TRUST
Day 1: “Trust
in the Lord with
all your heart...” Proverbs 3:5
“Do not worry.....nor have an anxious mind...”
Luke 12:22,29
“Do not worry.....nor have an anxious mind...”
Luke 12:22,29
Readings
There is only one
answer to worry and anxiety and that is to trust in the Lord. Simple! But not
so simple! We are complex beings and somehow it is easier for us to turn over
all the impossible ramifications of any given situation, than to simply turn it
over to our Father! But, if Jesus told us not to be anxious, then it must be
possible. Also He is talking here in Luke about basic living, understanding
that it is a core human problem. Adam and Eve in the garden had everything –
lush abundance! But, having fallen, they were out digging – striving and
labouring for every mouthful of food! Jesus turns this right around!
Hallelujah! Over the next few days, we will look at an acrostic of the word
TRUST. We need to know HOW to put our
trust in the Lord. Today, “consider the lilies”! Look around and quietly
meditate on the beauty and wonder of His creation.
“O lord, My God, when I in awesome
wonder,
Consider all the works Thy hand has
made
............
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God to
Thee,
How great Thou art!”
Day 2 “...let your requests be made known...” Philippians 4:6
“Now this is the confidence we have in Him.....He hears us.” 1 John 5:14
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alk – that is the
first aspect of trust. Adam and Eve used to walk and talk with God in the
garden. And the first thing to do with a worry or concern is to talk to God about it. I know this sounds the
most obvious and simple thing, but it is often what we most forget to do! So as
problems or worries creep on you, just talk to God. Tell Him. Outline to Him
what is on your mind. Write Him a note about it, if you want! He wants to hear you. Don’t tell Him what the
answers are – only the cares as they come into your heart, and ask for His
help, His solutions, His strength, His provision. But, before asking, just tell
Him all about it. Like a child! He is waiting to listen. And the sharing of
your heart with Him will always open you to His streams of peace.
Day 3 “Commit your way to the Lord – roll and repose each care of your road
on Him; trust, lean on, rely on and be confident also in Him,
and
He will bring it to pass..” Proverbs 37:5 (Amp)
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oll – just roll your
load over onto the Lord! He has very broad shoulders, and His outstretched arms
on the cross are His invitation to come and lay down our burdens, troubles,
worries and problems, however big or small.
Jesus says, “Come to Me, ALL you who labour and are
heavy-laden.." ALL means you and me
– all of us, everyone. Think today of
the one burden or multiple weights that are heavy on you – maybe write them
down. Then consciously, one by one, bring them to Jesus. And, if you find
yourself picking them up again, repeat the process!
Day 4 “Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise...
So then do not be foolish, but understand what the
will of the Lord is.” Eph5:15,17
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nderstand the will of
the Lord, the Word. How can we trust the Lord if we are not learning His ways
and understanding His love for us through His Word? Also , if we are walking
outside of His will for us, it is extremely difficult to put our trust in Him,
though it does not stop Him loving us and continually drawing us back to Him.
So take time to find out what His Word is saying to you – try reading the above
passages prayerfully, and let God speak to you about one area of your life,
where you can be walking closer to Him, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you put
that into practice.
Day 5 “For with the heart man believes, resulting
in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses resulting
in salvation” Romans 10:10
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peak out His
promises, His word, His love, the good news of the gospel! God wants His word in our hearts. He wants us
to understand and apply the Word so that it is effective in our lives. As you speak out specific words that the Holy
Spirit gives you, first for yourself, you will discover the power of the Word
of God to transform your life as faith grows within you. Study these passages of scripture. Write down
what God wants our mouths to be declaring. And start today. Ask God to give you a specific promise for
your situation, write it out, and stick it in a prominent place, such as your
mirror, or over the washing-up bowl! Speak it out loud several times a day. See
how this will help you to keep trusting the Lord as you roll your burdens onto
HIM.
Day 6 “...in everything give thanks; for this is
the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18
T hank God for His
mercies, which are new every morning. A
thankful heart is the gateway to trusting for His answers in our lives, and His
presence breaking through for us. The verse above does not say for everything, but in everything. Some of our situations may be terrible, and
we may have tragedy in our lives – no, you don’t have to thank the Lord for those things – no, no! But as we look to Him
and thank Him that He is good, the way is opened for Him to come as the mighty
God, as the Counsellor and Comforter, as the Wonderful Prince of Peace. Our
hearts will flower into trust in Him to bring His answers, His victory, His
redeeming love, His healing power into each and every situation.
