{"id":15501,"date":"2024-01-04T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=15501"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:13:21","slug":"thousands-of-tiktok-users-share-the-moment-they-knew-god-was-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/01\/thousands-of-tiktok-users-share-the-moment-they-knew-god-was-real.html","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of TikTok Users Share the Moment They Knew God Was Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15507\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/god-stories-tiktok-credit-artin-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15507\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2024\/01\/god-stories-tiktok-credit-artin-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"jesus\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">artin1\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Suppose you&#8217;re like any of the almost two billion members on TikTok. In that case, you&#8217;ve probably stumbled upon top-trending stitches like the store-bought pesto &#8220;crazy&#8221; story-sharing sensation and others that have likely kept you scrolling for longer than you intended. However, there&#8217;s a new stitch that&#8217;s making people question their faith, or rather, affirm it.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, TikTok user Sara Morgan, who posts content from the handle @songwritersara, posted a video to the social media platform posing the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s the weirdest thing that ever happened to you that made you think God was real?&#8221; Morgan went on to say before sharing a story that started a few months after her father died, &#8220;I\u2019m not talking about believing in some kind of universal energy. I\u2019m talking about something that was so coincidental that Jesus Himself must\u2019ve been sitting in your living room listening to you talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cIf anything out there is listening to me at all, if there really is anything listening to me, I could use a sign that you\u2019ve got my dad or that he\u2019s okay because this is going to absolutely destroy me. I\u2019m not going to survive it.\u201d Later in the afternoon of the same day, her brother called. He asked during their phone call, \u201cDo you remember that dream I had a few months back when Dad showed up at the house, but we all knew that he was gone, so it was weird that he was there \u2018cause he\u2019s not supposed to be there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan continued, \u201cI said, \u2018Yeah, why?\u2019\u201d Her brother replied, \u201cBecause that dream picked back up last night right where it left off when he was asking for a cup of coffee. So I made him a cup of coffee, we sat down in the kitchen, we talked for a little while, and then he went to the front door to leave. He turned around when he got outside, and he looked me square in the face, and he said, \u2018This is my last stop\u2026tell Sara I\u2019m okay.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@songwritersara\/video\/7306285960671563050?lang=en\">Morgan said\u00a0<\/a>her brother said he was just calling to relay the message.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@songwritersara\/video\/7306285960671563050\" data-video-id=\"7306285960671563050\">\n<section><a title=\"@songwritersara\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@songwritersara?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@songwritersara<\/a> Maybe I\u2019m crazy I dont know\u2026<a title=\"god\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/god?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#God<\/a> <a title=\"dreams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dreams?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#dreams<\/a> <a title=\"prayer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/prayer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#prayer<\/a> <a title=\"\u266c original sound - SaraMorgan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7306286034038950698?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; SaraMorgan<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the weeks since, Sara Morgan\u2019s video has been stitched hundreds of times, with some of the stitched videos garnering even more views than Morgan\u2019s original. \u201cStitching\u201d refers to a function within the app that allows you to fuse a previously posted video on TikTok with the one you\u2019re creating. Another user, whose handle is @vikingfinancialgroup,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@vikingfinancialgroup\/video\/7306616824412638507\">stitched a simpler yet equally profound story in response<\/a>. \u201cEver since I could remember, my mom always prayed at the foot of the bed, and she always prayed around lunchtime,\u201d the user began.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cOne day around 2005, I was at lunch, I was in high school, and I just got real still all of a sudden, and I had all those chill bumps on top of my head\u2026In my mind, I saw my mom praying at a computer chair. And I thought to myself, \u201cNo, she doesn\u2019t do that. She always prays at the foot of her bed. Always.\u201d After he came home from school, he asked his mother where she had prayed that day. Understandably, her son\u2019s question struck her as a bit odd. He continued, &#8220;She said, \u2018You know what, my bed wasn\u2019t made, and I had laundry on the bed. So, I just grabbed a computer chair, rolled it up, and started praying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The user said he couldn\u2019t get his heart to &#8220;calm down for about 15 minutes.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I went to church my whole life\u2026but until that moment, I had no clue God was real.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you&#8217;re like any of the almost two billion members on TikTok. In that case, you&#8217;ve probably stumbled upon top-trending stitches like the store-bought pesto &#8220;crazy&#8221; story-sharing sensation and others that have likely kept you scrolling for longer than you intended. However, there&#8217;s a new stitch that&#8217;s making people question their faith, or rather, affirm&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":15507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[997,741,983,4,12],"tags":[1041,1503],"class_list":["post-15501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-encounter-with-god","category-faith","category-inspiring-events","category-inspiring-messages","category-inspiring-people","tag-faith-in-god","tag-tiktok"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thousands of TikTok Users Share the Moment They Knew God Was Real<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thanks to a question posed by one TikTok user, thousands of others are now sharing amazing stories about the moment 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