If you’ve contacted me about linking your blog to mine, it will be done when this site gets updated. I’m also working on posts for the rest of the year for all my blogs, and finishing up “How to Hope at the End of The Rope” is part of it.
Enough about my personal updates. Time to get on with…
How Hope Can Listen for the the Lord…
We can be confident that God will speak. God speaks through His Word (Psalm 119:105), other people (1 Peter 4:11), our circumstances (Numbers 23:19), creation (Psalm 19:1-3), prayer (Romans 8:26-27), the church (Ephesians 3:10-11), still small voice (1 Kings 19:12), an audible voice (1 Samuel 3:8), in dreams (Job 33:14-15), in visions (Numbers 12:6) and in just about any other way it takes to get our attention when He wants our attention or we need His attention.
God will usually speak. Sometimes when the test is on the teacher is silent, but when He hides His voice, it’s for us, not from us.
Still, we have a part to play.
David says in Psalm 24:
Who may ascend the hill of the LORD ?
Who may stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to an idol
or swear by what is false
He will receive blessing from the LORD
and vindication from God his Savior.
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek your face, O God of Jacob.
Psalm 24:3-6 (New International Version)
Take a moment and examine yourself for sin. I’m not saying sin is the cause of your situation. But we can sin in our circumstance and we need pure hands and pure hearts to see God.
The Father loves you too much to excuse sin that separates you from Him and hurts you along with those around you.
Here’s how you can overcome sin. The first step is to agree with God that it is sin.
Do you take time each day to listen to the Lord? What’s your favorite way to hear? When you leave you comment I’ll thank you by linking your most recent post on your site with a excerpt from it for other readers to see
For some reason, I do not hear from God a lot as I pray, and only somewhat more clearly during my times of devotional Bible reading. But then sometimes I’ll be walking down the street or something, and the answer to something that has been bugging me, warning about what I have been thinking, or some other obvious word of God will pop into my head and temporarily drive out the usual jumble of thoughts so thoroughly that I’ll remember for a long time. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I have no doubt that I do hear from God, even if it’s not necessarily when I’m especially trying to listen.