Start thanking Him
today.
Use the above
scriptures to read aloud.
Sing. Play an
instrument.
WORSHIP HIM!
Day 7 “Casting all your cares upon Him for He cares
for you” 1 Peter 5:7
“Does He really care about ME?” That is the question that,
even sub-consciously, is going to stop us from putting our whole trust in
Jesus. When we doubt His love and care for us personally, it is hard to know
that he will be concerned about our smallest problems. We end up trying to take
care of them ourselves, rowing our own boats. Then the storm comes raging upon
us, or maybe just the daily grind wears us out. We may feel He is asleep in the
boat – but He IS IN your boat. Don’t forget that, and, as you call on Him, He
will never never fail you. Start today
enacting out your trust....
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alk to Jesus at any time and wherever
you are.
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oll your burdens on Him
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nderstand His word and His will, by
reading your Bible.
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peak out His promises, as you find them
in His Word.
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hank Him for all His goodness and love
Devotionals for tired mums!
Day 1: Deut 33:28 and Hos 14:5.
"His
heavens also shall drop dew..."
"I
will be like dew..."
Dew comes first thing
in the morning, and God also comes early before you awake - He is there waiting
for you as you wake. His refreshing dew is there for your tiredness. His
understanding love is waiting to speak into your heart and into all your hopes
and desires and disappointments and frustrations and worries. He is there,
still and quiet, waiting to drop that still dew of His presence into the depths
of your being. Dew is there when you haven't got time to get a big drink from
the Word. Just let the drops distil on your tongue. Be stilled, be refreshed, be encouraged and renewed with the gentle Holy
Spirit dew upon you today!
Day 2: Deut 33:24
“Let him dip his foot in oil...”
Your feet are to be
those beautiful feet bringing the peace of the Lord. But make sure they are
dipped in oil today, slippery with His fragrant ointment. Good news, peace, glad tidings and salvation
are to be the message you carry everywhere your beautiful feet take you. Dipped
in the precious oil of the Holy Spirit, you will carry the fragrance of Him
every step you take. As you walk into the kitchen, you tramp in that anointing
oil ; as your footsteps rush to a crying child, the oil of peace comes with
you. Think about that! Sit quietly for a moment and let the Holy Spirit come
and gently place your feet in His oil of blessing and anointing for today. AND “as your days, so shall your strength
be”! He will give the measure of
strength and anointing you need for whatever the day will bring!
Day 3: Hosea 14:4 and Jer
3:22
“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely...”
“..I
will heal your backslidings...”
Backsliding does not
necessarily mean we are deserters. I think it can speak of those times we so
often feel distant or condemned in ourselves, or just haven’t got the strength
to call out or move in the faith which pleases Him. We are trying to climb, but
keep slipping back. It is a consciousness that we are not experiencing the
sweetness of fellowship we want with Him, and we cannot feel His presence.
“Return” He says to His people. This implies to turn from our present focus,
and focus on Jesus. His promise is LOVE
and healing. Turn to Him today for those pressing needs, or those hurting
places. Let His love wash, bathe, and tenderly heal.
“Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His
wonderful face,
And the things of
earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His
glory and grace!”
Day 4: Hosea 13:5 and Deut 32:10
“I cared for you in the wilderness, in the
land of great drought...”
“He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland,
a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the
apple of His eye.”
Do you know the drier
and thirstier we are, the more likely it is that we will experience the Lord
coming to us with His springs of thirst-quenching water! He comes out to find
us in those barren hard places. It is in
those times of greatest desperation, that, as we cry to Him, He is there with
His gentle, protecting, kind arms to enfold us and help us. Read verse 10 of Deut 32 again, and put your
name in or the first person where it says “him” – read that out loud! Now put
it in the present tense and then the future!
Day 5: Deut 32:11 and Isaiah 40:31
“As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its
young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so
the Lord alone led them...”
“...they
shall mount up with wings like eagles...”
