Speak, Lord, For Your Servant Hears
God hears all the prayers and cries of His people. He knows His beloved's voices. But are we listening for and hearing the voice of our Beloved?
The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Acts 1:1-3
The Lord Spoke
Throughout the Bible can be found wonderful and amazing proof that God spoke to those who were listening for His voice. From Adam to apostle John in Revelation, God has given infallible, documented proof that He loves and is always willing to communicate with and through His beloved creation.
In the 50 days after the Exodus, the time period we are looking at, God spoke to Moses and the children of Israel in different ways. God stated that He spoke face-to-face with His servant Moses, while He gave direction to the Israelites through the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
Holy Spirit also gives record that Jesus spoke to His disciples over the 40 day period between His Resurrection and His Ascension.
Acts 1:3 To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
The Lord Is Still Speaking
Isn't that the best news you have heard all week, that God has always desired a living relationship with His creation, us, to speak of the things pertaining to His Kingdom?
God speaking to people is not a thing of the past, as some erroneously believe. God is still speaking to people through His Son, Jesus Christ, today and He will never stop speaking because some have tried making up His mind that He does not! By searching out Biblical accounts, we can know in our own hearts that, if God spoke in time past to His people, then He is still willing to speak to those who long to hear His voice.
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:1-2
God has not changed since Eternity. God is not evolving. He has no need to redefine or rediscover Himself, neither does He have the need to turn over a new leaf every few years. God is good. All the time. He stays the same.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8
Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening
The Prophet Samuel learnt how to hear the voice of God for himself. He found out that he did not have to seek to hear God's Voice through the priest. He found out he did not have to go searching the world to hear and to know God's heart and will for his life. All he needed to do was listen for the voice of his Beloved in his spirit and He promised He would speak.
‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ Jeremiah 33:3
You and I do not have to search far and wide in order to hear God's Voice. All we need do is be still and know that He is God, and that He still speaks to His people today.
Over the days leading up to Ascension Day and Shavuot/ Pentecost, make time to Be Still daily before the Lord. Come into His Shekinah Presence, preparing your spirit to hear from your God. The Lord has so much He wants to speak to you, but you need to take the time to Be Still, to call upon Him, and to listen for His voice. Be sure to Journal all the wonderful things you think God is saying to you.
Start your time in the Presence of the One who loved you more than His life with these anointed words:
Speak, Lord, for, I, Your servant, longs to hear Your voice.
Meaghan Spies © 2022
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