How Do You Connect With God?نموونە

You connect best with God through expression. When you express through creativity, you see your Creator and reflect His image. You feel the closest to God when you can commune with Him while creating something - whether through writing, drawing, painting, playing an instrument, dancing, filming, editing, styling, or anything creative. This is how you have a conversation with the Lord. You may create during your encounter with God or after you have heard from Him. When you create, you can slow down to hear God and catch the revelatory gifts He wants you to use to partner with Him. When you create, you can enter into freedom because you surrender yourself and your thoughts and can hear God’s voice. Because you are looking at the Lord when creating, intimacy is there. There is sanctity in knowing He has trusted you. There is surrender, communion, and a closeness that you experience when you are creating with the Lord that brings healing to your heart, fresh revelation, and innovative ideas and solutions. Creating can be a healing balm to you because your expression is an avenue of connection with the Holy Spirit where there can be an exchange of lies for His truth. This is how the Lord speaks to you in the way you will understand Him. You are reflecting the nature of your Creator when you express in creativity, so behold the Creator, and create.

Suggested Activities:

• You can be His expression when you know what is on His heart. In your daily encounters, seek His heart and mind by asking Him what He is saying and doing. Create from this space.
• Create a space to connect with God. Create an altar in your home where you can remove distractions to hear His voice and create from a blank canvas. Create a space that appeals to your 5 senses - sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. (i.e.light a candle, adjust the lighting, play music, etc.)
• Identify what creative outlet you need to be engaging in. This is how you respond to what you are hearing God say!
• Enter into your divine imagination. Don’t discredit the imagination that God has given you.
• Sometimes, you need to express yourself before entering into His presence so you can surrender and process with Him. Other times, you create after your daily personal encounter. Discover when you should create instead of resisting how you feel and how He is leading you.

Encouragement:

As a creative, you can’t get away from being creative! Embrace your creative tendencies instead of trying to push them aside. To encounter God is to let Him see you fully. Don’t resist how you were created. He has made you in His image to be creative. Those who connect with God through expression use their creativity to encounter God’s presence, but they also have the unique opportunity to bring other people into an encounter with the Lord through their gift.

Remember, you are ministering to the Lord and not to people. Ministering to the Lord means humbly serving needs, whatever they may be. Meaning your focus is on serving and honoring Him rather than seeking something in return. The worst thing you could do is to only draw attention to yourself, and the best thing you can do is draw attention to God! God delights when you connect with Him how He created you to connect! When you intentionally pursue intimacy with the Holy Spirit while creating, He removes guilt and shame. This is intimacy and not performance.