![]() Unlike you, I can’t work and constantly talk to you at the same time! Thanks for my first long conversation with you! I love this! (Me laughing some more.) That’s it for now. It’s so cool that you’re COACHING me! … I could pray more for my hubby. How you’ve changed me through these conversational times. I could give my hubby some examples from my own life. What else? … Hey, Christian Life Coach, I’m COACHING you! (Me laughing.) Have him read my blog? Talk with him about how I’m experiencing you. (Me laughing.) How can my hubby and I both experience you together, like this? I don’t think he’d be open to relating to you in this way. I have deleted those videos.īut what about accountability? When I don’t confess, and when I add one sin onto another, what about that?Ībsolutely! Let’s go and have fun today! Let’s enjoy the day together! Helping you to move on instead of replaying the sin videos in your head. Supporting what you want to do.įorgiving you. Whoah! Serving me? How would you do that?Įncouraging you. What would you be like if you were physically with me right now? Okay, what do you want me to ask you about yourself? Jesus, how do you want to encourage me today? And boy-oh-boy, was it FUN! I recorded it in my journal on Thursday, May 19, 2016. ![]() (Click the drop-down menu again to close the box.)īelow is the first-ever longer conversation I had with Jesus. I recorded it in my journal on Thursday, May 19, 2016. God has so transformed my life and calling through conversations with him that I coined my own word for them: "Godversations." My First Back-and-Forth Conversation with GodĬlick the box below to see my first-ever, extended, back-and-forth conversation with Jesus. He even forecasts happy but unlikely events in my future that actually do happen. He speaks words that transform my life-words that deeply touch my heart and that I never would never come up with on my own. God confirmed that He did indeed converse with me. Now, several years and hundreds of journal entries later, I have proof that these conversations are real, and not just my own wishful thinking. But it took me awhile to believe that God did indeed talk back-and-forth with me, and that I wasn’t simply talking with myself. I tried it, and I did indeed start hearing from God in transformational new ways. But I’ve discovered that God also wants a richer, more personal relationship with me.Īs I read Tony Stoltzfus’ books, I watched videos in which he showed people how to talk conversationally with God. I took quarterly personal spiritual retreats, sometimes fasting while retreating at a local hotel or retreat center.Īll of methods of prayer are great, and they are biblical. I asked God for His guidance in my life and calling. I worshipped, confessed my sins, gave thanks, prayed for myself and others, and listened for God’s guidance about goals and decisions. How can I try it-if I should even attempt it?īefore I started talking conversationally with God, I prayed in the same ways that most Christians do. ![]() Does God even want to talk with me so intimately? After all, who am I that God would do that?.And if it is, can I talk with Jesus and the Holy Spirit too, or just to the Father?.Is it theologically right to believe that I can talk back-and-forth with God?.Should I even try it? What if I mishear God? What if I just think it’s Him talking, but it’s really just my own thoughts? Heaven forbid that I put words in God’s mouth!. ![]()
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