A Conversational Relationship

Do you know why the devil wants to make us feel so bad about our prayer life? Because he knows if he can make us feel that we are not doing it right, then we will do it out of obligation, but we won’t be releasing any faith when we do it; therefore it won’t do us any good”
Joyce Meyer – Straight Talk on Fear

In light of this, I’d always liken a relationship with God with that of my mum, and good for me, my mum is also a good conversationalist.
I keep wondering how my relationship with her is. How do we talk? I don’t ask my girlfriends how they talk with their mom, so I could talk to my mum that way. I don’t talk to my mum by 6am every morning, simply because my friend says she talks to her mum at that time and it works perfectly for her. What about me? What works for me? It works for you doesn’t mean it works for me. If I do that, then I’m simply just practicing talking with my mum without really wanting to.
We’ve all been brought up by different parenting techniques, and you just find yourself blending with what you’ve been used to.

We know it’s fine that you discipline yourself to set time apart to talk to just her, listening to her and telling her ‘what’s up,’ but it shouldn’t be because your friend is doing it, but instead because it’s necessary to grow with her and get to know her better. It should be something you want to do, because you really want to.

Now, let’s talk about our relationship with God. Does it surprise you to know that God longs for the kind of conversational relationship you have with people you love? He doesn’t want you to fit him in just one hour in the morning, and thirty minutes before you go to bed. No, he wants time with you. Even as you go through your busy schedule, like work and school, he wants you to fill Him in.

Honestly, I used to be that way, I’ll say, “okay, I’ll pray one hour, morning, afternoon and night.” Funny enough, I’ll keep my time close by and once it was a minute before an hour, I’ll say the grace and begin the day.
I could imagine God looking at me those days, and wondering, ‘did we just have a conversation? Did I respond, did we have the Father – daughter gist?’
LOL.
It was working out fine, but I realized it was just like I was talking to someone who doesn’t respond. It was just as if God was part of the many things I schedule in my to-do list. It just wasn’t working. I knew something was up with my relationship with God.

I couldn’t bear it and I had to work on it, I had to build a relationship with my Father. One that wasn’t dependent on societal demands and rules, one that worked quite well for I and God. One that involved constant talking and leaning on.

I started seeing changes, like I could be with God for something like 20 minutes and still achieve much more, why? Because I’m seeing it from another perspective now. The perspective of a RELATIONSHIP.
I can also easily be with Him and His Word for hours and I wouldn’t even think about time, why? Because I’m not checking the time anymore. It’s no longer a clock – oriented relationship.

I mean, if I don’t check the number of minutes I talk with my friends, Why’d I want to do that with the King of Heaven and Earth, who luckily for me, is my Father.

Hello, read :
As you’re walking or driving, he wants to hear you say something, anything. Ask him to please go before you and make every disappointment a blessing for you.

As you’re preparing your kids to school, talk to God, ask Him to help them understand everything their teacher tells them. Ask God to keep them out of trouble and help them out of any, if they’re walking into it.

As you button the shirt of your husband, ask God to lead him in wisdom and cause everything to work out for Him.

As you cook with your wife in the kitchen, ask for God’s Wisdom and Strength in her life.

When the Bible talks about ‘praying without ceasing’ it doesn’t mean you have to be down on your knees 24-7 praying (except if you’re on a personal retreat) you don’t even have to say anything out loud, you can mumble, ‘I love you, Lord.’ ‘I need you, Lord’ as you go about your chores.

I tell God about the person who keeps staring at me when I’m walking past a certain street, I mean,I don’t even act like he saw the person look at me. I tell him things like he doesn’t even know anything about it.

To your friends and others the way they relate with God is different, and that is what makes yours unique. You don’t have to edit yours or turn yours into the way the pastor in TV relates with God. Stay with yours, and grow with yours.
The way God sees the Pastor as Jesus when he’s praying,is the same way God sees you as Jesus when you’re talking to Him.
The Blood came upon every Christian.
Good? Thanks!

1Thess.5.17 – Pray without ceasing.

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