Christian Daily Devotional: Getting closer to God this 2015 should be on all of our to do lists! God is the difference between having a purposeful year or not, ...
the video that you made with you and your husband is a good video and its good to see view from man and woman and its amazing how you both can come together. and do that video.
+Lannette Mitchell I'm sorry this is so late! But the first place to begin is to start having conversations with God and ask Him where to begin. Take a second after every conversation and write down anything that comes to your mind. Start reading the Bible and do the same, write down your thoughts. Even if your thoughts are, "what did I just read?" lol. Over time you'll see your relationship develop just like a person that you spend time with daily.
Very good teaching. I appreciate that you mentioned that it is important
that we expect to hear from God after prayer. I keep a prayer journal in
which I write what I believe God is saying to me after prayer regardless of
whether I understand it or not. I am looking forward to more videos.
Congratulations on being a new mother. God Bless You. I pray that God will
continue to enlighten the eyes of your understanding regarding this topic.
Praise the Lord! He is so good! I really enjoyed reading your conversation about prayer and journaling what we hear Him saying in our hearts afterward! This is probably my favorite activity of every day! I just love meeting others who know His voice! He is SO good!
Yes! Honestly without a prayer journal it's hard to remember and keep track of God's revelations. You end up getting the message a few times before you realize He's been telling you the same thing over and over! lol And thank you so much motherhood is definitely a new adventure. Amen.
How to get closer to God. Christian Mysticism
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+Johnny Turan Funeral Canticle by John Tavener. I heard it from this video, and it's the most personal song I know, every time I listen to it I get a strange peace I can't quite explain. My favorite song ever by far.
+davis3d Could You give me an advise on how can I get to experience, what You did? Accepting Jesus as my saviour was never enough for me. For a short period of time I had strong will to seek God, but he always seemed distant I head no patience and I didn't sense him I couldn't see his work in my life, so I gave up on him because of Neverending frustration. Sometimes I think, that actually I could experience change, repent and become a better person, but this could come only If I notice how evil and immoral I am and otherwise when I won't see what's still to change there or what should I work on I won't feel the desire to make progress and become better person in life because I'll think that everything is okay with me and I don't need change so... God never seemed to help me to stand in truth and realize the amount of his love. It's like: I hear it, I believe it, I don't experience it. I'd aprecciate You're help. Stay blessed :)
we can practise his presence by merely breathing, the ancient hebrews believed that the air you breathe is the Holy spirit, the ruach, the breathe of life. You can drink of of the new wine by merely breathing it in visualise it and just simply receive.what i do is hold my hands up as if holding a big cup and simply ask our father to fill my cup with his wine and simply drink and breathe it in after i visually see my father fill my cup. i get highly intoxicated on his presence and simply manifest his glory by speaking in tongues, pure laughter or i slip into visions, open visions or trances. sometimes at first practising this i was crying a lot, that was the Holy Spirit filling my heart and healing all heart wounds i have received from demonic attacks in my life during spiritual warfare. the more you actually engage our Father like this in active child like faith and simply receive the more joy, peace and love you will find manifesting in your heart and in your life, from glory to glory!
i simply empty my mind and lay down offering up my energy to the our Father with my eyes closed until i gradually feel our fathers electrical energy frequency waves coursing through my body like 10,000 volts of electricity, this is his Holy spirit filling up my temple/ body bringing me into pure heavenly bliss/ectasy, its a very intoxicating experience being in the presence of God, pure joy, pure bliss, pure love. from this higher spiritual level up on Gods Holy mountain it just a spiritual adventure to wherever the father wants to take you to and to whatever he wants to reveal to you, sometimes he just wants to have fun with his kids and soak in intimate companionship with us, hes a good daddy, very good.
