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The school bus pulls heavily away from our house, and I turn from the door. Through the house I go, switching off lights and turning down the radio that plays constantly to the menagerie in my son\u2019s room. Then I\u00a0pull out my Bible and settle into the armchair in the living room\u2014and begin the best part of my day.\u00a0For the next half hour . . . maybe an hour . . . sometimes hour and a half, we talk. He teaches; I listen. He reveals Himself; I worship. I cry; He comforts.\u00a0I question; He interprets.
\nIt hasn\u2019t always been that way. At one time, my quiet time with God was the most important duty of my day. I planned for it with admirable disc\"Prayipline. I felt guilty if I missed it. Now, prayer is the cherished highlight of my day. I eagerly anticipate my time of communion with God and am genuinely disappointed if something interferes.\u00a0Somewhere along my spiritual journey, prayer evolved from a duty to a delight.<\/strong> If that\u2019s a switch you haven\u2019t yet made, I share these suggestions with you.<\/p>\n

Get personal.<\/h3>\n

I met A.W. Tozer in the cramped aisle of a Christian bookstore in Pennsylvania. His words in The Pursuit of God were riveting: \u201cWe have almost forgotten that God is a Person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can. . . . In\u00a0the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may.\u201d
\nGod used these words to transform my understanding of Him. He is not just a pervasive force. As the stately hymn, \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy,\u201d declares, He is \u201cGod in three Persons, blessed Trinity.\u201d As the Word instructs, He is the One in whose image we were created, and Jesus is \u201cthe exact representation of His being\u201d (Heb. 1:3). We can relate to Him person to Person.<\/p>\n

Close the gap.<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ve come to realize that while God is always present (since He is everywhere), I can be so unlike Him that He is far away from me in character. Tozer wrote in The Attributes of God, \u201cTwo creatures may be in the same room and yet millions of miles apart. For instance, if it were possible to put an ape and an angel in the same room, there would be no compatibility, no com- munion, \"prayno understanding, no friendship; there would only be distance.\u201d In order for two beings so fundamentally different to be close, their natures would need to be made similar.
\nGod\u2019s underlying desire is to be close to us; that\u2019s why He calls us to holiness (1 Pet.1:15). Whether they realized it or not, the saints of the small-town church of my youth had it right when they sang with intensity, \u201cO, To Be Like Thee.\u201d They wanted to be near God, but they needed to be more like Him first. So do we.
\nBeing more like God calls for prayerful self-examination. Is anything\u2014unconfessed sin, ongoing disobedience, unresolved fractures in relationships\u2014keeping God at a distance? Has the Holy Spirit been grieved or quenched (Eph. 4:30; 1\u00a0Thess. 5:19)? Seek His forgiveness, and allow Him to transform you into His image.<\/p>\n

Sound the depths.<\/h3>\n

Jesus said, \u201cGod is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth\u201d (Jn. 4:24). I spent a lot of my early years in Christ worshiping in \u201cfeeling and in thought.\u201d I experienced turbulent inner wrestling matches as my will tried to bring my mind and heart into deeper communion with God.
\nIn his book The Release of the Spirit, Watchman Nee writes about the inner man. The outer wrappings, he says, include the mind, the will, and the emotions. Beneath these lies the spirit, where we are one with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17).
\nEarly on, I tried to experience God through the outer wrappings of limited thoughts and changeable feelings, while my innermost being lay numb and unresponsive. When I asked God to sensitize the depths of my spirit to Himself, a deep- er and more constant communion with Him developed.<\/p>\n

Let Him Talk.<\/h3>\n

On long prayer walks through the woods, or in our early-morning quiet time together, I used to spend a lot of time talking to God about the things that were concerning me. Gradually, I realized that it was nearly all about me. My doubts and fears and spiritual struggles were consuming our conversation day after day.
\nPaul\u2019s admonition to \u201capproach the throne of grace with confid\"prayence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need\u201d (Heb. 4:16) is not an invitation to an egocentric monologue. While Jesus invites us to pour out our hearts to Him, the bottom line is this: He alone is the way, the truth, and the life (Jn. 14:6). We need to let Him do some of the talking! He will interpret our situations and concerns to us if we will shift the focus onto Him. He will give us perspective if we allow Him to share His heart with us. He will transform what we leave with Him.<\/p>\n

Be a pleasure-seeker.<\/h3>\n

The more I study God\u2019s Word, the more clearly I see that relationship with Him is far more about pleasure than we are comfortable admitting. God gives us \u201cdrink from [His] river of delights\u201d (Ps. 36:8). He calls us to delight ourselves in Him (Ps.37:4). He wants the full measure of His joy\u00a0to be in His disciples (Jn. 15:11, 17:13).
\nGod brings pleasure into the most unlikely places: joy in adversity (Jas. 1:2-4); delight in obedience (Ps. 119:35); glad- ness in weakness (2 Cor. 12:10); accep- tance in loss (Heb. 10:34).
\nHe even calls us to share in the delight He takes in us (Ps. 149:4,5). Perhaps this is the greatest challenge: to embrace the humbling truth that we bring great plea- sure to God. In the words of C.S. Lewis, \u201cTo please God . . . to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness . . . to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in . . . seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is\u201d (The Weight of Glory).<\/p>\n

Hush!<\/h3>\n

In The Gentle Love of the Holy Spirit, A.B. Simpson wrote that \u201cthe heart in which He loves to dwell is a quiet one, where the voice of passion and the world\u2019s loud tumult is stilled, and His whisper is watched for with delight and attention.\u201d Simpson\u2019s simple phrase captured my heart. Sometimes my heart swarmed with hurry, worry, or discontentment. Sometimes the Holy Spirit was merely an onlooker, relegated to an out-of-the-way corner. I\u2019ve begun to pay more attention to the living conditions I\u2019m offering my inner Guest, and to cultivate quietness there. I want to make my inner being a place in which He loves to dwell (Rev. 3:20).<\/p>\n

Never sign off.<\/h3>\n

Communion with God is a 24-hour experience. It\u2019s like a two-way radio that\u2019s always left on, making us immediately present to God and He to us. God, however, knows that my \u201cframe is dust\u201d (Ps. 103:13,14). He knows that my faculties are limited, and that, unlike Him, I\u2019m not able to focus completely on infinite (or even several!) things at once. Sometimes I\u2019m focused on work, engrossed in a book,or immersed in conversation with a friend. But I’ve learned that I don’t run away from Him to do these things. He joins me in them. Increasingly, I am aware that He, and my conversations with Him, pervade the dailyness of my life.
\nThese are the things that have moved me toward a deeper communion with God. They have caused me to enjoy that communion. I encourage you to try them. You\u2019re not the only one who will be blessed by the change. There\u2019s Someone who longs to see you move from duty to delight in your prayer life. He\u2019s waiting to enjoy it with you.
\nSANDY MAYLE is a writer who is active in the prayer and music ministries of her church, Erie First Alliance in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her favorite verse is Jer. 30:21: \u201c\u2018For who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?\u2019 declares the LORD\u201c because it reminds her of her life\u2019s purpose.<\/em>
\nUsed by permission of Pray! Copyright \u00a9 2003, Issue 39, The Navigators. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. www.navpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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