This week we explored our interaction with God and came to understand that it is not one-sided. It is an exchange where we express our hearts and willingly listen for His. It is not just our requests and needs but an acknowledgment of what is happening in our day-to-day lives. Being aware of what God is doing and how He is attempting to guide our daily interactions requires us to walk aware. Aware of our actions and the details of the encounters we have with people. It also requires a dying to self and the crucifying of our flesh so that we become useful for any assignment God may put us on. In order for this type of awareness to be active we must develop an authentic prayer life.
It is so important for us to understand and pursue God’s will over our own. Knowing His will allows us to ask of Him what He already wants. This is what gives us the guarantee that He will provide the necessary answers. We have to know the proper things to ask and do. He promised that whatever we ask we will receive when we decide to walk in obedience. When we are actually following Him we won’t ask for things outside of the lane He has paved. When we take delight in pleasing God. He will align our hearts so that we receive what He has for us. This means the ever-growing development of our relationship with Him is vital. Without it, we can’t hear Him which causes us not to know what we should believe.
God has the ability to save and help anyone, but when we walk in disobedience that sin puts a wedge and separation between us and Him. When this is the case in our lives we cause Him to stop listening and all the insight He wishes to give us falls on deaf ears because of the distance we put between us and Him.
Our prayer life is directly connected to our ability to seeing what God is doing. Through Christ, God has forewarned us about hard times in the future that would set the stage for the return of Jesus Christ. Because only the Father knows when Jesus will return. We must be on watch for the signs He will give us in order to make the appropriate preparations for the upcoming seasons.
The only way for us to perceive the things we need to give attention to is to be involved in daily communication with God. Without a consistent dialogue and sharing of thoughts, we have no idea of where our focus should be. This leaves us open to every distraction possible. Christ
expressed certain signs that would be seen which would allow us to prepare for the seasons ahead of us. In order to not overlook or miss the signs and walk through tough seasons unprepared, we have to have an authentic conversational prayer life. This prayer life begins with faith and is completed by faith. It first takes faith to make requests of a God that we can’t see yet have tangible expectations. Afterward, when we receive our response from God, it is by faith we do what He asks in expectation of seeing His results.
Each one of us is going to have to give an account for what we do daily while we’re here. Who or what was our faith in, did we trust God with our lives or everything and everybody else? The world is set up to throw us off track and keep our hearts from committing to God. So if our daily communication and informational exchange is with the heart of the world instead of God. The account we will give will send us far from the presence of God for eternity. The only victory we have over the world is our faith.
We must be willing to trust and follow even though our emotions tell us something different. We have to pay attention to our actions and values. We have to test ourselves and check whether we are trusting or worrying, confident or fearful. The state of our soul: our thoughts, emotions, and desires is based on the state of our relationship with God. The state of our relationship with God is determined by the type and consistency we have in our communication with Him. It is not easy to maintain good healthy relationships between humans without some type of regular engagement. Therefore, a relationship with God is no simpler. It demands time, energy, attention, and constant effort. This is why we are instructed through scriptures to always pray and not lose heart. God’s thoughts and plans for our lives will only be seen and lived out by those of us who continue the daily development of our relationship with Him. This was the whole purpose of Christ’s coming, the reconciliation of humanity with its Creator.
Scriptures this Week
