Talking to God

Talking to God

I want to start writing about how we can talk to God.  I mention it a lot as it is a running theme in most of my posts but I need to speak about what this means and how everyone can talk to and hear from God.

Talking to God is important and I will discuss it in more detail as I write more of these.  For one thing, I think it is one of the most important things to know about God.  How to talk to Him, when to talk to Him and what you should be saying to God.  I believed I have addressed this in an earlier post and I will continue to do so in almost every post I make.  It is that important.  The most important thing to know is that God loves you but being able to have a relationship with God is something we all want and need to have.

If you have read my earlier post on prayer, you will know some of what I am talking about when I say you can talk to God.  In a nutshell, I say, or God tells me to say, that you are always talking to God, no matter what you are doing or saying or even thinking.  God is always there and there is no time when he is not listening to you.  But that is not the real reason for this entry.

What God wants me to tell you is that he is not only listening to you, but he is answering you all the time.  God talks to you everyday, whenever you want, and he is always providing you with answers to your questions.  He is giving you advice on what you should do and what you should be doing and He is comforting you in your times of need.  God is always there and He will always answer you.  What we have to do is learn how to hear Him.

I firmly believe that God is within all of us.  And that He is there to help us in anyway we need.  He 'talks' to us all the time and we only need to listen to Him to receive his thoughts and blessings and advice and comfort and as I have said, anything we need, He is there to provide it.  He lives within us so it can be no other way.  He is there always.

A lot of people have told me that there is no way God can be talking to me.  That if God is talking to me then I must be delusional or not right in the head.  They say that God does not talk to us and that we cannot have a conversation with God.  If God were to be talking to any of us, then He would be talking to our priests or our leaders and there is no way we can talk to God or have him reply to us as an individual.  They say that God works through the church and it is what He is telling them that is important and not any delusion I might have about God talking to me.

God says that is not true.  God says that He will and can talk to anyone.  He not only can talk to you but He does all the time.  We just do not listen or more correctly, we do not know how to listen.  He also tells me that even though we might be hearing Him, we are ignoring Him.  He says that that is the most common problem.  We hear from God but we ignore what He is saying to us.  He says free will.  He gave us free will and we can choose to listen or not to listen.  It is up to us to decide if we listen or not but we should never say that God does not talk to us.

I believe we all know this to be true, but we hide behind the church and what we are told so that we do not have to admit that we are not doing what God has told us to do.  We say, it's not my fault, God did not tell me the right answer, or I am waiting for God to tell me what I should do or to tell the leaders what we should do and I will follow that.

God says that is not true.  Now, I cannot say what form God chooses to talk to you.  I cannot say what God is telling you.  I can only relate my experience and how I perceive what God is telling me.  I cannot tell you what God is saying to you.  As I write this, God is telling me that soon, I will have to begin telling you what God is saying to you and not keep copping out with my lame excuses, but for now, I will stick to it and say what God says and how He says it to you is an individual experience and no one, and I mean no one, can tell you otherwise, not even me.

For me, God's words are more of a feeling.  It is not really a voice or a sound or anything I can describe.  I can try to put it into words but that is just me trying to relate to you how my relationship with God manifests itself.

I know God is there.  I can feel His presence all the time.  I cannot say I am always listening or even acting like I am listening to Him.  I also mostly ignore what God is telling me.  That is all part of being who we are.  But I do not deny that He is there and He is telling me what I should or should not be doing.  I just say that I am no better than anyone else and I can choose to follow Him or not.  These blog entries, God has been telling me to do this for a very long time.  He wants me to not only do this but to deliver them to others in some way.  But that is way too much to go into right now so I will get back to the subject.

We need to learn how to listen to God.  I can say that for me, I just have to think about it and trust God to give me the answer.  It is not always the answer I want, which by the way, is why I think most people think that God does not talk to them.  They do not like the answers so they say God does not talk to them.  When I am directly trying to talk to God and receive His help, I just think about what the problem is.  I then think about what I think the solution should be.  God puts it into my mind whether that is right or wrong.  Mostly, it is the first thing I think of which is why I think He is there all along putting the answer there for me to know but sometimes, it is not and I get the feeling that my answer is wrong.  It is very hard to put into words.  It is just a feeling.  I get calm when I know the answer is from God.  I relax about it but not really relax.  I just cannot really describe it.  I just know.  If what I am thinking is wrong, then God kind of laughs at me and tells me I know what the real answer is and generally, I already do.  It is just there.

It is really, really hard to describe.  But I think I can help others if that is what they want to do.  The very first step is to ask, what is God telling me.  Don't look it up in a book, or ask a preacher or clergy man, ask yourself, what is God telling you.  That is what I do when people ask me questions.  I say, what is God telling you.  I know that I know that I know that God is telling us what to do.  It is always there.  We just have to learn how to listen and understand.

Most of the time, if I an confronting someone and they are asking me what to do or asking me for advise, I ask them that question, what is God telling you.  I always preface it with I cannot tell you what God is telling you but as I mentioned before, God does talk to me all the time and he does tell me if what you are relating to me is actually what he is saying.  I am not here to interpret or to judge anyone about what their conversations with God are like.  He does not tell me what he is saying to you.  But if I ask, he does tell me if that is what he is trying to tell you or not.  I do not like giving people that advice or putting myself between you and God but He is telling me right now that I need to be telling you this.  I have no idea why and I do not understand why but for some reason, he wants me to put myself out there and let you know that this is happening.  I hate it when He does that. But who am I to question what He wants.  I do it all the time, but in the end, He will get His way and there is nothing I can do about it.

I did not start this entry with the intention of relating any of this.  I was just going to try to tell you that you can listen to God and that God is talking to you and try to help you in your relationship with Him.  I have said before, this is not about me and I do not want it to ever be about me.  But apparently God had other plans.

I know I have not really said anything.  I know that you are still wondering what I am talking about and how can I help you become closer to God. I do hope I have helped someone out there to come closer to God.  This is just not something that lends itself to words. I cannot describe what it is like for me and I certainly cannot tell you what it is like for you. I guess the point is just to tell you that He is there, talking to you, and you can talk to Him. God wants to be closer to you and if you can find a way to relate to him in a personal way, that is how you can become closer to God.
Who knows where He will lead me next.  I am sure there are a lot of points I left out and I will think of them when I go back and read this but for now, God says post it.  I personally don't think this will help but God says I only need to reach one other person and my work is done.

A final note, please do not let anyone tell you that God does not talk to you.  He does.  He is there and he wants to help.  He wants to be in a relationship with you that you can both understand and that you are not afraid to let it happen.  God knows you are not perfect, none of us are, and he understands.  He just wants to be there when you need Him.