The moment a Christian fails to receive an answer to their prayers he/she begins to doubt more especially in his/her hour of need, and more especially when the prevailing setback is not of his/her own doings, where is God? why allow this... Before Christ, the world had relegated the Almighty to the conception of the Jew. Therefore powerful people like Nebuchadnezzar and Tiglath Pileser could all taunt Isreal into submission - "Where is your God, worship my God too", and so on. But with the arrival of Jesus Christ, everything changed. For Jesus was to introduce to the entire world that the God of whom the world has bound to Isreal and the Jews alone, is in fact the God who created all, even though the Scriptures point to that all along.  And by the end of the first century, the entire world was seeking to find this God. But it is necessary or indeed important to find God or to know Him. 

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But the answer is yes it's very important to seek him and indeed to know him.  The world, in the beginning, has not bothered to seek or know anything invincible and had lived on speculation and hearsay and as such, many hearts have been broken with deception.  If the world has sought to know the value of water, trees, stones and many things they worshipped in the beginning they would have realized that those things in themselves are nothing because they themselves were created just like we were.  We as believers of the true God must not fall foul to those speculative gods.  Therefore we must seek and know God. If you come to know someone who is good, then can you be assured of the flow of his goodness to you at all times because by knowing him you will know of his likes and dislikes.  This in turn will help you to be able to walk with him or be in his companionship for a long time.  

If you don't know him and depend solely on what others tell you about him, You are bound to trip up one way or the other because you do not know him personally.  Does the Christian know God?  Does the believer know God? The answer to this question is both yes and no.  The ‘yes’ is the Bible reveals God to us and as such, we can say those who want to know him can know him. The ‘no’ is because of a lack of proper comprehension and many believers DON’T know God and that's very sad. 

 

Because we have learnt in the scriptures that God is all in all many have wrongly taken him to be an oversized being who cannot feel any living room.  Yes god is Almighty, you cannot be reduced into one single room or area or under any part of the cosmos. But what does that mean God is a formless being?  For a Christian, it's extremely important to know who God is.  Without which many will be worshipping in vain.  Many Christians lack knowledge of the whereabouts of God many prayers go on answered.  Believe me, friends, there are many believers who don't care about who God is, as long as they hear people calling it that name… especially those who see the spirit of God as things of emptiness. God is spirit and worshippers must worship him in spirit… To many Christians, the word ‘spirit’ means emptiness, nothing in sight. And if they have things in their own ways like walls, tables, and even chairs must not be present where God is to be worshipped.  And Because of this many Christians have taken God to be a formless being who blows like the wind without shape. Yes, it's true that God is spirit but spirits in the sense that he cannot be seen with the naked eye and that is about it.  How many Christians can understand this? And again because the Bible truly tells that God is omnipotent or all mighty - Jer. 3 2-17,  omnipresence, everpresent, always present (Psalm 139:712)  And omniscience or all-knowing 1John 3:20,  many many  Christians don't know where to place God in their understanding.  In view of this, many Christians see God as a very huge being bigger than all the towers in London combined, with 20 or 1 million eyes, hands, and feet vomiting fire to swallow all enemies.  And in so doing, many have misplaced God in their minds even before they begin to worship him. The difference between the ancient Christians and the modern Christians is the fact that the ancient Christian knows that there is God and through the Bible, God wants us to know him.  Because God wants us to know him he has written his words through which we can know him.   While there is still a lot of mystery surrounding God, how God wants us to know him must never be overlooked by any genuine Christian, because this is causing a lot of people to be deceived every day. 

 

Who is God and where is God?  In our childhood days mentioning names like Egypt, Jerusalem, Canaan and Judea throw our minds straight into the invisible heaven for we believe all these places to be in the skies but with growth, we saw that they are all here on earth with us.  If one day a child asked his or her teacher who God is, that child is bound to be ridiculed. “You are a bad boy, don't even ask that question anymore”.  And in many Christian homes, this conception has continued until today and as such many don't actually know God.  The word of God says God wants us to know him. (Jer 31:31-34). 

