How I know God lives - English Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I woke up today feeling incredibly grateful about our human bodies that God gave us, and that is a testament to me that God lives. It reminded me a lot, as we were talking about evolution yesterday with some of my classmates, about the way that God made our bodies specifically for us and for this time. And it reminded me of a talk by President Nelson called God's Greatest Creation. It's an LDS Church video, but it talks about the complex ways that the human body was made and that it's not possible that it wasn't made by God because it's so intensely perfect that it couldn't have been done by anyone else than some divine creature. That's God, and I'm just incredibly grateful that we get to live here and we get to see all these beautiful sights and use our eyes and our ears and talk to each other. And it's just a testament to me that God is real.
Video 2 Transcript
One of my favorite songs is called Walk Tall, You're a Daughter of God, which can work for boys as well. But one of the phrases, one of the verses in it says, our father held you in his arms so tender. Those loving arms released you as he sent you down to earth. He said, my child, remember, don't forget your great worth. And it's kind of sappy of me for a song to have so much meaning, but it just makes so much sense for a loving father to be there. We are here for a reason because he believed in us. We're here because he wanted us to succeed in life. I know that he lives because of the love that I feel from him every day, trying to find my own worth, knowing that he believes in me.
Video 3 Transcript
I know God lives because I've had so many experiences throughout my life where I've been aided and I've been guided and I've received help. Not only that, but the church that I belong to, it's, we believe it is the church of Jesus Christ, meaning He is at the helm of the church and He is and there are prophets with keys and priesthood authority to lead us. When I have that faith, when I know, when I believe that and really know, like strongly based my life based on their teachings, such as keeping the word of wisdom, law of chastity, law of tithing, all of the commandments that we've been given, then I know that based on that knowledge, that's how I'm able to go forward. And that has yielded so many good things in my life. I cannot begin to explain.
Video 4 Transcript
How I know God lives is pretty simple, but it was really difficult to come to know that it's true. I pray every day to know in my heart if God really lives. But when I pray and ponder about the thoughts, it came to me that God really lives and that He cares about me and He's the creator of the world and He gave His children the physical body and He let them experience the earthly experience in order for them to go back to Heavenly Father and dwell with Him and dwell with their family forever. So I know that God really lives through prayer and scripture studying.
Video 5 Transcript
I remember when I was a young child, maybe five or six, my mom gave our family a little lesson about God and Jesus Christ. And I remember when she was teaching us about them, just feeling so happy and so peaceful. And that was the Spirit, the Holy Ghost, telling me that God and Jesus Christ live. And then throughout my life, I have had so many experiences that have confirmed that. Some people might call them coincidences, but to me, they are such personal, meaningful things that I know it's Heavenly Father showing His love for me. I am from kind of an obscure state, and I run into people from that state all the time in some of the most random situations. And God knows that I love and appreciate those things, and they make me feel His love, and I know He lives.
Video 6 Transcript
I know that God lives and I know that he loves all of us. The way that I know how God lives is through just everyday little things and even just this earth we live in, not just this earth, like it's incredible how this earth was created, how we were created, and nature, just every single thing manifests of God's apparent goodness and of how he loves us and how he lives and how he's blessing each one of us. And I know that God lives not only because he blesses us with these things that he's already put on earth, but because of the people that he surrounds us with as well. And I believe in the truth that God has a plan and every single little thing is part of his plan. So the people we meet, the things we see, it's all part of God's plan and that's how I know he lives.
Video 7 Transcript
I know that God lives because I just sense his presence. Even when there's times when I don't sense his presence, I still have faith enough to know that he's there. I know that Jesus Christ lives and the Heavenly Father lives. I know that they love us.
Video 8 Transcript
How I know that God lives, because I've spoken with him, I've met him, and I've embraced him, and held his hand as we walked and talked, and I was able to learn many things directly from him and be blessed by that experience. So it's not just because I read a book by somebody or I heard some words from some people. I know God lives because I've, because I've seen him, I've witnessed him with my own eyes, and, and you can too. All you need to do is do exactly as you know you should at all times, at all places. That's what's called true repentance, and that true repentance will bring you into his presence, and you can know too that he lives.
Video 9 Transcript
I know that God lives because I see his presence in my life. And I mean that in in a way that is through other people. And I've never had one of those kind of awe-inspiring experiences where you feel like you know God or you feel like you know who he is as a person. I've learned about him and I feel like I know who he is as a person, but more so I see his fingerprints in my life. And I think a lot of the times we get caught up in looking for the hand of God in our life, but we miss his fingerprints. And that was something that I had in a lesson at church. And it was really inspiring for me to think that way, where if I'm in a hard situation or I'm having a bad day, it's easy for me to look around and see the fingerprints of God rather than his hand.
