Go to a church meeting where there is speaking in tongues. Pray like mad beforehand that God will give you the Holy Spirit. He only gives the Holy Spirit, as far as I know, to people who believe that Jesus is the Christ so exercise yourself and ensure beforehand you do indeed believe. If you aren't sure, hunt down whatever it is you need to convince you (for me it was partly a matter of understanding thoroughly the New Testament Gospel accounts and comparing them, via some decent TV programs, with the relevant archeology). Go to a meeting at this church. For me it meant going with someone who had been able to assure me that those in the church did have the Holy Spirit, as manifest in the speaking in tongues (this person would have probably recognised it if there had been anything spurious or pretentious about it). If God gives you the Holy Spirit and He comes on you at the meeting you might feel an awesome sense of heaviness weighing on you or awareness of something like that. For me, all this resulted in me being in the congregation as the 'pastor' came to the front and spoke in tongues. Because, I think, the Holy Spirit had already come upon me, I was able to spiritually 'hear' the words spoken as if they were in my own language even though my ears recognised that the words were in an angelic 'tongue' (spiritual language). Ideally, the speaker should ask that God will let him interpret too or that someone else will interpret too so that you have it confirmsed what was said, in comparison to what you 'hear'. (Some have to rely on this interpretation if the Spirit didn't make them able to 'hear' it themselves.) Strictly speaking this is how to find the Spirit of God but indirectly this amounts to finding Jesus, the Christ because it is the way this Spirit proclaims Jesus to you as the Christ, the Lord, the one to hope in and the one to trust and to love that amounts to much of what it means to find Jesus Christ. It is this experience which can impart that trust and hope to you (hopefully love too, but it is resulting actions and obedience which will confirm this). To find Jesus Christ Himself is a matter of Him revealing Himself to you. To find the God and Father of Jesus Christ is a matter of Him revealing Himself to you. This can be in dreams and visions and open encounters. Rather than you finding Him, He finds you! Take the testimony and proclamation from The Spirit and add that to the revelation of God and Jesus Christ to you and know Him, whom to know is, in Christ words, eternal life. If this all seems strange to you I can only say 'of course'. You really do need to believe for yourself though; for your own sake and for the sake of His Name.