 

To actually know God we must understand the form of God.  How the Lord almighty God looks like.  Quite often many people have wrongly imagined God to be something or someone he is not and as such many believers have been led astray.  The Bible says God is a spirit, in other words, unseen but he will have a form. Unseen that needs both our unseen part and seen parts to worship him (Mark 12: 29-31). We read of Abraham talking to God and God going his way and Abraham also going on his way (see Gen.18:33).  Was it a formless wind or was it clouds going away from Abraham? The wind blowing around is unseen. Do we go about calling the wind God?  But did Abraham see that a form or being made him convinced he was talking to God? Now let us read (Ex:33:19-23 also Ex.19:11). Does a wind have hands or a cloud back?  Who has hands face and back?  Let us read  Isaiah 7:14.  In what form or shape is the coming creator going to take?   Furthermore, let us read Rev, 1:12-13. (John saw Christ in a human form). And finally, let us read Gen.1:26-27. Let us make a human who looks like us all to be exactly as we are in this combined Elohim form and so the God had made even though visible.  We are in his image.  There are several other revelations as to the composition and form of The Creator which is lastly like this form as we have. So if someone is telling you that he has a vision of God with 20 eyes, so big that even two London towers are too small just ask him what kind of God is he talking about? If you worship God piously he will reveal himself in a form that you know and speak to you that it is him. And reveal to you things that will convince you, that it is him. That is why the pious worshipers were able to identify Jesus Christ as God on earth (Matthew 2). 

 

God has a form like ours.  Being invisible at all times does not change that form.  But then visible or invisible... where is God? He projects his presence through symbols because now we have seen that God has a form and is not just an empty vacuum. Many of us have been made to believe and think, “so how can he be everywhere at the same time?”.

 

The Bible tells us that God’s abode is in heaven or shall I say the ‘space of God’.  But again, we learn that God is everywhere.  Where exactly? God again does something to enable us to locate him.  When Jesus has spoken of God to his disciples and wanted to go they asked him the same question “where is God?-  show him to us”.  That's all we need (John 14:8).  Invisible God takes on the body of the visible being whenever and wherever is appropriate.

 

 In a nutshell, God appears and continually appears in places favourable to him.  Now let us locate God.  In the Garden of Eden, he commanded trees to symbolize eternity and he was there.  In Median, he commanded the appearance of the naked light and he was there. In the Gulf of Aqaba, he commanded the erection of a pole and he was there (Numb  21:8). In Galilee, he commanded the erection of a cross and he was there (John 3:14).  In Patmes he commanded the appearance of candlelight symbols and he was there (Rev 11:8). In the heavens, he commanded the burning of incense and he was there (Rev 8:3). While God appears in forms mostly invisible to our naked eyes we know that these forms are all human-like but God allows his presence to be seen through symbolic expressions sometimes in a wind,  sometimes in a cloud, sometimes in objects and symbols, and sometimes in the shaking of various people.  If we reduce the scope of our thought to the seen behaviour of a good person or truly anointed one and later widen it up to God, we shall easily see the whereabouts of God.  The good man receives the requests of men and one by one petitions God on their behalf. Copying God, he writes down their requests.  God can just take the book or the life and begin giving us the answers, that is if your name can be found in it. God uses his symbols in various forms, messengers or Angels and objects. 

 

There are Christians who believe that God cannot and does not project anything and in fact, they believe that God is a covering mat with millions or billions of bodies depending on the number of churches around.  But if we believe this, we will be dividing and distributing God.  God is indeed one composed of the Father,  son and Holy Spirit.   In this oneness, God projects through his commanded symbols. It can be the cloud, the wind, the staff, the ephod, the ark,  the pole, the cross, the lamps and the other ones.  And when they are commanded, we read in 1 Kings 19:9- 15 that  Elijah was expecting God in a fire but he was not there as a wind or a cloud bursting gesture. God was not in any of them but he appeared in a whisper. So friends if we really want to know where God is and truly believe in his name being everywhere then we need to prepare the very godly inspired for God to come in. Our hearts, our minds, our bodies and our gathering.  We see that those who know God fully understood where he can be located.  And the Holy Bible gives us countless examples of how to invite his presence and indeed his glory.  

 

Now begin to locate him in places you have come to know.  Now that you have come to really know, do you sincerely see him in those places still?  Let us reflect on all these in our hearts and mind and ask ourselves if we now know God personally and now know how he projects his presence among men, are we still going to allow emptiness to direct our lives again?

 

 In all these appearances never has God ever appeared in absolute emptiness. Whether visible or invisible something happens.  Sometimes the Earth will shake sometimes a bird will fly. Sometimes an anointed will appear, sometimes the convicted will gather and God will work through them.  The question is how many Christians truthfully know God this way?

 

 No wonder the evil one is having a field day with the believing world. He knows many call on the name of the Almighty, but many neither know him nor where he is. God is everywhere and most especially in his favourable pleasing location which is our hearts and our knowledge.  If we begin to know God this way we can easily see God in ourselves by which no human on Earth can ever be able to deceive us again and whenever we pray in this conviction and understanding we shall never be disappointed. 

 

May God bless you all