Is it possible to really be communicating with God? This must be one of the most important questions in the world today. But why is that question more important today than before? Because God, Christianity, and the Christian values are under attack like never before. Maintaining faith in the One True God and his Son will become a matter of ‘we say – they say’ for those who have not discovered that communicating with God will ansver questions once and for all.

Well is it possible? Communicating with God can be so many different things. Let us start with the most spectacular question:

Is it possible for man to be communicating with God, face to face? In order for this to happen, to "communicate with God face to face", there are some requirements that must be fulfilled:

1.      There must be a God.

2.      This God must have an actual face (and, of course, all other body parts; in short, a body).

3.      This God must be interested in man.

4.      There must be a man who is interested in God.

5.      This man must be worthy to enter into the presence of God.

If any of the above links are missing, this communicating with God cannot, or will not take place. Let’s start by looking back in history. Has anything like that ever happened? Actually… it has!

11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

12 And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. (Exodus 33:11-12)

In this beautiful passage we get to see Moses communicating with God, face to face. We only get so listen in on a very little part of it, which is only fair. After all, Moses had paid a high price for being there! He lived righteously, he obeyed the voice of Jehovah, he sacrificed a privileged life in the royal courts of Egypt. The words of God to Moses were, of course, to a great extent private. But we got to know enough. By this passage we know that there is a God. We know that he has a face, and therefore, most likely a body. We know that God is interested in man. We know that if a man believes in God, follows his commandments, and in all things obeys his voice, he can, in fact, enter into the presence of God. Was Moses the only person who got an audience with God? Indeed not. Even our first parents in the Garden of Eden entered into his presence, communicating with God:

9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. (Genesis 3:9-13)

If Since Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses and others were communicating with God, is it not likely that Peter, James, John, Paul and others also were communicating with God? When we are communicating with God in prayer, we are asked to pray unto the Father, in the name of Jesus. We should understand this, that Jesus, our Mediator with the Father, pleads our prayers before Him. And in the same manner, whenever the Father wants to communicate with man, he will do so through the same Mediator, even Jesus Christ, or Jehovah.

14 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. (Isaiah 43:14-15)

Who is the Lord, the Redeemer, the Creator, the King of the Jews, and the Holy One of Israel? No other than Jesus Christ, Jehovah of the Old Testament, the only voice of Deity after the fall of Adam (with only a couple of special exceptions that we will discuss another time). And if he was willing to let worthy servants be communicating with God to in times of old, is he willing to do so now?

8 Jesus Christ (is) the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8)

We should find comfort in the knowledge that Jesus never changes, but is no respecter of person. However, those who are blessed to see the Lord in our time, and talk to him, face to face, as a man speaks to his friend, hold this experience to be sacred, and will not reveal what is in the burning bush for a world that is not willing to take of their shoes to enter holy ground.

But communicating with God face to face is not the only way we might be communicating with God. In his goodness the Father has ordained ways to communicate with God that are open also to struggling people, people who wouldn’t even dare approaching the physical presence of Deity. There are millions and millions of people who needs-, and wants-, their communicating with God. Let’s look at how we can approach the Lord in prayer, and look at the different ways that those prayers can, and will become man's communicating with God, not only a monolog.

Jesus taught us to turn unto the Father at the beginning of the prayer. Errors in translation has messed up the true wording of the beginning of the Lords’ Prayer. Of course it shouldn’t be: Our Father which art in heaven. He was talking to his real Father, a personage with a face, with a voice, who could sit upon a throne, upon who’s right side Jesus were seen. He is not an object. It should have read: Our Father who is in heaven. Now, the Lords’ Prayer is a public prayer, not a personal one, but it showed us how to begin a prayer properly. A private prayer will become closer to the Lord when private terms are used. ‘My Father in heaven’, ‘Dear Father’, ‘My Heavenly Father’, or words of that nature, are all appropriate ways to start a prayer. The Lord explains to David, the Psalmist, the key to a wonderful and fruitful personal prayer:

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalms 50:14-15)

So, after addressing the Lord properly, as shown above, we give expression to all the things that fills our hearts of gratitude. If we don’t have gratitude in our heart, then we do not have the spirit of prayer, and we need to take time to count our blessings until a feeling of gratitude comes creeping up on us. This is a good time to start praying. By expressing gratitude unto God, we become set in our minds to commit/recommit our lives unto him (pay our vows unto the most High). All things up to now has prepared us for the asking. And it is with the asking that the actual communicating with God can start! Is it selfish to ask God for help with our lives? No! But there is a line which one should not cross. The Spirit will teach the meek where that line is, but this much is clear, the line is crossed when we ask: Oh Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz… We should call upon him in the day of trouble. We should ask for health. We should ask for our daily bread. We should ask for wisdom. We should ask for guidance. We should ask to be lead by him. And he has promised that he will answer us:

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. (James 1:5-7)

When we ask of God, and we try to do it in faith, believing that he will answer our prayer, remember the pattern of the Lord throughout history. He has always been merciful unto all those who has sought him. And we need not fear the baggage of our past lives, for God promises not to upbraid. He will scan our heart and see what we intend with our future. If our heart is right with him for the future, mercy is what he will deliver. You will find that pattern over and over again in holy writ. This is the nature of God. You can have faith in this.

How will he answer your prayer? It depends on many different things. It depends on who you are. He wants you to sense the reply, and will probably use the modality that you are most comfortable with, or most receptive in. He will not answer your prayer in Latin. If it will ever be through a voice, it will be in your language. If he can reach you through your heart, that’s where he will answer you. If it is easier for you to listen through your mind, well, that is where the answer will come. He knows everyone of his children, and communicates with them on their terms. But one thing is sure, if you expect great, powerful, sensational answers, you open yourself to be deceived. God isn’t much for the spectacular. See the wonderful insight in this passage:

11 … And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:

12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. (1 Kings 19:11-12)

We live in a world of sensational impressions on our senses. God will not compete with the thunders of i-pods. He will never overpower the wind of the internet. He will not attempt to take the place of the fire of alluring DVD’s. But when the i-pod, computer and DVD is turned off, and everything is quiet, that is when God will speak. And he does all the time! And the people of our time hear it loud and clear, hates the responsibility it comes with, and therefore they step right out into the storm, thunder and fire; for in these – God is not!

In answering prayers God will use the nature, a baby, your neighbor, your friend, a stranger, your brother or sister, your mother or father, your memory, the newspaper, the radio, or whatsoever thing he sees fit to use that will find its way into your prepared mind. And when you recognize His hand in all things, and rejoice in the answers he gives you, you will find that he, from time to time, starts using other, more direct means. You can hear a still, small voice in your bosom. You can be overpowered by an impression to act a certain way. Your mind can be enlightened with an understanding that you know is above your own. And if you are so blessed to find a man with the authority of God to bestow upon you the Gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that you will be led, warned, comforted, cheered, enlightened, reminded and invigorated daily. Then it is the Holy Ghost, the third member of the godhead who will be your every day voice of the Lord in your communicating with God. Oh what a gift that is! Then you truly uphold communicating with God, and you will be guided through this deceitful world.