Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube piece about trying to hear from God thru all the noise of the world … A Still Small Voice … clearly showing what it’s like in today’s world to try to hear God getting thru to us thru all the noise we encounter in the world. … Then ON TO THIS LINK to hear the group Hillsong United singing Still, helping us to get alone and hear the Lord’s still small small voice.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 1Kings 19:12 [NLT] … 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
… Elijah finally was able to hear God’s still small voice seeking the Lord in solitude.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 1 Kings 19:9-13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Elijah trying to sense God in the midst of the clamor of the world.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 46:10 [NLT] … 10 He [The Lord] says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
… God says to us all that we should BE STILL and know that He is God!
Reference Passage : … John 6:14-15 [NLT] … 14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
… After feeding the thousands with the fishes and the loaves, Jesus needed to get alone in solitude to be with His Father.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Cindy Hess Kasper, uses a social picture of a very common challenge in today’s noisy world. The ODB author wrote … Several years ago, the president of a college suggested that students join her in “powering down” for an evening. Although the students agreed, it was with great reluctance that they laid aside their cell phones and entered the chapel. For the next hour, they sat quietly in a service of music and prayer. Afterward, one participant described the experience as “a wonderful opportunity to calm down . . . a place to just tune out all of the extra noise.”
If any reader here has taken the time (and I pray you do!) to hear the You Tube segments above as well as having read and meditated on the Scriptures, I really don’t think I need to add much more journaling to support the reality that we Christians often need to intentionally get alone in a quiet place these days to escape the din of informational noise in the world and to be able to sense what God is trying to say to us.
Even Jesus in His day had to go off to a quiet place (see photo) to get away from the clamor of the crowds and to be able to hear His Father’s clear voice [also see John 6:14-15]. And in today’s world, if we don’t intentionally get alone to seek God’s voice, it’s going to be very hard to hear our Lord speak to us. Hence, … that’s why you find me here in my “quiet place” each morning, … quietly listening, thru prayer and God’s word, to sense my Lord giving me His will and His ways.
Quietly listen, my friend; and you will hear Him too.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for showing us Your way thru the noise of the world.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me and do all we can to be quiet and hear God’s still small voice. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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