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How to Get Close To God, Pray and Walk with Him, In These Last Days

This message will investigate, our whole relationship with God. It will look at how:

– We all can get closer to God

– we can pray better

– we can get our journey with Him much better.

In our days now, we are experiencing these:

– Mass Apostasy

– Persecutions

– Heresies

– False Teachings

– Twisting of Scriptures

– Non Scriptural, False Prophecies.

It is vital, that all individual born again believers, learn how to get close to God, and be instructed by God personally.

We should have a better attitude, the same way, that the great bible characters did. They virtually (single-handedly) served the Lord, in the right way, and in times of apostasy or persecution.

This was also done by: David, Jeremiah, Daniel, Paul etc.

Please now read these next 2 passages, which contain prints, and short explanation. Then take a look at 3 other messages, a bit further down. However, I believe you first need to get into the first 2 messages first, as part of the first message.

These messages were saved here, from my old blog.

Please now, open up all these below in blue and green. This will help you, to be able to get to the place, where you can actually see my old blog wordings.

God is NOW Sending Us a Last Warning that the Rapture of the Church, Followed By the Great Tribulation Is VERY Close at Hand. Strong Evidence Given

Rick Warren and Word of Faith’s Full Apostasy is Complete. Mystery Babylon is Taking Even Greater Shape Before Our Eyes

These were illustrating, how very close we are, to the:

– Rapture

– Second Coming

– Great Tribulation Times, on the Earth.

Therefore, we need to rediscover and learn, how to get close to God now – so that we are ready. As Jesus said “watch and pray” and “when you see these things happening, look up for your redemption is drawing near”.

How to get Close to God

A good starting point, of how to get close to God, would be to read this next article:

How To Study The Bible and Why. Learning How To Avoid Deception

There are 2 main ways of getting close to God.

To have a relationship with anybody, it is important to spend time in that person’s presence, either listening – or talking to each other.

Or even, just simply enjoying each other’s presence. It is no different with God. He has chosen to Speak to us, through His word and listen to our prayers. 

We listen through: reading/studying/meditating, on the things He reveals to us, through scriptures.

 We talk to Him through prayer.

Remember always, that prayer is our way of communicating directly to God, by talking to Him – about the things that concern us.

It is important to learn, what things we should pray for, by developing our knowledge of Him – through what the Bible tells us, about Him.

The more we learn about Him, the more we learn what things we should pray for, and develop a “mind of God”. That is, a mind that thinks like God.

This is because we think, according to the bible (Word of God). God has chosen, to reveal, who He is – and display His mind in the scriptures.

With these things in mind, it is good, to use Bible Teaching – of Matthew 6: 6 – 1 3, as a starting point, when we pray. Don’t just read out that prayer, to God, but focus seriously on every word. Please use each phrase, as an introduction, to each aspect of prayer. An indication of this, is shown next.

1. Adoration, Thanksgiving:

It starts with spending time telling God, that we acknowledge who He is, and how great and wonderful He is: Adoration and Praise

2. Supplication:

We then ask Him to:

– Take Control, of our Lives

– Save the Lives, of those we Love

– Gradually spread these requests, to the whole world.

Remember the Prayer, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven”.

This should take up most of our time in prayer, not just asking vaguely for the kingdom to come, but specifically making prayer requests. These lead towards that bigger picture.

This is like asking God to change His mind, or consider another political leader, that would introduce Godly changes. Or praying that the Holy Spirit would convict an unsaved loved one, of these 3 things: Righteousness, sin and judgement.

This so that they may be saved. Or for fellow believers, that they may be filled, with the knowledge of God – in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

All these, were helping us use scripture verses, to pray. By using scripture verses in our prayers, it helps us attune ourselves, to the things God wants us to pray for.

3. Confession & Personal Requests:

We then:

– pray to God, for our own specific needs

– finally confess our failings with others, asking God to help us overcome these specific temptations in the future

– list the things, we personally need spiritual protection from.

The order is:

– First God, focus on God/Jesus

– Second Others, focus on praying for the world

– Third Yourself, finally pray for our own needs.

That is: Jesus first, Others second, Yourselves last of all.

When confessing sin, it is good to use psalm 5 1, as a guide – in how to do this. When praying for the kingdom, to realise it is good to use John 1 7, as a guide to part of that area. It is good, to see how those in the bible prayed, such as:

Daniel, David (psalms) Paul (in his letters) and of course, Jesus.

There is also another help you can use, when seeking God in prayer. You can use the Acronym “ACTS“. That is spelt as: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication. Although, not in that order.

I personally would place it slightly differently, as “ASCTA“. That is: Adoration, Supplication, Confession, Thanksgiving, Adoration.

