Love is a peculiar thing, can you love someone you have never met or even seen face to face? Surely a fanciful notion at best, foolish at worse, how can anyone truly feel affection for the invisible and the intangible?
Yet this is precisely the relationship - the only relationship that can exist between a man and his God.

God is invisible, intangible, silent, the love of God can only be expressed in an indirect fashion; through charity we express love to God, in tolerance and obedience, by loving our neighbour, but God remains an abstract force.
Yet toward God emotional commitment can be absolute and unwavering, such is the power of love.
Paul says in his letter to the Corinthians that though he is absent in body, through the Spirit he is present in spirit, and in this sense physical presence or absence is irrelevant there is in its place a higher order of experience that binds together the Body of Christ in a Kingdom without borders, or location, is the Spirit there is only here, there is only one, and no distance of time or geography can change that spiritual actuality.

I have observed this as a Christian

The power of God that rests upon us creates us anew in Jesus’ image, and just as the son of man had no place to lay his head we are homeless in the world too.

Even among our brethren in Christ there are those called like Peter, James, and John to the mountain of transfiguration to witness a greater revelation, and we who are so empowered must bear this - we have seen more of Christ Jesus than our brethren.

Our home is a Kingdom without boundaries, a Temple without walls, our home is heaven today, our angel looks into the face of God, and our environment is Jesus Christ our God. In him we each have our niche - our role.

Some are called to be leaders, and the Spirit of Elijah is a glorious gift, but it can be a lonely one, for those who are born by the Spirit are of the Spirit, the world cannot tell where we come from or where we are going - we are like the wind.

Some of us like Peter, James, and John see more; because we speak his Word, others glimpse the Jesus we have received by revelation, and because of the light we possess, [and we must be careful not to be confused] other’s see God because we are a lamp of and by the Spirit, but they see what we see briefly by this, and it's not of themselves.

When we are gone they only have darkness.

Age is as nothing in the Kingdom, the child is the master, and the old man the pupil, God is no respecter of persons, he chooses the weak to shame the strong, the fools to confound the wise.
How can I uplift your spirit?
God is in the process of revealing himself, be strong in Christ – both for this man and all those good works God has prepared for you in the lives of his chosen ones, those Jesus has called from the foundation of the world to Him in these days – but look only to God. God is just and He will honour your gifts to Him through others, but God often confounds our expectations, and God’s help, and direction comes from Him – from Jesus alone – through the strangest of places and people; for God who opened an asses mouth can and will use everybody and everything for his greater good purpose – and this is the promise, all things work together for good.

God will bring to you people to minister to us, there will be a ‘body of Christ’ for us here and now, where the necessary organs of life, the persons to do the work, to compliment each other together; one thought one endeavour.

No matter how far I am from you we are one in Christ, One Spirit, One baptism, One Lord, who is above all, through all and in us all.

When God tests you, it is a good time for you to test God by putting God's promises to the proof, and claiming from God just as much as your trials have rendered necessary; recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had

I’m certainly feeling God’s presence strongly again – and I’m led to pray, to mediate, to fix upon, wisdom for works, for insightful recognition of action that is Godly, I don’t want to differentiate between thoughts words and deed, as I’m speaking of these as singular expression, that are altered states of the same substance, like steam, liquid, ice, are to water; that necessarily result one leading to the other
Hearing to Faith to Experience Hearing to Faith to Experience and so on.
I’m seeing God as good father giving good gifts, so I’m responding in kind in prayer searching for the good works to do, to give back. God knows my needs and desires, in faith I’m accepting provision and seeding by action, - or at least that’s my prayerful intention.

Just my thoughts.

Prayer is so often about what we want God to do for us, but God wants to do good things

Matthew 7:11 (KJV)
11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

What then is the problem? James 4:3 (ESV)
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

What should we be asking for?

To do good works

That’s what God wants to do for us – give us good things; what’s a balanced adult reaction to that?

Why to give in return.

This is God who ‘gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater’ our prayers should be about wisdom, knowledge, discernment, perception, the means to recognize and complete God’s good works

Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

By fulfilling this role we are giving away from ourselves

Luke 6:38 (ESV)
38 give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

And acting in faith that God will both meet our needs and desires, by doing these works we are truly delighting in the Lord, enjoying and celebrating God, this is an active living participatory lifestyle, to delight in something is to do something, lets therefore do God, seek to do God’s good works.

