12 Ways To That Will Help You Truly Strengthen Your Relationship With God

To tell you frankly, praying every night or going to mass every Sunday is not a guarantee that you will have a strong relationship with God. Your prayers and worship can help you connect and reconnect with God. However, if they are mixed with insincerity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, and lack of actions, you may actually end up having a relationship with God’s opposite.

A great relationship with God is not all about talks and ceremonies, but it’s all about works and sacrifices that we do for love. Here are 12 biblical ways that will help you truly strengthen your relationship with God:

* Love your family

Your parents, brothers, and sisters are the people whom you have been living with under the same roof for years. If you cannot build a good relationship with these people whom you have always seen, then how can you build a good relationship with God whom you have not seen? Therefore, learn to love, honor and respect your parents and siblings to strengthen your relationship with God.

“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen” – 1 John 4:20 NIV

* Love your neighbors

God truly loves His people. Hence, if you want to strengthen your relationship with God, make sure that you are also creating a good relationship with your neighbors and other people. You cannot build a healthy relationship with God if you hate and hurt your neighbors. Thus, do good to them, offer to help them, and maintain a harmonious relationship with them.

“And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – Matthew 22:39 ESV

* Love your spouse

Your husband or wife is the person whom you want to spend the rest of your life with. God has commanded husbands to love their own wife as themselves and wives to respect their own husband. If you want to fortify your relationship with God, then do not hurt your spouse. Do not cheat on your wife. Do not shame your husband. But cherish your love with one another with your children and let God be the center of your marriage.

“Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” – Ephesians 5:33 NKJV

* Know God

You cannot truly love God if you don’t know Him. Therefore, strengthen your connection with God by knowing Him better. You can know and understand God deeper by reading His words and teachings in the Scriptures, listening about Him from a true preacher, and practicing what you have learned from Him.

“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” – 1 John 4:8 NIV

* Serve God, not money

If you want to strengthen your relationship with God, then do not be a slave of money. You cannot have a great bond with God if you are greedy of money and only work for money.

“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.” – Matthew 6:24 NLT

* Stop being a materialist

Refrain from indulging yourself with worldly things, such as lust of the flesh, drunkenness, gluttony, and greed of material wealth. Instead, nurture your life with spiritual things, such as love, faithfulness, compassion, patience, and self-control to grow your relationship with God.

“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.” – 1 John 2:15 NLT

* Obey God’s commandments

God will not be happy if you keep on disobeying Him. You cannot build a relationship with Him if you do not obey His commandments. Hence, do not commit idolatry, adultery, robbery, lying and other things which are forbidden by God.

“If you love me, obey my commandments.” – John 14:15 NLT

* Depart from evil

Strengthen your relationship with God by extinguishing your relationship with evil. Get rid of your pride, greed, wrath, sloth, gluttony, lust, and envy.

“Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.” – Psalm 34:14 KJV

* Be righteous

God blesses the righteous. The prayer of a righteous person is also favored by God. Thus, to make sure that your prayers and talks with God will be effective in strengthening your relationship with Him, practice righteousness. Being righteous means doing what is morally right, just, pure, and holy.

“Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield.” – Psalm 5:12 NIV

* Strengthen your spiritual relationship with God

Build a stronger relationship with God by believing and accepting Christ as your savior, and letting the Spirit of God dwells in you. Have a greater relationship with God by building a spiritual relationship with Him. In other words, be part of His church (the body of Christ), which is composed of members who are baptized into one body by the Spirit of God. Remember that the closest relationship or connection you can have with God is by being a part of His body.

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.” – 1 Corinthians 12:13-14 KJV

* Continue working on your salvation

Finally, build a relationship with God that will last forever. Continue working out your gift of salvation. Do not quench the Holy Spirit inside you who sealed you for the day of redemption. Let your faith work through perfect love so you may have confidence on the Day of the Judgment.

“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” – Philippians 2:12-13 KJV