#1d - Faith in Prayer
Jun 23rd, 2008 by Brian
This issue of Faith has been a difficult issue to understand. But one of the biggest changes in my life has been the fact that God is omnipresent. Once I understood that God is omnipresent and this fact became more than head knowledge, my prayer life radically changed.
No longer was I praying to a God that was millions of miles away but He is sitting with me in my office.
It took a while for this to set in but things began to radically change once I began to really believe in the omnipresence of God. In today’s Bible reading, Isaiah describes how God will one day be the ultimate ruler. However instead of being this egotistical being, Isaiah describes Him as being a Counselor, a Father, and a Peace (ch. 9). This is not the God of the future but also a God of today.
I remember talking to God as if He sat millions of miles away and the only way He will listen to me is if I bowed my heads, closed my eyes, and ended with “In Jesus name I pray, Amen.” But once my head knowledge of God’s omnipresence became Faith, prayers started getting answered; a closer relationship started happening; I started hearing His voice and His Spirit talking back.
The point of me taking so long describing Faith is because I believe that we have totally misquoted Faith. Faith is not something that we “hope” works out, but facts that we believe in that changes our behavior.
Wow, this really got me to thinking as well! When I was a little kido I use to have an imaginary play mate. Well, he wasn’t imaginary it was the son of the rifle man on T.V. His name on the show was Mark. Anyways(quit laughing) Mark went everywhere I went, well almost everywhere,he was there when I played outside and all. I talked to him and in my mind he talked back. Now as an adult as a Christian, I have the Lord. But,I,too at times think He is millions of miles away but at the same time I know He is a omnipresent God. As I read your comments literally omnipresent means right here with me at all times in the room in the car all the time. Wow that will stop ya in your tracks real fast and make ya think,how I have, at times, such small faith in a Big,Mighty God! And, what we think of Him is just a glimpse of what we will see of Him in Glory!!
So, as I have become an adult my imaginary friend has long been gone and forgotten, BUT replaced with a REAL friend who walks with me and talks with me and who will never leave my side.
Thanks for opening my eyes a little wider!