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5:17 pray without ceasing;
Would you rather talk to a friend, a counselor, a stranger, or a therapist? Do you need lessons in conversation or can you jump right into one? Can you talk about anything or are there only certain topics you will discuss? Or do you prefer to keep things to yourself?
Conversation can be pleasing and healing. Of course it can backfire and mess us up if the person we are talking to is untrustworthy, uncaring, or has a hidden agenda against us.
So who you gonna talk to? Nobody? That is very lonely -- to have to keep your struggles, pains, and problems completely to yourself. Ouch.
Wouldn't it be great if there was someone who is absolutely trustworthy, completely caring, and who's agenda is always for our best? Well . . . THERE IS.
Why not have a talk with God? You can speak out loud or silently in your mind. Doesn't matter. He hears you. Try it. Talk to Him like you would talk to a physically present human being.
Lay aside all the religious stuff -- bowing your head, closing your eyes, speaking in a formal manner, using religious sounding words, making your prayer sound pretty. None of that matters. Just talk. "Hey, God, I don't understand why I am going through this junk and I'm kinda of upset here. Uh, will you help me hold on and show me what I need to do? Thanks." Just talk to God and keep on talking to Him through out your day and night.
You will discover that talking to God is not like talking to the walls. It is not like talking to yourself. And it is not like talking to an imaginary friend. It feels completely different than those things.
Talking to God has the feeling of authenticity -- as if you are really talking to Someone who is genuinely listening to you. Wow. It is great to be able to lay my burdens down on Him.
Try it today. Ok?  |
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| July 19, 2008 |
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| Oh yeah! |
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| July 19, 2008 |
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| He's the One to talk to, isn't He, Bubbles? |
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| July 19, 2008 |
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| Absolutely! |
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| July 19, 2008 |
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| To true steve too true. |
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| July 19, 2008 |
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| Thank you bro, Jesus is my friend and Lord and God, and I have thought about this and lately I talk to Him in the car too. He is my best friend. |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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| Thanks Bubbles, froccer, Jade, and Jeff!!! |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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| it suited well to my situation today....my eyes are filled.... |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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| Wow. Glad it touched you, Sherin. All God's best to you! |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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Very Good...the Word says that as a believer the Holy Spirit resides in us and that we are not in need of a teacher... He is our Teacher
Kudos! |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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| Amen. Thanks for the comment and the star, GraceAlone. |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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| Just by seeing the title I had my answer was God . Thankyou God Bless |
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| July 20, 2008 |
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| Keep on talking to our King, Brian. |
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| July 21, 2008 |
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| Oh this was so nice Steve...I've been away on vacation and trying to play catch up...but I tell you, you always post some awesome blogs....Now I love this one....I mean talking to God should be so natural....Hey we don't have to be all deep and religious...we can just let our hair down (smile) and be ourselves....I do it all the time...while I'm driving...doing dishes....in the tub....sitting in my chair...I love to talk to Him....See I can let out all of my frustrations....and pains...and hurts....and not have to worry about hearing about it on the evening news ....LOL...LOL....Great blog Steve!!! |
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| July 21, 2008 |
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| God must be the first person to communicate with and when we do that He will give us instructions on what to do. But there is one thing. WE MUST LISTEN. Sometimes we talk so much and get so busy with the cares of this world that we tend to tune God out. So therefore , when we wake up at 3am and cannot sleep . It's because God has been trying to get our attention all day and we are not listening to hear His voice. So listen up everyone and hear what God has to say. Amen |
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| July 21, 2008 |
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Amen, Mar Jay. God is the best listener there is!!! |
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| July 21, 2008 |
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| And how true, blessedmary. We also need to listen to God. He still speaks to hungry hearts. |
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| July 23, 2008 |
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| My first discovery of God not being an imagined wall, nor a stern powerful figure to whom I occasionally lifted prayer was the night before I came to Toronto Ontario from Moncton, N.B. (in Canada, y'all!). My family, cousin or two, friend or two were all in my mom's kitchen for the purpose of seeing me off.... I think. I say I think, because my mom's house was always the gathering place for family +. But not one said anything like, "Gee Denise, your going so far.. I'm gonna miss you. When will you be back." I excused myself, went to bed early. Once there, I was pondering all these sad life scenarios - how much misery the earth holds.. thinking, no ones happy on this earth. // I began to talk to God with anger, but also tearfully, with grief. "If your so good, why is (this) happening, and why is (that) happening (starving african children, abused children, mothers, misery this n that). " I added, You even say your a jealous God in the Bible. Well, whats so good about that! (Not at that point understanding God's holy jealousy over our souls), // I then looked out the window to my left, and though it wasn't raining, I thought, " If I keep this up God will strike me with lightning. // THis is the point God waited on - my expression that I thought of Him as a big bully who wouldn't stand for such talk. At this point, I felt a touch to my right upper arm. Knowing no physical presence was with me, I still turned to check on the touch. Before my eyes were completely turned, the touch had gone passed my arm straight through into my heart. My anger, sadness, and fear was completely lifted out and I felt immediate peace, and joy. The questions dissipated for the time being. My God was real, and had just touched me. This touch held a thousand words of love. Its as if he had said, "Denise, I really AM here. And I see you. I know your pain under your angry words. " // It was a whole 15 years later before I found my Lord... while I still steered my life as if in a canoe with oars down. So that 15 yrs later I was a single parent of three young children when I finally understood, repented of my sinfulness, and accepted Jesus as my Saviour and Lord. // It was 2, 3 days later that I recognized that Jesus promise to send the Holy Spirit as teacher, guide, counsellor had materialized. He had taken the key to my heart, and mind. When I stepped out the door of my unit in the subsidized bldg, I suddenly pained for everyone I saw in that building, and began to reach out to them. With Christ's pain, Christ's love, in me. // be blessed today. denise |
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