Video 10 Transcript
The biggest way that I know that God is real is the world around me. When I see a beautiful sunset, or the leaves changing color, or the beauty of the ocean, all of those things show me that God is real. I just don't think that it is humanly possible that those things could happen without a divine creator, and I'm so grateful for those things. I'm so grateful that through them I can feel his love.
Video 11 Transcript
I know God lives because of all of the miraculous coincidences that happen when I have bad days, especially when I'm not praying for them. There have been plenty of days in my life where I really just wanted people to not bother me because it was the most annoying thing in the world. And on those days, the people who I could not say no to because they were just the kindest people, I would never want to hurt them. And those were the people that would pop up that day. I never had a scheduling thing where I would be around them ever. They just kind of appeared. And that's how I know that God is watching out for me. He sends people. And I've just tried to emulate those people because sometimes they helped me, sometimes it didn't, but it was always me being stubborn, not because they weren't just amazing influences.
Video 12 Transcript
So I want to talk about an experience I had about two years ago. I have always been a member of my church and have always believed in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, but I wanted to know the reality of them. And there was one Sunday that, in our church it's called Fast Sunday, and I was leading the music and I was praying up on the stand and I had this overwhelming feeling and Heavenly Father spoke to me and told me, He was like, I'm here, I'm real, Jesus is your Savior, He lives. And I just remember being so overwhelmed with the Spirit and with love and joy. And that, for me, is one of the strongest parts of my testimony, knowing that Heavenly Father lives and loves me from that moment.
Video 13 Transcript
I know that God lives because I see it all around me and the things that happen to me, the way that I feel, and just kind of in the things that I witness on this earth, just a ton of beauty and love and things that are good.
Video 14 Transcript
I know that Christ lives because of the Book of Mormon. I read that and it's truly another testament of Jesus Christ. And as you read it, you'll come to know he lives.
Video 15 Transcript
For me, I know that God lives because I can look around in my life and see all of my wonderful friends and family that support me through the hard things that I go through. I know that He lives when I think about all the blessings that I've been given for the opportunity to go to school, and I know that He lives because I feel His love in my life.
Video 16 Transcript
I know that God lives because I see him answer my prayers every day. I see him send people into my life to help me when I'm having a rough day. I've felt it when I read the scriptures and I learn about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I just know that this life is not a coincidence and that everything happens for a reason. I know God lives through nature. The world is so beautiful and there's so many incredible people. I know that he is the creator, that he lives and he still wants to connect with his children and help us every day.
Video 17 Transcript
God lives. That is a fact. He is alive and he is very much a part of our lives. Every time I even start to doubt that fact, I just can't ignore all the times in my life that I have very physically and emotionally felt him with me, felt him guide me and help just help advise me along my way and I've felt the comfort of God. I've just felt his love so presently. There's no way that God isn't here. God lives and he loves us and I know it.
Video 18 Transcript
I had always had a faith in God and in Jesus Christ. I grew up with good parents and I was raised learning the doctrines and teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Lord's Restored Church, but I hadn't really felt like I'd gotten any kind of affirmative witness, something that I could really base my testimony off of. But I had the wonderful and amazing opportunity to visit the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York, where Joseph prayed and asked God which church was true and where he received that miraculous answer to his prayer. I had a really sacred experience that happened to me there as well, and so I can testify that I know that God is there and He lives and He loves us.
Video 19 Transcript
For me, I know God lives, I think, through experiences and trying to get close to him. Ever since we met, I've always had a hard time when either I or a person tries to convince the reality of God through, like, what they see, which I think is true and great, but I don't think you can really know unless you have experiences with it.
Video 20 Transcript
I know God lives really because of the experiences I've had with him as a member of the church. These can come pretty often, but even not as a member, you can have experiences, which is awesome because he loves all people. It doesn't matter who you are, he loves you, and I think because of my experiences, I know it helps, of course, to walk around and see the earth that he created, but really what helps me have a knowledge that he lives is my experiences with him, where I am making the choice to spend time with him and to know him, understand him, so yeah.
Video 21 Transcript
I know that God lives because I recognize his hand and his help in my life all the time in various ways and a lot of times it's through other people or through opportunities or through ways that I didn't even think of but I just recognize immediately that it's from him, it's his help, it's him answering my prayers and that's how I know that he lives.
