What is your relationship with God the Father and Holy Spirit?

[anneramones]

Do you talk and pray to them as well as Jesus? Do you feel the love for them? I’ve realised I really just talk and pray to Jesus ( except for the Our Father and Divine Mercy Chaplet). Also I have a hard time imagining how the Father and Holy Spirit are in appearance. What about you?

 

[angelo]

Well years ago I often call to the Father, not much to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. But when I started the rosary I felt that I was uplifted by God’s hand and felt His great love and compassion. I started to also recognize that I should also pray to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Now I call the Trinity and it feels really good, it is truly important to know the roles of the Trinity, it strengthened my faith a lot. I imagine the Father the same way you will see if you find paintings of the Trinity. I imagine the Holy Spirit like a radiant and peaceful dove or like a fire shaped like a bird, i imagine Jesus like a master, or sometimes the baby Jesus.

 

[brown_bear]

Do you talk and pray to them as well as Jesus?

I do.

It’s a great thing, I suggest not to leave this inspiration, God will develop it with you in a personalized way, not necessarily quick.

Among the various sources of inspiration, one certainly precious could be St Elizabeth of the Trinity.

 

[GioG12]

I believe that when you talk to Jesus you talk to the Father and the Holy Spirit at the same time. After all they aren’t three separate gods.
My answers is yes.

Also I have a hard time imagining how the Father and Holy Spirit are in appearance.

I think the image of the Father is beyond human comprehension . He is a bodiless so in a sense it could be “impossible” to imagine him. The best way to imagine the Father is to imagine the son.

John 14:9

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

 

[brown_bear]

Do you feel the love for them?

Even today, after so many years, I can’t find a better way to get closer to the tenderness of God the Father of meditation on the parable of the Prodigal Son (or whatever you call it).

The father spent his days on the terrace, waiting for the return of his son.
When he sees his son, he does not wait to be joined by him, but rushes down to go to him and hug him.
When the son gives his speech, he does not let it end but gives orders to everyone to party.

This is the father, this is God our Father.

 

[teamjesusnumber31]

I prayed to only Persons Two and Three until about 1.5 yrs after baptism when I had a kind of epiphany that we need to pray to all three and that the Father was missing from my life and needed to be in it.

 

[drac16]

I usually don’t pray to one specific member of the Trinity, I just ask God in general, and whichever member of the Trinity wants to answer that prayer, that’s fine with me. I occasionally pray in tongues, which is basically the Holy Spirit using me to pray to the Father and the Son. I have no idea what I’m saying, but remember, the Holy Spirit is all-knowing, so He knows what I’m saying. Paul talks about tongues in 1 Cor. 12 & 14. I’m a pentecostal, so I believe that the gift of tongues is still valid today.

I’ve heard all three members of the Trinity, but it’s usually the Son who speaks to me (I believe that God still speaks to people directly). I have no idea what God looks like, though. He’s never shown Himself to me. One day I will see Him, in Heaven.

 

[julietteamdg]

We must remember that all our prayers, regardless of who we’re addressing, are through the Son to the other persons, so all three hear what we say.
That being said, I view the Father as a merciful and loving father, and try to remember my role as His daughter. From the Holy Ghost I always ask for guidance or inspiration, and from the Son everything else.
Always strive to deepen the relationship!

 

[CoffeeCatholic]

A few years ago I stopped doing new year’s resolutions and instead, focused on one thing, word, concept, etc. for that year. One year I chose the Holy Spirit and set off to focus and study the Holy Spirit for that year. I loved it so much I made it a 2 year resolution. After that, I noticed that I was more apt to pray to God to “please send your Holy Spirit to…” there became a natural and instinctive prayer to me whether my petitions were God the Father, God the Son or God the Holy Spirit. Now it just comes naturally that I pray to God… but my petition sometimes falls under asking for the Holy Spirit or ‘your Son’. Sometimes prayers are direct to Jesus but even after 2 years of focus on the Holy Spirit, I wouldn’t say I pray directly ‘to’ the Holy Spirit, but rather, as part of the Trinity through God the Father. (If any of that makes sense? ha ha ha).

 

[MarkoB0726]

Just a lot of silence, most on his side.

 

[fhansen]

Jesus puts a “face” to God. When we pray to Him we’re praying to God. He also taught us to pray to the Father, asking in His name. His whole mission was to reveal and reconcile us with God, so we may commune with Him as is the right order of things for man.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Going to some charismatic services or prayer groups and doing the Novena of the 7 Gifts helps me to remember the Holy Spirit. I usually picture the Holy Spirit as the traditional dove, or as a beam of love between the Father and the Son.

With respect to God the Father, sometimes I pray to him and sometimes to Jesus. God the Father is like a Father or older man, Jesus is like my brother or friend.

I have to admit the people who are really into the Holy Spirit tend to be the hardest for me to relate to because they tend to be the least traditional and the most likely to say some prayer I find odd. The Holy Spirit would benefit from more traditional devotions focused on him.

 

[Jellyfish]

I have trouble because I am not sure how that relationship should look like.
I have a few points I made clear to myself and I want to follow them:

• Love God
• Stay by God. Be loyal no matter what. I once postet about this. It’s something with missing therapy. That should give u an idea why I really hold this point high.
• To pray, because it’s impossible to be even a Christian without prayer an the downfall comes once I stop.

So, could you please help me in defining this relationship? I feel awkward when praying these prayers in which you say things like: “My Soul has thirst…” or so. I mean really prayers about the heart and so.
I agree with the prayers but I don’t know if I am worthy or better, ready to pray them.

I am also not very comfortable with these statements that Jesus should be imagined as a boyfriend. It seems to low for the son of God and seems not to fit him at all. So I don’t like this practice.

Please let me know how a relationship with God looks.

Jellyfish