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Fun awareness and God appreciation thing here...
So, what I mean here was what clever ways do you notice God used things in your life to steer you onto a righteous path?
For me I have some weird ones but here goes lol
1. As a horror fanatic, I can't get enough of it. But the directors like to use religion these days in horrors and since I watch a lot, I noticed some of it was definitely planting a seed. I don't mean in a material or fantasy way. I mean, the NON-CHAOTIC scenes such as people peacefully attending church, praying etc... they seemed to have a much more lasting impact on me than the actual movies.
2. Conviction/holy spirit. As a woman, there is constantly a pressure to look a certain way and it's always changing. Everything is so materialistic. More and more makeup, more and more revealing, more fake stuff. There's even eyelash EXTENSIONS now! Whenever I've tried to fit in and act or dress how most women do now, I've felt this very uncomfortable icky feeling. Like, imagine forcing yourself to do something you KNOW is wrong... that feeling. I knew it was wrong in my heart. I didn't put this to a Godly thing at the time but I certainly do now. If I ever think about doing anything and it's wrong as the bible states, I feel this same thing I always have.
3. My pain and suffering, actually. The best way to explain how I felt about life before I found God is this: nihilism. The darkest most depressing way to see the world. But this sort of ties in with 2, I never felt deep down this was the right way to feel. I felt there just HAD to be something more. This can't be it. And now, as a Christian, I turn to God during my darkest moments, then when he acts I see it and that ultimately strengthens my faith.
4. Science! I found my first passion when I was 14. I started to obsessively study science. I still absolutely love it. But the more I learnt, the more I felt a bit like I was learning a fairytale. These theories and scientific terms with their perfect functions just seemed too good to be true, too precise to be the case. Impossible. And that's of course because without an intelligent form, it IS impossible. But with God it is. It's his design. Fast forward 7 years and science/design is now my BIGGEST talking point to share God. And clearly it is effective as my partner went from Atheist to Christian/church goer after my science/God rants!
Thanks God!
5. People. It's true God uses people to reach you. I can't really list every single one otherwise we'd be here while I list them until the end-time prophecy is completely fulfilled! But, some examples would be, teachers, street preachers, social media users and other church goers. A quick example: I was suicidal and forced myself to go to sunday service still, I was starting to lose attention and the sermon (which was about her own experience as a 20 year strong Christian) suddenly became about suicide and I kid you not, she went on to list every single lie I was sat there quietly believing.
I could obviously go on lol. All I will say, is that despite how "weird" some of these seem, not only did I become a Christian but... I'm orthodox!!!!
The Lord is very powerful if you listen! 
So, what I mean here was what clever ways do you notice God used things in your life to steer you onto a righteous path?
For me I have some weird ones but here goes lol
1. As a horror fanatic, I can't get enough of it. But the directors like to use religion these days in horrors and since I watch a lot, I noticed some of it was definitely planting a seed. I don't mean in a material or fantasy way. I mean, the NON-CHAOTIC scenes such as people peacefully attending church, praying etc... they seemed to have a much more lasting impact on me than the actual movies.
2. Conviction/holy spirit. As a woman, there is constantly a pressure to look a certain way and it's always changing. Everything is so materialistic. More and more makeup, more and more revealing, more fake stuff. There's even eyelash EXTENSIONS now! Whenever I've tried to fit in and act or dress how most women do now, I've felt this very uncomfortable icky feeling. Like, imagine forcing yourself to do something you KNOW is wrong... that feeling. I knew it was wrong in my heart. I didn't put this to a Godly thing at the time but I certainly do now. If I ever think about doing anything and it's wrong as the bible states, I feel this same thing I always have.
3. My pain and suffering, actually. The best way to explain how I felt about life before I found God is this: nihilism. The darkest most depressing way to see the world. But this sort of ties in with 2, I never felt deep down this was the right way to feel. I felt there just HAD to be something more. This can't be it. And now, as a Christian, I turn to God during my darkest moments, then when he acts I see it and that ultimately strengthens my faith.
4. Science! I found my first passion when I was 14. I started to obsessively study science. I still absolutely love it. But the more I learnt, the more I felt a bit like I was learning a fairytale. These theories and scientific terms with their perfect functions just seemed too good to be true, too precise to be the case. Impossible. And that's of course because without an intelligent form, it IS impossible. But with God it is. It's his design. Fast forward 7 years and science/design is now my BIGGEST talking point to share God. And clearly it is effective as my partner went from Atheist to Christian/church goer after my science/God rants!
Thanks God! 5. People. It's true God uses people to reach you. I can't really list every single one otherwise we'd be here while I list them until the end-time prophecy is completely fulfilled! But, some examples would be, teachers, street preachers, social media users and other church goers. A quick example: I was suicidal and forced myself to go to sunday service still, I was starting to lose attention and the sermon (which was about her own experience as a 20 year strong Christian) suddenly became about suicide and I kid you not, she went on to list every single lie I was sat there quietly believing.
I could obviously go on lol. All I will say, is that despite how "weird" some of these seem, not only did I become a Christian but... I'm orthodox!!!!
The Lord is very powerful if you listen! 
