How can I talk to God directly?

Did you ever wish that you could speak to God and he could talk back to you? What if you didn’t have to go through another human being or ritual to approach God. The truth is – you now can!


When God created man, he intended to have an eternal and unending relationship with him. However, this relationship was broken when man chose to walk away from God. Sin was the result – it separated man from God and he could no longer enter God’s presence and talk to him.

However, God longed to restore the broken relationship, but man did not want to return. So God gave a man called Moses a number of laws to protect him. If a law was broken, it was a sin, and sin led to death. The only way man could escape punishment was by offering a blood sacrifice and only the priestly tribe could enter the temple, and offer sacrifices. Without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt – Heb 9:22. However, these sacrifices did not change man’s sinful desires or release him from the vicious cycle of sin and guilt.

To release man from this cycle, God made a better way. He gave his only son Jesus to be the perfect sinless sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb who shed his blood to take away our sins - once and for all!!!. Jesus lived a pure sinless life. Through his death, Jesus made a way for man to enter into God’s presence once again and have relationship with Him, talk to Him, and listen to His voice. The old system of sacrifices was made null and void.

Now, we don’t need to appease an angry God, because Jesus paid the price and ransomed us all. For there one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, Who gave Himself as a ransom for all – 1 Tim 3:5, 6Now we can have eternal life if we believe in Jesus, and accept his sacrifice as a proxy for our sins. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not die but have eternal life. John 3:16 – with forgiveness of sins – past, present, and future. God’s Spirit comes and lives inside our hearts, to change our sinful desires and replace them with good desires so that we can live in constant relationship with God.

Prayer
Dear God, I thank you for sending your son Jesus to die for me. I accept his sacrifice as the price for my sins and I believe that through Him, I can gain access to your presence, and I can talk and walk with you as your friend. Please change my heart and give me the right desires. Teach me more about you and help me hear your voice.