Encounters With GOD (Part 1)

The most direct encounter with God is the entrance of His Spirit into one who believes in His Son.  From that moment on, the believer's body becomes the very home of the Spirit of God.  God in you. Always.  God with you.  Always.

The next kind of divine encounter is indirect.  If you don't believe in God's Son, your encounter of Him is in one who does believe.  God in him.  Always.  God in her.  Always.  God through him and her to you and with you.  Of course, it's better to have God in you.  But until you do, connect with those who do.

After this, the Spirit inspired scriptures bring one to the very voice of God.  Interestingly enough, this encounter is like the second encounter, indirect.  (Because indeed, THE BIBLE IS NOT GOD.)  You encounter the Spirit of God in Moses, the prophets, and the apostles.  The encounter of God in scripture IS indirect.  It is a means to the end, BUT NOT THE END.

One also experiences the eternal power and divine nature of the Creator in His creation.  This experience is so clear that one is without excuse, according to the Apostle Paul.  In creation and conscience, according to Paul, one knows without excuse the origin of creation and the Law Maker behind all moral law.

Yet the most direct encounter with God is the experience of Jesus.  The Lord Jesus said, "For this cause I was born.  For this cause I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth.  All who are of the truth hear my voice."

It is also written, "The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth."

Therefore, according to these scriptures, if you want to directly encounter God, or even indirectly encounter Him, one thing is necessary:  TOTAL HONESTY.  If you come to him hiding nothing, knowing that nothing is hidden from Him, and you welcome transparency before him, you will encounter the God who is light, and in whom there is no darkness at all.  Notice, to hear the voice of the Lord, according to Jesus Himself, one must be "of the truth."  Indeed, the Spirit of God is called the "Spirit of truth.  The Apostle John said the Spirit is truth.  Again, Jesus prayed that God would set His followers apart by truth, defining God's word as truth.

So, to hear the voice of God, one must be committed to absolute honesty. 
As Jesus said, "All who are of the truth hear my voice." 
If a person pursues utter vulnerability and transparency, he or she will encounter God.

Therefore, to experience God directly (or indirectly) is up to you.
Let me know if you do, or if you want to.

P.S.  In case you missed them and want to read them, here are my books:
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The Mind of Christ
Is it Possible to Live without Sin

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Christian Spirituality

The Devil in my living room (Day 3)

(All of the days are true stories.  Days 1, 2, and 3, are true stories.)

We returned from "street ministry."  

We felt it.

We heard it.

A sound like a woman screaming a rebel yell from hell,

The roar of an insane freight train,

The howl of a wind wolf,
We knew intuitively:

Satan was coming.

We both intuitively felt him and knew his approach. 

What could we do?

Go to sleep?

We went to sleep.

I dreamed this dream:

In the dream I awoke to a mist of demonic darkness.

I went to my brother's room and opened his door. 

His eyes shown in demonic red.    

I fled.

I opened my door and flew from the floor.

Satan threw me.

I awoke, and real life became as it was in my dream. 

My eyes opened to what I saw in my sleep.    

As in the dream, I went to my brother's room. 

BUT UNLIKE THE DREAM,

THE DOOR WAS LOCKED.

"What am I supposed to do?"  I asked my brother.

"Pray."  He said.  "I'm praying with you."

Jesus,

I can't handle Satan.

Please help me.

I felt a courage like the courage of a day in a memory from my childhood. 

It felt the confidence one has in the knowledge of one's own name. 

I no longer feared the evil one. 

I walked to my living room and faced the veiled enemy of all enemies.

I ROARED THE ROAR OF A LION.

"I FOREVER REJECT YOU SATAN.

TO GOD'S SPIRIT ALONE I GIVE MY SUBMISSION."

Satan left.

I stood victorious in Jesus.

I went to my brother and told him my dream.

He told me what happened behind his locked door:

The Spirit had instructed him to lock the door and pray for me.

