Communication is vital to relationships.
It must go two ways. We can listen to the television all day long, but we’ll never have a relationship with it because it can’t listen back.
The conversation is always one way.
Even the smartest of televisions can’t carry on a true conversation. The delivery of information always runs one direction.
Talking to God is the same. If we’re always talking and never listening, what sort of relationship does God have with us?
Not much.
When we get into the Word, we must allow God time to speak to us; and then when we approach him in prayer, things start to happen.
Here are three scriptural power-nuggets that will change your prayer life and energize your relationship with God.
Matthew 7:7-8 says:
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”
Isaiah 30:19 tells us:
“For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.”
1 John 5:14-15 assures us:
“And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”
God is drawn to us when we have a connection with him. Our connection comes through reading the Bible, time on our knees, and spending time with our Lord.
God is our goal. His blessings are our benefit.
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