Spend Time With Me

For any relationship to work, thrive, and grow there needs to be “time together”. Time for two people to share their thoughts, and desires and get advice, and to just listen.

Imagine someone in your life you're close too. Maybe it’s your spouse, relative, or a close friend. Now imagine if they were constantly coming to you and telling you all their problems –but they wouldn’t be quiet long enough for you to respond. Imagine them being in your presence talking, crying, etc. and then they turned around and left.

Perhaps you would run after them calling them by their name because you wanted to help, but they just kept going as if they couldn’t hear you. You would be left standing there thinking “If they would have only let me respond I could have helped them”. How frustrating would that be?

A lot of times that’s how our prayer lives are. We pray long enough to get our requests in and then we are done – we walk away. Imagine yourself earlier standing there as the person you loved left – that’s what God feels like. I imagine Him saying “Wait, wait I have an answer for you. I want to help – please hear what I have to tell you”.

What ends up happening is it becomes a “one-way” relationship at that moment. God does want us to pray to Him and to give Him all our burdens.

Psalms 55: 22 says “Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous to be shaken."

Hebrews 13:6 says “The Lord is my helper I will not be afraid what shall man do to me”.

The Lord wants and instructs us to give Him all our cares and that He will help us. He also wants to speak to us and for us to listen to Him.

Matthew 11:15 says, “He who has ears to hear let him hear”. He commands us to use our ears to listen to His voice. Maybe you’re not sure to know how to hear the Lord. Isaiah explains in chapter 50 verses 4-5 “The Lord God has given me the tongue of disciples that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to listen as a disciple. The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not disobedient, nor did I turn back”.

God will awaken our ears to hear Him. We must be willing and obedient to fully seek Him and His voice. When we come into the Lord's presence and we speak to Him He wants to respond back. We are in too much of a hurry though a lot of times to just be still and listen.

Proverbs 4:20 says “My son attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thee."

The Lord wants to speak to us all the time. When He does speak to us though we are to obey His instruction. So the next time you’re in prayer take some time and ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you.

You will be amazed and astounded at what real conversation is like with our Lord. He wants to continually speak to us. It’s us who doesn’t give Him a chance to be heard because we are too busy, and at times too selfish with our time. Just as no relationship can work without two people listening to each other, we can’t survive without hearing God's words to us through His word, and through His voice.