Listen to His Whisper
As I write this, it is currently 1:30 in the morning. I have been awake since 6:30 the previous morning. This may not be important to some of you… however, as I sit here, I have been in prayer, albeit a short prayer. I never feel as if I’ve prayed long enough. Then again, how long is long enough?
My main reason for writing this is that even though I was in prayer, God still talked to me. What I find the most amazing, reassuring, miraculous, or whatever descriptive word you’d like to put in there, is this: Though my prayer was whispered (so I didn’t wake the whole house) God whispered back!
Yes, you read that right: GOD WHISPERED BACK!
Maybe you’re wondering how I know. Let me take you on a little tour of my prayer.
After about five days of battling a virus, with not much wellness achieved, I decided to get up and talk to the Lord… which really I should have been doing all along. Hindsight is twenty-twenty. This is where my reassurance comes.
As I’m talking to Him (whispering, really, because everyone is asleep, and I really don’t have much of a voice), I begin repeating His Word back to Him. The more I do, the more of His Word comes flooding into my mind. This is how I know He was whispering back. And yes, He whispers (Matthew 10:27).
• Thank You that by Your stripes I am healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
• Thank You that no weapon formed against me will prosper, and every tongue that rises against me will fall. (Isaiah 54:17)
• Because I am the head and not the tail. (Deuteronomy 28:13)
• I am above and not beneath. (Deuteronomy 28:13)
• And I am blessed coming in and going out. (Deuteronomy 28:6)
• Thank You that when I pray, you answer me. (Psalm 34:4)
• You bend down and listen to me. (Psalm 116:2)
• You hear me. (Psalm 17:6)
• Thank You that I have been given spiritual authority over all the power of the enemy, which renders him powerless. (Luke 10:19)
• Thank You that I do not have a spirit of fear. I have power, love, and a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)
It is at this point that I begin telling the virus within my body to leave, in Jesus’ name. Because God’s Word even says that when we ask anything in Jesus’ name, we will have it, if we pray, believing (Mark 11:24, Matthew 21:22). So I did.
I’m not bragging on what I did. I am bragging on what the Lord is doing. I may not have instant healing, as I did the night He took away my depression and anxiety. But I absolutely know He’s healing my body. This virus is for a short time. I needed to get quiet so that I could hear Him. He speaks constantly, but we often miss it because of the noise around us.
So why, when the world is so noisy, doesn’t God shout louder? Because while the enemy shouts obscenities, accusations, and curses at and around us, it’s because he can’t get close enough to us to do real damage due to the fact that GOD is so much closer to us WHISPERING in our ear. He whispers because he is CLOSE.
The devil wants us to believe God has left us, forgotten us, or that we have messed up way too much for Him to even forgive us. But that’s a lie! Jesus even said that Satan is a “liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).
In my Bible, next to this verse, I have written something that really hits home with me. Let me encourage you with it:
“We are quicker to believe the devil than we are to believe Jesus. And the devil is a LIAR! But, JESUS ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH and He always calls us by the identity He sees us in.”
We may have to go through stuff in this lifetime. We live in a fallen world. This is our gamut. We run the gamut every single day. We often say we believe God, believe in God, have trusted Jesus as our Savior. Yet, we forget the promises He made to us through His Word because we have got so wrapped up in the world, and what the world says, that we aren’t listening to God anymore but instead are listening to everything and everyone else around us.
May I just encourage you today, to STOP! Just stop. Get quiet. If you can’t get quiet, then get someplace where you can get quiet.
Start reading God’s Word. Start having a conversation with Him. Start listening to Him. I guarantee that He sure wants to talk to you. But you have to want to hear Him. You have to be humble (James 4:7). You have to resist the enemy. And you have to come expecting God to answer you. He promises that He will (Jeremiah 33:3).
I know this is tough stuff. I’ve been learning as well. In fact, I truly believe the reason I haven’t been able to talk for the past five days is because 1) I needed to listen, and 2) I needed to start writing again. I haven’t written in such a long time, and this is one of my passions. It brings me great joy to write. It’s also my calling. But I haven’t done it. I’ve been distracted. I’ve been disobedient. Just thinking about the fact I have been disobedient to my God is scary. But oh, how thankful I am that He is merciful!
Let’s all stop being so distracted. Let’s all stop being disobedient. Let’s all stop listening to the enemy. Instead, let’s all turn our focus onto Jesus. He’s the real reason for everything… not just the current season we are in.
I love you all. I really do. But remember, God loves you more, and He wants to talk to you. Are you ready to listen?
