Do you feel the presence of God in your life?

[Ella Spell]

I don't feel any emotions physically. I have problems with Interoception. I can barely tell if I'm hungry or thirsty, sleepy or awake. I can't tell if there's a feeling of "God" around me whether he / she exists or not. My mind can feel peace and serenity. I can feel hope. That's good enough for me.

 

[vrmm]

Do you feel God's power and presence each day?
Or only when u pray?
Do you feel like He loves you for people who believe and you can seek refuge and comfort in Him?

Or do you get it from Jesus?

I am not inclined towards feeling God's power and presence, in my daily life.

I do not pray.
But I need to be mindful about what I think, act, speak - always. Because in my experience, it is my mindfulness that helps me.
In a day, there are times when I am mindful, and times when I am mindless.

Frankly, I don't have a clarity about God and His ways, except what I was told by my parents and others.
But, I believe there is a Higher Force beyond me.

I believe - as and when there arises a need in me to know that Higher Force (if it ever arises), I should yearn to know the Force - by my own experience, instead of blindly believing in what others say.

 

[LadyS]

I'm more agnostic. Can't say for certain the existence or nonexistence either way therefore won't swing my beliefs either way.

But I do feel a presence of something, but cannot say with certainty what it is, nor do I feel the need to give it a name, label, or term. Some things cannot be interpreted into concrete language I think.

 

[GrownupGirl]

No.

 

[kazmen17]

I can say with certainty he has touched my life. I may not have liked church or Sunday school but I did decide around 10 years ago I believed in him. I thought about it on a rainy day during a two-hour bus ride and realized it was what I believed. Over the next few years, I struggled intensely with interpersonal relationships, drugs, and alcohol to the point where I thought my life was over. Then at my worst moment, when I felt I was really going to die where I was trapped beneath fluorescent lights, sobbing, and throwing up he called to me. In a way I had never experienced before I didn't feel alone like before; psalms came flooding back to me that I hadn't read since my early teens at best. After this I had some personal miracles happen to me and my family, including having an incredibly supportive and patient stepfather who took the time to teach me, care for me, and love me like I was his own flesh and blood.

This man supported me through the hardest trials of my life because of his faith and compassion. His last words to me were that he loved me. He was truly a man of God and a force of good in this world who provided for those in need and was gentle, kind, and actually walked the walk. Even though he's gone now, I feel his hands picking me up and dusting me off telling me everything is going to be okay. He didn't have to do anything for me. He didn't have to help, but he did anyone, and he changed the trajectory of my life substantially. I believed in God before this man entered life but I sure as heck do even more now. I understand this is all anecdotal, but for me, this is a shaping force in my life because he did this not only because some "magic sky Daddy" told him to but because he thought it was the right thing to do. It's because of him that I want to help others and advocate where I can. I want to bring more good into this world than I take out - even if it's just my small corner of the world that I can make better.

 

[VAW]

I can say with certainty he has touched my life. I may not have liked church or Sunday school but I did decide around 10 years ago I believed in him. I thought about it on a rainy day during a two-hour bus ride and realized it was what I believed. Over the next few years, I struggled intensely with interpersonal relationships, drugs, and alcohol to the point where I thought my life was over. Then at my worst moment, when I felt I was really going to die where I was trapped beneath fluorescent lights, sobbing, and throwing up he called to me. In a way I had never experienced before I didn't feel alone like before; psalms came flooding back to me that I hadn't read since my early teens at best. After this I had some personal miracles happen to me and my family, including having an incredibly supportive and patient stepfather who took the time to teach me, care for me, and love me like I was his own flesh and blood.

