When I awoke I thanked the Lord for such a nice sleep. Then this came to me. “17 years from now the Worst will happen to do with Armageddon” Now Don, I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea. I believe it could have been from an Angel of God. But for longer than 3 days I felt a Conviction. since I couldn’t forget about it I got on the computer typed it in similar Wording. Lo & Behold guess who’s name popped up & please don’t be mad at me. It was You, Don Koegnig! Ever since that happened I knew the Angel of the Lord had led me to you. And I have read almost all of your articles from that time till now. & Thank God for them because where would I be or anyone else. And it is about Him! I truly believe that. God is getting us ready to go Home. If this is Contoversial it won’t hurt my feelings I will understand to not share it. My Best to you & my Brothers & Sisters!

I Googled “17 years from now the Worst will happen to do with Armageddon” to see what also comes up.

8 predictions for the next 10 yrs…. It’s so the Tower of Babylonish

https://singularityhub.com/2015/05/11/the-world-in-2025-8-predictions-for-the-next-10-years/#sm.0000qd8xe5o9td2tuef165erod5ze

In order to stay on subject here I recently had a dream I was being raptured & I said to myself (in dream) “wow I’m being raptured” It felt really cool. Maybe not suppose to discuss dreams but it was so cool.

Hello Don,

Oh tell me about it! I had a rapture dream in 2015 as well as dreams of just controlled flying around. Still cant fly #!!xx! Sure would be cool though.

We might not get raptured out for another 30 yrs though I hope not that long still? There’s nothing I can do if were still here 20 yrs from now & I’m 72 at that time but live w/ it and be ready in the mean time.

Meanwhile try to obtain some earthly goals & if I get snatched away in the process oh well or good… ya, good!

Hey there Linda,

I know Don is strict about personal revelations from God so I don’t really mention them here but I do believe that God’s people do get confirmations by the Holy Spirit, God’s messengers (Angels) and even Jesus Himself! That could happen. In dreams too but not necessarily exact details but just to get our attention to where God may want to edge us along.

So many years ago I was not at all aligned w/ the Lord, WAY way out of His will and while in my debauchery a voice from out of nowhere spoke to me even said my name. “Bill Come on!” that’s all it was but it got my attention and I know it was from God whether an angel, Holy Spirit or from the Word Himself? I’ll ask on that day. No demon is going to tell me to stop sinning and it wasn’t bad pizza from the night before either.

I know I’ve heard from angels two separate occasions he had a voice that sounded like an accordion speaking thru a long tube bc of the echo sound and he simply said “There are no numbers in heaven” I googled it & the Bible says there is without number. Another voice told me “You will be in heaven” that was a different sounding angel a more sweet tender mother like voice.

But now from those (and other) personal experiences I pursue Godly righteousness, I come short but His righteousness is imputed to me.

People can easily be sarcastic and say things but I know what I know and so do you. I do agree w/ Don that God doesn’t give us personal information outside of the Word but he may say to someone.. get your act together, lets go. In so many ways.

Thanks for your last comment Don. You do a good job of calling out fanaticism and error!

I share a house with my sister. We are both in our 60’s and are Christians/ prayer warriors with strong faith. My sister has recently confided to me that she is often awakened during the night by strange lights, patterns & symbols appearing over her in her completely dark room. We don’t know if these lights are angelic or demonic or something else, but she finds them disturbing. She prays during the manifestations, comes against them in the name of Jesus etc. but they won’t go away. She has reached out to two different local Pastors for prayer/ counseling about this, but so far nothing seems to help. I have not seen anything myself but I absolutely believe her. We hesitate to discuss this with our own church family or friends because we feel that they would judge us. Would appreciate your prayers.

Thank you Christina