Spend Time with God
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We go out of our way to spend time with friends with we love. It shows we love and care about the relationship we have with them.
In the same manner, God wants a Personal Relationship with us and wants us to spend time with Him too.
There are two things on a personal basis we do to develop our Personal Relationship with God. Prayer and Bible Study- It is the most effective method to develop our Personal Relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
God shows us clearly in our Bible Study He loves us. God, who can do anything in this universe, and of all the things He did do He sent His Son to us, because He loves us and wanted us to know the True way to live.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish ,
but have everlasting life.
He is the best friend we could ever have. We like to talk to our friends, we should feel the same with God. In prayer we communicate with God, out of those prayers, we listen, In listening, we learn to trust His timing to answer our prayers and in His timing, we Trust Him all the more.
Jesus came to Save us, if nothing more than our selfish selves. But, truly it is more than that. Jesus too wants our love. His love was expressed on the cross. He died showing us how to live, to live for God and live for Him. We have to get over our selfish selves and love and live for God and Jesus. We do that as our Personal Relationship with God bears fruit. But, there is more. Jesus gives us the Holy Spirit to help sustain us daily in our journey of a Personal Relationship with Him and God.
God and Jesus knew we cannot walk the talk of Jesus' teachings by ourselves, we need help. In John 16*, Jesus predicted the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples. And Jesus delivered the Holy Spirit to the Disciples after His resurrection. When the disciples were gathered and most troubled after Jesus' death, Jesus came to them. In a second, in receiving the Holy Spirit, the disciples went from being scared little boys in John 20, to men ready to die for the teachings and Life of Jesus. In our Relationship with God we should feel the same.
21Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
But, that is not the end of receiving the Holy Spirit. In our acceptance of Jesus as Lord and Savior, St. Paul tells us that we too receive the Holy Spirit!
6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neitherindeed can be .8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if anyman have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christfrom the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.12Therefore , brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die : but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live .14For as many (us) as are led by the Spirit of God, they (we) are the sons of God.15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry , Abba, Father.16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
God and Jesus, truly loves us so very much to provide to each and every one of us the Holy Spirit, God Spirit's. He predicted this for the disciples and the Holy Spirit comes also to us. We receive the Holy Spirit when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
The Holy Spirit dwells within us to guide us, comfort us, and help us each and everyday, just as it did with the disciples. We seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit through our humble prayers, seeking to live as Christ lived and taught, and the feeling of being nudged in certain directions, sometimes new to us. We understand Jesus better though Bible Study and prayers. This, all because of the Holy Spirit's Guidance giving us Wisdom in our vision of the Holy Scriptures.
So, it is clear, God and Jesus wants a relationship with His children. In accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior we receive the Holy Spirit! In our humility of humble prayers and Bible study we know Them better. In our prayers we further demonstrate our faith and Trust in God/Jesus, and in those prayers we seek our Personal Relationship with with Them.
But truly in our prayers daily, in our Relationship with God and Jesus be become more open to the Guidance of the Holy Spirit.
If you have to, go out of your way and Spend Time with God. To fully feel the Guidance of the Holy Spirit, Pray and Pray and Pray ....... EVERYDAY, ..... OFTEN EVERYDAY. In praying often everyday, you will soon learn, it is not out of your way to Spend Time with God.
Prayer, done right in humility, will truly most assuredly change your life.
Finally, One more thought: We have Prayer, Bible Study, and the Holy Spirit to help us and lead us in our Personal Relationship with God and Jesus. One more element does exists to help us. Find a Worship Experience, commonly know as a church, that has preaching, prayer, and Bible Study that leads to and outwardly speaks of a Personal Relationship with God.
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* John 16: 5-16
5 "Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief.7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.12 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.14He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.15All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.16"In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me."
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The bend in the road ahead often is just God hiding new vistas to our thoughts and vision of what life is for us. We have to travel the road in faith until we get to the next bend to really know what He has for us. As we find the bend we see the blessings ahead in His plan for us. But, we must travel the road. Often there are forks in the road. 