The Lord alone leads
you! The Lord alone lifts you and carries you, soaring over the mountains,
obstacles and struggles of life. As I read Is 40 in conjunction with Deut
32:11, I see those wings on which we will rise up, as the mighty wings of
Father, holding and bearing us up, up, up. It is not by our strength or might,
but by the thermals of His Spirit lifting us, riding on those feathers of His
power and love! “He gives power to the
weak”! He doesn’t strengthen our
wings, but takes us on His. Rise up with Father in His wonderful love
today! Snuggle into His feathers of His total care for you.
Day 6: Isaiah 40:11 and Psalm 23:1
“He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will
gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead
those who are with young.”
“The
Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
Feed, gather, carry,
gently lead and provide for every need – that is how God cares. And especially
in this scripture, very expressly, He says how those mums with their little
ones are His treasures. So often we can’t do it all, we miss it with our kids,
or we are just too too tired to cope one second longer. He comes tenderly
alongside, whispering words of love, and leads us beside still waters.
Circumstances may shout impossibility, situations may seem unbearable, BUT He
comes! He gathers our little ones and gently, with His wise and loving counsel,
shows us the way.
Day 7: Phil 4:4
“Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will
say rejoice!”
The recipe for
turning our worries into joy is in verse 6!
“When in a fix, Philippians 4:6 !”
is one of my husband's favourite sayings!
When we bring our
anxieties and cares to Jesus, praying and asking for His help, and
thanking Him for all His wonderful covenant love, then His peace will flood us,
and we can truly sing with joy! So rejoice today that He is faithful! Rejoice
for His love! Rejoice all-ways – sing,
dance, hug your kids and also quietly soak in His gentleness.
A Study in Hearing God's Voice
Day
1
Recognising God’s Voice
John 10:4 “When He has brought His
own sheep outside, He walks on before them
and the sheep follow Him, because they know His voice.”
John 10:27 “The sheep that are My
own hear and are listening to My voice, and
I know them and they follow Me.”
Jesus
promises us that His sheep recognise His voice. This is a wonderful promise,
but often we are deaf to His voice and cannot honestly say we do know it and
find difficulty differentiating between that and all the other voices coming at
us from the world. I think it is amazing that Jesus chooses a sheep to
illustrate my relationship with Him – sheep do not learn to obey in the same
way as a dog or a horse – they only follow! A wilful sheep who goes its own way
is the one who gets into trouble and it is a question of distance from the
Shepherd that brings about the inability to hear His voice calling and
speaking. The nearer we are, the more quietly He can speak and the more likely
we are to hear the smallest whisper. So as we start this study, let us come to
Jesus, ask Him to draw us close, to forgive the things we have done wrong and
to cleanse us. Look up 1 John 1: 5-9. Also James 4:7,8.
As you come
to Him, He will draw very close to you! He KNOWS you, He LOVES you!
Day 2 God’s
Whisper
1 Kings 19:9-14
“…a
delicate whispering voice…”
We are used
to the words “still small voice”, but in the margin of the New King James
Bible, it describes this as “a delicate whispering voice”! Think of a gentle summer breeze stirring the
leaves on the trees – such a quiet sound, that only those who are still and
listening will hear – but what a joy to hear that murmuring breeze, or,
similarly waters gurgling in a small brook. Outside noise or even a busy
occupied mind will block out the sweetness of those sounds. In this passage,
Elijah is blasted with a mighty wind and earthquake which breaks the rocks up
before his eyes – imagine it – a scary scene, followed by a fire, the mountain
slopes aloud with clamour and terrifying din. Perhaps this is God’s voice? No,
God knows that this would decimate Elijah in his place of hiding. Elijah is
frightened of those who seek to kill him – see verse 10. Whatever your
circumstances today – maybe it is fear, maybe other storms, financial or relationship
difficulties are threatening you – the Lord God, your Father, would say to you,
“Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD”. Yes, we may have to stand
right in view of the disaster and clamour, the things that would seek to kill
our peace and joy in the Lord – but it is there before the Lord we will hear
His whisper deep into our souls.
When we
follow this story through, we see that the Lord God gives Elijah various
instructions, calling him and giving specific guidance, and, while he is on his
way to obey, God gives him Elisha! From then on, Elisha is a faithful friend,
servant and encourager – one who truly never leaves him. Right till the very
last minute of Elijah’s walk on this earth, Elisha is with him. You can read
the story in 2 Kings 2. As we listen and learn to obey, and even while taking
the first hesitant steps of loving obedience, He will provide for us friends
and encouragers – and the best comfort and encourager of all will ALWAYS walk
with us – the Holy Spirit.
