I got the opportunity to attend the Beth Moore simulcast over the weekend. It was exactly what I needed. A spiritual recharge, for sure, and I soaked it up.
Beth spoke on”The Heart of our Desires” and God showed me some things this weekend I needed to see, and that I needed to hear. I’m still processing and going through all of the notes I took, but I wanted to pass on one of the things that stuck with me from the weekend.
As a military wife, we often know how to talk to God. Sometimes, though, that’s all we know how to do. We cry out to Him at the hardest moments, the loneliest ones, the times where everything breaks down, including us. We tell Him our worries, our concerns, our frustrations, our fears. We ask Him over and over to answer our prayers. To bring our husbands home soon. To work in situations we find impossible. To restore peace to our troubled hearts.
Talking isn’t always a problem for us, is it? But how often do we do the other important part of two-way communication? How often do we just listen?
It may feel funny to some of you to listen to God. You may be unsure of what you’re listening for. Will you actually hear God’s voice? Not necessarily, at least not audibly. But will you feel him, in your heart, in your mind, in your spirit? Possibly. Hopefully.
In order to hear God’s voice though, we need to be on the same page as Him. And that means, literally, on His page. When was the last time you read something from the Bible? When was the last time you read a passage of Scripture and asked God to show you the meaning of it? This is one way we can listen and hear from God.
I heard someone once say a long time ago that often we can tell God is speaking to us when we have a thought or an idea come to us that we know we would never be able to think of ourselves.
What Beth Moore talked about this weekend got me really excited when I thought of it in the context of military wives. Ladies, what if we could finally understand the heart of our desires and shut out what keeps us from experiencing the joy and the delight God wants for us? How would that change our lives? How would that impact our marriages? How would that make a difference in our families?
One of the first things we need to do in order to achieve those things, though, is to learn to listen to God’s voice.
Take some time today to do just that. Pick a passage of scripture, maybe even Psalm 37, and read it. Think about it. Prayerfully consider it. Ask God to speak to you. Then write down what you believe He’s telling you. Be still. Listen to what He’s saying. He is not unreachable. He’s with you. Listen to Him. Hear Him, for He hears you.
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