It starts with Adoration and ends with Adoration. During the time of Adoration, you can sing songs/hymns, that are specifically Prayer and Praise songs – and are directed to Him, e.g. “I love you Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship you”. Songs are a good way, to open your heart to God.

It is important, when you pray, that you can find a place – where you can open up your heart, to speak direct to God with your voice. This does not need to be loud, because Prayer to God is secret, between you and Him.

But you do need to open yourself up to God properly. This openness, can only be done, by speaking audibly. This will really help your concentration to God, much better this way, by not praying with closed lips. It must be audible, but as low as possible, as it doesn’t have to be loud.

This is because, there is power and release, in speaking out verbally. It is very difficult to pour out your heart and soul to God, if it is only in the mind. The psalmist said “come bless the Lord, all my soul and all that is within me”. How can that be achieved, unless it is verbal?

Prayer includes, and is, a pouring out of your heart and soul – and emotions to God. Prayer includes particularly, supplications and intercession.

Paul said in Philippians 4: 6:

“Do not worry about anything, but by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And then the peace of God that passes all understanding, will keep your heart and mind in Christ Jesus“

You have only got to read the Psalms of David, to see how he poured out his heart, and soul to God.

I will now give you an article, which deals with another aspect of our relationship with God, which is meditation and praise.

Regarding the meditation, it is not the emptying of the mind, nor the (Transcendental Meditation) type. It is a simple thinking and concentrating, on the scripture you are reading. It includes thinking about how it applies, and what God is saying to you personally, through it.

Here are some more verses, you can use.

Fix Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Here are 2 other relevant articles, which will help you direct your minds, correctly towards God – rather than get badly influenced, by those who declare confusing things, in how to get close to God.

Prophetic Ministry In These Last Days. How to Recognise True And False Prophecies

In These days Of Apostasy and False Christianity, Should We Still Attend Apostate Churches?

How to Walk with God

Regarding walking with Him. The starting place, would be exactly the same as above. It is impossible to know how to walk with Him, UNTIL you have developed your close relationship with Him. That needs to be nurtured first.

Only when we develop the mind of God, through reading/studying/meditating, upon the things we have read and prayed – will we know how to serve Him in obedience, and be led by the Holy Spirit to discern His voice. Here is proof that this is the case:

Hebrews 5: 1 2 – 1 4

“Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use, have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil” 

This is telling us, that it takes time to develop a listening ear, to the Holy Spirit’s leading – and it comes, by applying the things we learn from the bible, into our daily lives.

By constant application of the Word of God, to our daily lives, we develop the mind of Christ – and the instincts, of what God wants us to do.

The Holy Spirit will never contradict God’s Word, the bible. However, we can easily be influenced by other sources, e.g. false teachers and satanic lies. These lies though, sometimes may sound very convincing, persuasive – and plausible.

This is because we are weak human beings, susceptible to sin and deception.

Many believe, that the Holy Spirit has spoken to them, or lead them in a certain direction. They come to this conclusion, without reading carefully, from the Bible first.

This is a terrible thing to do, or trust, without reading the Bible carefully first. These beliefs, feelings or even words, cannot be true – if they are led into unscriptural practice, and follow a false representation of God.

No matter how convinced you are, or how much you want it to be true, it is always best/wise to have a humble attitude – with an open and honest heart before God, and His Word (the Bible).

This attitude should always be used. You should be determined to reject things, if the whole bible’s overall teaching (in context) on these things, reveals you are incorrect.

As said, the Holy Spirit will NEVER reveal things to you, that contradict the bible. God knows that we need a measuring device, standard or plumb-line, to test our experiences with. This He uses, to speak to us through the bible.

Jesus said, that the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth.

John 1 6: 1 3, told us that we need no man to teach us, as the Holy Spirit will teach us all things. See also 1 John 2: 2 7.

That means that the Holy Spirit will teach us, when we read the Bible, by illuminating the truth contained in the bible – and helping us to understand what we are reading.

Jesus was speaking to the apostles, who were to write the new testament.

He taught them, that the Holy Spirit would lead THEM into all truth. Then John told us, that it is the Holy Spirit who teaches us. This was said, at a time, when large sections of scriptures were available.

It doesn’t mean, that we should not listen to pastors/teachers.

However, we need to understand, that the greatest and best teaching, comes from the Holy Spirit direct. The teaching from a good man of God, cannot be grasped, unless the Holy Spirit Himself – helps and teaches us.

Our dependence, should be upon the Holy Spirit, to teach us direct from the scriptures – rather than indirectly, through a man. This man (if good) may be simply a channel to help/guide us, but the real teacher is the Holy Spirit.