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 deplete.’” – Exodus 3:3 NIV
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“Mother, I feel one thing is unsuitable with me. I can’t hear God communicate,” my daughter shared earlier than our nightly Bible studying. A couple of weeks prior, our household started studying by the Bible earlier than bedtime. Beginning in Genesis, most of the Scriptures have been acquainted to my daughter. But learning 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 might have had. Earlier than our subsequent studying, we mentioned her reflections from the earlier night time. Final night time, we studied the story of Moses and the burning bush. At the same time as an grownup, the telling of Moses conversing with God by a burning bush, one which, whereas on hearth, didn’t deplete, perception awe and amazement. I shared with my daughter that I’ve had related ideas, questioning if I’d ever expertise a “burning bush second.”
Up to now, I felt it vital to listen to God audibly discuss to me, like how I work together with my husband or a good friend, 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 fulfill. I anticipated to have the same, or no less than a whisper, of the interplay Moses skilled.
Nonetheless, in my determined makes an attempt to “hear” God communicate, I missed all of the occasions He was speaking to me. Like after I drove down the street and somebody’s title popped into my head – that was the Holy Spirit nudging me to achieve out to that particular person. Or after I get up in the course of the night time with somebody’s title 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 hope 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 continually, simply not in an audible voice. Believers know that nothing is left to probability or simply occurs; God controls the whole lot as a result of He’s sovereign.
So why will we act so shocked when one thing we will’t clarify all of a sudden happens to us, attributing it to luck or coincidence? Claiming these moments as random ideas, we miss the various occasions all through the day that our Heavenly Father is truly talking to us, not simply to make use of us for His glory but in addition to reassure and luxury us as His kids.
Though I usually jest that I’d love for God to speak to me from a burning bush like He did to Moses – it might be a lot simpler to make choices or to grasp my function throughout this season of life – it might in all probability terrify me. Would I react like Moses if I heard my title known as out of flames? Would I decelerate sufficient and “flip apart” to listen to, to hear? 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 numerous methods, primarily by 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 needs of us. Positive, God additionally makes use of the phrases and actions of his kids, brothers, and sisters in Christ to convey his messages, and that’s necessary to recollect. As well as, Romans 1:20 and Psalm 19:1-4 inform us that God speaks by nature, his creation, which is throughout us. Generally, 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 while you communicate 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 nevertheless 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 ladies, equipping them to reside with an everlasting perspective. Invite Laura to talk at your subsequent occasion or be taught extra: www.LauraRBailey.com
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