Have you ever had someone try to finish your sentences? If he doesn't know you well, and if she isn't good at connecting with you, he will be wrong 100% of the time, no matter how many times you correct her.
Have you ever had the rare experience when a good friend finishes your sentences, and gets them right!? You feel connected. Understood. Heard. Valued.
Have you ever had the even rarer experience of a best friend, not just finishing your sentences correctly, but adding an insight you needed, but didn't know you needed!?
Perfect connection. Perfect distinction.
God is our Supreme Friend!
Perfectly understanding us.
Perfectly distinct from us.
If you believe in the Lord Jesus, you experience this wonderful communion through prayer.
It happens in two ways:
1. Praying with absolute vulnerability.
2. Listening for insights in prayer that you know aren't from you.
When you pray, be totally honest with God. If you do this, you'll experience The Listening Ear of God, as it is written,
"The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth."
You will feel like Someone is giving you His undivided attention, like when a best friend gives you total eye contact with the cell phone turned off, as if you are the only one is his world.
But you must be totally honest with God to experience Him totally listening to you.
As you pray, you'll feel insights coming to you, and expressed through your mouth. Insights you know aren't your own. Like when your best friend finishes your sentences, and gives you something fresh and new.
The fresh new insights are coming from the Spirit of God.
Listening.
Conversing.
With you.
This is How It Feels to CONVERSE WITH GOD!
If you follow Christ, and you've experienced this, share it in the comments box.
If you haven't yet experienced it, try it! Right now! After you finish reading, talk to God with perfect honesty. Then write in the comments box the experience of The Listening Ear of God, and of God's Spirit finishing your sentences.
Your comments will encourage me, as I hope I've encouraged you.
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