RE: Christians, what is it like to have a personal relationship with Jesus?
July 14, 2016 at 4:41 pm
(July 14, 2016 at 9:03 am)Drich Wrote:(July 14, 2016 at 1:39 am)Irrational Wrote: Ok, since I keep noticing that Christians (Evangelical Christians, particularly) tend to doubt that a former Christian was truly a Christian, arguing that the former Christian never truly knew Jesus and never truly had a relationship with him, then what does it mean for someone to have a true relationship with Jesus?
Detail for us all what your relationship with Jesus is like, and what makes you know that you are in such a relationship? Be as specific as can be. Avoid vagueness. Thank you.
...The Holy Spirit actually..
Jesus, is in Heaven. He went back so the Father would sent us the Holy Spirit. This is what Jesus said we should A/S/K for. In that the Holy Spirit of God is what we have been offered/have access to.
The Holy Spirit if first manifest in us through Spiritual fruit. (As a grape vine can not produce figs, nor a weed produce olives, we each produce 'fruit' after our own nature. If we have the gift of the Holy Spirit then we will produce fruit that is consistant with the Holy Spirit.)
Gal5:22
22 But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.
Then if we follow the Spirit (Are faith to these fruit we have been given) we may receive a spiritual gift. Everyone in the Spirit receives Spiritual fruit, but Spiritual gift are often different and unique.
1 cor 12 is a whole chapter dedicated to the different gifts and how we should use and view them.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=ERV
Personally speaking I have been given either wisdom or just a direct line to the Spirit, in that I have all of my questions answered. It's kinda like having access to a Godly version of google. I wouldn't call someone who knows how to use google wise.. just fortunate. I was given this gift some time ago and sought out to answer other people's questions as all of mine were answered. In short I was faithful to what god has given me, and He has blessed me by allowing this gift to spill over into all other aspects of my life.
This is both a blessing and a curse. as sometimes people who have spent most of their lives trying to serve God in a way that comes naturally to me tend to over look the simplicity but solid answers I've been given. At the same time I also find myself struggling to remind myself it is not me that produces these answers but the access I've been given to God's "google."
Despite my abrasive nature and low tolerance for people mocking what they do not fully understand I think I have found an acceptable balance, and I seek to share what God has given me.
Other ways this gift has affected me, is I have traded my 'faith' for understanding and belief. I planted my mustard seed and it grew into a large 'tree' of belief. In other words I do not have to have faith to know God's word is true I've seen it play out via promises kept. This translates into an iron clad system of belief.
Can you give some more specified details of how God provides you with answers? What are the exact dynamics that go on? And how do you really know it's God giving you true answers rather than just you having some epiphany and attributing it to God?
