Experience a person-to-person relationship with God

Having a personal relationship with God is everyone’s birthright. We're not talking about the God of your imagination (who often resembles you!). We’re talking about the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who lived, died, rose again and sent us his own Spirit to be with us until this time of redemption comes to an end. God began this awesome new relationship; we receive it and keep in step with Jesus. Every step of our stumbling, forward movement counts!

Peter (the lead disciple of Jesus) wrote a letter to new Jesus followers who were taking first steps in the Spirit. This is what he told them:

📖 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good (1 Peter 2:2).

To experience a baby-to-parent relationship with God, see your craving, expect to grow, taste and see that the Lord is good. Jesus has opened up a new life for you!

When we accept the gift of eternal life from Jesus, it is never-ending. Our Spirit-to-spirit, Parent-to-child relationship with God is full of energy for overcoming evil with good. Peter goes on to say:

📖 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ….But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy (1 Peter 2:4-5, 9-10).

Learn to feel and interpret your spiritual feelings

Everyone has spiritual experiences. Many explain them away with their typical way of thinking, what you might call their "ordinary awareness." But quite a few people follow their cravings into their spiritual awareness and try to develop that deeper part of their lives. Too few enter into the center where they experience their capacity to relate to the Holy Spirit. We hope this page is helping you go toward the deep places of you where God will meet you.

Jesus told Nicodemus,

📖 “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).

Our capacity to relate to God has been broken and blunted. We need to learn to feel: hear, love, heal, with our renewed senses.