you cant gen-up reality with mental and emotional tricks. for god to be real to someone they must first be real to god and do real things like do what he says to do. the problem is those things interfere with peoples lives. guess what they choose?
Mark 4:19
and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Matthew 7:26
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
now there is a real sermon for real people who are really serious.