Growing in Intimacy with God

"I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions." (p.5)

“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.” (5)

I totally miss the point that when I truly die to self and sin in order to follow Christ, when I make a conscious decision about sin in my life, the Holy Spirit is 'in me.' He is resident in my life and the purpose is so I will have boldness and power to be a witness to Jesus. That JESUS is alive. That JESUS changes lives. That JESUS redeems. That JESUS gives real, full, abundant life here and now, not just in eternity. That JESUS loves so He gives. The Holy Spirit doesn't just 'blow by' every now and then, He lives in every true believer. If I want to 'feel Him', go 'be a witness' of Jesus to someone else! Stop looking for him. He's in you

The book is neither meant to be a theological treatise nor an academic exposition but a toolkit to unleash human potentials; a resource for intervention in dealing with human life hurts and as a channel of Gods healing and liberation through Jesus Christ.

As humans, we long to be recognized. When what we are doing is ignored or looked over, it is difficult to find the will power to keep going. Without the Holy Spirit’s daily guidance, it is easy to lose passion for doing what is right.

5) Will you regard all pastoral conversation of a confessional nature as a trust between the person concerned and God?

According to Oral Roberts, in his book entitled The Ultimate Voice, “God’s still small voice is the clearest and loudest voice you’ll ever hear” (Roberts vii). Roberts so fervently believes in this statement that he puts it on the front cover and in the introduction of his book. The Ultimate Voice serves as his lifelong legacy book. The Ultimate Voice describes Roberts’ personal experiences hearing God’s voice and gives the reader an overview of the actual process of hearing God’s voice in their life. Roberts answers questions many people contemplate such as, “Why doesn’t every person hear God’s voice?” (Roberts 15). The book is divided in to two main sections: The Truth about God’s Voice and His Messages and God’s Messages to Me and What

“Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth Your Spirit and we shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy Your consolations. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.”

1. In what ways did God make his presence known to you since our last meeting? What experiences of prayer, meditation and spiritual reading has God given you? What difficulties or frustrations did you encounter? What joys or delights?

The authors seek to elucidate to the masses the concepts of God’s hope, amazing love and the power that emanates from god 's sake to his children. Through the entire work the writers seek to demonstrate through years of experience how people can be in possession of their thought patterns, enhance their decision-making skills to promote the physical and relational self. The book brings out very hefty discussions on life and the various engagements that people make every day of their lives. The book contains concepts like relationships and their dynamics where the authors assert that relationships ought to include God in them because he exists in them (Hawkins & Clinton, 2015 p.112).

Now the Holy Spirit takes you and puts you into Jesus when you come to Him. "Nobody can come to Me, except the Father draws him." And who draws him is the Holy Spirit.

In the 1200s, St. Gertrude wrote a prayer: "let my heart be so united with Thine, that our wills may be one, and mine in all things be conformed to Thine." That fits the expression "personal relationship with Jesus" to

The book Steps to Christ discusses our relationship with God. The author Ellen White describes thirteen steps we must take to enable us to have a loving and committed relationship with our Heavenly Father. In this essay I discuss each of the thirteen steps.

The Holy Spirit plays a very vital role in the lives of each and every believer; He can strengthen us with a strength that we cannot even begin to muster up in ourselves. He can bring us joy that we cannot even begin to find in the things of this world. He can bring peace to our lives more than anything that we can ever find on this earth. “The Holy Spirit which is primarily an energizing process, is also a revealing, refining, consuming, illuminating process, and one by which we are made to glow with love to God, and love to man, and love to souls.”

The catholic four common core questions, what is our relationship to God, How does one live a life of meaning and purpose, what is our relationship with the natural world and how can we form a more just society for the common good can be answered differently. However, the great books in the Catholic Intellectual tradition answered these questions in a broad distinctive way. This essay will examine the question, what is our relationship with God, from the view point of three writers, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Pope Paul. What is our relationship with God was a better one answered by these writers. Most Christians refer a relationship with God to praying and communicating with him. As an explanation, many well-meaning Christians will explain that you can develop a personal relationship with God by “seeing Jesus. However, the great books in the Catholic Intellectual tradition such as Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, etc. have a broader explanation of our relationship with God. They say a relationship with God is being fully human, living a meaningful life and having a relationship with the triune God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.