Heaven never forsakes those who try, but dont make this all about your own efforts, its Jesus that saves, we dont save ourselves through our own works. We are saved by faith in the hope of glory to come in christ. if theres anything you are struggling with like lust or pride then learn to practise his presence ( i recommend brother lawrence book, practising the presence of God, he was a mystic) learn how to just lay down and rest on a bed or a sofa and just simply give your energy up to our father. You may experience visions, trances and pure heavenly bliss/ectasy doing this as i do. I have met Jesus several times and received big white and purple diamonds from him which he has placed into my heart, white represents purity in heaven. I have been raptured to the heavenly realms in a trance state, had open visions of the glory of the lord that covers the earth as the waters cover the sea. i have been shown hell and various historical events such as when moses met the Lord at the top of the mountain. The key is to get out of your own head (soul) and engage our Father spiritually through your spirit man, God is a spirit being and we have an intimate relationship with him in spirit and truth. Be mega blessed.
+GAMER ELITE777 I'm working hard in meat factory. Don't have no time or efforts for God. I guess I'm a foolish virgin and there's no way back for me then.
+D F The difference is the wise virgins and the foolish virgins, christianity in a religious form is false christianity, its witchcraft. (foolish virgins)The wise virgins are free of that mind control religious organisation which is really the spirit of jezebel, the walk with God in real experiencial experience. its relationship not religion.
+D F its spiritual ascension up the Fathers Holy mountain, your spirit man joined together with the Holy Spirit rises up as you become more selfless, laying down your own thoughts, will and emotions. Its discipleship into SONSHIP!spiritual maturity.
+thirsty soul"i'd like to achieve more serious level with God where nobody can even hurt me physically."If you are dedicated to God, physical harm would be the last of your concerns. In the end you must ask yourself why you are searching, and what answers you will be satisfied with. If you are only searching for a certain truth, and not the whole truth regardless of what it is, you will certainly get frustrated when you don't find what you are looking for.To start with, I think your perception of 'love being weak' is the first roadblock in your search for God. If you aren't willing to open your heart to love and ignore what the world tells you about love, and humbly submit your weakness to God, you will never find him. It is only when you are truly humbled can you submit yourself to God. This is why it is so often that people find God when they have nothing else to lose; for this is when we find it easiest to let go of what we know and embrace the truth, regardless of what it is."He doesnt even exist. maybe aliens exist or spirits or whatever "Most people who don't think God exists have a flawed understanding of the nature of God, nor do they know about the incredible indicators of design that have been programmed into the very fabric of reality. For example, the cosmological constant, a physical law of our universe, is so fine tuned that if it were changed by one part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion TRILLION, the universe would expand too rapidly or collapse in on itself before complex life could form.In my opinion, theism is the most rational conclusion anyone can come to, when studying the known universe.
+davis3d in my country if id show love all the time, people would think im weak. and i would become a prey. i'd like to achieve more serious level with God where nobody can even hurt me physically. it seems simple thing to seek God until u start doin it. and when youre doin it for a while and few results u start to get frustrated . thats natural. like me, now logically thinking i dont believe in any God right now. (i mean i cant be sure) because i realised lies about xianity n now i just gotta seek God without religion 4 myself. maybe because of my intuition, its so hard to live with these doubts that i wont find God couse He doesnt even exist. maybe aliens exist or spirits or whatever but... but but... :) i hope God exists
