God spoke to me 20 years ago

**Mustang** · February-19th-2008, 02:59 AM

I know God speaks to people, I was one of them. 20 years ago in the summer of 1987 I was had a diving accident and broke my neck at the C7 vertabra. This paralyzed me from my waist down and put me into the hospital for almost three months. After I had been there a little over a month I heard a word from the lord.
I had been going to daily therapy and on this day it was just another day. I had gotten dressed and cleaned up and was heading out the door of my room to therapy and right when I reached the doorway, I heard a voice in my head as clear as you would hear another person speak to you right next to you. But this was different!
This voice said to me: Gordy, don't worry, everything is going to be allright. From what I remember that was it. I remember turning and looking around the room and then out in the hallway. There was nobody within 50 or 60 feet of me. I know the room was empty because I didn't have a roommate and the nurses station was down the hall like I said 50 to 60 feet.
At the time I didn't know what to think of it and shrugged it off as the lord telling me that with my injury everything would be ok.
As I look back I was quite naive at 25 years old, something that age does give a person is knowledge and wisdom. As I left the hospital for basically a new kind of life. I found out my life had a whole new set of rules and challenges. I hadn't forgotten what God told me though and I did reflect upon it from time to time.
In June 1998 my second daughter Crystal was 15. She was our high school baskeball star and beautiful, smart, and she knew what she wanted and went for it all.
One day she came to my wife and I and out of the blue said she wanted to be an organ donor. My wife and myself had been surpized by this but we said sure, after all, it wasn't like we were ever going to be put in the position to have to donate her organs, right. Crystal was killed in a car she was riding in two weeks later. We did donate her organs and she saved 5 lives and helped 2 people to see better. That was by far the hardest thing I have ever gone though in my entire life, I have been through some very bad things but this was the worst.
I have in the past few years now been thinking about what God said to me those years back and I believe that it was Crystals death he was talking about. You see, we found out that one of Crystals hero's was Micheal Jordan. We knew this when she was with us yet, but what we didn't know was that he is a spokes person for organ donations. I believe that God had a plan for us and Crystal. He didn't take her from us but knew what would happen and used it for the benefit of others. I'm not asking for sypathy at all, I wrote this to tell you all that might read it, a message, it's a message of hope.
God does talk to us, I know first hand he can take a horrible thing and make it come out beautiful. Throughout my life's trials I've learned to trust in the lord, my faith and peace within me growing through good and bad but truly knowing everything is going to be ok.

**readytogo** · February-19th-2008, 11:57 AM

:cry

I always cry at beautiful stories like this. Yes, God DOES still talk to us. And we are blessed when we listen.

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**jacee92** · February-19th-2008, 01:35 PM

Thank you for sharing your story with us...God bless you

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**light4mypath** · February-19th-2008, 02:34 PM

Mustang, I have tears rolling down my cheeks. What a tuoching story. God Bless You for sharing, and recognizing God voice!

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**LivnForChrist** · February-20th-2008, 12:20 AM

Thank you for sharing that. Yes, he does still speak to us.

**mikalikat** · February-21st-2008, 01:28 PM

Mustang, I am speechless and humbled. Your story's timing was perfect. Isn't our God amazing that he would speak to us in such a way? Bless you and your family for the gift of life you gave through Crystal. You have helped me put my day in perspective and for that I thank you. God bless you.

**Geyatahi** · February-21st-2008, 03:41 PM

Thank you for sharing this touching story :cry:

**warrior-child** · March-1st-2008, 09:43 AM

Thank you for sharing your story ...

**pistache** · March-31st-2008, 08:32 PM

Wow... that is a touching story....
I'm so sorry for your sorrows, but it is wonderful to be able to leave them at the feet of our God. :)

**sandy** · March-31st-2008, 10:03 PM

thank you for sharing!

**SisterNChrist** · April-1st-2008, 10:39 AM

:iagree ... TY 4 sharing, Mustang.

2: You know what? God most recently spoke to me too, not once but twice so far...

I, you see--had watched The Godfather film on the AMC Channel, and as I was watching it...I was thinking about its star--how the late Marlon Brando, had singled me out to chat with me as I was walking across the Paramount Studio lot to its Studio Hospital. I had just got my baby and adult teeth pulled at the dentist, and I was feeling totally miserable. Then we were joined by his three co-stars; James Caan (Santino, his eldest son), Robert Duvall (Tom Haydon, his adopted son), and Al Pacino (Michael, his youngest son) in the above film. They all took my mind off of how miserable my mouth felt.

Anyhoo, as I was thinking about the above incident as I was driving to the gas station to in my car to fill its tank up with gas...God spoke to me, for which He simply said--"I was there."

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And then, my SIL told me she had watched my two Left Behind movies, but couldn't grasp the 2nd film, LB: The Tribulation Force...and didn't want to see the rest of it. She also said that if my LB books also contained what she was seeing in the above to films, then she didn't want to read them either. So I sadly took them home. God, you see--had encouraged me to share them with her in the first place.

After I got home, I turned everything over to God, about what occurred between my SIL & me, and then...

A day later, as I was changing clothes, He answered me by simply saying to me--"Keep :prayering."

So again, I am obeying Him...as well as trusting in Him, by continuing :prayering for both my brother & SIL.