Building a relationship with GOD

[Classik]

Building a relationship with GOD

How can we build a relationship with GOD - or grow in our relationship with HIM.

To some: GOD is,
a million miles away,
a few miles away,
HE is right here with me.

What happened to the kind of relationship Abraham, Moses etc had with GOD? Some claim HE only visited them once in a while and was away at other times.

Yet I believe HE was kind of semi-physically present with them. They heard HIS voice, they saw and felt HIS presence.

Don Moen: LORD You seem so far away...a million miles or more it feels to today.

Sin?

 

[Eugene]

Dear Brother Classik, to experience the following fellowship we turn our need to God as we approach His throne. We are not captains of our own ship as it were; it is Him that restoreth my soul. Our Father is the One that gives increase to our lives, and any righteousness we attain must be given us by grace to His glory alone. Failure to do this exhibits self will which separates us from the fellowship we experience, and we fall from the further grace we might know with Him. Can we return at any time? Yes!

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

 

[Brother Mike]

Interesting this. Not to know of God, but to have a relationship with God. Remembering way back when I knew I first heard God. Disobeyed it of course, but after paying the consequences it overjoyed me. It was a trash bag I was going to "Steal" take from the prison chow hall because it started to rain. I figured I might as well keep dry. Before I grabbed it, I had like a check, a stop sign inside. I hesitated for a second then grabbed it and got busted on the way out the door.

Well, at this point in my life I was scriptural dumb. I suppose even today I will look back 10 years and say the same thing, I hope.
Still, I knew He talked to me to keep me out of the chewing I got from the Guard and the lecture on stealing.

That point in my life I was sold out to God. I told him whatever he told me to do, I'll do it. I did not know it at the time, but I activated something in the Word I did not see until years later.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
(Joh 14:21)

Joh_7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Well, here is your stepping stone. Not being wrapped up in self, being sold out to Him. Mind you, there are only a couple of commandments to get down. Love God, Love your Neighbor. You get that, you got it. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

It took a full year, but I got it figured out not to be concerned about my problems. So many people wrapped up in themselves, I understand, I was there. The fastest way to fix things in your life is to focus on God, and on others. Needs met, family fixed, healing, anything. God is awesome.

I know my Father, I speak to him, I expect him to answer. I never have to question if He's around or not. I have direct access through the Holy Spirit.

I know in the past I have had some Amazing testimonies. Thing about those is that most of them meant me going through stuff I just would have rather avoided. Most of them were my fault anyway, and God had to fix them.

Just 2 weeks ago, My 8 year old daughter went missing. Her and a friend had been playing in the back room, and they decided to open the screen window and sneak out. Wife went back there to check and they were gone.

We all went outside to call them, figuring they should be close but no dice. The wife and the Mother of the other little girl jumped in the car to look down the street. We live in a area that has our buildings and nothing but woods around us so it's not like they had that many streets to choose from. After calling for my daughter, that devil came in to tell me that someone grabbed them. Never see my daughter again.

Then He had the nerve to tell me that I was wrong when I tell people that God never fails, or has failed anyone. Not one time.

Well, fear is something you fix right away, and whatever you do don't speak it. Bad things happen if you do. I already know the devil can't touch my daughter if I don't side with him. I just had no clue where she was at.

So, I just stopped. I said God, you know where she is at, what do I do. When you know someone that can fix anything, I already knew My answer was coming. It's called a relationship.

The Lord spoke to me, he said............. "Call the Police, I have sent someone."

I repeated that, the angels are close and someone is sent in Jesus name. Just then the wife and the other mother came back after combing our couple streets. The asked if I found them, and nope. I said call the police right now.

My wife's friend called the police, and the officer told her they had a lady on the other line that had stopped two little girls way far away. They made it almost a mile. The officer told my wife and her friend where and to meet the lady there.

Sure enough, that Lady stopped the girls and did not let them continue.

There is a difference to praying to someone you don't really know, and speaking to your Father whom you do know. Sometimes, it's life and death difference.

Blessings.

 

[Classik]

Great testimony, Brother Mike.

At times it's the enemy that tries to lie to our hearts that God is gone

 

[iLOVE]

Please note the following:
The only way to God is through Jesus Christ (John 14:6)
The only way to Jesus Christ is by the Means of the Cross (Luke 14:27)
The only way to the Cross is a denial of self (Luke 9:23)

Jesus Personally stated, and unequivocally so:
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (proclaims in no uncertain terms exactly Who and What Jesus is):
no man comes unto the Father, but by Me (He declares positively that this idea of God as Father, this approach to God for every man is through Him - through what He is and what He has done)" (John 14:6).

 

[Brother Mike]

Great testimony, Brother Mike.

At times it's the enemy that tries to lie to our hearts that God is gone

Ya, the Devil is a butt like that. Even in my Daughter incident. True my daughter was just less than a mile away, but at that moment we don't know where she is at. All kinds of thoughts come, the waves of fear try to come. It's the devil.

Even bringing up that I tell people God has failed nobody that has trusted in him. He brings that up to me and tells me that won't be true in this case. I won't see my daughter again.

it's crazy, what the devil puts people through. I can tell you he is real, and a Major jerk.

But as you said, you can have a relationship that is greater with someone, than the lies and fear the enemy can bring.

I'll tell you what God did not tell me. He did not say, I am just sitting on my butt, and I am going to allow the devil to murder your daughter to sift you like wheat Mike. Since I know God, I read Job according to my relationship with God. I knew after calling my Daughter a few times, I had to stop and get quite. I could have gone through a whole lot of vain work and effort instead of asking someone that knew where she was at.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
(Heb 4:11)

Entering into God's Rest is called what? Labour (Labor) it's Work. You have to just stop the actions of panic, and say no, God will perfect those things that concern me. I had to force myself to just stop calling my Daughter, and running around the building looking for her. I told myself I am not doing another thing until I hear God, I am done.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
(Job 3:25-26)

I learned a lot from Job, but because of my relationship with God, I did not learn God steps aside while a crazed and deranged disobedient angel murders your children. No, I learned that being motivated by fear, and acting on it gives the devil a rightful place to bring to pass what you fear most.

God is amazing. My Daughter did need spanked, but after she came home I was just glad to see her safe. guess I am getting soft. So be it.