Learning to Walk With God Through Daily Communion

Chapter 1: From asking to conversing

I stopped asking and started conversing with the Holy Spirit and that completely changed my spiritual life. I want to start this message in a different way. I want to ask you a question. If the Holy Spirit were sitting right next to you now with no rush, no church service, no music, no one else around, what would you talk about with the Holy Spirit? Not what would you ask for, but what would you discuss with him?

Because there is a difference between the two. I discovered this on my own journey with him. I knew how to ask. I knew how to present my needs. I knew how to enter God's presence with a whole list of requests. But as time went on, a question arose within me. Diane, are you seeking the Holy Spirit only for what he can do? Or do you truly want to know him? That question really stirred me. Why? Because asking is easy.

Conversing, however, requires a relationship. Asking might take 2 minutes, but getting to know someone takes a long time. Asking for an answer is one thing. Wanting to know someone's heart is something else entirely something very different. And that was when I began doing something that completely transformed my spiritual life. I started talking to the Holy Spirit about things that had nothing to do with making a request.

Yet, it helped me grow immensely in my spiritual walk. I am going to share with you a bit of those conversations, things I've learned from him over many years. That is how my relationship with the Holy Spirit began so long ago. I started by saying, "Holy Spirit, may I ask you a question?" And you know what's interesting? Sometimes the question wasn't about what I needed, but about what I wanted to understand better.

I would ask, "Why did God do it this way?" or Holy Spirit, why are the things you reveal to some people that others seem never to perceive? And I would say, Holy Spirit, why do certain truths in the Bible seem simple to one person and so profound to others? I kept asking, saying, "Holy Spirit, why are the moments when I read a passage from the Bible, and then much later when I read it again, it seems to open up before me?" Then I began to realize something.