How Dads Can Encounter God

Have you wondered why God feels like he's a million miles away? Have you ever wished you could not only be heard but actually hear him talk back to you directly? Strahan Coleman will share tips with us on how to pray effectively, how to experience God personally and how to hear his voice clearly.

Strahan Coleman is a musician and the author of several books including his latest book Thirsting. He is also the founder of Commoners Communion.

You can get his latest book here: https://amzn.to/40ewXy9

To learn more about Strahan Coleman or his music visit: https://www.commonerscommunion.com/

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Transcript - How Dads Can Encounter God

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Today we are talking about identity and purpose, specifically how you find your identity

and purpose through prayer. And I have brought an expert with me on the program who is built an

entire ministry and even written a book specifically about prayer and how to connect with your

creator. And he will join us in just a moment so don't go anywhere.

Welcome to the Father the Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere,

to take great pride in their role and a challenge society to understand how important fathers are

to the stability and culture of their families environment. Now here's your host, Jonathan

Guerrero. Greetings everyone, thank you so much for joining me. I have a guest on the program,

his name is Strahn Coleman. Strahn is an author and he is also an expert in helping people connect

personally with their creator. Strahn thank you so much for being on the Father the Challenge.

Hey Jonathan and absolute pleasure thanks for having me my friend. Strahn what is the story behind

how you got connected with God? What was your first experience and really understanding who God is

and inviting him into your life and to a relationship? Well I kind of had a few experiences

kind of notched along my life that I think probably transformed my understanding of God but

I think just as a kid I had a real openness to the love and the life and the hugeness of God and so I don't

it's not a particular memory so much as a residing sense of this world is massive and it was created

by a massive God and that God is beautiful and good and loving and I don't really know where I

got that from. I think my mother probably installed that in me she was a praying one but I can remember

thinking that way from you know seven eight years old so it wasn't such a particular experience so

much it was a residing acceptance in the wonder and the beauty of the cosmos and the God who made it.

So you mentioned that you experience God's love how do you experience God's love what does that

feel like to you? Well you know sometimes it is a feeling you know sometimes I can spend time with God

and feel just I guess what we might say emotional love or feelings of love but a lot of the time

what that sense of God's love is for me is actually mostly about an acceptance so I open myself

up to God and one of the things I do when I'm praying that's really really important is I focus

on receiving God's love because when God revealed Himself to Moses most of the show me your glory and

what did God say? He appeared to Moses in his full glory and he said the Lord the Lord gracious and

compassionate, slow to anger and a bounding instead of us love. That's his character that's