How Real Is God To You?

For some Christians, God is as unreal as He is to non-Christians. It's sad, but true, that many Christians go through life without really knowing God.

Yet God longs to be known. He can be real to us.

All we have to do is listen to the Holy Spirit’s promptings and use our spiritual senses. They grow with use.

The spiritual realm is just as real as the physical realm but our spiritual senses are dull from lack of use. We don’t see that there’s a spiritual kingdom all around us waiting for us to recognise it.

We know that the spiritual world exits but we don’t think it’s real in the accepted sense of the word. We‘re so earth bound that we find it hard to see the spiritual reality around us.

Yet belief in the invisible lies at the heart of our Christian walk. To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we can't see.

We separate the physical and the spiritual in our thinking when really there isn’t any separation.
To grow in God and the things of the Spirit we need to move our attention from the seen to the unseen.

It’s time to become otherworldly. If we really want to follow God we need to become more spiritually minded, even if that means being thought odd.

Tozer said, ‘We must avoid the common fault of pushing the ‘other world’ into the future. It is not future, but present. It parallels our familiar physical world, and the doors between the two worlds are open.’

Our spiritual eyes and ears are weak because we haven’t used them much but it doesn’t have to be that way. We can learn to use them. We are in Christ and with the Holy Spirit’s help we can have eyes to see and ears to hear.

As we begin to focus more on God we will begin to see the things of the Spirit.

God is waiting for us to respond to His presence.

Are you ready to spend time with Him in the secret place? Are you ready for a closer walk with God?

Lord, give us eyes to see and ears to hear. Enable us to see with your eyes. Help us to be more aware of your presence. Make yourself known to us. Let us be those who are as at home in the spiritual realm as we are in the earthly realm. Help us to live more and more in the power of Your Spirit. We long to have continual fellowship with you. Lead us Lord, show us how.

The Practice of the Presence of God – Brother Lawrence

In this short book, through letters and conversations, Brother Lawrence explains simply how to continually walk with God from the heart rather than the head. He gives us a direct approach to living in God's presence that’s as practical today as it was three hundred years ago.
In troubled times Brother Lawrence, discovered an uncomplicated way to walk continually in God's presence. He lived and walked for forty years with our Father at his side.

We can do that too.

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