How many times have we missed the messages God was delivering because we did not discern HOW He is speaking to us? Unfortunately, our incorrectly tuned spiritual radar is a significant contributor to the undesirable parts of our singleness. Far too often, we are looking for God on the wrong end of the radio dial!
There is no one way that God speaks to Christian singles. But that is not the problem. However He tries to communicate with us, we can rest assured that His message is meant to get through. The problem is that we try to dictate to God the “HOW” of His transmission and that is way above our pay grade!
God can speak to us through dreams while we sleep or He can contact us when we are wide awake. Sometimes He reaches out to us through others or He bypasses others and taps us directly on our shoulders. Other times, He uses circumstances to get our attention or He hides special meanings just for us in His Word (the Bible) or in a Sunday morning sermon.
Perhaps we waste too much time trying to anticipate how God is going to speak to us today. Our efforts would be better spent focusing on the reality that He has, He is and He will stay in touch with us. Yes, God is speaking, that is reason enough to celebrate! Just as we get excited about getting that phone call or receiving that email from that special someone, we should also get excited knowing that God thinks enough of us to drop us a line.
Let’s stop trying to put God’s words in someone else’s mouth. Our romantic partners or close friends or family members or co-workers are not the ones we should be listening to. It is God; He is the One who words will uplift us. People are liable to say all kinds of things and a lot of it is just “jive talking”. (See Spiritual Jive Talkers Club - http://mooskm.blogspot.com/2007/06/spiritual-jive-talkers-club.html). But sad to say, we often turn to these same people instead of God to whisper truly sweet NOTHINGS in our ears!
How does God speak to Christian singles? Just when we think we have Him figured out; He uses another approach to contact us. At times, we get so caught up in the game of trying to guess the HOW of God’s communication that we lose sight of the power behind simply realizing that God IS talking. In this case, let’s hate the “game” and love the notion that we serve a gracious God that cares enough about us to SPEAK to us.
Speak Lord, Speak Lord, Speak Lord!
Tomorrow’s Post: Who God Speaks To
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Good Morning.
It's again early in the a.m. and I got some disturbing news. A close family friend got locked up 8/16/07 and we don't know why yet. So keep T.T. and family in your prayers.
But as for God speaking to you, I remember talking with a friend the other day about feeling "is this it". We go to work or school or church on a regular basis and is this it to life? And it was suggested that I pray. The following day without me saying a word to him, my boss gave me a daily reading to read and it was about "is this it". How it was classified as a spiritual lag and what we needed to do was pray and read the word. satan is busy with the mind games and God sends His word thru people and situations.
All we have to do is "listen" and pay attention. I am not always in tune, but I do notice my surroundings. I thank God for the angels that He has placed around me. So when I am not listening He still has my back to see and follow directions.
Keeping praying that I will also hear and not always need to rely on those angels.
Stay cool ;)
lbj(s)
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