Being a Christian Pastor, many people ask me about prayer, how should I pray and communicate with God, and does He really hear my prayers?
I have been praying and conversing with God all my adult life, over 50 years. During those years, I have both witnessed and personally experienced how God communicates and interacts with human beings.
I would like to share some of the things I have observed and learned in my relationship with God, and from others who have shared their experiences.
To begin with, one of the most important things to realize about God, is that He is omnipresent. His living spirit dwells within the body, mind and soul of every human being. This enables God, to hear the thoughts, feel the emotions and witness the activities of every person alive.
When God communicates with humans, the method He most commonly uses is telepathic in nature, revealing information in a person’s thoughts, in their dreams and sometimes through visions, music and song. His celestial voice is heard within a person’s spirit soul, through instinctive perception and emotional senses but not by their body’s physical hearing.
Also, its important to remember that one of God’s greatest gifts to humanity is the freedom of thought and action, therefore, He gives humans complete and unrestricted free will to decide and do as they please, and God never interferes with that virtue.
He does, however, give each human being a spiritual conscious that speaks to them telepathically. Therefore, if a person violates one or more of God’s moral laws, no matter what the level of violation, in their mind and heart, they are aware of it, so every person knows when they have committed a sin in the eyes of God.
Some people feel remorse and seek atonement for the sins they have committed, while others cover up their remorse with vanity, and will continue to do wrong acts without regret, and may never seek atonement or forgiveness. Some even believe sin or immorality has no consequence.
God gives all human beings the ability to receive and understand His communications. Sadly however, many people never take time in life to develop their spiritual insight. They spend all their time focusing on earthly, temporal, carnal desires and very little on the spiritual.
As a Pastor, I would like to offer a teaching on how to recognize and understand God’s communications.
I refer to it as God's Traffic Light. Its a simple way of explaining how God communicates.
God communicates with human beings like a traffic light sends signals.
A traffic light has three colors or signals: Red, Yellow and Green, and each color has a distinct and specific meaning.
God sends signals in a similar manner as a traffic light, which are then received in our human spirit. We don't see them as a color, but rather, feel them as an instinct or an emotion:
Red | Stop, Wrong, False, Unsafe, Danger, Avoid or Unhealthy |
---|---|
Yellow | Slow Down, Pause, Caution, Carefulness or Meditation |
Green | Go, Move Forward, Right, Truth, Fruitful, Safe, or Healthy |
When a person prays to God asking for their desires or for help with a problem or issue, God is going to give them direction through a sign or signal, which will come at the most advantageous and appropriate times to benefit them. Therefore, what a person must do than, is to learn how to recognize and correctly interpret these communications and react accordingly.
Here are some examples:
If a person senses any of the feelings or emotions referenced in the table below, they should react in a similar manner as they would to traffic light signals when driving an automobile.
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
Red Light |
Yellow Light |
Green Light |
| ||
During a person’s lifespan, they will receive thousands of these types of communications from God. Therefore, it is up to each person to react with wisdom, and to manage their decisions and actions with sound judgment and good sense. This will result in a successful, joyful and fulfilling life.
If however, a person becomes in-different or careless in recognizing and reacting to God’s signals, than usually, their life is going to become filled with confusion, hardships, unwanted problems, stress, disappointment, depression and unhappiness.
God hears all prayers from human beings. Its important to realize that prayer requests are usually realized through the measure and depth of a person's faith. Therefore, keep your faith strong, no matter what happens.
Faith is the assurance of things hoped and prayed for, and the conviction of things not seen. Through faith, things that are believed to be impossible, become possible, things that are unknown, become known, things that are unseen, become visible, things that are hidden, become found, and honorable desires that are prayed for, become realized.
But most important of all, through love and faith in God, you can gain salvation, forgiveness of sin, resurrection and rebirth from death, be given a new, perfect, ageless body, eternal life, and be placed in God’s heavenly kingdom of paradise where you will dwell in joy and happiness for eternity.
Through time, God has selected and used certain human beings to be His prophets and deliver messages. Also, its important to mention, that God at various times, will send angelic beings or angels to help or protect human beings. Thousands of people have been healed from severe illness, saved from horrific injuries or death by protective angels.
I have personally experienced this directly myself, when, at the age of 9 years old, I was floating in a river on a rubber inner-tube; suddenly, the inner-tube burst, I sunk in the water and started to drown. Then amazingly, two glowing angels clothed in white garments lifted me out of the water and placed me on the river bank, then vanished in seconds. Had this not happened, I would have surely died.
During my tenure as a Pastor, I have been told stories by dozens of people who have experienced or witnessed similar angelic experiences.
God also communicates with us through His words in the Bible. I would recommend that anyone who believes in the spiritual realm should read and study the Bible as often as possible.
On my ministry website, both the Old and New Testament books are available in either text or audio versions, just click on any of the links below or on the image of the bible:
https://www.celestialgrace.org/bible/bible-menu.pdf
I would also recommend to read over The Gospel of the Nazarenes, which was removed from Bible content by the prejudicial Council of Neceia in 325 AD:
https://www.celestialgrace.org/gospel_nazarenes/introduction.pdf
May the grace of God be upon you always.
Sincerely,
Pastor Andy Anderson
Celestial Grace Ministry