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Getting to know something of God, means we need to listen to God’s teachings in private and learn to have personal fellowship with God. Traditionally Israel went to the temple to communicate with God. Where is the temple today? The Apostle Paul tells us: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 2 Corinthians 6:16 KJV

Considering then that we are God’s temple today, we need to access our temple body in fellowshipping and communicating with God.

Jesus says, “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:6 KJV To do this (in our private closet or room, our private space), we must empty our minds of all thoughts of worldly things. Having entered this closet, this private space to communicate with God, consciously exclude all other thoughts, as if listening intently to the fading of the sound from a bell until there is total silence. This secret space in your mind becomes uncluttered from the things of the world; this is your private, most holy place, creating a place to go to, to find God; the only place where you can be at peace with God and find quiet unity.

At first it seems like nothing is happening but stay with it and in the space of only two weeks of daily meditational practice, you will find a spiritual closeness to God. Don’t try to force anything, you’re just creating an empty space of empty quietness, called empty mind. 

Now imagine, in this personal quiet space, God offering fellowship to you – you’re in the presence of God. God accepts you through Jesus Anointed. You can’t see God but try to feel the presence and nearness of God in the darkness of your inner space, your Holy place. Feel the unity and oneness with God. Here is where you meet with God in this inner space. Here is where your table of fellowship exists. 

Imagine a table in the midst of this inner space where you can place all your cares and woes, and pour out your failures and receive only love and forgiveness. Communicate with Him. There is no condemnation for honest open confession. When we understand honest, repentant confession before God cancels all sin and guilt, we realise that we now have strength to overcome our anxieties, for it was our sense of guilt that kept us unsure and in prison. Sometimes you may only want to be here, in unity with the oneness of God, resting in the arms of God away from the world, to be at perfect peace. 

When finished, and with practice, you will find a personal relationship with God. 

People talk about it but rarely if ever tell you how to obtain it.

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* NKJ Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

* The Message 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it’s not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so. God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it—What God has arranged for those who love him.

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This translation of Matthew 5:3-12 resonates with me.

3 “You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. 4 “You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you. 5 “You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are—no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought. 6 “You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat. 7 “You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘care-full,’ you find yourselves cared for. 8 “You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. 9 “You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family. 10 “You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom. 11-12 “Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable. You can be glad when that happens—give a cheer, even!—for though they don’t like it, I do! And all heaven applauds. And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble.  (The Message)

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