No man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him (or her :-)
No man can come to the Son unless the Father draws him
John 6:44
I wanted to take you on a brief journey of how I got to know God and how it relates to me sitting and writing this today….. bear with me for a few minutes because all will be revealed at the end!
It’s been a long journey finally accepting God in my life and I guess looking back it’s a testimony to just how patient He is! In 2000 I decided to start a new business and I wondered what to call it. Sitting there on my bed the name “Inspirational Guidance” was given to me and I loved it. At that time I didn’t put the fact that I was “given” the name down to God but now I know in my heart it was. When my friends heard the name alot of them said it sounded “religious” or “something to do with God” and I never saw it that way (because if I had I would have never used it) and kept it.
Then two years ago God sent a man to talk to me about Him through a business networking group and when the man asked me “Do you believe that Jesus died for our sins” I said I didn’t and he never contacted me again. I decided if that is what being a Christian is about I will leave it thank you!
All the time I was searching for something and thought I would find it in things and people but it just wasn’t working.
At the beginning of this year 2008 I had a good friend who kept inviting me to church but I just didn’t want to go. In fact the thought of going to church filled me with physical dread. I was literally scared about walking into a church! She kept asking and I kept saying I will but never made it.
Then around April this year my inner voice asked me “Do you think you are doing what you are here to do?” – at the time I was working towards financial success (and making a complete mess of it) and during meditation it was revealed to me that I had forgotten my spiritual beliefs and needed to come back to them. I made a promise to the universe that I would do what ever I was told to (because thats what you do when you’re in trouble…. 
). I always believed in a higher power just never associated it to God. I believed mainly in the angels and using them.
In June this year I was given my first bible (well my second… I bought one years ago and then got rid of it) and the women who handed it to me told me that God had a plan for me that will be revealed. At the time I smiled nicely and thanked her for the gift. She encouraged me to go home and just talk out loud to God…. which I must say I still have not been able to achieve yet! Not sure why I find it so difficult but for now I do. I found myself really wanting to know more and asking her alot of questions. I was ready to look into who God was for me.
Around the same time I decided I was too fabulous be to single and joined a dating site.
In August 2008 someone handed me a postcard about an event. I looked at it ….. saw church and ignored it. At the bus stop my inner voice was loud in my ear telling me to look down at what I had been handed. It was a weekend event at a church and I decided to go. I have been attending twice a week ever since (I’ve missed a few but not many). A few weeks after being introduced to Jesus Christ I also meet a man through the dating site and suddenly my feeling of something missing disappeared and I felt fulfillment but I could never work out was it God or the man because they both came along at the same time.
Well four months later the man is no longer in my life and I am still feeling fulfilled and full of joy. Nothing that is happening in my life is able to affect me because I have faith and a wonderful feeling of serenity. I have been reading my bible and learning about God’s laws. If you look at when I started writing about my journey on this blog I complain about the law of “no sex before marriage” and yet now I am willing to accept that – not because I have been told to but because I have a love for God that makes me want to. Its a personal choice.
When I prayed I felt nothing and now I pray with reverence knowing I am in the presence of the Almighty but also with a true feeling of love in my heart for God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
And now I come full circle and have decided to dedicate more of Inspirational Guidance towards knowing, learning about and loving God. Not that I am any kind of expert. I can only teach what I learn myself and by sharing it my aim is to connect with others who believe and perhaps plant a seed in those who are searching.
Even in these few short months I have learnt and experienced the power of God within me and it would be wrong of me not to share that with you. This is NOT about religion but about a relationship. It’s also not about “hell fire” preaching telling you that you will go to hell unless you believe in Jesus. It’s about experiencing the love, joy and peace that fills deep within you when you have the guided by the Holy spirit.
I don’t believe I have any answers for you right now but I do believe I can be used as a link to bring you towards wanting to know more. It was by accepting Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit that teachings have now been made available to me to raising my awareness. Church has been a place to be uplifted from praising Him and listening to the Pastor (who’s excellent). I also love the sense of love and community I have experienced from attending but ultimately most of what I have learnt has come because I ask God for wisdom and guidance.
I have now made the decision that in 2009 my blogging will become more God focused.
At first I worried about how my current readers will react because after all many of you are here to read about personal development but even the areas I write in likeknowing yourself, “Discovering Greatness” and finding passion and purpose I understand that without God they will never truly be fulfilled.
For those who receive this via email of course you are free to unsubscribe (the link is at the end) so you no longer hear from me because as I end 2008 and begin 2009 my faith in and love of God compels me to share it online and as always I will share honestly, using examples from my life and with no other intent but to support the discovery of your greatness.
Peter 4:14
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
This morning during prayer I asked for forgiveness about the fact that I had put being worried about upsetting my readers before God. I still have no idea what the future holds and where this journey is taking me but I have complete faith in God’s vision for my life and whatever will happen next.
If you haven’t signed up for my free eCourse “Discovering Greatness Experiencing Joy” I encourage you to do that if you have a desire to learn how to tap into the best of what is within you and experience true joy (not short term happiness)
