For me, it started with God’s name, I AM. With all the names of God and trying to remember the meaning of all His Hebrew names, at the end of the day when someone asks me, “What is God’s name?,” I say, “I AM.”

But Moses replied, “When I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ So what can I tell them?”

God said, “I am who I am. You must tell them: ‘The one who is called I Am^[a] has sent me to you.’ Tell the Israelites that I, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name forever; this is what all future generations are to call me. – Exodus 3:13-15 GNT

How can I come to know His voice? He calls me and invites me to know Him and to join Him on the road that will lead me to freedom.

Jesus prayed regularly for that reason.

At that time Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God. – Luke 6:12 GNT

All night praying or having devoted time for praying is my call today.

Do not deny yourselves to each other, unless you first agree to do so for a while in order to spend your time in prayer; but then resume normal marital relations. In this way you will be kept from giving in to Satan’s temptation because of your lack of self-control. – 1 Corinthians 7:5 GNT

I know I pray but here I am called to set aside my life, even my relationship with my wife, in order to spend quality time with God. It is preparing myself to meet with God I require leaving off everything to pray. It is in these moments I feel called to set apart a time to meet with Him so that He can reveal Himself to me.

 “We should not decide how to pray based on the experiences and feeling we want. Instead, we should do everything possible to behold our God as he is, and prayer will follow. The more clearly we grasp who God is, the more our prayer is shaped and determined accordingly.” – Timothy Keller