Dear Steve, i think you are definetely in the right path, and personally i would say that these are signs (meaning God is communicating with you through events)..... and i want to encourage you to make a commitment to Jesus right now that you will from now on put Him continually first. That you will serve Him and will make the necessary effort to be close to Him, through prayer as you do now, consistent scripture reading, going to church, and serving Him. But first and foremost by loving Him with all your heart, mind, strenghts, and means (including your possessions). That you will no longer live for yourself but for Him.

Is it too much to ask? Sooner or later we will have to do it. The sooner the better. Troubles do not go away, however. Yet He grants us His supernatural power to handle them.

Shalom.

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