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"I think this is a good time to to discuss God economy protocol. An important message to remember is that God designed you to be with you, apart from anyone else, as well as with others. God weaves the intricate balance of a personal relationship with you and the innumerable relationships globally without denying you or anyone else any less than God's perfect attention.

One of the drawbacks that we have in society is that in order to have organized religion there needs to be parameters that distinguish one religious philosophy from another. The parameters are all good for the respective religious orders, denominations. Generally within each religious order these parameters or protocols are designed for the perpetuation of the religious philosophy as well as for the betterment of the individual and society as a whole. For the sake of argument they are all good. Within the constraints of the religion represented, the parameters or protocols, church resolutions, articles of faith or tenets of faith offer the parishioner/believer sensible rules and/or understanding of that faith by comparing their direction/devotion against the backdrop of those who have gone before them and established the parameters/protocols. Each new generation inadvertently strains the established denominational parameters/protocols, adding new cultural advances and removing archaic reasonings that interfere with modernity's ever-forward motion/evolution.

Not the same with God. I would say that with God our best hope of Getting To Know God Better is simply that we will not be detoured, deterred, dissuaded, thwarted, impeded, obstructed, disillusioned, hindered, hampered, blocked or even stopped from seeking and finding truth from God. Parameters are good for controlling behavior or providing oversight for our own benefit. Parameters are not very good for providing the insight or inspiration to have a measurable experience with God. I would say that in most cases religion has done a great job at making people aware of God and a poor job of assisting those same people to understand God, i. e., God's economy.

I hope you are not discerning that somehow I am saying that; only the studied, those in the ministry, those with a seminary education, those who are trained in the art of religious observance are better suited for getting to know God better. It is not in the education of the individual, or the mental ability, or formal training that determines a person's measurable experience with God,  but in the pursuit of wisdom and the exercise of free will to adhere to the will of God as it is revealed.

The only way to overcome the lemming-like nature of a relationship with God built on a denominational platform is to read your Bible on your own and pray to God for your spiritual eyes to be opened. The Holy Spirit will enhance your understanding.

John 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

In no way am I suggesting that you should not go to Church or listen to your pastor/priest/rabbi and to adhere to whatever parameters that you have agreed to in your denomination, but God wants a personal relationship with you and that cannot be done by proxy.

John 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

John 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

1Ti_2:5  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 

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"You might be wondering, Do I really need to know God better?  Isn't it enough to have been saved and to be a part of a Church?

Don't be discouraged if you do not have an immediate inclination to getting to know God better. No you don't need to get to know God better. Yes it is enough to be saved and to be a part of a Church. The amount of time that you give to developing your relationship with God will always be yours to decide. The depth of that relationship is you decision and never will be anyone else's decision. The concept of "Getting To Know God Better" is for those who hunger for a deeper and more satisfying relationship with God than they currently have.

That being said, another way to address the questions above might be, What is my part in getting to know God better? and "I am saved and go to church, but I don't seem to be growing very fast in my relationship with God. What can I do to nurture my relationship with God?

When communicating with God it makes sense to set aside a certain amount of time, whether it is 30 seconds or 1/2 hour. The setting aside of time will become an integral component in building your relationship with God and obtaining understanding during that time. Just flying off at the handle or releasing a plethora of requests all in the hopes that God hears you and responds to your liking is not the same as communicating with God. Most people prefer the one sided communication because it is easy and requires nothing on your part. But it is hardly a way to grow or resolve anything. If anything people who have this kind of relationship with God generally live with false hope and false fears.

Most false hope comes with a religious only view of God. A religious only view of God is a denominational understanding of God without personal inner-man scrutiny and without depth of understanding based on personal relationship. In other words many Christians believe what they are taught to believe and they learn to have little or no expectations of the miraculous because their experience does not include first-hand knowledge or experience of God's supernatural intervention in their life. If your church or pastor brought you to the Lord and you have accepted the free gift of salvation, that is a wonderful experience and it is perfect in every way. Getting to know God better is about taking that experience and seeking God for more information to receive more understanding so that you can better operate under the economy of God. This reaching out or reaching up to God comes with a promise and that s why you can rest assured that there is more and that you want it.

Jas_1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

Psa_53:2  God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 

Heb_11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.