07 Sep Conversation With God. Series One
We started our new series “Conversations with God” on Sunday! God always wants to speak to us – and encourages us to come to Him: “Let us reason together” – He says (Isaiah 1:18)! He is ever eager to hear from us and speak into our lives. Prayer is a conversation but we often mistake “prayer” to be a one-way affair:
- If we believe God is a demanding, authoritative and impersonal being out there in outer space issuing out commands that we must obey, then praying becomes a religious exercise where we mutter words without attaching our hearts or our faith.
- If we see God as a vending machine who must meet our every demand because we “deserve” it, then our prayers are full of entitlement and self-centeredness and we don’t spend time just basking in His presence and actually listening for his direction, wisdom and revelation.
- If we believe that prayers are repetitive displays of binding demons and devils and shouting down fire over long periods of time (because if we stop praying nothing will happen!!), then our prayers become laborious and we lose the intimacy of sharing our hearts and waiting on Him – the Sovereign God who does not sleep – for our healing and breakthroughs. We miss the joy of just gazing at His beauty because we are so engrossed with fighting fires He has promised to fight and put out for us.
My friends, all three approaches are counterfeit examples of prayer.
Real prayer is a conversation with your Papa God. Think about the way you converse with your best friend or lover – that’s what He wants: that uninhabited, free exchange with us where we are both actively speaking and actively listening. We are going to spend the next few weeks looking at different conversations with God in the Bible so we can further deepen our relationship with the lover of our souls.
Soooo excited!
Here are some things we can take away from Sunday’s message:
Principle: Who we converse with has everything to do with the decisions we make. Those decisions determine the outcome of our lives. Whether we walk in purpose and fulfill destiny or whether we walk in the flesh and miss the mark forfeiting the prize that God has for us and perhaps even relationship with God.
Please ponder over these things:
- God actively looks for and pursues us in order to reconcile with us despite our failings.
- God presses us to see our own hearts as well as His heart toward us.
- Based on our response to God He determines the consequences of our actions.
Mediation for this week: God searches our hearts. He wants to know the real us – not who we pretend to be, but who we really are.
“The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind (test inner motivations). I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of
things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.” Jeremiah 17:10 (MSG)
Lots of Love – see you next week and be blessed!
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