CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR

"Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know" (Jeremiah 33:3). God urges us to call upon Him so He can show us things beyond our wildest imagination. Things that are necessary for our growth and development of character. Things that boggle our minds and cause us to be distressed. He is the God of all creation who holds all the wisdom ever needed. He eagerly holds all our answers and is ready to deliver them to us as we call upon Him. But He wants to talk With us, not just listen to us! He created us(male and female) so He could walk and talk with us in the cool of the day, as noted in Gen 3. Wouldn't it be wonderful to walk and talk with Him today; to be called a "friend of God?" A friend is someone you can share anything and everything with, and that's what God wants from you and me today. 

We all know the value of Prayer as we make our petitions known to God, but learning to wait and listen is having a conversation with God. Undisturbed dedicated time, just you and Him in no hurry; now that's building a relationship with Him. Now when you consider your relationship with God, is it just prayer, or is it as friends? Is He someone you can tell anything and everything to, share your secrets with? And if you are really friends, shouldn't you wait and hear what He has to say as well? Do you go in prayer as a servant to your King, or have you built a relationship with Him that allows you to go to Him as your Best Friend, as Abba Father? 

Even though Jesus is our Lord and Savior, Our King, He told His followers in John 15:15 NIV, "I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn't confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me." Jesus wants His followers to know Him as their Friend. He has confided in us His deepest secrets and Holy Spirit continues to make all things known to us as we call upon Him. He is the dearest Friend we will ever have or ever need, Who is always accessible 24/7, never out of range, never too busy to hear us when we call. He is Always with us as we call out to Him; and that's His promise to us with a Lifetime Guarantee, written in blood! So hadn't you rather have a friendly conversation with Him rather than a simple prayer?

Bear in mind that His answers don't always come quickly, and more often than not, they may take some time to deliver; but when He answers, it's never too late, it's never wrong, and it is always perfect and at just the right time, as He declares in Isaiah 55:8,9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," saith the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." God has great plans for our future and wants only the Best for His Child as He declares in Jeremiah 29:11, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." 

It's when we don't listen to Holy Spirit trying to guide us and we get so impatient waiting, that we try to handle things on our own and we cause negative things to occur in our lives. The negative results were not caused by God, but from our lack of patience in Him answering the way we thought it should be! 
Remember that His ways are good ways and we only seek to fulfill our thoughts. If we really want to fulfill His plan for our lives, we must learn to have faith that in His time and in His way, He will answer in the way that is Best for everyone involved. Even when we make messes out of our lives from being so impatient, He can still take our messes and turn them around for our good. It's when we finally stop interfering and allow God to work things out for our good, that our messes become a message and our tests become a testimony, I believe that's what Paul learned and was teaching in Romans 8:28,"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose."

So whatever you may be encountering in your life today, give it to God and allow Him to work things out in His timing, in His will, and in His perfect way. Call upon Him while He is near; He's waiting eagerly for your call. Doesn't matter what your need is, God cares. No matter how big or how small, if it matters to you, it matters to Him. As you surrender it to Him; you can step back from the situation knowing that it's in His hands and you can trust Him to meet your need in His time and in His way, Perfectly. 

I pray you can rest in His loving mercy and unending peace as you wait upon the Lord to meet your every need. God loves you and so do I~~~