Talk about God

Talking about God has almost been made a taboo subject around the world.

Unless you are in a church or somewhere doing a bible study.

I know that I used to be scared that I would offend someone if I talked about God. Especially at work. 

I mean, the media told me growing up that people had been fired just for talking about God. And some people have been sued simply because they shared their faith.

That right there is exactly what Satan wants.  He wants to have fear around everything that deals with God.

This is because when we live in fear our emotions and judgment are clouded.

What I discovered was that when I talk about God with others, it GROWS my faith. Then when I chose not to talk about God my faith starts shrinking, and the longer I go without talking about him the more it shrinks.

The more it shrinks the easier it is to start forgetting to pray daily.

The easier it is to not read the bible.

The easier it is to listen to music other than Christian.

It’s a downhill spiral until I make the choice to talk about him again.

One thing that I want you to realize is that when I talk about God I am not pushing others to believe the same way I do.

I am simply saying that I believe that this way.

I feel that’s where most Christians come across wrong. We talk about God and when someone doesn’t necessarily agree with everything we have to say. We shut them down quickly and tell them exactly how they are wrong.

Or even worse we shut them out of our lives.

As a kid, I would spend quite a bit of time in the summer over at my Grandpa Phelps’s.  Mom would take me over there, spend the day with us then I would stay with grandpa for a week or 2.

I really admire him for many aspects, and he taught me TONS of stuff. Both religiously and the real world.

He is what I call a STRONG Christian. Every morning he and my Grandma GV would read a chapter or 2 out of the bible.

Every Wednesday they would drive 45 minutes each way just to go to a bible study.

Then every Sunday they would do it again to go to services. The services they went to were not at a church. They were at someone’s house. The small group, maybe 15-16 people, would sit around the circle and talk about what they learned from the Bible that week.

As a kid, maybe 8-13 years, I really struggled with this because I didn’t necessarily agree with what everyone had said.

I also struggled because the only bible that they would read was the King James version. I struggled with reading and didn’t have much confidence in my abilities, so the King James Versions just made it harder because I didn’t really understand what was being read.

He who come into my house.

Even though I enjoy reading different versions of the bible now, it really was tough to understand at a young age.

Between the bible version, and everything else it was overwhelming. And if I am 100% honest it kind of pushed me away from God.

It was not their intention and looking back it would be really nice to find a group of people that Jenna and I could meet with a couple of times a week just to talk about the bible.

I digress.

My whole point here is that you need to talk about God. But you also want to do it in a way that is not going to push others away from him.  There is a lot of tact that goes into that.

For me it can be as simple as mentioning him in blogs, emails, and social media posts. Other times when I am meeting with clients or my team it is a simple little comment to see if they are receptive.

Then after I see how that goes it tells me whether I can use it more, or if I need to hold off for a bit.

Sometimes I will swap out the word God for another word like The Universe or Infinite Intelligence.

The first time I did this I felt like I was not really speaking about God and it was hurting our relationship. Then I looked at it differently and observed that they are all the same thing, just with a different name! Either way, God is getting credit and that is 100% my intention to give credit for everything.

I talk about God all day every day.

When something isn’t going the way I want it to I literally say out loud, What are you trying to teach me, God?

Then when things go better than expected I say, Thank you God for these amazing blessings!

You see I don’t say these things to make others uncomfortable (which I think some people do) I say them for me.

Before we break into the take action piece let’s review my 7 secrets for staying close to God.

1.  Pray, multiple times a day
2.   Read the Bible daily
3.   Listen to Christian music
4.   Look for God’s hand in everything
5.  Talk about God
6.   Proclaim your faith publicly
7.   Surround yourself with believers