This man supported me through the hardest trials of my life because of his faith and compassion. His last words to me were that he loved me. He was truly a man of God and a force of good in this world who provided for those in need and was gentle, kind, and actually walked the walk. Even though he's gone now, I feel his hands picking me up and dusting me off telling me everything is going to be okay. He didn't have to do anything for me. He didn't have to help, but he did anyone, and he changed the trajectory of my life substantially. I believed in God before this man entered life but I sure as heck do even more now. I understand this is all anecdotal, but for me, this is a shaping force in my life because he did this not only because some "magic sky Daddy" told him to but because he thought it was the right thing to do. It's because of him that I want to help others and advocate where I can. I want to bring more good into this world than I take out - even if it's just my small corner of the world that I can make better.

I loved reading your story! In my life I searched for God through churches because I felt there would be ONE church that was the Right church and there I would find God. but while searching I remembered an old verse in the bible that said "God isn't in any man-made temple, don't you know YOU are the temple" God lives through us, and those who make this world a better place through their love and kindness. Those who care about other people and not only themselves. Your stepdad sounded like he had the spirit of God inside, and that is what makes the difference in other people's lives. It changes the bad into the good.

 

[Boogs]

As a life long atheist, I can definitely say I've felt the presence of god in my life.
It's there in the buzz of electrons around every nucleus in the universe. It's there in the wind through the trees.
It's there in the replication of dna in all my cells. It's there in the heart of a black hole, and the foaming mass of creation and destruction of virtual particles in empty space. There in the rotten corpse of roadkill in the gutter. It's in the microwave background echo of the big bang, and in the guy begging in the street. It's in the ever changing biosphere, and the sterile centre of the planet. It's the love and hate in every heart.

It's in me and in you, and we are it, for there's no separation between us and god, we are all expression of the same thing. Without us there is and can be no god. God is a symbol unique to our species, and like all symbols, every single one, each has it's own unique meaning to each and every one of us. For many, they believe in being part of a group that believes in the idea of the same god for all, but that is a belief of humans, of and for humans. God of the individual is something far more sublime and beautiful, for it can be everything and anything, and a true reflection of that person, but never touch anyone else, and maybe that's the beauty of innocence.

But it's also a god of silence, for there are no true words for it, descriptions built of words are a poor tool to express the concept. No combined attempt to glory in it can possibly produce anything but horror, only internal contemplation can do it justice, and in the end, it's nature makes it implicit, and while it's appreciation may enrich some, it's unnecessary to acknowledge it's existence, and futile to try except within oneself, for nothing of that nature can be passed on to another, only a poor copy results at best. Only the concept, the symbol; for each of us, we create our own god and when we die it's dies with us.
I've never seen anything supernatural in any religion, only the face of humans, for better and for worse.

 

[AprilR]

Yes i do. If God did not exist i would not have experienced my best days of this life. Because i trusted in God i was helped

 

[kenaij]

Do you feel God's power and presence each day? Not each day, but when I do think about God it feels like a very nice memory. Or something that has happened or will happen. Much like the feeling of Deja Vu.
Or only when u pray? I don`t pray in the classical sense. I used to think when I talked to myself I was talking to God. But these days I realise it is probably just my autism. Still feels kind of nice someone might be listening.
Do you feel like He loves you for people who believe and you can seek refuge and comfort in Him? Tough question. It is not love in the sense that my parents, wife or children love me. So I really cannot say.

Or do you get it from Jesus? For me, the term Jesus is god's on is a little different than for most. I don`t see the bible as true stories, more like stories you can take lessons from. Whatever they may be. So to me, when they say Jesus is god's son. I see it more like. We are 'technically' all children from God according to the bible. Why we call Jesus seperatly as a son of God is because the way he lived his life is an example of how we should. That is why he is a 'true' son/child of God. And if we follow his ideas we can also become 'true' children of god. He was a human who was an example. Much like Buddah was for Budism. It think that is the most accurate example I can think of.

 

[undertheradar]

We are human beings... It will be sometimes that we feel very alone, even from God.. this do not mean that he's not right there with us, it is merely our perception That changes... God on the other hand never changes

 

[Captain Caveman]

Do you feel God's power and presence each day?
Or only when u pray?
Do you feel like He loves you for people who believe and you can seek refuge and comfort in Him?

