With time He may choose to speak more frequently with us if we come to the understanding that He can.
This consciousness helps us to be expectant of His promptings and feedback to our longings, prayers and Petitions.
We may never in our lifetime hear God speak to us saying something like, "My son, don't go to work today!" or in any other epic warning or command, but we can be rest assured that God will certainly communicate to each and every one of us in our lifetime, whether we choose to seek a relationship with Him or not.
It is important we all find out the specific way(s) God chooses to relate with us when He wants to pass across an instruction or warning, so we are not in any doubt when He does, so we can act immediately on it.
Over the years I have come to understand these 5 specific ways God communicates with me:
1. Through Songs and Hymns.
I may wake up early in the morning with a particular piece of edifying music playing in my head that the Holy Spirit will prompt me to start singing, and while I'm praising God or lifting my own spirit through the song, I find that the wordings themselves may also have a particular significance to what God would have me focus on that day.
2. Through the Word.
Hearing the Word of God in church, while taking public transport, through digital media, visually seeing the Word via tracts, books, magazines, etc are all avenues God affords me to commune with Him.
Whenever I come across the Word of God my Spirit immediately confirms that which is noteworthy, that God would have me act upon.
3. By Speaking to other People.
I have come to understand that when I speak to certain kingdom-minded individuals comcerning godly living, etc, I tend to reiterate things in the affirmative that God has previously layed in my heart but that I have not fully grasped or accepted are what He expects of me.
4. By putting a thought in my head.
God from time to time would put a thought in my head for me to document and act upon or share.
Thoughts would come to my mind and I would instinctively know God desired I dwelt on them and understand them so I could act on them.
So that I don't forget I would quickly jot the thought down on a phone app like Google Keep and allow the Holy Spirit to help me expand on it so I could get the full picture and act on it.
However, there was a particular time in which I had a long spell of drought of God's revelations because I failed to document, brood over so I could understand and act upon what the Spirit of God had impressed upon my heart.
The drought lasted for almost a year despite my prayers and apologies for my failure to act decisively.
5. By highlighting topical issues I come across in my interactions with people that He would like me to expand upon so that I will be able to understand the godly perspective of the topic and therefore be able to pass the knowledge across to others.
In Jeremiah 33:3, God Almighty enjoins us thus:
"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."
The scripture above makes us understand that it is God's desire we call upon Him that He may likewise answer us but we must also understand that as the adage goes, "God speaks to those who take time to listen".
It is unfortunate that a lot of us Christians are foolish and indeed selfish communicators.
We are actually aware that Prayer is supposed to be a two way communication channel but seldom do we believe that God can audibly reply our requests just as we audibly spoke to Him, talk-less impress His reply upon our hearts or through other mediums like through His word, through a prophet, situations and circumstances, etc.
We need to come to the understanding that Christianity is all about God's desire to cultivate individual relationships with us all via channels like prayer.
We therefore need to believe in the communication channel of prayer that God has availed us with to commune with Him, to the extent that we are expectant and patient enough to wait for answers.
God is our Father and we need not be afraid to approach Him and vehemently request that He answers us when we call upon Him in a way that will be clear and obvious enough to us, that it is He indeed that is replying like our earthly fathers relate with us.
If we are truly serious about living godly lives and fulfilling our God-given mandates and therefore destiny's, then we need to complete the cycle of prayer by actually making out time to listen to God reply us after we have called upon Him, and made our supplications known unto Him.
May God Almighty who has revealed all we now know empower us to go the extra mile by being real and true to the concept of prayer by believing and making out quality time to listen to God reply our requests to Him, whether the answer be a "Yes!", "No!", "Wait!" or some other reply, and may He give us the grace to accept the outcome, knowing that His reply is always for our good, in Jesus name, Amen.
