Truly knowing God

[Needreal]

I have three questions that I need an honest answer to. I think I have an idea, but it's like describing colors to a blind person. Unless you've seen it, you can't see it. Anyway, let me know what these answers mean to you if you feel like you have an understanding. Thank you with all sincerity.

1. What does it mean to truly know God?

2. What exactly is having a relationship with God?

3. What does "experience God" really mean?

Again thank you very much for your honest answers.

Mike

[alien224]

1-To seek Gods will through prayer and reading your bible.

2-as you grow in your faith you communicate with God He is closerto us than family.

3-To see hear and feel God move in your life and the lives of others.

Before any of this can be done, you have to ask Jesus to come into your heart and life.Then ask jesus to forgive you of your sins.Then trust Him.You do not have to chang imediately he meets us where we are and moves us to where we need to be.

May God bless you and may God reveal these answers to you and many more.

IN MY PRAYERS.

[angels4u]

I have three questions that I need an honest answer to. I think I have an idea, but it's like describing colors to a blind person. Unless you've seen it, you can't see it. Anyway, let me know what these answers mean to you if you feel like you have an understanding. Thank you with all sincerity.

1. What does it mean to truly know God?

2. What exactly is having a relationship with God?

3. What does "experience God" really mean?

Again thank you very much for your honest answers.

Mike

Hi  Needreal,

 

You  really DO  need to answer those questions in your life, they will save your  for eternity!

 

Did you start reading the Bible?

 

Nr1 : What does it mean to truly know God? WE have to start with believing God  that He is all powerful and wants us all to accept Jesus Christ in our heart,Jesus died on the cross so we can be saved, He washed our sins away.

 

Hebrew 11:6:

 

6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

nr2:

Having a personal relationship with God begins the moment we realize our need for Him, admit we are sinners, and in faith receive Jesus Christ as Savior. God, our heavenly Father, has always desired to be close to us, to have a relationship with us. Before Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden (Genesis chapter 3), both he and Eve knew God on an intimate, personal level. They walked with Him in the garden and talked directly to Him. Due to the sin of man, we became separated and disconnected from God.

What many people do not know, realize, or care about, is that Jesus gave us the most amazing gift—the opportunity to spend eternity with God if we trust in Him. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). God became a human being in the Person of Jesus Christ to take on our sin, be killed, and then be raised to life again, proving His victory over sin and death. “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). If we accept this gift, we have become acceptable to God and can have a relationship with Him.

Having a personal relationship with God means we should include God in our daily lives. We should pray to Him, read His word, and meditate on verses in an effort to get to know Him better. We should pray for wisdom (James 1:5), which is the most valuable asset we could ever have. We should take our requests to Him, asking in Jesus' name (John 15:16). Jesus is the one who loves us enough to give His life for us (Romans 5:8), and He is the one who bridged the gap between us and God.

The Holy Spirit has been given to us as our Counselor. “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you” (John 14:15-17). Jesus said this before He died, and after He died, the Holy Spirit became available to all who earnestly seek to receive Him. He is the one who lives in the hearts of believers and never leaves. He counsels us, teaches us truths, and changes our hearts. Without this divine Holy Spirit, we would not have the ability to fight against evil and temptations. But since we do have Him, we begin to produce the fruit that comes from allowing the Spirit to control us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).

This personal relationship with God is not as hard to find as we might think, and there is no mysterious formula for getting it. As soon as we become children of God, we receive the Holy Spirit, who will begin to work on our hearts. We should pray without ceasing, read the Bible, and join a Bible-believing church; all these things will help us to grow spiritually. Trusting in God to get us through each day and believing that He is our sustainer is the way to have a relationship with Him. Although we may not see changes immediately, we will begin to see them over time, and all the truths will become clear.

Read more:http://www.gotquestions.org/personal-relationship-with-God.html#ixzz2rmx50Mck

nr 3:

Hewbrew11:1

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

 

I pray this helps?

[Willa]

The 3 questions are really one.

To know God we must humble ourselves as if we are toddlers who know next to nothing but that they need help to survive in this world. That is what God wants of us--to depend on Him in everything.

First we must acknowledge that we are not perfect and never will be. God demands perfection so we must ask Him to remove our imperfection, our sin, evil or any wrongdoing, bad attitudes, you name it. We confess these to Him and ask for forgiveness. We turn away from known sin and abhore it. Then we ask Him to make us into the kind of person He wants us to be. To enable Him to do this, we must surrender our whole lives to Him, beginning with the problem areas you are aware of. We ask Him to come and live IN us. He promises to make something good and beautiful of us.

Next we start to become aware of Him speaking to us with an inner voice and leading us in an intuitive way. We desire to read the Bible, especially the New Testament, to get to know more about Him and learn His character. We learn that Jesus was God, but gave up His state to become both God and Man, so that we might be forgiven through His dying for OUR sins on the cross. It is because of Jesus that we are forgiven. Moreover He took our sin to the cross and in exchange gave us His rightousness in Father God's eyes. We learn that He has given us a new life by His Spirit coming to live in us. We continue to confess and turn from sin as we become aware of it. Somewhere during this time, we have feltl a great weight being taken from us. We have peace. We start praying and seaking answers to our problems in the Bible. And we become aware of His guiding us and drawing us into a friendship with our Creator. This is a growing process as He continues to make us more like Jesus, Who lived a life without any sin in spite of the horrible things He endured. It becomes a deep relationship that started with that first prayer of asking for forgiveness knowing we are helpless to help ourselves, and surrendering our lives to Him to endwell us and make us new.

