{"id":2526,"date":"2015-11-03T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2015-11-03T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:22:27","slug":"prayer-for-intimacy-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2015\/11\/prayer-for-intimacy-with-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Intimacy With God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i><\/i><\/b><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cCome near to God, and He will come near to you.\u201d James 4:8<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201c\u2018You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,\u2019 declares the Lord.\u201d Jeremiah 29:13,14a<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">God gave you a will to choose Him, and He\u2019s not about to override that will. He gives us invitation towards intimacy, but, like a gentleman, He respects our choices and doesn\u2019t control or insist on anything. Want intimacy with God? You must make the first move towards Him.\u00a0Don\u2019t wait for God to break into your life and take over. It won&#8217;t happen that way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHere I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.\u201d (Revelation 3:20)<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You have to open the door, for He will never barge in uninvited. Then, cook Him the best dinner you can muster, and enjoy the best company the world has ever known. But don\u2019t keep Him as an occasional guest. Make Him family. Make Him Lord. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Father, <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>I need Your involvement in every detail of my life. I\u2019m lonely without you, adrift on a sea of indecision, going nowhere. I choose today to come near to you, to talk with you as a good friend, to share my heart, my desires, my remorse, and my pain. To hear you say, \u201cYou are forgiven, my child.\u201d I hereby promise to seek you with everything that I am, and I audaciously receive the promise of your Word that you will not remain a mystery to me, but that I will find what my heart has been searching for all along: A Father who adores\u00a0me, a Savior who suffered for me, and a Spirit who will never forsake me.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Amen<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCome near to God, and He will come near to you.\u201d James 4:8 \u201c\u2018You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,\u2019 declares the Lord.\u201d Jeremiah 29:13,14a God gave you a will to choose Him, and He\u2019s not about to override that will.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,7,4,25,3,1],"tags":[1441,900,117,1440,1442,1443],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-prayer","category-daily-prayer","category-god","category-jesus","category-prayer","category-uncategorized","tag-gods-purpose-for-my-life","tag-intimacy","tag-prayer-3","tag-relationship-with-god","tag-searching-for-god","tag-who-is-god"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prayer for Intimacy With God<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2015\/11\/prayer-for-intimacy-with-god.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prayer for Intimacy With God\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cCome near to God, and He will come near to you.\u201d James 4:8 \u201c\u2018You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 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