Interactions with God #49

We moved out of the two family house in Manchester, NH sometime in around April of 1990.  Martha had lost her job at the bank.  Fleet Bank bought Indian Head and changed up quite a few things in the process.  I was still at the bank, but now working as a clerk in the mortgage division.  Not too long after her layoff, Martha took a job as a Secretary/Administrator at the church we had been part of.  She was the first secretary the church had.  The pastor loved Martha.  Me, not so much. 

Since we no longer had a need to be between Nashua and Concord, we moved into another top floor of a two family house. This time, it was in Nashua, NH.  It was owned by a family that also went to our church, Lenny and Leah Mercer.

In this apartment, I put our couch up against the windows in the living room area.  This became my new favorite prayer spot.  I would kneel on the couch, leaning up on the back, facing the window and just talk to God.  I did this, generally, in the dark. 

Prayer is a funny thing sometimes.  It is just talking to God, but God talks in rather expansive ways.  He can communicate with thoughts, out loud words, pictures, feelings, circumstances and even grumblings in your stomach…anything.  Until one night in particular, I had not realized how expansive His communication truly is.

It was getting warmer, so the window was open.  I sat there in the dark. Martha had gone to bed.  It was quiet outside that night.  I had been praying for a while and like always, I did most of the talking.  I finally stopped and just sat there.  I felt His presence, but He wasn’t saying anything either.  It was then, that I had this strange thought.  “I know what He is thinking.” 

Now, it wasn’t thought that I heard, rather it was a strange awareness of “knowing” what He was thinking, feeling, and cared about…I was not even sure what it was.  I just knew I had this connection.  It then occurred to me that if someone came into the room and asked me what God thought about _______ (fill in topic here).  I would be able to answer immediately and be absolutely correct.  Once I completed this line of thinking, I stopped because I thought it dangerous, arrogant even.  I got up afterward and went to bed.  

The next day, not remembering my bizarre thinking, I did my daily bible reading.  I ended up in 1 Corinthians Chapter 2, particularly verses 6 through 16.

I Corinthians 2:6-16

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 

7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 

8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen,     what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 

11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 

12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 

15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 

16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”  But we have the mind of Christ.

While reading this passage, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to what He is saying here, exactly what He made me aware of the very night before.  We have access, because of the Holy Spirit, to the very mind of God.  This was HUGE!  No, this IS HUGE! 

Because we, who truly believe in Jesus Christ, are indwelt by the Spirit of the Living God.  We are connected to God.  Not just Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, but also to the Father.  The entire Trinity, God Himself.  That connection, is where the prophetic comes from. Where our understanding of all things God, comes from.  Were the power to live a Godly life comes from! 

As the passage above says, this is also the only way we can understand the greater things.  It is a gift that I have never heard taught or even talked about, but something that we should relish as much or more as our eternal salvation.  You see, God didn’t just save us to live in big houses on golden streets.  No, He saved us to be connected on a level that even Marriage is a rather poor example.  He did, after all, say we would be one with Him and the Father.  One... Now, THAT is connected.