A Prayer to Pay Consideration When God Speaks to Our Hearts – Your Each day Prayer – January 11
A Prayer to Pay Consideration When God Speaks to Our Hearts
By Laura Bailey
Bible Studying:
“So Moses thought, ‘I’ll go over and see this unusual sight—why the bush doesn’t fritter away.’” – Exodus 3:3 NIV
Hear or Learn Beneath:
“Mother, I feel one thing is improper with me. I can’t hear God converse,” my daughter shared earlier than our nightly Bible studying. A number of weeks prior, our household started studying via the Bible earlier than bedtime. Beginning in Genesis, most of the Scriptures had been acquainted to my daughter. But finding out the textual content verse by verse was a brand new studying expertise for her and opened the door to new questions and reflections.
I inspired her to journal, jotting down ideas, issues she needed to discover extra in-depth, and any questions she could have had. Earlier than our subsequent studying, we mentioned her reflections from the earlier evening. Final evening, we studied the story of Moses and the burning bush. At the same time as an grownup, the telling of Moses conversing with God via a burning bush, one which, whereas on fireplace, didn’t fritter away, perception awe and amazement. I shared with my daughter that I’ve had related ideas, questioning if I might ever expertise a “burning bush second.”
Previously, I felt it crucial to listen to God audibly discuss to me, like how I work together with my husband or a buddy, to know what He needed from me and for me. I started praying God would inform me the names of family and friends, even strangers, who wanted prayer, a meal, a observe, or something inside my energy to satisfy. I anticipated to have an analogous, or not less than a whisper, of the interplay Moses skilled.
Nevertheless, in my determined makes an attempt to “hear” God converse, I missed all of the instances He was speaking to me. Like after I drove down the highway and somebody’s identify popped into my head – that was the Holy Spirit nudging me to achieve out to that individual. Or after I get up in the midst of the evening with somebody’s identify on the tip of my tongue, once more, that’s God talking to me and answering my prayer for use by Him to assist others.
As I started to wish and browse my Bible persistently, diving in and dissecting Scripture, verse by verse, I sensed the Holy Spirit’s presence like by no means earlier than. I’ve realized that God speaks to me always, simply not in an audible voice. Believers know that nothing is left to probability or simply occurs; God controls every part as a result of He’s sovereign.
So why can we act so stunned when one thing we are able to’t clarify all of a sudden happens to us, attributing it to luck or coincidence? Claiming these moments as random ideas, we miss the numerous instances all through the day that our Heavenly Father is truly talking to us, not simply to make use of us for His glory but additionally to reassure and luxury us as His youngsters.
Though I typically jest that I might love for God to speak to me from a burning bush like He did to Moses – it might be a lot simpler to make selections or to grasp my function throughout this season of life – it might most likely terrify me. Would I react like Moses if I heard my identify known as out of flames? Would I decelerate sufficient and “flip apart” to listen to, to pay attention? Or would I am going on about finishing my duties, “tending my sheep,” too busy to hassle with the extraordinary, the miraculous?
God communicates to us in varied methods, primarily via his Phrase. Moses didn’t have the Bible, however we do, and there’s no substitute for studying it and meditating upon it to know who God is and what he wishes of us. Certain, God additionally makes use of the phrases and actions of his youngsters, brothers, and sisters in Christ to convey his messages, and that’s vital to recollect. As well as, Romans 1:20 and Psalm 19:1-4 inform us that God speaks via nature, his creation, which is throughout us. Typically, I simply must pause and open my eyes, ears, and coronary heart to see and listen to God’s voice. No “burning bush second” is required.
Let’s Pray:
Heavenly Father, allow us to be so in tune along with your Spirit that we confidently hear if you converse to our hearts. Allow us to act on what we understand as “out of the blue” ideas. Use us to encourage the Church, believers in Christ far and close to. Allow us to be prepared and able to hear and observe you nonetheless you lead us.
In Jesus’ Identify, Amen.
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She lives in Upstate South Carolina along with her husband and three younger ladies, the place she serves as director of girls’s ministries at her church. Her ardour is educating the Bible to girls, equipping them to dwell with an everlasting perspective. Invite Laura to talk at your subsequent occasion or study extra: www.LauraRBailey.com
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