How to personally experience God?

Jump in and get your feet wet !!!

Seek him, while he may be found.

Knock and the door will be opened unto you.

He is Spirit, and is seeking those who will worship him in spirit and truth.

For this purpose, we were created …

We worship all kinds of things…

while it ought to be our creator…

He is waiting… for you !!!

Everyone personally experiences him differently…

each of us… has something called.. a calling… which is… where you’re called to do something like… sing… act… preach… reachout to others… anything… and usually… we experience him through that… but there’s so many ways to experience him… you do… everyday actually… if you think about it.

I believe there are many ways to experience God. Reading about Him is one. Others are praying, praising,singing, dancing, and worshipping.I have experienced God in many ways but I believe that the best way I experienced Him is by placing my faith in Him and releasing all my doubt. That is when you receive all that God has to give.

it depends on the person really, no one can answer that but you.

pray and keep reading the bible and the answer will come to you

Richard Foster wrote a book called ‘Streams of Living Water’ where he looks at how different types of character and different traditions experience God in different ways. He argues that only when all these six traditions get together will we really experience God fully, but he does recognise that different people naturally go for one or two of the styles. I’ve cut and pasted a summary of the traditions here. It’s a bit heavy, but it may help:

The Contemplative Tradition is the prayer-filled life, yearning for “a richer, fuller practice of the presence of God.”

The Holiness Tradition focuses “upon the inward re-formation of the heart and the development of ‘holy habits’” to the end of addressing “the erosion of moral fiber in contemporary society.”

The Charismatic Tradition focuses “upon the empowering charisms or gifts of the Spirit and the nurturing fruit of the Spirit.”

The Social Justice Tradition is a “compassionate way of living” that “focuses upon justice and shalom in all human relationship and social structures” and “addresses the gospel imperative for equality and magnanimity among all peoples”.

The Evangelical Tradition “focuses upon the proclamation of the evangel, the good news of the gospel” and addressing “the crying need for people to see the good news lived and hear the good news proclaimed.”

The Incarnational Tradition “focuses upon making present and visible the realm of the invisible spirit,” addressing the “crying need to experience God as truly manifest and notoriously active in daily life.”

Cut and paste over…

So, do any of those traditions ‘click’ with you? Maybe that’s the way God wants you to experience Him. And, to all of us Christians, do any of the traditions seem weird or wrong? Maybe we just need to learn that God made us more varied than we realise… Maybe we need to try something new? (I had to think and pray hard about some of them, when I read the book.)

well all I have to say is it really depends what you want to believe in