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Time With God Brings Change
By Bunny | July 1, 2010
When you spend time with God, it becomes evident. You become calmer, you’re easier to get along with, you are more joyful, and you remain stable in every situation. Spending quality time with God is an investment that yields rich benefits. You begin to understand what He likes and what offends Him. As with any friend, the more time you spend with God, the more like Him you become.
Spending time with God causes you to become more sensitive to the love He wants to demonstrate to you and to others. Your conscience alerts you when you’re talking to someone in a way that does not please Him. Your heart grieves when He grieves, and you quickly pray, and ask God to forgive you. You soon want to apologize to the person you have offended and discover that saying, “I’m sorry” is not so difficult after all. Besides, when you love God and want to please Him, you put your own self aside and do what is right. Oh, the peace that comes after you do what is right. Well….eventually. It gets easier each time you do it.
When God told Moses he had found favor in His eyes (see Exodus 33:12), Moses understood that God was telling him he could ask for anything his heart desired. Moses responded by saying that he simply wanted to become more intimately acquainted with God. Moses had seen God perform history’s most magnificent miracles, yet what he wanted most of all was to know God intimately. It’s not what God can do, but who He is that caused Moses to want to be closer to Him. He saw Gods love demonstrated in everything He did. Even in God’s demonstration of judgment, he saw how God cared about people ? Continually trying to help them get back on track.
I pray that knowing God is the desire of your heart. You can know Him and hear His voice as clearly and as intimately as you want to. All it takes is spending time with Him. Just give it some time.
I cannot imagine a higher honor than being able to talk to and hear from God, and I believe prayer is the greatest privilege of our lives. It’s not something we have to do ? It’s something we get to do. Prayer is the way we partner with God to see His plans and purposes come to pass in our lives and in the lives of those we love. It is the means by which we human beings on earth can actually enter into the awesome presence of God. It allows us to share our hearts with Him, to listen for His voice, and to know how to discover and enjoy all the great things He has for us. Communicating with God is indeed the greatest privilege I can think of, but this high and holy work is also the simplest privilege I know.
I do not believe talking to God or hearing His voice was ever meant to be complicated and that, from the very beginning. He intended it to be an easy, natural way of life by which we are connected with Him all day, every day.
Let me encourage you to allow prayer to become like breathing ? Do it naturally and simply all throughout the day. It will build a strong healthy relationship between you and God.
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