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Written by Tim Chester, a contemporary British pastor, speaker, and author. 

When we pray, it’s all too easy to think we’re praying to a thing or a force. It can seem a bit abstract. We try to imagine God, but God is invisible. How can we see the invisible God? How can finite people know the infinite? The answer is we can’t! We don’t have a relationship with “God” in a general sense. We can’t know the essence of God—the “god-ness” of God. His nature is beyond our comprehension. But we can know the Persons of God. God lives in an eternal community in which the Father, Son and Spirit relate to one another in love. And when God relates to us, He relates to us in the same way—as Father, Son, and Spirit. So, when we talk about having a relationship with God, that’s really shorthand for having a relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. [2 Corinthians 13:14]