The best way to explain the ways and mysteries of the moving of the Spirit of God is in terms of RELATIONSHIP. Yes God is all-knowing. Yes we have free will. Yes, it is all up to God. Yes, it is all up to us. 
Okay, that doesn’t make sense, these are just a series of contradictions! But wait, it only seems so. Upon further investigation, we see another side of the same coin.
A dear minister friend of mine said one time in a teaching about counseling others, “More than one thing can be true at the same time.” I love that. It should seem obvious to us that several things can be true at the same time. But logic has a way of only dealing with truth one fact at a time. But our reality as human beings on this earthly globe is not always that simplistic.
More than one thing can be true at the same time. Yes, God is all-knowing and all-powerful, but He ALSO has created both angels and humans as beings with free-will. It may be a contradiction, but it is more accurately a paradox – and in this context, a true relationship is allowed to exist with both sides having the choice to be in relationship, or not.
God has already shown in every imaginable way(and some unimaginable ways) that he has chosen to desire close, intimate relationship with people. He has shown us this by his sending Christ to die on the cross. He has shown this by pouring out His spirit. He has shown this in many ways, through ministries and ministers, through creation, through whispers in the ears of any person who desires to listen. He loves us! He desires to know us deeply and intimately. He desires to fill us with His Holy Spirit. He desires to fill us so much that we become channels of His love to others. All we have to do is ask, knock, seek, obey.
In that sense, He is present-tense here waiting for you to seek him, desire him, love him, be filled by Him RIGHT NOW!
Today is the day of salvation! Today is the day to hear his voice! Today is the day you must obey! Today, God waits for you to take a deeper step into the river of His Spirit.
But if you do not, then he will not.
He says if we seek him with all our heart, we will find him. And thats the whole point – if we wait for God to not only do his part, but our part as well – are we not really saying “God, take away my free-will, and just do it regardless?”
Well, he won’t do that. If He were to do that, you wouldn’t be free – you would be a robot.
So the real question is, who are you waiting for?