+thirsting soulYou ask "who is god, what is his nature". God is love. Not metaphorically, but literally. The emotion of love comes from the place where God can be found. Seek where love comes from, and you will find God. You don't need to meditate for 30 years to find god. You can find him quite fast when you first learn to love yourself, and learn to meditate on love. It is difficult to describe how I found God. All I can say is that I found him when I started dedicating more than an hour each day to meditating on love, and focusing on the fact that he is with me. At first I kept trying to intellectually analyse what love is, but that doesn't make you feel love. Faith is what makes you feel love. The main thing that prevents people from doing this simple task, and what might cause a person to search for 30 years is that they do not love themselves, and they have not positioned themselves in an environment where they can see acts of love daily. This is why finding a church that is full of loving people is critical to spiritual growth. Without loving yourself you cannot find the place where God is, because you cannot love, and I feel like you are lacking a lot of love at the moment. So I would advise you to spend some time each day writing a list of reasons why you are awesome, and start giving your ego reasons to love you. Your ego is like a trained animal. You can let it loose and reek havoc in your life, or you can train it to think positively when you are not in a fully conscious state. The subconscious/ego is what makes you unhappy, and before God takes it away from you entirely you must train it to seek God by focusing on love. So train it by looking at the glass half full. If you are willing, finding a church and making some friends will help this tremendously. The answer to the problem of evil, is that as conscious beings, we cannot be forced to do anything. We can only give ourselves reasons to do something, and when it comes to finding God without anyone showing us how, losing the thing we love most is usually the catalyst for sacrificing ourselves and giving our entire being to God to do what he wants with us. This happened to both me and DF. When we hit rock bottom, we didn't have anything else to loose. I went to a church (the loving environment i talked about earlier) and basically thanked god for my life so far, instead of blaming him for the bad thing that happened. In my pain, I chose humility instead of anger. God gave me the one I loved most, and I was thankful for the time I had with her, and I understood why he took her away; it was to make me submit to him instead of her. I accepted this, and praised him. I praised love, the person who is God, and that is when I finally met him.Without having evil and suffering in my life, I can say I would never have even looked for God. Infact most of my childhood did not involve suffering, so I did not even think about God. I simply said one prayer a day and that was it. Only when I was put in pain did I realize who he was, and humble myself.In short, evil exists to make us change our consciousness, and when our consciousness is changed we no longer see evil the same way. We see pain as a challenge; a way to better ourselves and show god how much we are willing to put ourselves at risk because we love him.For example, last night I spend 5 hours with some drunk people I met on the street. I was protecting one guy from himself, because he was paranoid and wanted to bash innocent people. Without the love of God in my heart I would not have helped this man or cared for him, and I certainly would not have been joyous during the night, but because my consciousness has changed, I don't see the evil in him. I only see the pain in him and I am happy to ease that pain by loving him, because all pain in this world is caused by a lack of love. When we are in a relationship with God, we don't judge, we love. We don't feel bad when something evil happens, we feel privileged that we can help.In regards to why God doesnt just 'appear' and show everyone he is real, can be explained with the analogy of the Wineskins. In the following, Jesus explains why God doesn't appear fully to sinners who are not ready for him."No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. 17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved"The wine skins are us, and if God pours his essence into us when we are "old" (not reborn) we will break (die). This is why people died when they touched or opened the ark of the covenant in the old testament. It isn't because God enjoyed killing people, it is because we cannot be with him without being clean.If you want to know the full explanation of this, I'd suggest reading the "Why did Jesus Die" Explanation on my website.//seektofind.me/2015/03/29/whydidjesusdie/
+davis3d if i would be a loving Father I'd visit my son when he needs me n stuff like that. at least from time to time. and now it seems u gotta meditate for 30 years to achieve some results or experience. and u still not sure, whether ull achieve something and whether it will be God or simply some kind of demons doing their stuff in you when u blanked out your mind
+davis3d it seems God might be very different from what ive thought he is. it seems theres no justice on this earth. and God seems so far away and not like a loving Father indeed. is He testing african children too who starve to death? I dont get the answers. Only questions. I even ask God, God am I so bad? Am I so worthy of nothing that u dont pay attention to me? Even though ive wasted about 4 years out of my life 100percent for him without anything else. I rejected all girls , all friends. Im already 25yrs old and my life is devastated. Future seems too dark , I hate life (honestly) n i wanna escape this planet. i still have small hope though. but i dont like the rules God has made. couse i need Him now . and when i need Him the most i never see Him near
