Your intimate personal friendship with God

These articles, including this one, are pure opinion that will change with new understanding.

This Newsletter Commentary, #5 Part a, written June 9, 2008 by Edward McKinney.

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Your Intimate Relationship with God

It is ironic but millions of Christians go to Church every week and yet they do not have a close personal relationship with God. These Christians do not really talk to God except for short mundane prayers. And they have never even imagined that they could actually listen to God.

Friends, this is a dangerous spiritual state to be in that could cost you your physical and eternal life. Do you recall that God once said to a pretend Christian, "Get away from Me because I never knew you!" Well think about it. If a stranger came up to you and said that he was your best friend, you would respond with those same angry words.

If you want eternal life, you had better become God’s intimate friend real fast! That means that you had better start talking to and listening to God. Church going will never get anybody into Heaven; neither will Bible reading all by itself. Your allegiance to a leader won’t get you anywhere.
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Some religious leaders want you to develop a close relationship with them and their particular Churches. In contrast, God wants you to develop a close relationship with Him first and foremost.

If you develop a close relationship with God, corrupt religious leaders will not be able to take advantage of you and exploit you. In fact, you will be a very good influence on people in your Church because you will influence them to follow a righteous course, create good policies and make wise decisions.

I could have information that will help you to develop a close personal relationship with God the person. I think this because I have gained some wisdom as a result of many religious experiences in my long life.

God the Person

Newsletters have been heavy duty lately because of prophecies that deal with the upcoming election of President Obama, his "accident," civil war and President Colin Powell.

I would like to lighten up for this newsletter and share information and opinions about YOU developing an intimate personal relationship with God the person through prayer and meditation.

It would be egotistical and erroneous for anyone to say that he or she knows the ONLY way to have a personal relationship with God. The most I can do is share my personal experiences and opinions. You can then pick out things that could help you and throw out the rest. This is because everyone is an individual. And everyone is at a different stage of spiritual growth.

My experience is that there are two basic ways to communicate with God. One way is to talk to God. The other way is to listen to God. Of these two basic ways, I have found that listening is the most valuable means of communication. And, this is the most difficult for most people.

Do you Talk or Pray to God?

The term "prayer" is almost a bad thing because it is so formal. Some people are formal. They pray best if they set aside a formal time. Some people are so formal that they develop a ritual that includes a bath.

Do not let anyone tell you that his or her way is the only way. If formal methods are good for formal people, that is great. But, their way would prove to be a huge stumbling block to informal people.

Getting Started

Some people might begin their prayer career with a formal method in the way young children in school learn the alphabet by rote. But, when children grow up they can use the language freely. Rote is no longer necessary.

So, the time would come for informal people to move out of formal techniques in order to talk freely with God. We are told to "pray without ceasing" and that means we are continually talking to God about every tiny detail of our daily lives. An informal person would not store up everything for a set time after a bath.

That does not mean that we should go around in public babbling like fools or that we should try to show off our spirituality with loud prayers in public. It means that we can silently discuss with God every decision we make in our lives. God can be your constant companion and confidant.

For example, a woman could be shopping and see a bread maker machine that wows her. She would say to God, "I would really like to buy that. What is your opinion?" God will then use the store of information in her brain to configure an answer. He might say, "That would cut your grocery bill and make healthier bread." She would then reply to God, "But, my schedule is really full. I don’t think I would have the time." Then God might reply, "Why don’t you run it by your family and get their opinions? Your daughter might volunteer to make bread for the family on a routine basis."

Your ability to talk with God depends on how well you know your Bible. Stories in the Bible serve as a common language. You might ask God for His advice and he would bring a Bible story or verse to your conscious mind. The Bible story or verse would provide God’s advice.

Prayer is not foolproof because your mind could confuse you with conflicting Bible stories, verses and life experiences. You could hear yourself babbling nonsense to God and feel like giving up. If you are like most people, your mind is full of chaotic thoughts and emotions, especially while you are in public.

Compulsive behavior will cut you off from meaningful dialog with God. For example, a woman could be compulsive about buying expensive and pretentious jewelry. A man could be emotionally compelled to buy pretentious cars to make up for feelings of inferiority.

These people will purposely cut God off because they know that God will tell them to stop their compulsive behavior. So, we need God’s help to remove impediments like these. Mediation is a proven way to recognize and overcome compulsive behavior in order to keep communication open with God.

Emotions can get us to override our conversations with God. As a result we could do crazy things. And, people are often unaware that their emotions are causing them to be self-destructive. In order to have uninterrupted communication with God we need something deeper than prayer. We need to control our emotions. More than that, we need to go deeply into our souls and see where our self-destructive emotions come from. This is part of being a "reborn" Christian.

This is where meditation comes in to complement prayer and make for uninterrupted and honest communication with God.

Listening to God is sometimes Better than Talking to God

If you had the chance to be with Donald Trump a short time, would you spend that precious time blabbing at him or would you ask for financial and career advice? If you were a fool, you would waste your time by talking. If you were smart, you would ask for really beneficial advice and carefully memorize every word in Trump’s response. You would then use that sage advice to increase your income by a few thousand dollars a year.

From this example we can see that it is often smarter to listen to God than to talk to Him. Meditation is a proven way to listen to God while He talks to you.

King David was the most near and dear person to God. God said that David was a man "after His own heart." Wow, you need to be like David and be after God’s own heart. You need for God to think of you in the dearest terms as an intimate friend that has absolutely no secrets.

What was David’s secret to intimacy? David meditated! It was said that he spent his time as a young shepherd in meditation with God. When God sought out a king for Israel, He sent Samuel to the lonely forsaken fields that David had been meditating in. This is what I am saying to you. Develop this intimate relationship with God and He might lift you up to be His servant in ways you would not imagine.

To be continued as ... No Nonsense Meditation Techniques for real world people

-Edward McKinney

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