Have you ever been praying and an idea comes to you?
Right after that someone approaches you about that very same subject? Or, have
you ever thought of a certain person and the phone rings? Guess who it is! Have
you ever walked into a building and saw someone you know and they say, “I was
just thinking of you.” I believe there
are no coincidences in life. God wants to speak to us all the time about all
kinds of things. But the question is…Are We Listening? We need silence to hear
what God wants to say to us.
There is something you might not know about me. In my
prayer life, I love to speak to the Lord and I love when he speaks back to me.
I practice a certain type of prayer called Lectio Divina (Divine Reading and
Listening). It has been said that, “When you pray, you are speaking to God. But
when you read the Bible, God is speaking to you.” In Lectio, a passage is
chosen and read three times. The first time, you listen for a word or phrase
that stands out to you. During the second reading, you listen for how that word
or phrase applies to your life. What is the Holy Spirit saying to you? The
third time, you take your message and make it into a prayer in your heart. This
is all done in silence because we meet God in the silence of our hearts every
day. That is where he speaks to me most.
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM
GOD… Psalm 46:10
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM…
BE STILL AND KNOW…
BE STILL…
BE…
What will God say to you
today?
Shared by Jean Schuff
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