Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Connecting with God outside of "Church"

I often wonder why I have such a powerful connection with God outside of “church”. When I am driving my car to/from work or when I am cleaning/hanging in my room the worship that I have is enough to move mountains. However, if you were to spot me in church on Sunday morning, I’m as quiet as a mouse. Corporate prayer and study has never been my thing. I find to many eyes are doing Gods job. Watching and judging. It’s quite distracting. I know that getting the word is essential to my spiritual health but everything around it, I could do without. I love hearing and having God open my mind to understand his word. I pray that everyone experiences this with God. What I have come to realize is that the “church” is not a building or a gathering. The church is literally every individual. You are your church. If you purposely spend time with God, he can, wants and will reveal wonders of his word to you. I will so say, that it is good to fellowship- Jesus said, where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there with you [Matt 18:20] . But there is something about being alone with just God that is indescribable.  I find that even in the bible Jesus often went away to pray to the father alone, Abraham received the word alone, Moses received the commandments alone, David went against Goliath alone and so on. All alone physically but with God spiritually.


Maybe I have a strange relationship with God. To me, God is not just some figure in the sky or some distant being in my mind. God is real to me. When I speak, I know that he hears and answers. He comforts and protects. He guides and corrects. God is real to me. I guess it’s a good thing after all to have such a powerful connection to God outside of church. Someone once said that church is the climax of your week with God. All week you seek his presence, you worship, praise and pray. You build up so much during the week that when you gather with other fellow believers who have been doing the same, it is an explosion of glory to God on Sunday. Now, unfortunately for me, I haven't quite gotten the Sunday climax thing down. I'm still struggling a bit. Help me pray on this folks! I don't think the church is looking for seat warmers on Sundays. 

Love ya to Peace,
Faith.Loves 

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