I said, "Look at this."

Chi moved my body.

My body yielded to Chi.

He said, "That looks like the flow of Tai Chi."

I told him about the ability the Spirit gave me.....  

  

    

THE WIND of Chi in me (day 2)

I gave my hands and body to the Wind of God, the Breath of the One.

My hands belonged to the Spirit.  The Spirit moved my hands.

Circles.

Flowing spheres of peace and invisible power.

I stood and moved as He moved me with Chi.

Chi moved my body.

My body and will yielded to Chi.

 The Spirit filled me and gave me a new ability.

I went to do "street ministry."

Some physically sought to hinder truth being heard and felt.

I invited them to spar.  They accepted.

Chi moved my body.

My body and will yielded to Chi.

I yielded to the chi of each of my sparring adversaries.

My Chi moved their bodies
Their bodies and wills yielded to my Chi..  

A brother watched me being moved by Chi and asked me,

"How long have you studied?"

"I haven't.  God gave me ability."

Today, I move and I am moved.  

as it is written,

"Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle."

The SPIRIT in my room (day 1)

I FELT  Him.

He covered my body like a blanket of peace.

THE SUPREME ULTIMATE came to my room when I confessed trust in Jesus.

I FELT Him AGAIN.

Before I spoke words of life to my classmates on graduation day,

I FELT the SPIRIT OF GOD falling on my head like an invisible waterfall of POWER. 

I spoke in the silence of pure attention given by men and women listening to THE TAO.

THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE SPOKE TO THEM THROUGH ME.

Standing ovations for the Lord of creation at the end.

Jesus came to my graduation.

Ask all who attended.

I AM A SLAVE OF THE WIND

I am Olatunde. 
Pronounced: 
Ola--like HELLO in Spanish.  TOON--like CARTOON.  DAY--like FriDAY."  ola-TOON-day!!

I am a son of God the Father, brother of God the Son, slave of God the Spirit, the Breath of God, the Wind of God. 

My purpose is to go wherever the Spirit of God leads me for his honor,
even if he leads me to my death. 

Wherever He is, I am. 

Wherever I am, He is. 

If you have met me, you have met the Spirit of God in me. 

I and the Spirit are one. 

God lives inside of me, living inside my body, flowing in the blood of my typing fingertips.  

I wrote two books and many blogs in three titles.  Read all of them or none of them, because all of them are in these words!

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Day one:  
Self-centered passion took me by the throat and choked me.  Before my last breath and meeting with death, I said, "I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He died for my sins."

Sin released me and evaporated.  God's Spirit covered me like a blanket.

Day two: 
I gave up.  My first wife left me.  My dream left with her.  I raised my hands and said to The Spirit, "I'LL FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU LEAD ME."  An invisible power moved my hands.  They moved in circles.  I moved with them.  Chi moved my body.  My will and body yielded to chi. 

Day three: 
Satan stood veiled in cloud in my living room. 

"What do I do?" 
"Pray," my brother said on the other side of the door. 

"Jesus, I can't handle Satan.  Please help me." 

Peace.  Stillness. Fearlessness became my new name.  I roared a new language, a proclamation to Satan and all demons:  I AM THE SPIRIT'S SLAVE.  TO HIM ALONE I YIELD.

Day Four: 

"What makes followers of Christ so powerless?"  I asked my brother.

"Power comes from God's Spirit.  It manifested in a new language with the first followers of Christ.  It manifests today in the same way.  Ask God's Spirit to fill you.  Thank Him for doing it.  Open your mouth and speak."

I asked God.  I thanked God.  I spoke a spiritual language from God.

Day Five:

I sang in a language received from heaven.  I then heard words from earth, these words from earth:

"I AM WITH YOU." 

As it was and is written by David, a man after God's own heart,

"The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me and His word was on my tongue."

God spoke through

and speaks through

my mind and my mouth. 

Being one with the Spirit,

my mind and mouth are His.

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