Still Small Voice

The other day a lady said, “Well how does my friend hear from God but I don’t. Why is God talking to her but not me?”

She revealed, her anger lead her to inquire to God to hear Him as her friend heard Him. It wasn’t long after her prayer that she began hearing a still voice from the Lord.

I recall when Elijah heard a still small voice. After Jezebel told Ahab about Elijah slaying the (false) prophets a messenger went out to him.

“Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time,(1 Kings 19:2).

Elijah was in fear and ran for his life. He journeyed in the wilderness and wished to die. He felt like he was fed up and couldn’t take it anymore. “And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat,” (1Kings19:5).

A second time the angel came and told him to get up and eat. He had much work to do and his time for rest was over. It was time for Elijah to have strength and sleeping was not going to prepare him for his journey.

God instructed him to stand upon the mount. As he stood at the mount the Lord passed Him, a strong wind charged the mountains, rocks broke, “but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice,” (1Kings19:11, 12).

This story of Elijah is vital. It shows us that there is a time for rest and a time to get up. He was fed and the place God told him to meet him was not a place of silence. There was much commotion going on but in the midst of all the noise, all the uproar there was a still voice. That still voice was the voice of the Lords’.

God sent an angel twice to get Elijah up. Have you been cautioned to get up? What turmoil is going on in your life today?

Maybe you can’t hear from God today, because of your earthquake. Perhaps you are in the fire now and you are not listening. The lady got angry when she could not hear from God, she then inquired of the Lord to perceive sound from Him. Elijah was in fear and called on the Lord to hear his voice. How are your emotions rattling to get you to tune your listening skills?

The same God that spoke to Elijah is speaking today. Pray to God that you listen to Him. Ask God to help you drown out the chaos so you may pay attention to His still small voice. Beseech to the Lord that your emotional tension and physical weariness doesn’t bring on depression but tenacity to hear Gods’ still small voice.