Read John 14:16-27 Listen to the Father’s whisper to you
personally in you heart, as you
read and meditate on these words.
Day 3 God speaks like thunder
John 12:27-29 “Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it (God's name), and will glorify it again.
The people therefore, that stood by, and
heard it, said that it
thundered…”
God the
Father is talking to His Son. The people standing nearby think it may be
thundering! And Jesus tells them the
thundering voice, audible to men and women, was for their sakes. It was not for
His own benefit. Jesus Himself was so tuned in to His Father, that He didn’t
need thundering voices! Now look what this thundering voice signifies in verse
31 – Jesus speaks of the prince of this world being banished. And then in verse
32 He prophesies His death on the Cross to draw all people to Himself. When God
comes in glory, there may well be thunderous words. What expectations they
bring for us who believe – the casting out of Satan and all his ploys and
schemes of evil in lives of men and women; and the lifting up of Christ our
Saviour, Healer and Redeemer! Do not be afraid of noise! Let God speak loudly
when he wishes – let Him speak loudly through you as you pray and declare His
word over your situation and life, over your family, church, town and nation
and over the world which he has died to redeem.
Use a psalm to declare
the wonderful works of the Lord. If you have a suitable place, then shout out
loud! Psalm 47 is an example of
declaring the authority and power of the Lord over the nations.
Psalm 47:6-8
“Sing praise to God, sing
praises: Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye
praises with understanding.
God reigns
over the nations: God sits upon his holy throne.”
Day 4 God speaks
like Thunder 2
Rev 14:2. “ And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice
of many waters, and as
the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their
harps …”
What a
contrast – torrents like the Niagara
Falls
“Meanwhile, the saints stand passionately patient, keeping God's
commands, staying faithful to Jesus”
Rev 14:12
(The Message). Meditate on these words and ask the Lord to bring you to this
place, even when His voice is thundering. You are washed and clean through the
precious blood of Jesus!
A Story
…….. The four
year old daughter of my friend, Lynn, came into her mother’s room at 4 am one
morning, waking her mother urgently. Lynn
This was a very real incident and my
friend took it seriously – the Lord had woken her little girl with an urgent
message to get ready. Does that remind you of Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:44, “Therefore be ye also ready:
for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
Find out
how we are meant to dress ourselves in readiness by reading the following
scriptures:
1 Thess 5:4-10 …..the breastplate of FAITH
and LOVE…..the
helmet of the HOPE
of salvation
1 Pet 1:13-16 ….. your
hope fixed completely on the GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ, obedient children, holy
in our behaviour
2 Pet 3:10-18 …..diligent
to be found by Him in PEACE, spotless and blameless. Living in holy conduct and
godliness.
God’s voice
thunders out, even to a small child, when He is speaking about the urgency of
His coming, of vital important issues of how we live in preparation for the
coming of the King!
LISTEN to
HIM!
Day 5 God
Laughs
Ps 2:4
"He who sits in the heavens shall laugh
…"
Ps
37:13 "The wicked plots against
the just, … The Lord laughs at him, for He
sees that his day is coming."
Ps 59:8-10 "But You, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall
have all the nations in derision. I will wait for You, O You his Strength; for
God is my defense; My God of mercy shall come to meet me; God shall let me see
my desire on my enemies."
Yes, often
we communicate by laughing. We can laugh with joy or good humour, or we can
laugh at another person’s expense, or we can even laugh off potential problems
and difficulties. Here in these verses we see how God laughs at His enemies!
When you are battling with what may seem insuperable problems in your Christian
life – just listen out for God’s laugh! Look how Psalm 2 starts – “WHY…?” here
is a picture of the nations in uproar, described many centuries ago, but just
as real today. Here is the world “devising vain things!" How true, how
true! They are ultimately against the Lord and His anointed, and for us now,
that means us as Christians, with the precious anointing of the Holy Spirit. Do
not be surprised when worldly people are against you. Don’t fight back. Wait on
God and to be sure you will hear His mighty laugh. WHO has the last word? HE DOES! Look at this:
“But as for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion
Read the
psalms indicated above. And ask the Lord to fill you with His joy.
“How blessed are all who take refuge in
Him!” Ps 2:12
Day 6 God Shouts
John 11:43 “And when he had thus
spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.”