+davis3d the problem with me is that i dont know who God is. His nature. Whether He's good or not. If He's just good then why wolf eats sheep. why lions eat other animals ,why mosquitos swallow my blood from me n stuff like that. trust me u wont tell me who God is. u can only help me by telling me exactly how to seek Him. because as ive realised u experienced God not only through prophet but 4 yourself. its interesting to talk to u. trust, im similiar guy like u. im in that state where i dont wanna live on this planet anymore. i wanna find God or die. i wanna be in the spiritual realm all the time. but it seems so foolish many times because it seems like u dont experience anything and ur just wasting ur time
+thirsting soulJust thought I'd let you know another thing, because you originally asked the question of how meditating on God has transformed us. Friday night I was pressing into God real hard, I was burning with hunger because I felt like I wasn't growing fast enough. I was stagnant. A man from the Australian council of Prophets came to our church, and had this amazing gift of sight. God was telling him peoples names and birthdays, and he never got a single one wrong. Towards the end of the night he came up to me and hit me with the holy spirit, and I fell to the floor and wept intensely as I was completely overwhelmed with love for all people, especially for those who do not know God. I was on the floor for about half an hour. When I pulled myself together, I had the immediate desire to go out and help the world, so I stayed up till 2am giving free food to homeless people and changing their lives with prayer. A few people got healed on the streets, one satanist ran away from me when he saw a miracle, and me & my friend got a family of 6 homeless teenagers coming to our church. I feel like I hit a new level of closeness to God. I have been trying for months to have a constant knowledge of his presence, and now I have it. It feels amazing. I only got 5 hours sleep last night and I feel so free. His burden is so light. It feels like I have helium balloons attached to my heart. Another thing is, ever since I got saved, I have been seeing fractal patterns everywhere, similar to what LSD can give people, but it was permanent. And I was so caught up in the gifts God has given me, but now, to be honest, I dont even care anymore. The only thing I care about is him. I now love him because of who he is, instead of loving him because he wants me to love him. It is difficult to explain, but I have been going through many transformations the past 6 months; probably about four major ones. This one seems far more significant than the rest, because it had caused me to step out in faith in order to save the world, instead of look inwards to better myself.
+thirsting soulShe is alive and well. Currently in Taiwan with her family. We have been physically separated because her working Holiday visa had expired, but I believe this is the best thing for her in regards to her faith. Throughout the last year I have been the one supporting her, emotionally, financially and spiritually, but she has grown strong enough to go off on her own now, and she is in the process of learning to stand up on her own and grow at the pace of which she desires to. In simple terms, she is nowhere near the level of faith that I am at, and there is no way that I can help her get closer to God; only she can do that, and humans seem to find this easier when we are in places of hardship, because then we are more inclined to turn to him as our savior. We spend about an hour each day talking online, and it has been very good for me having more time to spend with God instead of tending to her needs.
+thirsting soul Stillness and looking within is one of the greatest spiritual practices for growth. There's a rich treasure of glory within every believer that can only be recognized from time spent in the secret place. My whole Christian life transformed after i made going into the secret place a daily practice.
+thirsting soul The thing is, there is very little grace and practically no Enlightenment via the Jewish tradition, unless you start to try and unravel the mystical kabbalah, which even then is basically mostly theoretical and doesn't not necessarily produce Enlightenment. The most accurate Christian is Eastern Orthodoxy which continues to this very day to produce Enlightened monks in its Monasteries. I have met many of them and have received Illumination from some just by sitting next them and their Halo Consciousness. I have not found any systems like this with the Jews and the majority of Israelis that I know, they also go outside of their own traditions to find Enlightenment.
