How do I connect with God?

Your faith journey begins when you connect with God in a real and meaningful way. Many people know a lot about God, but they fail to truly know Him. You and I long for an experience with God. As normal people, it's one thing to be aware of God's love, but until we truly experience that love, we'll never really understand it.

Connecting with God is about experiencing His love.

When we go through hard times, difficult situations, it’s an opportunity to connect with God, to experience his presence: active and real. There are other ways to experience God's love, but it's the difficult times that remind us that we need God most.

When we are faced with life's storms, we have the great opportunity to allow God to lift us up by his mighty hand. The challenge is to ride this spiritual lift and not return to where we were in our spiritual journey before those ugly events find their way into our life.

Connecting with God is all about the awareness of God’s presence in our life, his persistent badgering with love, mercy and grace.

The challenge for you is to look for God all the time however. Don’t wait for the awful times. Those will come and require other strength and connectivity. Do it now. Where is God? How is he showing up in your life right now? Are you looking for Him? Are you aware of Him?

God is never not there. Sometimes we just fail to make the connection.

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