Reddit mentions of No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green

I've spent the last couple days thinking about your question. In a thread regarding experiences with God, it seems the right place to ask, but it doesn't seem you've gotten a response.

I thought about googling something or finding a response to your question that someone else may have answered, but I don't think I want to do that.

I'll tell you how I know God, and how I know where He is. At a certain point in my life I found myself wondering these questions too. I felt like God was just some big nothing out there that I would never know, and that He would never know me. In spite of all the things I'd heard. Up to that point I had felt... sensations when wondering about God or thinking about God. Almost like a tingling sensation, sort of like when your leg falls asleep and then you start moving again, but it didn't hurt, it almost gave me a high, and I would typically feel it move slowly down from the top of my head to sometimes my whole body. It felt like a type of embrace, as if God or his spirit was wrapping me up in it.

Still I didn't fully understand this feeling and found myself wondering. And I also found deep frustration in my search for answers. All I ever got was, "Well, prove He doesn't exist!" And of course, you cannot prove that either. This is, of course, the essence of belief. No you cannot prove He does or does not exist. Though, belief would lead you to the understanding that He could prove His existence, and that He already has.

Anyways, getting back to it. Along the way in my search I started reading a book called No Compromise: The Life Story Of Keith Green. I still can't fully explain how it happened, but as I was reading through the book I began to pray more and more for God to reveal Himself to me, and for me to begin to see the world through His eyes. My relationship/connection to God grew very strong, and I began to sense a presence always around me, as if I was being followed, but not by anything malicious. When I would focus on it or begin to talk about it I would break down in tears of joy and love. I started to know that this is the Holy Spirit, God's spirit, walking around with me every day. It was overwhelming.

I started to see the world through His eyes, the people I noticed everywhere were hurting and lost and needed help. I began to feel a heavy weight on my shoulders seeing so many people around me, and I could sense their sadness and confusion. I could walk up to someone who was hiding their pain and see right through them. I wanted to pray with everyone, I wanted to help everyone out of this muck we had all been caught up in. I wanted them all to find this God, the way I had, to make their way to this different plain of existence.

But it was hard. A lot harder than I thought it would be to describe this new way of living to people that had never felt it before. Every day I felt free, truly free, and happy. Like nothing I had ever felt before. I know this might sound crazy, but I really believe in this stuff. And there's no doubt it my mind what's going on or what the true nature of the universe is.

And let me be the first to tell you, there is no perfect. God isn't worried about you being perfect, He's happy to have you just as you stand right now. All He wants is for you to be willing.

Anyways, that's just my experience. I thought you'd appreciate it more than some copy pasta from the internet. You can know Him, and He is always with you.