Friendship of God / Relating personally with God

God is the God the Bible, yet the Bible isn't God. God can and often does choose to speak to us without the Bible. God is personal and we are personal in spirit as well so we can have a relationship with God. He is tired of our religious games and just wants us to talk with Him like Abraham and be talking to Him and being mindful of Him like Isaac was in vs 63 of Genesis 24. It can and often is the hardest thing to do, but being conversational with God is very important to our very life. Without it, we truly will die inside and will seek other friends which will ultimately not satisfy our deepest part of our being.

Check out this story of how the servant of Abraham who not believing in God, tells God to be merciful (he was very honest with God) and asked God to do something to confirm that He was real in other words and God totally came through and wants to do the same in our own lives.

Genesis 24

1NOW ABRAHAM was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
2And Abraham said to the eldest servant of his house [Eliezer of Damascus], who ruled over all that he had, I beg of you, put your hand under my thigh;(A)
3And you shall swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I have settled,
4But you shall go to my country and to my relatives and take [a]a wife for my son Isaac.
5The servant said to him, But perhaps the woman will not be willing to come along after me to this country. Must I take your son to the country from which you came?
6Abraham said to him, See to it that you do not take my son back there.
7The Lord, the God of heaven, Who took me from my father's house, from the land of my family and my birth, Who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, To your offspring I will give this land--He will send His [b]Angel before you, and you will take a wife from there for my son.
8And if the woman should [c]not be willing to go along after you, then you will be clear from this oath; only you must not take my son back there.
9So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
10And the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking some of all his master's treasures with him; thus he journeyed to Mesopotamia [between the Tigris and the Euphrates], to the city of Nahor [Abraham's brother].
11And he made his camels to kneel down outside the city by a well of water at the time of the evening when women go out to draw water.
12And he said, O Lord, God of my master Abraham, I pray You, cause me to meet with good success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
13See, I stand here by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming to draw water.
14And let it so be that the girl to whom I say, I pray you, let down your jar that I may drink, and she replies, Drink, and I will give your camels drink also--let her be the one whom You have selected and appointed and indicated for Your servant Isaac [to be a wife to him]; and by it I shall know that You have shown kindness and faithfulness to my master.
15Before he had finished speaking, behold, out came Rebekah, who was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor the brother of Abraham, with her water jar on her shoulder.
16And the girl was very beautiful and attractive, chaste and modest, and unmarried. And she went down to the well, filled her water jar, and came up.
17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, I pray you, let me drink a little water from your water jar.
18And she said, Drink, my lord; and she quickly let down her jar onto her hand and gave him a drink.
19When she had given him a drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also, until they finish drinking.
20So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well and drew water for all his camels.
21The man stood gazing at her in silence, waiting to know if the Lord had made his trip prosperous.
22And when the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold earring or nose ring of half a shekel in weight, and for her hands two bracelets of ten shekels in weight in gold,
23And said, Whose daughter are you? I pray you, tell me: Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge there?
24And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah and [her husband] Nahor.
25She said also to him, We have both straw and provender (fodder) enough, and also room in which to lodge.
26The man bowed down his head and worshiped the Lord
27And said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, Who has not left my master bereft and destitute of His loving-kindness and steadfastness. As for me, going on the way [of obedience and faith] the Lord led me to the house of my master's kinsmen.

63And Isaac went out to meditate and bow down [in prayer] in the open country in the evening; and he looked up and saw that, behold, the camels were coming.
64And Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.
65For she [had] said to the servant, Who is that man walking across the field to meet us? And the servant [had] said, He is my master. So she took a veil and concealed herself with it.
66And the servant told Isaac everything that he had done.
67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.