Who is Jan Weel - A Clear Path to God

Hi! I’m Jan Weel.

A warm welcome to my online Christian magazine, aclearpathtogod.com, dedicated to empowering Christian women of any and all Christian denominations to go beyond mere doctrine and traditions to an actual meeting with and experience of God, His love, and His rest/peace —whenever they want or need it.

My Personal Story

Thirty-seven years ago, as a young and happily-married woman of thirty-five with a very busy professional husband and two wonderful young children, I experienced for the first time in my life the ‘absence’ of God.

I experienced this just when I needed the Lord most. A severe personal crisis had just descended on me literally out of nowhere.

These 2 simultaneous experiences didn’t just shake me.

They gutted me.

From early childhood and then throughout my teenage and young adult years, God had been the absolute centre of my universe.

He had been the compass I had consistently used to direct my life, relationships and decisions in my childhood, in my late teens, in my university years, and finally as a wife and mother.

Yet, just at the time when I most desperately needed Him, God seemed to have disappeared completely off my radar.

This apparent sudden loss of all connection to the Lord almost uprooted my spiritual anchor.

Pulled brutally from my moorings, I quickly drifted into an uncharted land of near-total disorientation.

My crisis had begun suddenly one night when I experienced three successive horrific nightmares.

The nightmares were identical.

In each one, I came face to face with the personification of evil himself.

I would learn later that I had come face to face with supernatural evil.

The devil never sends you a telegram announcing his dark schemes. He appears without warning, blind-siding you.

The shock of this encounter with the devil jolted me to the core.

Although the nightmares stopped after the third night, I soon began to experience the negative emotions of deep fear and helplessness.

These emotions were completely out of character for me.

I felt I was losing control.

I had always been a resilient, optimistic, and stable person, confident in my Christian identity, and enjoying life. My friends would repeatedly comment on these aspects of my character. It was what they valued about me. ‘Jan’s so balanced, has such a good sense of humour, so positive, so good in a crisis’, etc. etc.…

You get the drift.

Matters would soon become even more desperate when two attempts to get help from specially recommended pastors failed utterly.

Neither of these two senior men had any idea of how to re-connect me to the God who seemed to keep eluding me.

What was I to do?

Thanks to God’s ever-ready grace and to my natural inclination to get to the bottom of a problem rather than skirt around it, I begged the Lord for His special and quick help.

After about 2 weeks, He led me to a holy, humble, joy-filled, peace-filled, Christian woman who was also a highly experienced and well-trained spiritual guide.

I’d soon learn that this unusual woman was well acquainted with God’s seemingly ‘odd’ ways with men and women.

My new guide bore no resemblance whatever to the two pastors I’d first consulted.

In fact, unlike the pastors, the very first thing I noticed about her was how deeply connected to God she was.

This woman carried Christ within her.

She effortlessly radiated Christ’s life and love and peace and joy!

She radiated the presence of the Christ I longed to meet again!

For the first time, I started to relax.

After meeting with me twice and listening very carefully (one of her special gifts) to my story, this woman agreed to my request to have her guide me on a regular basis.

At that time, however, I had absolutely no idea what ‘spiritual guidance’ or ‘direction’ was.

But that didn’t matter at all.

All I needed to know was that this woman was profoundly connected to the God for whom I was so desperately searching.

I knew that if anyone could re-connect me to Him, it was her.

Thus began a profound spiritual experience for me, the like of which I would never have believed possible in this earthly life.

Over a period of fifteen months, God and I soon met each other every day —gradually, but firsthand, directly, one-on-one, without the usual filters.

As I experienced God’s presence and love and rest, I experienced healing.

God was able, with profound love and gentleness, to dismantle much of my spiritual clutter and emotional baggage and reveal the real Jan Weel.

I didn’t realize the clutter even existed. None of us do to begin with —until God himself gently and patiently allows us to see it.

Slowly, I began to see God, myself and others in an entirely fresh way —through the eyes of Love.

Over a period of 15 months, the process changed me from the roots up.

Of course, I had always known that God loved me.

And, of course, I had always loved Him.

And I had always been loving towards others.

Now, however, I began to experience a profoundly different quality of love, because I had been shown how to enter into an ongoing experience with Love himself —firsthand, direct, and unfiltered.

These repeated experiences gradually led to fleeting moments of union.

God had invited me to a meeting with the Person who truly IS Love.

‘This sounds too good to be true Jan. How on earth can this be even remotely possible’

The answer is that my new guide introduced me to a simple, ancient —but long-neglected and only quite recently revived —way of entering directly into the Lord’s presence and praying with and from my heart.

This online magazine, aclearpathtogod.com, is designed to introduce you, too, to this way.

This way always gets results.

I was able to see that the negative emotions of fear, helplessness and lack of peace caused by my encounter with supernatural evil had kept the Lord from getting through to me.

They had gotten in the way of my experiencing firsthand God’s Presence.

And when you are unable to experience God’s presence, you are unable to experience His love and rest, for all 3 are part and parcel of God himself.

Despite the deep pain I experienced, I can look back and be grateful for my crisis, because once I’d invited Him into it, God used it to invite me to come so much closer to Himself!

My Second Experience of Pain and Evil

Twelve years after my ‘second conversion’, the Lord allowed me to go through a second experience of profound pain, accompanied by the presence of a ruthless, tightly-organized, and persistent force of evil devised by Satan.

This was radically different from my first experience of pain, however, in one essential way: This time the Lord wasn’t absent. He was in fact profoundly present.

This was due to the fact that I now knew how to enter into His Presence and there experience His love and rest any time I wanted or needed to.

There is all the difference in the world between suffering with God’s love holding and protecting you tightly and suffering without it.

It was the regular, daily practice of this simple way that enabled me not only to survive my bottomless, raw inner pain and the ruthless evil that accompanied it, but to thrive smack in the midst of it, and so enabled me not just to heal completely from its assault but to emerge a stronger, freer woman —with greater faith, greater joy, greater wisdom, greater love, and greater peace.

Other Credentials

I am the author of How I Learned to Let God Find Me in the God Times and the Bad: A Spiritual Memoir,

Here is my Amazon Author Page

And I’m a contributing author to 2 other books

You can find my full credentials here.

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