to listen and to apprehendby slowly unfolding withinthe present moment to unshackle from busyness –the devil’s hold upon this age –by simply being with our eyes unshuttered and earsunstopped in explosive, divine,ordinary time to hear so clear what goes unheardto see indeed what goes unseenlike life is here now now our eyes see saturationsand ears …
Saturday Prayer 28
And after the fire came a gentle whisper. (1 Kings 19:2) Lord, let me hear Your whisper today. With all the din of sounds and voices, Let me hear Your whisper today. [This is part of a series of prayer posts in 2012 that began here.]
Listening to God . . . Free From Guilt (re:listening 4)
This is the last of a series of posts on listening. If we are to listen to God in His way, then we often have to have our feet knocked out from under us. We need to be re-trained by Him into the way of listening. Sometimes this involves confessing sin. There are very real …
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Listening to God…Is He There? (re:listening 3)
The past few days I've been posting on the topic of listening. What about when we're listening to God - we come with open ears and hearts to Him - and we're not hearing anything. Is God listening to us? Is He there? Probably all of us have times when we feel like God isn't …
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Listening to God (re:listening 2)
I've been thinking a lot about listening recently. Today I'm thinking about listening to God. I love the story from the Old Testament where Samuel is a young man staying in the temple with the old priest Eli. In the middle of the night, Samuel hears a voice calling to him by name. After three …
Matthew Erickson 