How to have a personal relationship with a G-d you can’t see.

Now you’ve probably heard about having a personal relationship with G-d. Great! How do you do that with someone you can’t even see, touch, or hear?

1 Samuel 3:1-10 Meanwhile, the boy Samuel was serving the LORD by assisting Eli. Now in those days messages from the LORD were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon. One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had just gone to bed. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle near the Ark of God. Suddenly, the LORD called out, "Samuel! Samuel!" "Yes?" Samuel replied. "What is it?" He jumped up and ran to Eli. "Here I am. What do you need?" "I didn't call you," Eli replied. "Go on back to bed." So he did. Then the LORD called out again, "Samuel!" Again Samuel jumped up and ran to Eli. "Here I am," he said. "What do you need?" "I didn't call you, my son," Eli said. "Go on back to bed." Samuel did not yet know the LORD because he had never had a message from the LORD before. So now the LORD called a third time, and once more Samuel jumped up and ran to Eli. "Here I am," he said. "What do you need?" Then Eli realized it was the LORD who was calling the boy. So he said to Samuel, "Go and lie down again, and if someone calls again, say, 'Yes, LORD, your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went back to bed. And the LORD came and called as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel replied, "Yes, your servant is listening."

When you want to establish a relationship with someone, what do you do?

There is no program or method for making friends is there? Well, knowing G-d requires the same thing that getting to know a person requires, time and intimate interaction. Interaction does not mean you go into a quiet place and talk TO G-d, it means, you talk WITH Him. It is through this relationship, that G-d reveals His will and invites you to join Him in work He is already doing. 

But let’s go back to the question. How do you do that with someone you can’t even see, touch, or hear? 

When you understand more fully, you will “see” G-d at work all around you. You will be able to “touch” Him and “hear” Him as you become involved in what He is doing. He will “speak” to you through His Word (Bible), through His Ruach haKodesh, and through other believers.

When you obey G-d, He accomplishes through you something that only He can do. And it is very exciting to be a part of His plan.

As an example, G-d spoke to me when I was about 2 years as a believer and told me to write my sharing book. I was driving on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia at the time. He told me to keep it short enough that it would not be an overwhelming read and so that a Jewish person could hide it on their way into the bathroom to read it. (Jews are not supposed to be reading about Yeshua.) Now I could have just passed this off as either my being crazy and thinking I am hearing things, or I could have listened and began the work. I chose to listen. As I began writing, all kinds of resources became available to help me. People would send me input and interesting stuff “out of the blue” that I could use in the book. I was directed by promptings of His Ruach haKodesh to read certain books. I was given understanding beyond my natural abilities. I would just happen to be at a certain place to hear a certain teaching that I needed to use and was not yet mature enough to know about. He sent proof readers. He sent finances (we were broke when we wrote the first edition). I could go on and on but the point is that G-d is not short of resources if we are willing to do His work and ask for His help. It really is that simple!

However, you need to understand who I am and the struggle that ensued. My gift in the business world is marketing. I have helped to market millions and millions of dollars of goods and services. So obviously when the book was printed for the first time you would think I would go crazy marketing it. But G-d never told me to market the book, so I didn’t. That was not easy for me. But after seeing the finished work, I knew that only He could have written the book. He just used me. (Praise You G-d and THANK YOU Lord!) All I did was join Him in a work that He was already doing and I was obedient. The work He was already doing was to take the “scales” off the eyes of the non-Messianic Jews so they could “see” that Yeshua is truly the Messiah AND to make the church DESIRE to learn about her Jewish roots. So the book was in effect pre-marketed by G-d and is now going into its 5^th printing with no marketing. In fact it is now used all over the world and we know that many hundreds have been brought to the Lord from reading it. But for me as a marketer and an entrepreneur, the hard part was not helping G-d by using my marketing talents.

The part that all of us need to learn is that when G-d tells us to do something, He does not usually tell us everything, just step one. Why? Because if we knew what the whole project was, wouldn’t we “take over” and help G-d to accomplish His work? Instead, by G-d just giving us step one, we can only do that which He has asked us to do. 

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