"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you and watch over you." Psalm 32:8
God is speaking...
He wants to lead and guide us, he wants to speak to us. But so often we struggle to hear. Sometimes we are hoping that we would hear God’s booming voice loud and clear, telling us what to do.
But maybe we need to try things differently. Maybe God is speaking, but His voice is drowned out by all the noise around us.
1 Kings 19:11-13 The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
We have winds of work and stress, earthquakes of hurry, fires that burn with the desire for instant answers and solutions. But God so often comes as a gentle whisper, and these things drown out His voice. We can so easily miss it if we don’t take a step back, remove the noise and listen for the whisper...
Have you ever taken time out in silence and solitude?
In his book Leading On Empty, Wayne Cordeiro says that there are only four ways to live your life:
1. Reaction – passively dominated by urgencies and pushy people
2. Conformity – succumbing to the fear of man and just being and doing what everyone else wants, which is not necessarily following God’s will for you personally
3. Independence – nonconforming rebellion in the name of freedom, marked by doing only what you want and ignoring godly authority over you
4. Intentionality – reverse-engineering your life and living it prayerfully and purposefully, journaling your thoughts throughout the day, and using silence and solitude to hear from God and organize your life
How are you living your life now? Where would you like to be?
Why not try do things differently from now on. Instead of wanting God to shout above the noise, why not try spend some time and turn off the noise and listen for the whisper...
Don
So, I was walking thru spar the other day and it had been a long tough day and my head was down and all i wanted to do was get what i needed and get out...
ReplyDeleteThen during my moping around, i vaguely heard my name called out but not loud enough to stop and take notice...
The person had to call me again and only then did I click someone was actually calling me...
And God spoke to me and said, how often is He trying to get our attention but we are so consumed by the troubles of the day that his voice gets drowned out and we lose our opportunity to receive fresh encouragement and love from our Father.
We lose the leading of the good Shepherd cos we are being led by the problems of the day.
Surrender your problems to the Lord and live in the peace and joy of His leading.
So true! Living intentionally and purposefully is like living wide awake, I love Eph 5:14-17 Amp. Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall (make day dawn) upon you and give you light. Look carefully then how you walk! live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people), Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil. Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is,...
ReplyDeleteAwesome stuff!!