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    Relationship with God: Emotional Blockages towards God
    Relationship with God: Emotional Blockages towards God
    Relationship with God: Emotional Blockages towards God
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    Relationship with God: Emotional Blockages towards God

    By Jesus (AJ Miller)

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    Jesus describes the emotional blockages that prevent us from forming a close relationship with God, including the addictive and co-dependent relationships that we commonly use as a substitute for our relationship with God.
    Document source filename: 20120623 Relationship With God - Emotional Blockages Towards God.
    This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered by Jesus (AJ Miller) on 23rd June 2012 in Kyabra, Australia, as part of the Relationship with God series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDivine Truth Pty Ltd
    Release dateDec 19, 2012
    ISBN9781301450077
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      Relationship with God - Jesus (AJ Miller)

      Relationship With God:

      Emotional Blockages Towards God

      By

      Jesus (AJ Miller)

      Published by

      Divine Truth, Australia at Smashwords

      http://www.divinetruth.com/

      Copyright 2014 Divine Truth

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered on 23rd June 2012 in Kyabra, Australia by Jesus (also known as AJ Miller) 
as part of the Relationship with God series. In it he describes the emotional blockages that prevent us from forming a close relationship with God, including the addictive and co-dependent relationships that we commonly use as a substitute for our relationship with God.

      Reminder From Jesus & Mary

      Jesus and Mary would like to remind you that any document produced by Divine Truth containing any information from Jesus, Mary or any other person includes only a portion of God's Truth that they have personally discovered.

      It does not and cannot contain the entire of God's Truth since God's Truth is infinite and humankind will forever continue to discover more of God's Truth as we progress in receiving more of God's Love.

      Please remember that due to these limitations information contained within this document may need to be revised in the future.

      Many other ebooks have been published by Divine Truth, including ebooks translated into a variety of different languages.

      Please visit http://www.Smashwords.com/profile/view/DivineTruth or www.divinetruth.com for further information.

      Additional sessions on the subject in this book can be found on www.Smashwords.com/profile/view/DivineTruth

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      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction

      2. The emotional cloud of damage we have towards God

      3. Using substitutes for our relationship with God

      3.1. Substitute relationships keep us away from God

      3.2. Using addictions to avoid emotions - the example of daydreaming

      3.3. Living in addiction damages ourselves and others

      3.3.1. Choosing to address unloving causes within us improves our soul condition

      3.3.2. Choosing to be unloving and to not confront addictions degrades our soul condition

      3.4. AJ’s approach to his cloud of damage with God

      3.5. Being on the Divine Love Path requires us to work through our damage cloud with God

      3.6. Relationships with spirits can be beneficial when they are not addictive

      4. How to identify when we’re in an addictive interaction

      4.1. An example of how to behave lovingly when an addiction is identified

      5. Becoming God-reliant

      5.1. Every event in our lives is an opportunity to get closer to God

      5.2. AJ’s experience in becoming God-reliant

      5.2.1. Trusting that God knows better than us

      5.2.2. When we don’t feel love, there is an emotion inside us that is wrong from God’s perspective

      6. Progressing in love involves more than just changing our lives

      6.1. Sixth sphere spirits create change to avoid sadness

      7. Developing a sincere desire for soul growth towards God

      7.1. Giving up co-dependent relationships with spirits

      7.2. Being honest about our feelings towards God

      7.3. Meeting each other’s addictions can make us feel good

      8. Developing faith in God using logic

      8.1. Being humble to learning God’s opinions

      8.2. Working through feelings that God is cruel and punishing

      9. Closing Words

      1. Introduction

      Welcome today, guys. We're going to have a very short discussion with you and then we're going to do a bit of a musical presentation for you.

      I want to discuss two things in particular with you today. The first thing is where your attention is focused, in terms of what you do in your day-to-day lives, because if we really want to have a passionate and strong life we need to learn to place God first. [00:03:51.22]

      Now for most people there are huge impediments to placing God first. And when I say huge impediments, what I mean is that the largest emotional damage that we have inside us individually is actually the damage we have towards God. In a recent talk I did in Bathurst, Why We Resist God, I explained all the levels of emotional damage that we have in our relationship with God. [00:04:22.14]

      2. The emotional cloud of damage we have towards God

      This damage is like a great big cloud that prevents us from being able to feel God and God's feelings for us. And when I say a cloud, there are many parts to this damage. For example there's the emotion of self-reliance, which is a part of the damage that prevents us from feeling God and having feelings for God inside us. We also have feelings of rebellion. How many of you feel like you quite frequently have those? Quite a few! So you have feelings of rebellion towards God, towards law, towards God's principles and all those kind of things. [00:05:28.02]

      We also have attitudes towards God personally where we feel that God is cruel and punishing. And many of these attitudes come from a variety of sources. The primary source that they come from is our own parents because many times we were punished by them at some point, and many times our own parents have actually treated us cruelly. As a result of that we almost assume that anybody who says they love us is at some point going to be cruel to us. And you know, there's that song that goes (AJ sings), You've got to be cruel to be kind in the right measure. There's this whole idea that cruelty is a part of tough love. So we start believing that God is exactly the same as that. And on top of that, many people have had cruel and punishing experiences where they believe God to be. I would like to explain why those experiences occur. There is a general belief that God is cruel and punishing. All of our issues we have with our parents, with the other gender are

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