Blessings

Willa

[Hall7]

To truly know God is to have a relationship with him in order to experience His existence within our spirits and our lives. To know Him is to know what He is capable of, to have a relationship with Him we must abide by His word, and to experience God is to be filled with His Holy Spirit...

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Needreal

     Welcome to Worthy & God bless you,glad you are here & the Glory be to God!   Mike to truly know God of course can only come from having a personal relationship,& then your second question comes into play-lol

     Firstly,to even come to the Father we must accept His Son,Christ Jesus...Who by His ultimate Sacrifice reconciles us back to our Father through that new & living way He consecrated for us that we can enter through the veil*(His fllesh)into the Holy of Holies......I do believe that when we ask Jesus to Lord over our lives & be our Savior & He enters into our hearts this is the beginning of our "relationship" & then we can grow in it nearer & nearer,deeper & deeper.....the more we decrease the more Christ will increase......

     Everyones experience is different,unique & personal-we serve the One & Only Living God,Mike & He will reveal Himself to us through His Word if we diligently seek Him....for some people they have an all out fireworks 4th of July "experience" & for others it is a more suttle ,growing over time,prayer & studying the Word but the truth of it is...........it is between the individual & God

      I don't know if I have answered your questions and I don't really know what you are hoping to learn but all I can ever do is be a living testimony that will give Glory to God......our Father only wants to love us & for us to love Him & one another.......Jesus abides in us and by the way we live our lives & treat others is a clear indication for others to know that Jesus lives,to know Jesus is knowing the Father and we are given the Holy Spirit tio lead us guide us,give us Wisdom & Understanding....the best way to have a relationship with God is to ask Him,He freely gives to His children.........God bless you

                                                                                                                                   With love,in Christ-Kwik

[accensa candela]

Hey Mike, I will answer your questions best I can from my own perspective and experience.

 

1. For me to truly know God is hard to explain so I will give the best example I can. My best friend is my dad, I know him very well, of course. But I never stop learning new things about him because he always has a story to tell me and something to teach me. I could write a book all about him and you or someone else could read it, but just because you know of him and about him does not mean you truly know him. I know his love, joy, sadness ect and I feel those feelings when he feels them. For me, truly having a relationship with Jesus is much the same. Because of the bible I know of him, but because of my relationship with him I truly know him. I know what makes him sad and that makes me sad, I know what gives him joy and that gives me joy when I see it... for example when someone becomes saved.

 

2. For me having a relationship with Jesus is a lot like what I wrote above. I want to know him, I am always thursting to know him more. I need him, I would not be able to handle this messed up world without him. I love him and I know I can and will always depend on him. To put it in simple terms I would be lost without him. I know what he wants from me because I read his word and I try my hardest to please him. Not because I don't want to go to hell (although of course I don't) but because I want to please him. Somewhat in the same way a young lad wants to please his dad and make him proud, its not because he wants a toy but because he loves his dad and wants to make him happy. That is a true relationship.

 

3. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "experiencing God" but I can look back on my life and think of a lot of times my life was a disaster and Jesus has always made it work out. I can think of many times I felt hopeless and all I had to do was start reading his word and I became filled with peace. I have seen big tuff guys stand up and give their testimony and break down in tears of joy. If what your question means what I think it means, I experience God through his Holy Spirit.

 

Hope this helps.

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Needreal

     Welcome to Worthy & God bless you,glad you are here & the Glory be to God!   Mike to truly know God of course can only come from having a personal relationship,& then your second question comes into play-lol

     Firstly,to even come to the Father we must accept His Son,Christ Jesus...Who by His ultimate Sacrifice reconciles us back to our Father through that new & living way He consecrated for us that we can enter through the veil*(His fllesh)into the Holy of Holies......I do believe that when we ask Jesus to Lord over our lives & be our Savior & He enters into our hearts this is the beginning of our "relationship" & then we can grow in it nearer & nearer,deeper & deeper.....the more we decrease the more Christ will increase......

     Everyones experience is different,unique & personal-we serve the One & Only Living God,Mike & He will reveal Himself to us through His Word if we diligently seek Him....for some people they have an all out fireworks 4th of July "experience" & for others it is a more suttle ,growing over time,prayer & studying the Word but the truth of it is...........it is between the individual & God

      I don't know if I have answered your questions and I don't really know what you are hoping to learn but all I can ever do is be a living testimony that will give Glory to God......our Father only wants to love us & for us to love Him & one another.......Jesus abides in us and by the way we live our lives & treat others is a clear indication for others to know that Jesus lives,to know Jesus is knowing the Father and we are given the Holy Spirit tio lead us guide us,give us Wisdom & Understanding....the best way to have a relationship with God is to ask Him

[RustyAngeL]

Once again my precious sister in the Lord  Kwikphilly has answered this question fully. 

 

Knowing God come  from a relationship in Jesus Christ.  It's so simple.  You ask God to forgive you of your sins accept Jesus Christ into your   heart and thus begins a walk with God.  Knowing God comes from that relationship and for some reason people make it so hard.  When you hand over you heart to Jesus and get into His word you will begin to know God in a whole  new way.  

 

Just trust Him with your life and know that He will love you right into Heaven.   Praise His holy name!

[JohnD]

1 John (NASB95)


1 What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—
2 and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—
3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
4 These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;
7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.

1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.
4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:
6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
7 Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.
8 On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.
9 The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
10 The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake.
13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17 The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.
19 They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
25 This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
26 These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
27 As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
28 Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.
29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who practices righteousness is born of Him.

1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.
7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;
8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.
11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
13 Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
19 We will know by this that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before Him
20 in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart and knows all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;
22 and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.
23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
19 We love, because He first loved us.
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
5 Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
7 For there are three that testify:
8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son.
10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.
17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
18 We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.
19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.