Know God: Personal Relationship with God

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; And the peace of God, which surpasses every man’s understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7, RecVer)

The Lord’s speaking these days have been to know Him in a subjective way; a way that is personal, private, intimate, and sweet fellowship with Him. In this way of experiencing the Lord, one can know God personally that will issue in the growth in life for the building of the Body corporately. In accordance with the Lord's up-to-date speaking, I have also been graced to experience Him in such a personal and intimate way.

God has sovereignly arranged matter after matter for me to consider before Him in prayer. In the past few weeks, I have had the blessing of bringing my personal matters to the Lord every night during my personal prayer time with Him. What an experience to converse with the Lord in a human level! I was graced and blessed to talk to him as friend with friend, or at times, as a son to his Father. Either way, I experienced much transaction with the Lord. In fact, every night, at least for one matter, I fellowshipped with the Lord. And through such fellowship, the Lord graced me the light to discern His will in those personal matters. Some of these seemed trivial, yet in all those small things I could experience the Lord. Some matters were as simple as when to apply for my daughter's further studies, when to visit Taiwan embassy, and when to apply for test etc. The weight of the matter is not the matter, but the weighty experiences of the Lord in such matters are what matters. I felt very blessed to be graced with so many transactions with the Lord. I believe, the Lord has worked Himself into me much these days. I myself could sense the changes transpiring within me. O what a blessing to know God in such an experiential way!

The Lord knows best for the outward result of all these matters I brought to Him in prayers. No matter what the outcome may be, I actually have already got the results to all the matters I brought to Him in prayers. Or put it simply, the answers to my prayers were the experiences of God in and through those prayers. I had hundreds of conversations with the Lord, one on one. I believe, it will be thousands and ten thousands conversations with the Lord gradually.

This is what it means to know God; the experience of God, the enjoyment of God, and the possession of God, which will ultimately issue in the expression of God! Hallelujah! What a blessed Christian life to know God in such an experiential way!

Having tasted the sweetness of such fellowship with the Lord, I treasure my personal time with the Lord very much these days. In fact, I cannot live without it. Though I have been pursuing the Lord through my daily Bible reading, truth pursuing, corporate pursuing, etc., I cannot pass my day without spending adequate time with the Lord in prayer. This reminds me of a hymn by Fanny Jane Crosby (Hymns 387):

O the pure delight of a single hour

That before Thy throne I spend,

When I kneel in prayer, and with Thee, my God,

I commune as friend with friend!

Lord, cause me and all the saints to know You more and more each day. Yes, know You personally, intimately, privately, and sweetly too!