God will not come to you if you don’t first come close to
Him.
Many believers desire a closer walk with God but fail to take the first step. God promises in James 4:8: “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” Just as in a relationship where one must make the first move, believers must approach God through His Word and prayer to experience true intimacy with Him.
One of the ways to enjoy our all-round expressions of our God-given victories in Christ Jesus in this year 2026; is by drawing closer to God. When you become intimate with Him, you will be able to discern His voice and the patterns He speaks. You will be able to hear Him when He speaks, even when you are noisy.
It only takes a man who is close to God to pay good attention to his thoughts and align them with God, and this is one major requirements from us to experience our all-round victory.
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
This scripture will only come true for you if you are a believer with close relationship with God. It is this closeness that will enable you to renew your mind, and when your mind is renewed, it becomes so easy for you to access God's voice which is a major requirement for our all round victories in Christ Jesus in 2026.
James 4:8— “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to
you”.
The condition for God to come closer to you is for you to
first come closer to Him. You are to make the first attempt. In this case, a
believer is the man, while God is the woman. A man always has to do the wooing
for a romantic relationship to be established. A man makes the first, second,
third and continuous attempt until the woman accept his love relationship
proposal, and a romantic relationship is established between a man and woman.
This is the same sequence of events when a believer desiring or seeking to know
and draw closer to God.
Many believers want to know God better and be closer to Him
than before, they want to understand His ways, Word etc. better, but they never
first go to Him through His word to study it, and in prayers to fellowship with
Him. They are just there desiring to have this intimate relationship with Him
but never take any steps to achieve that.
Let me tell you, God will never come to you unless you first
come to Him. That is why He said in our anchor scripture “draw near to me and I
will draw near to you”. This is also confirmed in:
John 6:37---All that the father giveth me shall come
to me, and him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast away.
Two striking phrases from this scripture:
“Shall come to me”
and
“Him that cometh to me”.
These are two verbal phrases; which means they are action
words. The two phrases demand an action or place a responsibility on whosoever
desires to know God (salvation), or whosoever desires to know him better and
draw more closer to him. These two phrases show we must do the wooing. You must
take the lead.
No matter how cry and desire to draw closer to God, if you
don’t take a step towards achieving this, He might never come to you. Same as,
no matter how you admire and desire a lady for a romantic and serious
relationship, if you don’t take the first step to woo her, she will never be
yours. Even though she desires you in her heart also, she will never approach
you, because it is a natural law that a man is the one to woo a woman, not the
other way. Even when some women woo men, most societies frown at such women and
see them as cheap and of low value because they are breaking a natural
universal law.
God Himself, desires every believer to be closer to Him more
than they desire to be close to God, but He will never beg them to. He can only
instruct and show them how to in His word, but will never beg them, because He
is the creator of heaven and earth and demands worships from everyman.
John 15:4—Abide in me and I in you.
This is another confirmation that you are to make the first
attempt. God can never abide in you unless you first abide in Him. Likewise,
God can’t dwell in a man unless that man first dwell continuously in God’s
presence. God doesn’t force Himself on anyone. You have to call on Him first
before He can come to you.
If your desire today is to draw closer to God better,
understand His ways and word better, then the question is “What steps have you
taken”. Desiring it alone can’t bring God to you, you have to first ask it from
Him. That’s why He said in James 4:2—That ye have not, because ye ask
not.
Every desire must be backed up with asking. That is when
your desire can come true. God is no respecter of man.
How Do We Draw Close to God?
Desiring to know God better isn’t enough, but taking steps
to woo Him to take us closer to Himself. How can we woo him? Now, that we truly
desire to be more intimate with God, the next step is to meet Him at the place
where He is always available, and the number one of such places is “His Word”.
John 1:1—In the beginning the word already existed;
the word was with God, and the word was God.
“And the word was God”. So, the word of God is God Himself
and that was why capital letter W was used to spell the word, meaning it is a
pronoun—a person. So, whenever you encounter or sit down with God’s word to
listen to it or study it, you are meeting with God. You are having an encounter
with God. And every light you receive from such encounter or meeting is God
revealing Himself deeper to you.
This is one way we see and know Him better. You came to His
word to study it. The Bible didn’t jump into your hand so that you study it.
The church or believer’s gathering you attended where you heard the word of
God, the word didn’t come to you, but you went to such gathering to meet with
the word. Even if it is in your house, you still called for the word.
One thing is common with these scenarios, and that is the
fact that; you made the first approach on the word (you called on the word
(God) and He came to you. You picked up your Bible to study it, you went to the
church or believers gathering to hear His word. In all these attempts, one
thing is sure—that God came to you, because you first came to Him. If you
didn’t approach your Bible to study it, nor go that believers gathering to hear
His word, God would have spoken to you through His word that day.
God will only make you see the need to be closer to Him but
He expects you to approach Him first.
The number two place is on the altar of prayer. God makes
Himself more known to people on their knees in prayer. Prayer is dialoging or
communing with God. When you dialogue with a person in the natural realm, you
get to know the person better. His mind, will, intentions, desires, likes and
dislikes etc. So also, when you dialogue with God in prayers. He reveals His
identity more to you. That is why, the altar of prayer is the altar of
revelation.
This is why praying shouldn’t just be a formality, but a
dialogue with God. In every dialogue there must be immediate responses or
feedback. Hence, whenever we pray, we must be able to hear God’s voice. We must
be able to get feedback from Him, if we truly do it with an undivided heart and
good motive.
Jeremiah 29:13----You will seek me and find me when
you seek me with all your heart.
The condition to find Him is when you seek Him with all your
heart---which is an undivided mind, a mind fully focused and concentrated on
God.
Proverbs 8:17---I love those who love me, and those
who seek me find me.
Mind you, God talks in different forms, sometimes audible,
sometimes a small faint voice, sometimes a suggestion, sometimes He makes you
remember something that will be an answer to your request when acted upon. But
most times, when He speaks to us on the prayer altar, we were unable to catch
His voice because there is a particular way we are expecting to hear Him speak
to us.
There is no time a believer prays that God doesn’t talk to
him. Even if He tells you “My Son continue to wait on me in prayers”, that is
feedback from Him. So, we know Him, get more closer to Him the more we pray and
hear His voice clearly. The problem is that, most believers take prayer as a
ritual instead of as a communion with God. That is why they can’t hear God
whenever they pray, because he who communicates must pay good attention so he
can hear and reply back. Most Christians just pray without even expecting to
hear God, because they see prayer as a ritual.
This is also why the prayer of many believers is always
about petitions instead of fellowship. If a believer see prayer as a communion,
he will fellowship more than petition on the altar of prayer.
For instance, the more a man communicates with his wife, the
more he knows her personality--temperament, character, likes/dislikes,
strength, weakness etc. and vice versa. That’s how it is in the kingdom of God.
But God doesn’t have any weakness.
Summary:
Desire alone is not enough. God responds to initiative. Draw near, seek Him diligently, and your spiritual intimacy and understanding will deepen. Every encounter with God’s Word and every moment on the prayer altar is a step toward drawing closer to God and which enables us to experience His presence and guidance more fully.
Isaiah 30:21 (KJV)
“And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.”
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