+davis3d this is my testimony if youre interested: Why did I leave born again Christianity? I’m 25 yrs. old guy from Lithuania, who left christianity about 1,5 year ago. For 3 years ive been a serious christian, walking as hard as I could on the christian path. All of my dreams and goals in this life were related to fulfilling G-d’s plan in my life. I was really serious about that. I spent all of my time (free and not free) for christianity. I was strongly focused. I was praying in tongues so much in order to build my spirit as strong as possible, reading the bible so much too. I lost all of my friends, I actually disowned them myself and everybody what was on my way. I wasn’t too sad because of that though, because I saw a bright future. I knew I’ll achieve it, couse I was even ready to die for these dreams and for G-d. I saw many kinds of miracles, it was natural for me and I really liked it. If 1 month ago, somebody would tell me that I would leave my faith, I would laugh strongly. I was so strong in my faith, I was sure I knew everything about this earth, about the spiritual things. Until one day, I saw this documentary on Syria war. I saw there muslim doctors with fear in their eyes sacrificing their lives, while trying to heal people and help people fight Assad’s regime and saying that theyre not afraid to die, because it’s good for them to die doing a good thing in the sight of G-d. Everybody of them die. I remembered Jesus words: ‘no one has greater love than this, than he, who lays down his life for his friends. ‘So I thought to myself, here are these people having the highest quality of love described by Jesus and according to my Christian faith, they’re all going to eternal hell, simply couse they’re worshiping the wrong G-d. I realized I need to find out the truth about hell and I must go to the jewish roots first. I saw that jews never had this concept. But, what’s more important, I noticed a video called ‘how Christian missionaries twist the scriptures’ by rabbi Michael Schoback. I felt I must watch it. After watching It I was a bit shocked, because I was always told that jews are blind, but now I see this guy talking very logically. After that I’ve watched all of the jewish vs. Christian debates. After watching one of the debates with rabbi Tovia Singer tears came out of my eyes and out of my heart. I was convicted. I stopped praying to Jesus. I started rereading all of the Tanakh, restudying main theological questions. I needed to be 100 percent sure about everything. And, yes, I’m more than sure this day. I also watched all of the material on jews for Judaism channel, I also watched lots of stuff from jews for jesus side. To tell you the truth, this day my life has no purpose, and it’s quite dark, but I still have a small hope that G-d will give me a direction to go. Because I see my life only with Him. However, this day it feels like G-d is far away from me, and I don’t know how to find Him and this feeling more than sucks. I pray that G-d would either kill me, or that He would give me a new clear purpose. G-d bless you, guys.
+davis3d I understand you. I know that xristianity is a good religion in many ways. THat it has power over witchcraft n stuff like that. But I left it when i started studying why jews dont accept Jesus. Jews beat the xristian theology all the time. And its all obvious. I even started to cry and left it. So how do you seek God for youself? How do you seek for that experience?
+thirsting soulThanks for reading my stuff man! I know its really long so I really appreciate it. I understand why most people aren't Christian, as it is quite an illogical belief system, but I honestly don't claim to understand all the nooks and crannies within Christianity; I only focus on the core of it. Although it has many paradoxes, it has been demonstrated in my experience to be true despite these logical paradoxes. For example, the idea that heaven is a place with trees and rivers seemed ridiculous to me before I was taken there, and the idea that change can happen in a place without time was also unbelievable... until I went there. I was a pantheist who considered God as a cosmic creative force for a few years after I ditched Christianity, but I never had any mystical experiences outside drug use. Only when I admitted that God was a person and I had been avoiding him did I finally come to 'true' Christianity. It was very interesting to me to see the stark contrast between the reality of experiencing God and the way the religious institutions put God in a box and claim to know him. I currently go to a very unique church that focuses on Christian Mystical experiences (Its the only one I have ever seen or heard of; I happened to hit a bulls-eye first go when searching for churches). Its called Glory City, and its in Brisbane, Australia. Every church session we see deaf ears opened, broken bones healed instantly. Last Friday I saw a man regrow a shrunken shoulder that was damaged in a car accident 22 years ago. Before he was healed, one of the elders knew of the injury beforehand because God told them what to heal. So yeah. I dont really try to convince people these days that Christianity is the truth; I only tell them of my experiences within Mystical Christianity and let them decide for themselves. I guess regardless of what you call yourself, a loving relationship with the true God is what matters most, because if you start hearing from him then he will show you who he really is. I find that many people who meditate on God end up missing the most important truth; that he is an personal being full of love; not just a cosmic force. Only when I realized who God was, was I reborn.
