When you have a need, where is the first place you go? For many believers, the first response to a need is to reach out to someone they feel might be able to help them. Even though they have been taught that the Lord is the best response to their need, that won’t happen if they haven’t developed their relationship with Him.
Is this you? If you haven’t learned to trust God and hear from Him, you won’t turn to Him first.
People are real. They can touch and hear you. They can relate to you because they also face similar struggles. God is also real. You can hear Him, and He understands you 100% because He created you. He breathed His life into you. He is the One who has the perfect answer in your time of need. However, for many, God is merely an “idea” or a “concept,” rather than the loving and powerful God who cares for them. Having fellowship with Him is the only way He becomes real and tangible to you as the loving and powerful Father who is concerned about your every need.
Wise counsel can be beneficial. However, it is always influenced by the heart and the level of spiritual understanding of the person offering it. God has given us the Holy Spirit to be our greatest guide.
“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever” (John 14:16).
We have been given the Holy Spirit so we can intimately know our Father. He abides with us forever, never leaving or forsaking us. We have fellowship with the Father through Him. We can hear His Word quickened in our hearts, knowing it will come to life in us. We can go to Him in times of need. We can touch the heart of the One who created us. The Holy Spirit guides us in every need throughout our day. However, many believers haven’t grasped His role in their daily lives.
Talking to God should be our very first priority. He should be “alive” in our minds and hearts from the moment we wake up. We should speak His Word into our needs and praise Him for fulfilling them before they are met. The more time we spend with God, the easier it becomes to hear His counsel and follow His guidance. When we trust Him, He becomes our first resource when sudden issues arise.
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God” (1 Corinthians 2:12).
We have the Holy Spirit to understand what has been freely given to us in Christ. The wisdom needed to navigate this life, the peace required to empower us, the joy necessary to fulfill us, the love essential to encourage us, and the words that speak life to us are all available through the Holy Spirit in fellowship with God. Prayer is our honest discussion with the One who loves us and possesses all our answers.
“I called on the Lord in distress; The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place” (Psalm 118:5).
God is incredibly faithful. Much of our distress is self-inflicted. Yet, the Lord graciously ministers to us in our suffering and grants us deliverance. When He delivers us, it is accomplished in more than just a small way. Praise the Lord!
Your Father is the first place to turn when life is complicated. He will answer you and guide you in whatever you should do, or if you should be still and allow Him to take care of your concerns. Develop your personal fellowship with Him. Speak to Him vocally about everything. He cares about even the smallest things that concern you. Anticipate “hearing” Him. Expect to receive His wisdom, guidance, understanding, peace, and faith.
You are His, and His sheep hear His voice (John 10:27). God knows you intimately. He withholds nothing from you. He is always trying to share himself with you. Listen to the One who created you. Trust and follow Him.
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