Q&A for How to Have a Personal Relationship With God (Christianity)

Talk to God regularly through prayer. A Christian should “pray without ceasing.” Begin your day with focused prayer, continue to pray in your heart as you perform your activities of the day, take breaks throughout the day to speak directly to God in prayer, and retire to bed with another time of prayer. Your conversation with God never ends.

Dedicate a portion of your day to invest in reading and memorizing Scripture, prayer, and journaling about your faith. Consider becoming part of a community in which you pray and worship with others who share your faith and provide mutual encouragement to focus upon God. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, look for a place of Christian service.

The only way you will get away from temptation is to ask God for help. God wants you to stay with him. When you feel pulled in the direction of your temptation, read the Bible and pray to God instead.

While you are out walking, that is the best time to pray and at school or work. Take breaks and pray or read the Bible. Write your feelings about God in a faith journal. Meet with other believers and talk about the everlasting future you're all promised.

The best way is to try a Bible study plan.

God's word is in the Bible. Read it as much as you can and continue praying. God will reveal Himself to you!

Pray every day to communicate better with God, then listen to the "little voice" in your head. That's God speaking to you.

God gave us free will. Because of that, people can do anything they want. This is what makes faith, prayer, and redemption such powerful things. If we were all good, God's grace wouldn't mean as much. We wouldn't need it.

No, of course not. All you need to do is accept Jesus Christ into your heart.

Satan wants to stop you from worshiping God and he will throw everything at you to stop you.

Simply by just doing what is said in the Bible. Sin may not be 100% avoidable, but God's forgiveness is unending, so you can always find redemption from any sins.

Yes, perhaps, but it can be a good start. Sometimes God can use our pain to catch our attention and turn something bad into something good. Finding faith is not just a one-time action; it's a journey -- a slow growing change which can take a lifetime.

All you have to do is just ask Him, and He will be with you. Also, try to be as spiritually active as you can.

The Bible assumes the existence of God from the very first verse: Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning GOD created..." If you're not fond of the creation account and Genesis 1-11, there is always the first verse of Genesis 12, "The LORD had said to Abram..." God is found throughout the whole Bible; the Bible is His very book. It is hard to say God is NOT found in the Bible.

Spiritual prayers can be made when someone moves beyond their temptations and avoids sin or when Jesus blesses someone spiritual because of their true faith. Try either of these and make the most of your spiritual prayers.

In the Bible (Luke 11:29), it discourages believers from seeking for a sign. "As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah." You will never know, but God's word has shown disapproval for proving faith through signs.

Jesus never rejects anyone. He loves you. If you seek him with honesty, he will come to you. Just pray with humility and openness, and he will show you his love.

Satan will always be at you, trying to pull you away from God. His goal is for you to burn in Hell. Stay strong, pray daily, and read the Bible. You can even have your friends join you for prayers or a Bible study. This will help you stay strong against Satan.

It is. Praying is a direct interaction with God. Those who want to have more depth in their relationship, they try more things, like being as kind and forgiving as Him, doing the right thing as He spoke in the Bible, loving everyone because God is love. The less evil your actions are, the better you live.

Someone can believe in God by seeing that when they are sad or lost, they feel like someone is guiding them and giving them strength. It is spiritually felt. Each one has their own experiences. It cannot be forced. Like hunger - you eat when you are hungry, and others can't force-feed you and expect you to happily accept it. Some people experience God so they believe in Him.

God speaks in silence. He speaks in a still, quiet voice, as is mentioned in the Bible. It is good that you seek the true God and the truth. It will come if you are already called to it. Remember that God has His ways of relaying what is right for you. However, you must let it come. Instead of being busy and running after things, try to spend your days with a settled mind that is a clear slate ready to take what God puts on it. God spoke with people in the Bible, like Abraham when he was about to sacrifice his son, Mary when she was to be told of her virgin birth, Moses, when he was about to step on the holy ground. Likewise, be doing what is good or spiritual and He will take His time to talk.

In a way, it is better to not touch and see. We hardly speak what we want and do what we desire. Being ourselves is difficult. When we have God, whom we can't see (judge) like we do others, we see a listener who is always available. He is not biased. However, we know that He needs us to be just. Try to see it like He wants you to see and you might open up to the ways of God and not of man.

It is very simple. When tragedy strikes, if you believe that you will come out of it fine and you don't accept feelings of failure or anger against God, then you know that you have put your full trust in God.

A total surrender is something that God may or may not seek. When the rich man asked Jesus what he needed to do, Jesus told him to sell his wealth. He was rich and returned disappointed. Try not to do whatever you want to do. Try instead to ask God what He wants you to do. This way, you surrender yourself to His will and shoulder a cause that fulfills an incomplete mission. To do that, you can pray and wait for God to reply in His own time. Until then, you can follow His footsteps and be spiritual by being a good neighbor and helpful person in society.

As a Christian, you can pray with your family whenever you do or in the Church with brothers and sisters. Praying is an interaction with God that doesn't rely on location. Doing so with family and friends or brothers and sisters makes an environment of love and God's grace. It helps build lives and create a feeling of His blessings reaching us as a unified unit. It binds us in His infinite love. You can talk about God and share experiences together. You can do it whenever you want.

A relationship brings awareness. If you live in a community with all the wealth you need, however you don't value it because you have no idea how others are in need of it, you will live without any feelings. Having a relationship with God brings you what you need to feel emotions and feel more alive. Without it, there is a lingering feeling of being lost or having no purpose. We need it more than God needs us.

Did you ever feel you are with a friend, yet didn't get the kind of attention that they could have given? It is not necessary that your idea of being close to God is right. Perhaps you are looking with an attitude that could use some molding. Soften your heart and talk to God in prayers and during long meditative interactions. The way that believers are given to talk to God is for a reason, one that God deems right. Try asking God to be your friend. He will interact and give you what you need. You need to wait and see.

You can start a prayer journal and write down the things you want to tell him. Sooner or later things will happen in your life that make it clear God's listening to the things you write down.

Yes we are all children of God because he made us. But our actions determine whether we go to heaven or not. If we turn our backs on God we'll go to hell even though we're still God's children.

There is absolutely influence from the writers. You can research the ways the Bible has been intentionally mistranslated. But one thing remains the same- God is love and he loves you.