There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.