One of the greatest opportunities of our prayer life is most often overlooked. We spend so much time talking to God that we forget to listen. Prayer has been defined as a two-way conversation between God and us. However, there have been too many times in my life that I carried out the exercise of a monologue and called it prayer.
The key to my learning anything from God is to listen. Listening can be uncomfortable. God may be silent awhile to insure that we are going to give Him time before He begins to speak. When He does begin to speak, I am going to find that there are some things that I am not very excited to hear. He will correct those things in my life that are wrong, even if I am just a little off. Correction can sometimes be painful.
Following His loving correction can come beneficial direction. Through all the problems of my life God will give good directions. I don’t need to take over the leadership of my life to come up with my own directions. When I do that I am unintentionally saying that God doesn’t really have an answer, and I know that He does. It is important for us to listen well to God so we can learn.
If we will listen to Him we will gain the wisdom to repair a broken relationship. We can learn how to love our spouses and children allowing us to strengthen our marriages and families. Financial difficulties which hound us can be overcome through listening to God’s guidance. Hearing the Lord clearly allows us to navigate the mine field of our daily spiritual battles.
To succeed I need to be a good listener. We need to plan time to hear from God when we pray.
Deut. 13:4 (NASB)"You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him."
I am Desiring to Hear from Him!
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