Keys To Understanding Life

Welcome! This website focuses specifically on improving your connection and interaction with God during your own real-life experiences specifically by being discipled (or taught) by His Spirit within you. The Keys website does not focus on telling you what to do to get into a relationship with God (if you want help with that, feel free to contact us). KeysToUnderstandingLife.com focuses on how to get the most out of relating with God in real-life. It is intended to encourage and support you in improving your part of your relationship with Him.

The Keys website and materials assume you believe you have a relationship with God already. It also assumes that your purpose for using the site is because you want to learn to experience His presence more during real-life trials and issues! Accordingly, KeysToUnderstandingLife.com doesn't try to tell you what we think God wants in your life, but rather to share with you how you can go about partnering with God's Spirit to figure that out with Him for yourself! In addition to the materials making up the pages on this site, we've also published various tools and resources to help you mesh whatever knowledge you may have about the Bible and its spiritual concepts with daily, real-life application. After all, having a relationship with God is supposed to be practical and useful to everyday life!

Note to Feelings 101 Readers:
The Supplemental Information Section is on the bottom right-hand side of the "Keys To

Understanding Life Series" navigation menu (button on left side of screen). more help
-- Note: the latest Supplemental Info was released as of Sep. 2011 --

A Little More About

KeysToUnderstandingLife.com

Spiritual growth and getting answers during our real-life problems doesn't always happen simply because we want to be closer to God. Spiritual growth involves change within us. Spiritual growth isn't just about learning more about God by reading the Bible (although that is important). Spiritual growth is also about how to hear Him with spiritual ears, how to interact with Him with your spiritual heart, how to get His help and counsel, and how to make sense of real-life experiences in the spiritual ways we know the Bible talks about. Doing all that means we have to educate ourselves both intellectually AND practically. It involves improving our introspection skill sets. Spiritual growth and getting answers deals with learning how to solve our problems and make decisions spiritually, i.e., in a two-way interaction with The Spirit - The Teacher!

Experiencing two-way interaction with God involves developing spiritual relationship skill sets demonstrated in the Scriptures. Those include a study of the Bible, speaking to Him (in prayer), and it includes hearing Him with our hearts (our spiritual ears so to speak). Between those three skills, the last one (hearing His guidance and counsel during trials) is the one Keys orients on because it is the one for which there isn't as much training made available.

To learn to "hear" the Holy Spirit well and more consistently, it helps to know a bit more about to use God's "Keys." Did you know that God designed us to be able to interact with Him spiritually as well as to be able to participate in the spiritual war? That design includes our hearts, minds, emotions, desires, feelings, passions, etc. God designed each of those aspects of us to work in certain ways, according to certain spiritual principles based on what is happening to us spiritually in a given situation. To experience more real-life interaction with God, practical spiritual training that takes into account our real-life situations and experiences is important. That kind of training is all about using and transforming our hearts and minds during real-life issues, by actively cooperating with God.

Each of the "Keys" to understanding life (shown under the portrait image above) are involved in getting the most out of our relationships with God, not just to get into a relationship with Him! It is important to be open to that. Each "Key" relates to a spiritual listening process that we can go through concerning any trial, problem or challenge. Whether we were aware of it or not, we all have gone through that spiritual listening process successfully during at least some of our real-life trials (trials being real-life problems that have spiritual issues behind them). The goal, of course, is to discover how to do it with greater awareness and more consistently. (Hopefully you know who works to keep us from doing that more consistently!) Improving in this area is what more advanced spiritual warfare training is all about! Improving in this area is the essence of practical discipleship, or what the Bible calls, "discipleship beyond the elementary teachings of Christ." This is the focus of the Keys website and the spiritual warfare tools and materials presented on the site.

"Getting Started" Pages

Enough introductions! If this is your first visit with us, we'd like to draw your attention to three particular pages on KeysToUnderstandingLife.com. (Of course you can also pick whatever you like from among the navigation menus too.) The pages below will give you a sense of what Keys materials offer to help build up your relationship with Christ, in terms of dealing with spiritual warfare issues that underlie unwanted and uncomfortable trials we often face.

1. 2012 "Hearts Up" editions (Free, monthly discipleship and spiritual warfare resource e-Publication. Download 'em, print 'em, email 'em, and use 'em on your own or with a small group. Articles are published by the Keys Series authors. Articles focus on encouragement, practical application, and an honest reality check about how we experience trials and spiritual problem-solving. "Hearts Up" is a one-stop-shop for info the latest changes to KeysToUnderstandingLife.com, status of Keys publications, and more. You may also want to check out the extensive online Index of Scriptures, topics and articles from all "Hearts Up" editions.

2. Spiritual Warfare and Discipleship (This is an overview on how the two are related and how Keys materials help you get the most out of them in your relationship with God.)

3. Synopsis of Spiritual Warfare Materials (This is an overview of other published Keys Series spiritual warfare materials that are available from Amazon, B&N, etc.)

God has provided and continues to provide His "Keys" for interacting with Him to all humanity. This is symbolized generally by the beautiful rendering above. We hope you find this site profitable. We want your experience on the Keys site to be both spiritually educational and encouraging for your walk with God, so take time to digest the material. If you have feedback for us or questions, please contact us through our Contact Us page.

For the Lord, Whose Spirit speaks to each of us,

William and William Clark

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P.S. For an interesting, interactive experience that describes more of the richer aspects behind the non-interactive "Keys" shown above, click on the key ring below the "Contact Us" navigation button (located on left side of the page). The key ring leads to the Keys Carousel. If you want help using the Keys Carousel, view the short, informal video on How to Use the Keys Carousel . You can click on the key ring any time you want. When you are finished with the Carousel, "knock" (click) on the center of the door to return to the Home page! For your convenience, you can access the Keys Carousel from any page on the website.

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