Communication with God from the heart

physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton said: I can take a telescope and look into space at places millions of kilometers away. But I can also put my telescope away, go to my room, close the door behind me and see a bigger piece of heaven behind me in an urgent prayer, and be closer to God than if I were equipped with all the telescopes and material security on earth.

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           Have you ever thought that our modern means of communication would seem completely incomprehensible to people living just a few generations ago? Nevertheless, without hesitation, we tap out the number and talk to someone who is in a place thousands of kilometers away, or we send an e-mail to someone who is on the opposite side of the globe, and he gets it right away!

           Connecting with Jesus through prayer is just as simple, real and practical as talking on the phone. For someone who has never tried it, this idea will probably be as incomprehensible as the mobile phone or the Internet to our ancestors. And one huge advantage of talking to Jesus is… that he will never bother you, he will always hear you!

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      Prayer is not just a religious ceremony or
tradition; It is a personal living communication between you and God. It’s a royal
A telephone line by which we maintain a connection with the sky.

      Jesus wants to be your closest and best friend, and when you call him for help, he will always hear you. He says: ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I will show you great and incredible things that you do not know about.’ (Jeremiah 33:3). ‘He will answer your prayers and fulfill your spiritual and material needs, heal you, guide you and comfort you.’ (Philipsky 4:19.)

      You can write a list of people for example and
situations you would like to pray for and then find a few minutes each day and
Ask Jesus for help and a solution. It may not be a certain time; can you pray after
on the way to work or while cooking. You can send a short prayer even while walking
city. Stick to it and you will be surprised by the results.

Jesus promised: ‘If two of you agree on earth in a request for any thing, my heavenly Father will do it for them.’ (Matthew 18:19).

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It is practical

Never
I will never forget the day I understood that biblical promises are practical
And they can be applied in everyday life. It was a revelation to me that God
really mean all the promises mentioned in the Bible and that it is also until
They will fulfill the last letter if I believe and confidently claim them.

The Bible says: ‘He gave us the greatest and most expensive promises, in order to obtain the character of God. (2 Peter 1:4.) However, thanks to my limited understanding of faith, these words represented only a beautiful text that could not be taken seriously or practically used in any way.

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I am similar to one simple woman from Scotland who has lived most of her life in
a secluded corner of the Scottish mountains and was so poor that the church had to pay for it
rent.

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On the day the pastor brought her money and on that occasion he asked: ‘Ms. McKintrick,
Why isn’t your son actually helping you? I know he has pretty good in Australia
position and he is a good boy who loves you deeply. Isn’t it so?’

‘that
You know you do,’ replied the mother, ‘and never forgets me. Every week I
He sends loving writing.’

Pastor
He was very curious about what kind of son he was, who loved his mother so much and yet
he leaves her without support, so he asked if he could get a letter
Look.

Woman
soon returned with two packages. ‘These are his letters,’ she said, handing
Pastor’s first package. ‘And here are the beautiful pictures he sends to me with each
by letter. They fit nicely in the envelope and for me it’s proof that they’re thinking of me.”

“The picture
In each letter?’ Pastor couldn’t do it. ‘Can I see the pictures too?’

“But
sure,” the woman replied. “Some have a man’s head, some have a man sitting
On horseback and many of them are with a picture of the king. Look, this is where the English one is
king. Long live the king!’

“Let
Your son lives!’ shouted the astonished pastor. “My dear friend, you know you are
A rich woman? This is money! You have wealth in front of you. Just think how
you’ve been suffering here all the time, and yet right here in the house you have a fortune about which
You thought they were just pretty pictures!”

That’s exactly what my problem was when I approached the promises in God’s word. I thought they were just nice pictures, just nice words. I never dreamed how to literally take God’s promise.

In
In God’s word we were given precious and excessive promises; are there
Hundreds – inexhaustible source – sources that never dry out.

Expectation

           Believers are divided into two groups: those,
who pray and expect something to happen, and those who pray and
They expect nothing.

           Prayer is primarily a means to the goal, a connecting link between our human needs and God’s supernatural source. Prayer is not just a ‘pious dream’ that has a kind of subconscious effect on us. Prayer is a practical matter, as real as a telephone conversation. And the participant on the other end – God himself – tells us: ‘Pass and be given to you. … You don’t have because you don’t beg’ (Matthew 7:7; James 4:2).

Adoption

           When God gives, it is up to us to receive. The Bible says: ‘Believe that everything you ask for in prayer is given to you, and you will have it’ (Mark 11:24). When we ask in prayer, we must believe, and if we believe, we will.

           ‘We have a firm confidence in him to hear us whenever we ask for something in accordance with his will. And if we know that he hears us whenever we ask for something, then we also know that we have received what we have from him’ (1 John 5:14-15). It is not said here that we will have, but that we have. Not because our senses prove it, but because God said it.