Or do you get it from Jesus?

Yes.

 

[SPEED RACER]

Do you feel God's power and presence each day?
Or only when u pray?
Do you feel like He loves you for people who believe and you can seek refuge and comfort in Him?

Or do you get it from Jesus?

Yes when I got baptised it was powerful.

 

[NB79]

God presence can be quenched by sins, it means it can diminish in us if we sin, that why lots of christians are against what the bible calls sins, because it dirts your soul and body and corrupts, and quenches God, Jesus promised to be with us when we gather, i feel Gods presence in the reunions i go, and i keep it all week.

There was a low in my life, when i didn't seek of God much, and it had spiritual consequences on me.
If we want to keep His presence, we should stay in contact with Him through prayer etc, and going to a good church.

 

[emi00PM]

Do you feel God's power and presence each day?
Or only when u pray?
Do you feel like He loves you for people who believe and you can seek refuge and comfort in Him?

Or do you get it from Jesus?

I do from all of this. That’s the power of having a personal relationship with the one most high and almighty.

 

[Rachie]

Do you feel God's power and presence each day?
Or only when u pray?
Do you feel like He loves you for people who believe and you can seek refuge and comfort in Him?

Or do you get it from Jesus?

I've been a Christian for decades now, but i'll just and keep this mainly about my here and now.

I feel God's power just by seeing it through creation. I feel connected to God when I do pray. God hasn't always answered all of my prayers in my life though. God answers what is his will and I think that God has surely supported me by answering those that was of God's will.

I feel comforted by the Holy Spirit by it's presence. I feel as well God's prescence by him upholding promises in my life and walking with me through my life.

There have been times I haven't attended church were I was walking with my faith. There have been times I have been to unwell or in hospital and I wonder I don't know for sure if I didn't go at some points as I didn't want healing for some conditions and some people made it a high priority in my life. That didn't seem to work for me. Now I have been walking my own path and I have been attending an Anglican church now for quite some time, a service that works for me. I am non denominational but have found a local service that works for me.

I feel extra connected to Jesus and the Holy Sprit through church. The Bible says Jesus is the body of the Church. I feel more connected to Jesus by taking his sacraments which are blessed. I have taken some sacraments and have had rapid improvements, even by just leaving have noticed some to my medical health. Some work with oil sometimes has taken a little bit longer to work. I see Sunday as a Holy day that I can best honour in church if i can . By doing the will of Jesus as well I feel connected to him.

 

[Rachie]

I should may be add as well, just before I started attending this church I attended another one in my area. I had to stop attending. I felt like the service was too long for me at this point in my life. I stopped going because I felt not comfortable having to stim as much I was in there and it didn't seem appreciated by those who attended with me, which made me not feel comfortable. I didn't like it really as well if I attended I was coming in after service to try and reduce the length. The service I go to now is pretty much an express service which I do like attending if I can for the reasons I gave in an earlier post. It is close to me as well, I feel fortunate with that.

There may be something in it for me as well as I attended Catholic schools and mass growing up in school. So I was familiar as well like getting the sacraments at church wasn't exactly new to me as well.

At 17 in church I should note as well that I observed what was going on in a church as well, I don't want to unpack that more here. Critically for me though I had personal experience how other things could be santificied at church. So may be this all has made me more open to what could take place with the sacraments. It might be the case additionally for me.

To answer another one of your questions. In my life I feel that God really has upheld me more than I have given him to this point. I didn't ask for the gift of the Sprit that has been given to me. It was freely given to me. I haven't really looked into it for others much. It seems though I like to do things naturally when I can that develop my spiritual growth.

I try not to overwhelm myself as well.

