Relationship?!

[FrankFaith]

We can't physically talk with Him (We can't have an ongoing, two-way conversation with Him)...
We can't physically see Him...
We can't physically touch Him...

Describe your relationship with Him, taking care to realize that this 'relationship' is not merely in the mind (mental ascension). What is it that consists of your 'relationship' with Father God?

 

[FireOfGod]

You're right... We can't physically, see, hear, feel, or speak with Him. But that is why there is the Spirit realm also. I "go up" to Heaven in the Spirit and sit and chat with Him often. It's like being in a vision state for a long period of time. Or not. A minute in Heaven could seem like a day here. There's no time there.

I talk with Him... He helps me, counsels me, talks to me, tells me about Himself, and I tell him about myself. He shows me things, he teaches me. He takes me places and comforts me. He loves me to death and I Him. He feeds me His word and reveals revalations to me.

And much more...

 

[Qidron]

Well...it certainly is not a physical thing...at least not usually. Although there are plenty of ppl who have had a "touch" from God and been PHYSICALLY healed. But you want to know just how we have relationship with Him... hmm.

Have you never gone to be alone and ask Him SERIOUSLY to reveal Himself to you? Are you really expecting some person, other than God, to explain to you a relationship that will bring you to revelation? It doesn't happen that way. It's something no one who has never been there can know....until He reveals himself. It's designed that way.

And I've had two way conversations with Him. I've felt his loving touch. He knows exactly what I need to draw me closer.

 

[Maharg]

I find that my relationship with God is often like a delayed conversation. I'll ask Him through prayer to explain something to me - how to understand a particular thing that has happened, for example, or I might ask Him for something specific. And then I'll realise that He has given me what I have asked for, or explained something to me through my life circumstances, or helped me grow to a place where I don't want/need the thing I asked Him for originally.

Not only is our relationship like this however, He also knows me by observing me, just as married couples know each other through living together and watching each other in different situations. And sometimes, like my husband, he provides me with things that I have really wanted but never thought of asking for, and he is very aware of detail. I also get to know Him by observing Him - or at least observing what He does in the world and for those around me.

Part of our relationship is also what I do for Him. A while ago I began to think about love and how I could show love to God when He wasn't, in a physical bodily sense, with me. I thought about what I would do for Jesus if he were here, and I realised that I would want to prepare food and drink for Him, make the house look good for Him and spend time sitting and talking with Him - and would love to sing with him if He wanted to do this too. I would certainly put him up for the night if he needed somewhere to stay. How do we do these things for Jesus, for God, when we do not see Him in the flesh? We do them by doing all these things with God as our fiorst thought - I keep my house tidy (after a fashion!) for God, I cook nice meals for my husband for God's sake. We are also told in the Bible that when we clothe the naked, feed the hungry, etc., we are serving God - it is as though we were clothing and feeing God himself.

A big part of our relationship is trust - with all relationships you have to choose to trust in order to get to know a person better and deepen the relationship. I trust God more and more and I see this as a large part of our relationship. Now that I work at a school with children, I think about my relationship with God more and more and how He is a Father to us. I see how children get upset when I do things that are actually for their good but they cannot see it yet. I also realise how they are completely unaware that when I am not physically with them I am doing things for their benefit that they may never know about. I also see them get upset when I don't do somthing that they want me to do for them because it would mean that I had to be unfair to someone else to give them what they wanted. The children choose to put their trust in me because over time they realise that I care about them. As they trust me more it delights me, and when they don't trust me it hurts me. I am sure it pleases God when we trust Him and this is the primary focus of my relatioship with Him at the moment: learning to trust .

 

[CrazyforYeshua]

I think it's all of those things, but a very important part of the relationship is here also:

Matthew 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:Matthew 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.Matthew 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?Matthew 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?Matthew 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

We have to remember we are His servants, not only to Him, but to all those here as well. We are to do His work.

 

[kooolfriend]

I talk to Him every time am alone, I think about Him nearly all the times...
And He speaks back most of the time with an inner voice that I know it’s Him...
The more He reveals Himself to me, the more I want to fellowship with Him.
Must say that with time, the relationship I had with God change, it grows deeper, He speaks differently with me now that He did before...etc.

I had a child-father relationship when we fellowship together, but had also a servant-master relationship when doings His works...
God can be spiritual that can’t be seen with the eyes, but He do make Him/His will/His plan well visible to the one that desire/seek it...And sometime those that we don’t see/hear with the physical eyes/ears are the most visible/audible!

 

[FrankFaith]

Main Entry: re·la·tion·ship
Pronunciation: -sh&n-"ship
Function: noun
1 : the state of being related or interrelated <studied the relationship between the variables>
2 : the relation connecting or binding participants in a relationship: as a : [size=-1]KINSHIP[/size] b : a specific instance or type of kinship
3 a : a state of affairs existing between those having relations or dealings <had a good relationship with his family> b : a romantic or passionate attachment

 

[FrankFaith]

To me, according to the definition, If I am aware of the New Covenant and accept that I am adopted into the Family of God, I am in a relationship--it is my state of being with God; I have a relationship--a connection binding me in relationship with God; since I first became aware and accepted; and the state of affairs between God and I have been established and are set up/intended to continue by God's intent in setting up this mechanism of how He made things work.

 

[Qidron]

ok......? So do you have a point you are trying to get at?

 

[SharonL]

You're right... We can't physically, see, hear, feel, or speak with Him. But that is why there is the Spirit realm also. I "go up" to Heaven in the Spirit and sit and chat with Him often. It's like being in a vision state for a long period of time. Or not. A minute in Heaven could seem like a day here. There's no time there.

I talk with Him... He helps me, counsels me, talks to me, tells me about Himself, and I tell him about myself. He shows me things, he teaches me. He takes me places and comforts me. He loves me to death and I Him. He feeds me His word and reveals revalations to me.

And much more...

What a beautiful picture - If my relationship was this beautiful I would never get anything else done. I walk with him, talk with him and feel close - but not to this extent - I have a new goal to work on.

 

[flaglady]

I had a touch from Him - literally! I was praying for a dear young friend who was dying of cancer and sitting on the settee with head bowed, hands clasped, traditional posture, when I felt a hand on the top of my head. It was quite firm yet gentle and softly pressing down as I prayed. It happened three times in the nine months I was supporting this young chap. I can hardly describe the warmth, comfort and fullness of Spirit I felt afterwards.