Psalm 37:4 (ESV)
4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Just read an article that troubled me – it said this: “When we practice willful sin, Satan eventually sends one of his demons that is compatible with that particular sin to dwell within us”

This is wrong – Satan has no power to do anything of himself:

"And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee. (1 Kings 22:19-24, KJV)

[at this point don’t worry I’m going to explain why this happens – God is good, God does not do evil, I’m going to show you where evil comes from]. This passage agrees absolutely with Job where satan has to first seek permission from God to attack Job.

Moreover the writer to the Hebrews who addresses wilful sin doesn’t talk about Satan punishing us

"For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries… …For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." (Hebrews 10:26-28, 30-31, KJV)

"For our God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:29, KJV) [See also 1 Cor 3:11-15]

Paul further demonstrates satan’s subordination.

"It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." (1 Corinthians 5:1-5, KJV)

Paul warns us "Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth." (Titus 1:14, KJV)

One of these fables is dualism, that satan is an independent power, that somehow God is not in control of creation – the only independent power is man who is made in the image of God, and man only enjoys independence because God permits us limited choices within our lives.

"And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments." (Exodus 20:1-6, KJV)

The problem is idolatry

Psalm 96:5 (KJV)
5 For all the gods of the nations [or people] are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Psalm 115:8 (KJV)
8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

When we sin we are obviously transgressing the law, ‘sin is transgression of the law’, but at the same time we are breaking the first commandment by putting our selfish desires before God, by choosing to do our own thing over God [and God is Love], we put ourselves before God, and the desire and or act becomes a de facto god’s to us, because instead of loving, which is serving and worshipping God, we serve ourselves – what has this process to do with demons?

Psalm 97:7 (KJV)
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Why use elohim = god; if all gods are idols i.e. man made inanimate objects, of stone or wood etc.?

Because the graven image is just that, however what is worshipped is more than a statue…

Deuteronomy 32:17 (KJV)
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Devils = gods = elohim = NEW; not pre-existing; newly created. The question is who created these new devils?

Proverbs 18:21 (KJV)
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Man is made in the image of God - a speaking Spirit - God speaks = creates; therefore our words are creative i.e have fruit. Jesus said - Matthew 12:37 (KJV) “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

Words are 'seeds that become a harvest' - or equally seed is life in potential - i.e. there is conception and ultimately birth:
Psalm 7:14 (AMP)
14 Behold, [the wicked man] conceives iniquity and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

Job 15:35 (AMP)
35 They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, and their inmost soul hatches deceit.

Isaiah puts it the most plainly:
Isaiah 59:4-5 (KJV)
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

What manner of 'viper' has mischief therefore conceived?

The act of worshipping anything , putting that thing or choice whatever before God, and giving voice to that worship is creative and births the new 'gods' i.e. devils

1 Corinthians 10:20 (AMP)
20 No, I am suggesting that what the pagans sacrifice they offer [in effect] to demons (to evil spiritual powers) and not to God [at all]. I do not want you to fellowship and be partners with diabolical spirits [by eating at their feasts].

God is not jealous without good reason, he holds onto us like a concerned parent; God knows 'idolatry' destroys us; because we reap our own harvest - our own wickedness corrects us:

Jeremiah 2:19 (KJV)
19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Evil comes from man not God, the lying spirit in the passage in Kings already existed – it existed in the hearts and minds of the idolatrous prophets who subsequently lied to Ahab, this demon spiritually existed before the eyes of God, who sees all, is above all, through all and in all - it came into being through the spoken word, the idolatrous worship of the false prophets of Ahab, but only because God permitted this spirit to deceive was this spirit able to act in this fashion!! God is sovereign.

Thus it is not “When we practice willful sin, Satan eventually sends one of his demons that is compatible with that particular sin to dwell within us”

Rather mankind creates evil that God as a just God uses our own creation – we reap what we sow – it is our ‘own wickedness’ that corrects us.

Therefore be careful not to give glory and honour to devils, - evil injures us, but don’t follow after the example of our parents in the garden and blame the snake, it isn’t satan’s fault, devils are just made that way – our rebellion made is making them, the power they have is from us, not of themselves, as Job said "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me." (Job 3:25, KJV)

Stop fearing devils and devilish disaster, start fearing God, let God come upon you – God loves you, repent and act responsibly. Resist the devil, and he will flee speak scripture to temptation, Jesus is all the deliverance we need.

Remember God is good and a just judge, and evil comes from man, there is only one power in creation – the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are made in his image speak faithfully in Love his name.