I can tell you my experience.
I am the daughter of a very religious family, I also have a cousin who is a parish priest to help you understand.
I have always been driven to live the Christian life but deep down I didn't want to. I had a vision all my own, I asked myself questions that others didn't ask and I couldn't understand why.
Since I dedicated myself (2 years) I have reconnected many things that happened to me. The Gods have always been there.
Feeling their presence is not always a physical thing, but they are in the answers you receive, in your progress, in the intuitions you have that allow you to understand your mistakes or how things really work.
I was not afraid to choose Father Satan, even if I had beliefs obviously rooted in me from an enemy mentality.
To truly feel the Gods you must meditate, open yourself and move forward. This path must not be taken to have as its ultimate goal the proof that the Gods exist, but it is a personal path made of courage, introspection, perseverance and discipline. It is a path in which you have all the tools to ascend to your divinity.
You will become a strong person, not influenced, capable of seeing things as they are, self-sufficient. You will not need to hear that you are good and beautiful, you will know it. The awareness of this is not given by pedantry and vanity, but by awareness of the path and of your own potential.
In all of this reside the Gods, and by doing so you get closer and closer to them. Your improvements, your advancement are the only things that the Gods want for you.
It is a path for only the brave and if you are, you will shine with your own light