John 7:37 “And in the last day of the great feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and
drink.”
Lazarus has been in the tomb for 4
days. He is as dead as can be, and, as the crowd point out, he is very stinky!
Jesus shouts out very loudly, not, I suppose, to make Lazarus hear, but to
proclaim to the doors of hell that they haven’t won this time!! He faces death
with a great shout of triumph, and Lazarus walks out of his grave, and needs
help to get un-bandaged from his grave-cloths.
God's shout is a shout of victory!
Victory over death and satan!
We can shout too! Rejoicing in God's
victory in our lives. His victory though the cross of Jesus!
Psa 118:13-16 (The Message)
I was right on the cliff-edge, ready to fall, when GOD grabbed and
held me.
GOD's my strength, he's also my song, and now he's my salvation.
Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs in
the camp of the saved? "The hand of GOD has turned the tide!
The hand of GOD is raised in victory! The hand of GOD has turned the
tide!"
Jesus' shout is to call those who are thirsty to drink. Read the whole passage in John
7:37-39.
Often, in the Bible, God speaks to His servants in dreams. For example, read Matthew 1:18-21 and Mt 2:11-14. And still today, we can expect to hear God in our dreams. Sometimes, it will be a dream which needs interpreting. Share with your spouse, if you feel a dream is significant, but you do not understand it. I know my husband has a gift for shedding light on my dreams. But, at other times, the dream is so clear, and God is speaking without imagery. This happened for me some years ago, and this is the dream:
I was standing with a group of people. One young man was looking at me and asking, "How can I make my 'Quiet Time' more interesting – and not a boring duty?"
And I immediately answered in the dream,
Day 7 Hearing God's Voice
Prov 4:20-22 (NKJ)
My son, give attention to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
Do
not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for
they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
Message version:
Dear friend, listen
well to my words;
tune your ears to my voice.
Keep my message in plain view at all times.
Concentrate! Learn it by heart!
Those who discover these words live, really live;
body and soul, they're bursting with health.
tune your ears to my voice.
Keep my message in plain view at all times.
Concentrate! Learn it by heart!
Those who discover these words live, really live;
body and soul, they're bursting with health.
"Listen well!" That is the whole message of God's
Word to us. If we will learn to listen well to His word into our hearts, then
we will have life and health in all its fullness! It is really important to
realise that God's words into our hearts, whether read directly from the Bible or
spoken softly by His Holy Spirit, are always
words of life. They are always in His character of love, mercy and grace. They
always speak salvation and healing and peace and joy into our lives and the
lives of our family and friends. If you are hearing words of condemnation or failure
into your heart, it is not from the Lord. Remember the woman caught in adultery
who was brought to Jesus for "punishment"? Remember how He managed to
send all her accusers away shame-faced, and told her, "Neither do I
condemn you, go and sin no more"!
Romans 8:1,2: "There is therefore now no
condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death."
Jesus
will lead us away from our sin. He will give us the power to overcome sin and
temptation, but He does not cause us to flounder in guilt and self-accusation!
So listen well. Ask Him to whisper His words of assurance and love into your
heart today! Read 1 Peter 1:1-9,
and write down what God has done for you! And "may grace and peace be
yours in fullest measure" today!
Day 8 Choosing the good way ….
Luke 10: 38-42
"As
Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem
41 But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these
details! 42 There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has
discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Jesus Himself tells us that there is only one
thing worth being concerned about and that is to spend time listening to HIM!
How on earth do we interpret this direction from Jesus, when our lives are busy
from the moment we awake to the time when we can at last sink wearily into our
beds? How do we manage to sit at His feet when little ones are around us all
day with demands, quarrels to be sorted, "I am thirsty, Mummy",
"I am hungry Mummy", "Can I have a biscuit Mummy" all day
long? I believe that it is a quiet heart, rather than rest from activity. The
key here is to not allow everything that takes up our time during the day to be
"distractions" away from the Lord's presence. Martha was
"distracted". It means keeping ourselves in the love of Christ. It
means knowing we live under the shadow of the Almighty! (Ps 91:1) And so do our
children! I know that it is possible to listen and hear God's voice when we are
washing the dishes or hanging out the laundry, or reading a story to our little
ones! And also there is a time to cease from all activity and give Jesus
quality time. If we will do that, then He will still our hearts in the midst of
frenetic days (and maybe nights too!) and sometimes just 10 seconds worth of
His loving voice will change the whole day! More about that tomorrow!
