I know you meant not via the other sources. When you say 'directly from God' are you talking about feelings, 'hearing' physically or thoughts in your mind, visions? I'm intrigued.
Sorry I was in a rush to go somewhere before, so I had a really quick response.
I'm not talking about feelings, hearing, thoughts, visions, etc ... I'm talking about God lol. God the entity. Not the things God uses or influences (including us and others), or the result of the presence of God, spirits, etc ... God directly. If I was going to have coffee with you, but instead I sent my representative in my place, or you ran into someone who had met me instead of me directly, or you show up and I left a note instead of being there, or I wasn't there at all and you just sat and imagined it, or you sat there and talked to me via the phone instead ... none of those are the same as sitting there with me, and having coffee with me lol.
The very first time I remember God answering a prayer of mine, for example, it was immediate, and I was translated lol. Physically, in reality. It was surreal, and almost unbelievable to me. No Biblical knowledge, no testing something, no religious upbringing, no one telling me what to believe. Now, I didn't meet God when I experienced that ... but given the context, and what happened surrounding it, I had faith it was God that translated me. So right there, I believed it was God, and that God could translate people ... no need to read about it first lol. I cannot count how many times something like that has happened ... with no knowledge, or study, or "testing", etc .... what I saw, experienced directly, etc, outside of myself. Even when I did begin to read the Bible years later, I took from it believing certain things WERENT true actually, and had those beliefs backed by others even (pastors, etc), and God showed me otherwise directly ... in the face of my own Biblical understanding and that of others who claimed to know what they knew. So even when I did start to research the scriptures and turn to other "mature" people and such, they were wrong as far as I can tell, and so was I when I gave that "method" a try lol.
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me what God couldn't do, or wouldn't do, or how things needed to be done or not done ... and I experienced the opposite, I would have a lot of dollars lol
Now, there was a time, when I wasn't content even with miracles, and I wanted to know God directly, face to face in the flesh, not in "vision", etc ... I wanted to meet God and cut through ALL the middle men. I of course have a story for the first time I set out to "see God", an anecdote ... which will be a second hand account ;-) haha .... but I'll say that I was satisfied with meeting who I met. I'm not trying to be cryptic, I'm just not getting specific since I'm not telling the story here, for brevity, and to do it justice so you could judge for yourself whom I met, it would take a lot of typing haha.
There have been a few things that I desperately wanted to know, first hand, what was true: like whether I was going to have eternal life with God, whether certain other people I knew were, etc and so forth. And I wasn't content with other people's answers, arguments, etc. I didn't want to guess. Sometimes I have been content with that kind of thing, or vision, dreams, signs, miracles, "digging for answers", etc, sometimes not. So that's me personally.
So when someone is seeking God, for all I know they will meet God directly, or experience things similar to what I did, or speak with Him directly ... like I said, most of the time I had no one telling me this or that, no knowledge, etc. God chose, and I chose. Does that make sense ?
