Removing the Obstacles

This week  we learned there are obstacles to experiencing every benefit is ours as believers.

The first benefit was to know and believe God.

-Prayerlessness is an obstacle to us experiencing God's Peace!

God wants relationship with us. To have relationship with someone there has to be interaction.  Pray is an obvious action moving us into relationship with God.

For some, prayer sounds intimidating. Prayer is just talking.  Just talking it out like you would with a friend.  You can do that with God too.  As a matter of fact, why not start with Him first.  Talk it out with Him and you might find the need to speak to another person wain!  Try it.

The other side of prayer is listening. In the bible, God says, "my sheep hear my voice".  The sheep is us or is it, the sheep are we(?) :)  So just how do we 'hear' God talk to us.  Well, my pastor says, 'when you open God's book, He opens his mouth'.  I like that.  It seems kind of silly at first, but if you get into the habit of speaking to God in prayer, and reading His Words out of His Book, something happens and they become personal.  It is what I call a 'God is freaking me out' moment.  They're cool!

Prayerlessness- an obstacle to me knowing and believing God.  I know how to remove that road block.
Do you?