+davis3d Hey, bro. I just've read your blog. Its dope 4 real. Only 1 thing.. Im no longer a xristian anymore 4 serious reasons. But I think when u meditate on God u dont have too much time to be concerned with religious stuff. And i hope ill be able to find God without religion in this way. Anyways, your testimony is crazy. And what is more crazy to me that today in my sleep I've heard these words: ''It is more important to have your own experience than to read about it'' And after a little time I was already reading your testimony which was completely talkin about the same thing! Wow, man! Do you have skype or facebook? Im about your age guy. 25yrs old. And I started seekin God again in prayer n meditation since January. And now i hear such words/messages after/in my sleep from time to time. Ive heard it maybe 5 times already. I guess Im goin somwhere. Its also interesting that love 4 a girl changed you and led u to God ,same thing happening to me, bro...
+D F I cannot speak for others, but personally, I have experienced a thousand-fold increase in awareness when meditating on God. When I first submitted my entire being to God, he took me into a place without senses. The only thing I had was the awareness of myself, and the full awareness of God. It was traumatic as I experienced the death of my ego; but then I was filled with infinite love and ecstasy as I was reborn as a child of God. The more I meditate on him, the more I am able to see the world through truthful eyes. I can see fractals everywhere, and I no longer feel any negative emotions. But this gift also came with a sense of alienation; as there are few people I know who know or understand God on this level. Thankfully my church is full of people like me. It amazes me to see the difference between the religion of Christianity and truthful spirituality.If you'd like to read my full experience, go to www.seektofind.me
+thirsting soul Yer there are others amongst us who are in Union. If you are not Christian anymore, then come back into the fold. The difference between a Christian and a Christian Mystic, is that the former can choose not to be one anymore, but the latter gets chosen by God to have his secrets revealed to him/her and its impossible to no longer be a Christian Mystic, since you are permanently living in the Mystical realms
+thirsting soul The results are too many to list here, but ultimately the goal and end result is for the Holy Spirit to descend and indwell you, for the Heart to Open so that Union with God can be experienced, as well as subconscious/ego/bodily purification on a number of levels. It is to be transformed from how you once were, into am imitation of Christ via the Spirit and the Mystical awakenings
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I really want to be closer to the one true God but I often times don't feel
a real connection. I want to be one to one with God, I want him to use me
how he see's best fit. I want to be there for him I want to have a real
deeply rooted connection. I ask for him t reveal himself to me, I ask for
him to grant me the wisdom to know when it's him. I need to be closer to
him. It's difficult.
Not really. You cannot only ask God for help if you are evil (not saying that you are evil), but you have to be really good and to learn to pray to him
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Great teaching, Karen. This is something I found that I have to continually
work at because when I sin and I go before our Father in prayer, I have to
first own my sin and ask His forgiveness, otherwise I feel my prayers are a
sham and a disgrace to Him. Gotta stay honest w/Him.
great video and great messege!! the one thing that i always makes me laugh
is when someone calls me a religous freak. and i just giggle and say it's
not religon. it's living a life for christ. and to see the look on there
face makes me laugh haha.
very true. thank you adamphillips44 for reminding me of that. i often times
get to caught up in the blessings of Christ and fail to remember why i
decided to attend a Christian college to begin with. Christ is fighting His
way back, how can I let Him? i want to
@pjbaird52 Amen. The bible says that we should have no unconfessed sins
when we come before him. God is the only Lord and he is not only my savior,
but hes my companion, guide, and friend along my life.May GOd bless you. I
do the same thing. May God Bless you.
“But when you call yourself Christian then you are saying you are a
follower of Christ and a lot of us who follow Christ close enough only want
to get the benefits of the relationship but not be so close that it
requires a commitment or sacrifice.”
@Mongoose303 - Dear Mongoose, The Bible never says Adam was lonely, it says
there was no suitable helper for him and it was not good for him to be
alone (Gen. 2:18). God bless, John Schoenheit
She looked just like my grandmother on my mom's side, and I looked at the
name and they had they same name. That so cool. Anyway, thanks for this
video, it's great! =)
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International, All-Purpose, Eternal, All Religions and Faiths????? Jesus is
the only way to the Father and heaven. The satanic all-seeing eyeball
prayer network would be a better name for this nonsense.
lots of Illumanati symbols ~ like a one world religion prayer thats how its being set up as.
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