           ‘Faith is the basis of knowing what we hope for, proof for what we do not see’ (Jews 11:1a). Faith believes that God will answer, even if the answer cannot yet be seen. It doesn’t matter what we think. What God says applies. It doesn’t matter what we feel, but what faith accepts.

A faith he apprehends

           In a desperate attempt to bring the members closer
church how faith works, one preacher offered his dear watch to a group
of the boys who sat in the front row.

           ‘Boy, would you like this watch?’
he asked the oldest of them.

           ‘That’s a good joke. I know you’re not serious,’ the boy replied.

           He asked the same question to another and
to another. He received a similar answer every time.

           Finally the preacher offered his watch
About five-year-old boy who was sitting at the very edge of his seat and his sharp eyes
He fixed on the preacher’s face.

           ‘Boy, you’d like …’ That was enough for him. The chubby hand quickly reached over the watch and put it in her pocket with lightning speed. With a satisfied, almost mature expression, he declared that this is exactly what he needed the whole time.

           After the service, the other boys
They ran past the preacher and protested, “How should we have known that you meant
really?’ ‘That’s exactly the kind of watch I wanted.’ “When you meant it,
Why didn’t you put them in my hand or ask me one more time to have
security?’

           Only the youngest boy had faith,
which she appropriated.

Action

           Many people believe in God’s promise, but only in some impersonal and vague way: ‘But yes, generally those promises apply, but not for me specifically in my situation.’ On the other hand, a person who asks God for something, and then acts in faith – as if he had already fulfilled his request – will also see it! What he does is take God at his word regarding some promise and consider them to be fulfilled. This is often called the ‘step of faith’.

           An excellent illustration of this principle can be found in the biblical passage, where Jesus told the lepers who came to ask him to heal, let them come and show themselves to the priests. Jesus has not yet healed them, but the Bible says: ‘When they went there, they were healed.’ As soon as they began to act according to their faith and obeyed, even though they had not yet seen the answer to their prayers, God granted them. (Luke 17:12-14.) When he came to a village, ten lepers met him. They remained standing nearby and shouted loudly: ‘Jesus, master, have mercy on us!’
When he saw them, he said to them, ‘Go show yourself to the priests.’ And as they went, they were cleansed.  

If we believe and make effort, God will appreciate this step and comply with us. As someone once said: ‘When faith goes into the forest for mushrooms, it takes a basket with it.’

A step of faith

           I once prayed for a long time and
Dearly, and yet I didn’t get any answer. I reached the end of my
strength and I couldn’t do anything else. Why didn’t God answer me?

           I started flipping through the Bible and praying, and that’s when the following words caught my eye: ‘All to accomplish and remain standing’ (Ephesians 6:13b). I immediately understood what happened. I almost blamed God for not answering my prayer, and I didn’t do what I had to do at all. I did not take a step of faith, and therefore my faith did not stand.

           So I started to thank God for the fact that the answer is already on the way. In six hours I experienced the answer, but it was no more real than when I first took the ‘step of faith’. Even then I owned it by faith. We see because we believed; It’s not like we only started to believe when we saw.

           Faith is not a grandiose feeling or anything difficult to achieve, as many believe. Faith simply takes God at its word. Just as you reach out with your physical hand to grasp objects, faith is a spiritual hand that stretches out to reach God’s promise and appropriate them.

           So unite with God by prayer,
Give him your pleas and demand his promise. He never fails!

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Time of silence

           Jesus practiced what he preached. In the Gospels, it is many times said that he rose before dawn, before his followers awoke, so that he could be alone with his father and receive instructions for the following day. At other times he left the crowds and his disciples and went to pray in a remote place. If Jesus himself had to do it, we need it all the more!

           We all need a time of silence with God, when we leave our daily duties for a moment to rest our minds and spirits, cast our problems and worries on him in prayer, to strengthen ourselves with His Word and refresh ourselves with a few moments of sweet presence with him. In fact, many of his promises depend on that! The Bible says: .“Come to me … and with me you will find peace and relief.” (Matthew 11:28); ‘Call me … I want to tell you about big and wonderful things that you had no idea about.” (Jeremiah 33:3).

           If you do 10 or 15 minutes every day and maybe even more to ‘silence’ with God, you will find that your day will go much better. It doesn’t have to be in a certain place at a certain time, nor do you have to stick to any prescribed procedure. Just stop and think about Jesus. Tell him what’s on your mind and listen to his quiet voice in your heart. You get the answers, the encouragement and strength you need for the day. ‘.. Those who trust in their problems to God are gaining new strength; they float like eagles, they run without fatigue, they are cool.’ (Isaiah 40:31 more modern version).

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