How often do you listen for God to speak to you? Are you listening every day? Are you listening in the midst of troubles? Are you listening when things are going well? Have you chosen to obey God’s commandments? Have you written God’s instruction?
Listening for God to speak is a learned behavior. To learn to listen requires us to practice it regularly. The more we practice it, the better we listen. Listening is an important trait. For God will speak to us far more than we think. He desires to speak to us and for us to listen.
Moses was listening when God told him to go up on the mountain to receive God’s written instructions. We call them the ten commandments. We may have memorized them. Yet there are many more commandments God gave the Israelites after those initial written commandments. There are numerous times God gave instructions to the prophets throughout the Old Testament.
Too often, we read about those instances or hear them mentioned and think we are not of the same importance as those prophets. We often think we are not important enough for God to take notice of us. That line of thinking is often why we pray with a wishful mind rather than a confident mind. It’s not that we don’t believe God can do anything, we believe we are not important enough for him to answer us.
When we decide to listen for God to speak, we will hear him. When we trust him to answer our prayers, we will see him act more than we have before. In the end, it is all about our relationship with God. The closer we get to him, the more we trust him, and the more we will hear him speaking to us. The examples of God speaking to the Old Testament prophets is a reminder that he will speak to us, too.
I pray we all choose to listen for God. I pray we trust he will both speak to us and answer our prayers. I pray each of us seek to build our relationship with God and grow closer to him. Listen for God. God will speak to you. God will answer your prayers. Build your relationship with God. Grow closer to God.
Exodus 24:12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there; I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
Marty Pressey 