 

[Kaz2012]

None, not really

I feel like she hates me and has completely abandoned me

Totally agree - feeling the same way. Just keep getting kicked in the head by life over and over....if there was an all powerful god, who cared for their creation they would have long ago stepped in to do something about the awful state of the world and all the evil horrible people in it - even just to save this beautiful planet and all the innocent species humanity is destroying. If they are all powerful and have not stepped in then they are a cruel worthless piece of crap who deserves no respect or worship.

 

[jsilver256]

I don't know if I "feel" the personal presence of Jesus in the way others emotionally describe it. My relationship with Jesus seems to be mostly like my relationships to my other loved ones - somewhat intellectual and expressed through actions on both ends.

However there is definitely ways which Jesus has knocked me off a pedestal only to have it miraculously work out for the better.

I was knocked out of a job, and project for political reasons. I can't identify this project without identifying myself, but due to my expertise, I am one of maybe 5 people in the world qualified to deliver it. And it would help hundreds of thousands. My team and I tried to prioritize this at my company, but got caught up in political BS and my team could never work on it.

When I got kicked out for highly discriminatory reasons, I knew exactly why that had happened. I had made the project my idol. I thought I was the only one who could finish it and help others, but the truth is Jesus never needed me. If he wants the project to be finished, he will get it done no matter what.

After that began an year long journey of burnout, etc. Much of my team got laid off in the ensuing months because they were too vocal on my behalf and kept complaining.

To make a long story short, we banded together, pooled our money together, got the project started again. This is not as easy as it sounds - if any one of a zillion things had happened, it would have been impossible to restart the project. For instance, we had a shelf of 50 patents ready to go, but the lawyer who was in charge of filing went on maternity leave a week before she filed them! If these patents had been filed, then the project would have died.

Now, it's looking like we will deliver it several years ahead of time, faster than if I had never been laid off. So many steps in that were a true "action in motion" of Jesus.

 

[Neri]

A lot of people are so conditioned by religion and beliefs and past trauma, and "God" being "ineffable" is not comprehendable for our human minds.
But, if anything might nutshell it, it is ""God" is Love.

"Love" allows, love does not dictate, so we are free to make our own choices, and thus many people behaving like sullen teenagers, wanting "God" (their parents or governments also, if they believe in nothing of a spiritual nature) to make life easier for them, thus depriving them from having to grow up and behave with maturity, and developing wisdom, and then they get resentful, because life on earth is very challenging and indeed, growthful.

Love is something we cultivate and develop in our own hearts and when we love "The All" aka "God" we are rewarded with a tangible experience of "God" or you could call it other things, "Enlightenment", "Grace" "Awakening" "Spiritual Maturity", "Oneness" "interconnectedness" connecting with your "Higher Self" your "Guides"(Jesus/Yeshua being a primary one for many of us "Westerners" or then there is Mary, she is also very loving, wise and kind and accessible if you call out to her in your heart).

You don't need "middlemen" but some are further along on their spiritual journey and can be a source of inspiration and encouragement.

In the early days of the Christian Faith "The Holy Spirit" (which also translates as Holy "Breath") was also known as "Sophia" and was considered the feminine aspect of the trinity but the Roman's stripped the feminine out of the faith, other than a mention of Mary, but not a complete feminine deity as she was worshipped as a Virgin mother, which is not attainable for actual human females, thus remaining disempowering for us women.

This is a deliberate ploy as the Romans were concerned with power and politics, not true spirituality, thus many people's lens of "God" is colored by disempowering political history and "middlemen", who would usurp your birthright and spiritual inheritance of direct contact and ability to have a relationship with any and all aspects of the divine Spiritual "kingdom" which includes Angels, ArchAngels, God as loving Father AND Mother, Jesus/Yeshua, Mother Mary, and a host of other Ascended hosts that number in many multitudes.

 

[MNAus]

I find the concept of the calculated universe plausible. And as such that we are all part of the same single expression is something I find positive. It means that everything is as alive as I am and I don't need to worry about my own perception ending, because I'm just part of a larger whole that continues through every atom in the universe.