Christians, what is it like to have a personal relationship with Jesus?

[Drich]

...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?

From what I read your asking two different questions... One how do you receive your message and two how do you vet it./How do you know it is from God and not you.

The second is easier to answer, in that I know my own personal limitations. Many older member have heard me speak about my past and all the different Learning disabilities I was saddled with growing up. Dyslexia, didn't learn to read and comprehend what I was reading till well after high school. (I could do one or the other but not both at the same time.) And I still struggle with grammar and spelling as a constant thorn/reminder of who I am/was. But, when it came to God, and understanding Scripture I was able to make connection most others couldn't. Even before I was able to read and understand/study the bible indepth I just 'knew' what the bible said.

I taught myself to read and comprehend with the help of comic books (I have to see things to process them, and before I taught myself how to read I never made the connection to picture what I was reading/all my effort was on deciphering the words.) then I started in on the bible with some taped readings/sermons and I followed along. Once I went through the bible I had a very strong understanding of it. could and still can recall little things that tie bigger points together.. (very hard to explain)  The funny thing this 'gift' initially seems to only work with bible stuff. So I went with it and doubble down in the religious works department (I was faithful to what gifts God gave me.) Most of it was teaching youth groups, and later on innercity ministries and even did a large singles/collage ministry.

In the collage ministry is where the answering questions started. alot of the members would have, at the time faith ending paradoxes or arguements that they could not work around. (all of which were extremely smart people) And this is the part that is hard to explain. When given a solution I/my consciousness self is almost unaware of what my spiritual side is going to say. alot of times I do not know where something is going and when it over i look back and am like wow that was profound. then I go back and double check everything...

I do this here. That is why it is very rare that any of you have ever been able to factually refute any of my points, numbers or factual based claims... (and whether you know it or not the same effort goes into being scripturally correct as well) I just write what is put on my heart, and am say given a number or a fact lets say about God or better yet about Islam (as this is the most recent example of this happening/we are talking about the islamic faith) and I write it all up, then i go back and double check everything, and when I post a citation 9/10 it was information I was given and I myself was unaware or unsure of, but as per the citation turns out to be 100% true.

Yes, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again... but I have been doing this almost every day (4 to 10 posts a day) for 9 years, and over 10,000 different posts between this website and one or two others.

I learn so much by answering questions. That is why I keep coming back. I've run out of things to ask, so I love it when one of you comes up with something new or a new topic.

So how am I given information? It's like being told what to say one word at a time just before I say or type it.

How do I know what I've been given is true? I go back and check everything.