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Ty711
01-01-2016, 07:08 AM
So for my new years resolution I want to real have a personal relationship with God. I do believe in Jesus Christ however I also believe in other things and interest of candle magic, tarot cards, meditation, dreams, spirit guides and guardian angels. I believe in good and bad karma.
I REALLY want to experience things in a positive spiritual manner. Please help me, do I need to pray. My motives are to enhance myself spiritually because I do believe that this isn't the only life we have I believe we are on this planet to learn and experience. I also want to get close to the supreme being who created this life to give thanks and to lean on when I'm going through something negative and positive.
So please what are ways to get a deeper (closer) relationship to God? I don't know what to do. What spiritual tools do I need to complete to invite God into my life and have that firm assurance that God is by me.
Happy New Year! : )
Shinsoo
01-01-2016, 08:41 AM
The simplest answer is this: the closer you get in touch with and become your true self, the closer you get with God.
In essence, get to know and love yourself.
Deepsoul
01-01-2016, 09:02 AM
I think that's very true Shinsoo ,I also like to add Jesus in the mix though, he makes sure I'm not slackin off...everything your doing sounds just fine, everytime you tell God you love him ,tell yourself too...Tell the moment you love it,love the moment ,be right here right now its all God ,its all amazing,...A time for thinking and a time for blinking...all the best Ty711
knightofalbion
01-01-2016, 10:17 AM
Try to kindle love in your heart. Because God is Love, in energy and substance. Therefore, through Love you attune to God and the heart of God.
When I was younger I had a problem with this 'love', like you had to skip through a meadow, high as a kite, with a flower clenched between your teeth! You don't! Kindness, sympathy, compassion etc. ALL are Love, in a different guise.
So let the kindness flow, keep the unkindness in check, and you'll have God's number - and He'll have yours ...
Visitor
01-01-2016, 10:51 AM
All the above are great suggestions. What I have to say is the same but in different words. Often reading different versions of the same thing helps.
I wrote down a very long list of things that have happened to me. You know, the usual narrow escapes, amazing coincidences, my progress in spiritual matters, etc. When I finished, I realized I actually had a gratitude list.
Then I realized how much I am loved, by forces unknown, to get this far in life. Honestly, I truly used up more than nine-lives.
From this list I started to feel God's love in my heart. It was the feeling of sincere gratitude. Today I can recall that feeling at any moment. With that feeling of God's love in me heart, I return it to God by loving the Love that loves me.
In loving that Love, I am as close to God as I know how in body, mind, and soul. I call this God Consciousness.
Miss Hepburn
02-01-2016, 04:19 PM
... I want to real have a personal relationship with God.
Please help me, do I need to pray?
I also want to get close to the Supreme Being.....
So please what are ways to get a deeper (closer) relationship to God?
I don't know what to do. What spiritual tools do I need to complete
to invite God into my life and have that firm assurance that God is by me.
WOW! What an inspiration. How wonderful to have these desires!
Do you even know how blessed you are? :icon_cheers:
1. Keep these desires in the forefront of your mind 24/7.
2. Surround yourself with inspiration to keep you there....CDs, devotional music,
read the Masters and teachers that are madly in love with God, for example.
3. Talk to God constantly...as Paul said, pray unceasingly...this develops
a habit for your mind to connect to the Divine rather than this world
(Col 3:2 ...focus on things above not the things on the earth)
4. Your mind with stray...no problem...place the needle back in the groove...do not chastise yourself in any way.
It is a further trick and the nature of the ego-mind.
So know your enemy well...then laugh at it.
5. Repeat this each day from Isaiah 26:3 ''He who keeps his mind on him, he will give him perfect peace.''
6. Be in total stillness many times throughout the day...Open your
mind, expand your awareness to the subtle, to That which is in everything...the rock and the flower alike.
Stillness is where you will feel the Divine Presence.
7. Ask.....ask to be given His Divine Love....this is the only thing that can transform the human soul.
8. Wait, expect, be open...never doubt , never be impatient...know your desires will be given to you.
9. Also reflect on Psalm 37:4 Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
I could write about 25 more things, hahaha....hope this helps.
Works for ME!!! :wink:
Oh...and if you ever lose your fervor? Reach a dry spell spiritually?
10. Fast.
Jyotir
02-01-2016, 05:48 PM
Hello Ty711,
I want to real have a personal relationship with God
Evidently it has already begun. Or else you wouldn't be expressing that comment.
imo, Miss Hepburn is correct.
Those aspirations indicate that a momentous blessing has been granted already.
It represents the awakened presence of God within.
"He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite." - Sri Aurobindo
Just continue the dialogue that has been started.
Part of that is to ask for those things you feel are important as mentioned in your OP.
Then persist patiently, cheerfully and gratefully.
~ J
Miss Hepburn
02-01-2016, 07:00 PM
"He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite." - Sri Aurobindo
Oh, that's the best!
Thank you
Put that in the Quotes of the Masters! :smile:
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