May 1 2025 … Listening For God’s Voice …

May 1 2025 …   Listening For God’s Voice …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with the group Mercy Me singing  … Word of God Speak,  calling on all Christians to listen and hear God’s Spirit, calling to us thru His word. 

Highlight Passage: …  1Kings 19:12 … [NLT] … 

12 And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper.           

…  Elijah hears God speaking to him through a still small voice.  

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1Kings 19:8-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God speaks to Elijah in a gentle whisper.                                                                            

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 25:4-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of desiring to hear and follow the Lord.       

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 2:1-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Godly wisdom from Solomon on seeking and following God’s commands (i.e., His word).        

Reference Passage: … Mark 4:24  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in teaching HIs disciples and followers, calls on them to listen to Him and hear what He teaches.   

Reference Passage: … John 8:47  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle John warns Christians that only those who belong to God (i.e., truly born again Christians) will listen to and follow God’s word.

Reference Passage: …  Revelation 3:20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… John’s revelation that Jesus was (and is) wiling to come in and dwell in anyone who is willing to hear the Lord and open the door today and let Him in. 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Brent Hackett … AT THIS LINK         …  wrote about how NY City had become a very noisy city in the early 20th century with new auto engines, trains, newsboys yelling out, and so many people rushing about; but one day a man named Clark Kellogg, declared to a friend, ”Listen, I hear a cricket!”, to which his friend said that Kellogg must have amazing hearing.  But to that Kellogg said, “Not at all … it’s a matter of where you focus your attention.”

And that illustration reminded the ODB author today of the story of Elijah being exposed to God’s reassuring  voice; and hearing his words in a gentle whisper (see Highlight passage).  And in our own “noisy” world, with so many voices and ideas, trying to clamor for our attention, we need to be tuning into and listening for God, … thru His word and His Spirit, which will ALWAYS bring truth to our life.  Are we listening for His voce today?

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for speaking to me thru Your word and Your Spirit today.  

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that we all are tuning into and listening for Your truth thru Your word.… AMEN

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