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How is it egotistical wanting to make a stronger connection with him(God)by dreams?Or in the spirit?I know God is real.I know he hears my prayers.I will explain it in an analogy.Imagine you are writing someone ever day.But you have never talked with them in person.Would it help more just to keep writing them?Or to meet them in person?Which one would help more in your relationship?
It comes down to wanting, when you accept that it is hard work every day to perfect your own being before you can even come close to God, then it is no longer the ego that speaks. When you instead say, I do what God asks of me in the teaching without just focus on one tiny thing that might have been said in the bible, but use all the teaching to become a pure human being that would be able to enter paradise, that is where you will meet GodI do believe in the 10 commandments.
Yes, follow Gods teaching and let him guide you. It is not you who should "command" God to do what you want. remember you are His servant not the other way around
Interesting. Learn more and more about you. I have been married since October 22, 1982. My one and only marriage. The Bab appeared to me in a dream and told me I would get married soon. I asked Him when I would meet her and she said Wednesday. I woke up that morning and I took it I would meet her on a Wednesday. Not long after a Baha'i friend of Sara in Northern Ohio called me and and acted as a matchmaker, and asked if I would meet her. I told her no, I was about to move to San Antonio from the Dayton, Ohio area. After I moved to San Antonio, felt lonely there, and thought hmm why not write her? Somehow I knew the phone number of this matchmaker called her and asked for the address of this Sara. I wrote her, and was shocked at how soon about how soon I got a letter from Sara. There were nothing in that letter that indicated feelings for me, but I knew. Soon the feelings were in the open. I was 1300 miles or so from her, but I visited my family in the Dayton area and borrowed a car from them and drove to the Cleveland area. I had decided earlier to meet her on Wednesday July 7th. Was what the Bab said a prophecy or a command?Yes
Thank you for sharing this story @Truthseeker9
Andi do not have a lot of contact with her 
Duane, I did not know you got married in 1982. You have three years on us because we got married in 1985, and it was our first and only marriage. Both of us were also Baha'is. We also got married three weeks after we met so it is a miracle we are still married.
That's very interesting. I knew Lewis through letters he wrote to me before I ever met him. He wrote me love letters and I thought this man must be crazy, he does not even know me! A month later we were married and the rest is history.
I do not know what it should mean. Just pick out one verse from the OT make it impossible (to me) to get the reason for the verse.Conscious thoughts what do you think of Judges 5:20?
I found thisJudges 5
5 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, 2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Here is the whole chapter.
You may have heard that before, but it was so long ago you don't remember. I don't remember if I told you that before. My memory is bad these days. My neurologist said I had a ministroke which affected my memory. I don't remember either when I first met you on Planet Baha'i. What year was that?Duane, I did not know you got married in 1982. You have three years on us because we got married in 1985, and it was our first and only marriage. Both of us were also Baha'is. We also got married three weeks after we met so it is a miracle we are still married.
I didn't know he wrote love letters to you before you met him. Did you tell that before, do you know? The purple rolleyes is your acknowledgement of how bad it went later.I knew Lewis through letters he wrote to me before I ever met him. He wrote me love letters and I thought this man must be crazy, he does not even know me! A month later we were married and the rest is history.
It was in January 2013 and you had better edit your post and delete my name because it is not good for people to know names of people. That was a mistake I made because I did not know anything about forums back then.
We are doing better lately but we have many many more challenges than you and Sara, so it has been much more difficult for us. Our life has never been simple and stress free. There has always been work, many cats and the three houses, and now health problems for my husband.
I don't think I ever told you about those letters before. I also forgot to tel you want happened at our wedding. Many of the people who attended the ceremony saw something pass over in the sky on a completely clear day when we were saying our vows. I forgot what it was, but I think it was an omen of things to come.
It was edited. Sorry about that. There were two names at the top of my posts. I don't remember the handles of those. One of them told everybody my last name. For that matter, Dale revealed his full name in one of them, he didn't hide it. On Facebook, pretty much people's real name is their handle.
We have had an autistic child, I was laid off at about 50 and never worked again. But these days there is much less stress than you have. Not having the stress of work, for instance, for either of us. We don't the same scale of emotional problems you two have. My wife loves me.
I don't know if you remember that poster crow on BUE, but she tracked me down and called the State Dept of Licensing to check if I really had a counseling license and I did but it had lapsed so she told everyone I didn't and that I lied. She did a lot worse than that on the Opinion forum. She hated the idea of God and she especially hated the Baha'i Faith but she hated me because at that time I talked about Baha'i a lot.
By following Islam teaching you mean following laws of Islam such as prayers five times a day and fasting? That is good if you do so, according to Baha'u'llah in the mystic way. Also it is not good to be ascetic as opposed to being detached from material things. Also it is impossible to know God directly according to Baha'i. You reach the tree beyond which there is no passing, meaning being one with the prophet.
Going beyond religion means to not see the teaching as a doctrine, but as a way of life. It becomes deeper that just a belief.
I remember crow, she thought religion was a barrier to spirituality is what I remember, but I remember her from Alternates for Humanity. However, I may be remembering wrong. She was probably on BUE, too. That's the kind of forum that would attract someone like her. I seem to remember her spilling vitriol about you addressed to Planet Baha'i, but I was a moderator, and deleted her post. This part is more clear to me.