divine encounter
Meeting the holy
A divine encounter is an experience perceived as direct contact with God, a deity, or sacred presence.
The term appears in religious and spiritual contexts where someone feels they have received revelation, guidance, or transformation through supernatural means: She described the healing as a divine encounter.
The phrase carries weight in charismatic Christianity, where such encounters are actively sought through prayer and worship.
- theophanyVisible appearance of deity
- face to faceIn someone's presence
- haloLuminous ring overhead
- aweReverent fear and wonder
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
light · ineffable · glow · silence · Genesis · Jacob · road to Damascus · still small voice · revelation · miracle · transformation · trembling · numinous · holy ground · pilgrimage · surrender · apocalyptic vision · sacred space
- faith fictioncontemporary Christian, Bible stories, biblical tales, biblical drama, miracle stories
- religious fervorfervor, zeal, zealotry, fanaticism, devotion
- sacred storiescreation myth, creation story, Noah's Ark, flood myth, flood story
- spiritual experiencesreligious experience, mystical union, spiritual vision, heavenly visions, apparitions
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
- prayerintercession, prayer meeting, prayer circle, prayer group, prayer circles
divine encounterdark night of the soul
Intense period of spiritual emptiness
spiritual void · godlessness · cosmic indifference · spiritual emptiness · existential void
divine encounterhuman interaction
Communication between people
natural phenomenon · possession · random event · coincidence