Read Jude 20,21, and ask God to show
you ways from these 2 verses to keep close to Him and hear His voice.
A Poem written by a busy mum over 100 years ago!!
"I'd take the time, dear Lord, to pray,
But see what work there is today -
The washing, baking, clothes to mend,
And all the family to tend."
And so goes by another day
Without a moment spent to pray.
Things go awry, the starch boils o'er,
My temper's high - I mop the floor -
The rush to do my work aright
Does not seem worth the fight by night.
Perhaps I could accomplish more
If grace and strength were gained before!
Forgive me, Lord, the Martha view,
When I so need the time with You.
I'm sure a quarter hour or so
Would help to rout my own soul's foe.
I cannot be from care set free
Without some fellowship with Thee. by Francis Longing.
A Poem written by a busy mum over 100 years ago!!
"I'd take the time, dear Lord, to pray,
But see what work there is today -
The washing, baking, clothes to mend,
And all the family to tend."
And so goes by another day
Without a moment spent to pray.
Things go awry, the starch boils o'er,
My temper's high - I mop the floor -
The rush to do my work aright
Does not seem worth the fight by night.
Perhaps I could accomplish more
If grace and strength were gained before!
Forgive me, Lord, the Martha view,
When I so need the time with You.
I'm sure a quarter hour or so
Would help to rout my own soul's foe.
I cannot be from care set free
Without some fellowship with Thee. by Francis Longing.
Day 9 God speaks in a Dream
Often, in the Bible, God speaks to His servants in dreams. For example, read Matthew 1:18-21 and Mt 2:11-14. And still today, we can expect to hear God in our dreams. Sometimes, it will be a dream which needs interpreting. Share with your spouse, if you feel a dream is significant, but you do not understand it. I know my husband has a gift for shedding light on my dreams. But, at other times, the dream is so clear, and God is speaking without imagery. This happened for me some years ago, and this is the dream:
I was standing with a group of people. One young man was looking at me and asking, "How can I make my 'Quiet Time' more interesting – and not a boring duty?"
And I immediately answered in the dream,
"There are 3 things to do to make your time with the Lord exciting, vibrant and refreshing and meaningful." And then I spoke out the 3 things which seemed to me to come from the heart of the Lord.
1) ASK God to speak personally to me
2) RECEIVE His Word and His love and WAIT.
3) PRAISE Him.
I told the man that both in his prayer and his reading of the Word to do the above. It means TIME. It means stopping and waiting and listening. BUT when we truly expect to meet with God and hear Him, we will. If God is present, then how can ever the time be boring? Of course, our praise enthrones Him and unites us to Him as He made us for His praise and for His glory.
I put the dream into practice that very first day when I woke up. At the time we were struggling with many difficulties, and I personally felt depressed – and, as I waited to hear the Lord, He said, "You are an overcomer!" I felt like Gideon must have done when he was told he was a "mighty man of valour" (Judges 6). I was not even remotely in the place of an overcomer! The Lord then showed me John 16:33 in the Amplified Bible:
1) ASK God to speak personally to me
2) RECEIVE His Word and His love and WAIT.
3) PRAISE Him.
I told the man that both in his prayer and his reading of the Word to do the above. It means TIME. It means stopping and waiting and listening. BUT when we truly expect to meet with God and hear Him, we will. If God is present, then how can ever the time be boring? Of course, our praise enthrones Him and unites us to Him as He made us for His praise and for His glory.
I put the dream into practice that very first day when I woke up. At the time we were struggling with many difficulties, and I personally felt depressed – and, as I waited to hear the Lord, He said, "You are an overcomer!" I felt like Gideon must have done when he was told he was a "mighty man of valour" (Judges 6). I was not even remotely in the place of an overcomer! The Lord then showed me John 16:33 in the Amplified Bible:
" I have told you these things, so that in Me you
may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have
tribulation and trials and distress and frustration;
but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I
have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have
conquered it for you.]"
God
truly changes our outlook, our attitude and our lives when we listen to Him.
Read Proverbs 3:1,2; Proverbs 4:10-13, 20-23. What promises do we see here for those who hear and listen to God's words?
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