"How to talk to God"

Being a loner most all my life has had one grand advantage. When I was a child I had my imaginary friends who I talked to, but when I out grew my imaginary friends I still found that I talked to myself still. One day I asked myself why I was talking to myself when I could be talking to the greatest imaginary friend ever. The coolest part about this idea though was that he wasn’t imaginary at all. He was a true friend, the true friend I had been searching for so many years to find, and he would actually talk back if I shut up long enough to listen.

"Talking to yourself is o.k., as long as you don’t answer yourself.”

That’s what people have said about talking to yourself almost as if there was something wrong with it or they just needed an excuse not to appear nuts.

Probably like the people we have all seen walking down the street talking and having a full blown conversation with no one. At least no one we could see.

Who do you think they were talking to? Only they know for sure but who’s to say they weren’t talking to our Father God? Maybe not knowing that they were or maybe they did, cause they have been the few that have not grown up in there heads and hearts and lost their vision of what knowing the Father hold for us.

I have talked to myself my whole life. Talking and working out problems or just to better learn or understand something I see or hear. Asking myself questions so that I make sure I know the answer just in case someone else asks me the same one, to be prepared.

I found myself one day wishing I was more disciplined at praying more often, being more with him, letting the Lord in more. Then I thought about prayer and wondered why we said “amen” after. It started to not make much sense anymore. If we were and are supposed to keep the Father involved and active in our life at all times, then why do we say goodbye at the end of all our prayers. Even though “amen” means to approve of, why do we need to approve of what we just said? Most people don’t even know what it means, but because they have heard it put at the end of prayers and songs, most use it as an ending, a stopping point for talking to God.

The word “amen” needs to be done away with, if you want to continually connect with our Lord. A redoing of everything you thought you knew about talking to God is in order as well.

That’s when I decided to talk to the Lord without end, I try not to use the word amen at all unless I need to agree with someone else or to let someone know that I'm through talking when i pray for a group.

The key is to talk to him continually about anything and everything, it doesn’t matter, just talk to him. He’s the greatest and best friend a person could ever have. He’s with us all the time so why not talk to him like he’s standing right in front of you or walking beside you.

Because you want to know a little thing that’s not a secret? HE IS……

…..standing right in front of you.

…..walking beside you.

…..carrying you when needed.

…..right behind you, nudging you along to get you through something you don’t want to do or feel you cant.

He’s your friend, your confidant, your father, your counselor, buddy and pal.

It doesn’t have to be out loud, it can be in your head, but why not be loud. At least you have a name to give when someone asks who your talking to.

Prayer without end, its pretty cool. It's like an open phone line to probably the only person that will ever listen to everything that you say. He will never ignore you. Pretend that he heard you or change the subject just because he didn't hear what you said.

He wants to be so near you and be involved in your life that he hurts when you do the latter to him. We do ignore him and pretend to listen or just never bring the subject (him) up so you don't have to feel bad that your not involving him. But what makes him the greatest friend ever is that he will never ever never do anything to us that we do to him.

He doesn't follow the "golden rule" he is the golden rule. No matter how badly we treat him, he will always treat us a trillion times better than we want to be treated.

It sure is a good thing that we can change all that, by just talking to him without end. Know he's always beside you, in front of you, behind you,,, inside of you and you will never feel alone and your best friend will always be there when you need him.


Just talk to him.... He's waiting