Speak with God

As I read Psalm 119:169-176 this morning I saw and was reminded to speak with God. Yes, prayer is interacting with God and telling and asking things. What I am really referring to here is to really speak or talk with God. Have a conversation with Him. Open up to Him and let Him into your life.

“¹⁶⁹Let my cry… ¹⁷⁰Let my plea… ¹⁷¹My lips… ¹⁷²My tongue…” – Psalm 119:169-172 (ESV)

I have only placed the first parts of the verses above to show the action that I should be taking in my conversations with God. I have to give to Him as He has given me so much. I have to open up to Him and allow for our relationship to grow and blossom. I have to bring Him the good, the bad, the uncomfortable, and the exciting to release that which is bottled up. I have to allow Him to hear me.

I know what you may be thinking and it is true, God already knows. What I am referring to here is that I have to let Him know so that I can hear it and know that I have communicated it. Too often I have been the one to just keep silent and feel as though someone already knows, and they may, but it is not until I bring it up that it becomes real and can be dealt with.

In the instance of speaking with God, I have to remember to bring it up out loud, not so He can deal with it, but so I can. I have to openly say things so that they become real and are now actionable. Take the instance of goals I may have for accomplishing things. I can think them and they are there, but whether or not I work to achieve them is arbitrary. Now when I write them down and have to stare at them knowing that I have missed the mark, then I will work to take action. My interactions with God are the same. I have to get them out so that I am forced to stare them down and deal with them at that moment.

Thanks be to God that He just lets me speak and He listens. When I am done He will guide me and present items that I am now ready to work with as I have opened up to taking action.

“¹⁷³Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.” – Psalm 119:173 (ESV)

What have you bottled up or kept internal thinking that God already knows? Are you waiting for Him to act? What if you were to get it out by speaking with God and being ready to take action?