Author Thoughts Today – July 29, 2025
My fellow prayer warriors and I met this morning at 6:30 AM, as we have done on Tuesdays for years, to pray over one another, our families, friends, and whatever else any of us choose to share from our hearts and minds. Our hour on Zoom is powerful. The week is wrecked if I miss Tuesday morning. Leaves a hole; a God-sized hole that only prayer can fill. We mentioned listening for God’s still, small voice to hear His guidance. Ears to hear His whisper. It got me thinking about my own failure to hear because the voice in my head drowns it out. I’m always better off if I slow down and go to prayer first, then be still and listen before I default to listening to my own voice and the genius of my own plans. It’s still not a best practice. But I’m working on it. I know the Holy Spirit. He is with me, but do I listen? Not nearly enough.
“Be still and know that I am God…” (Psalms 46:10). Be still does not mean stop moving. You can be moving, even if only in your head, with your mind racing, and still hear His whisper. Pray for ears to hear. There’s another message in Isaiah that captures the power of continuing to move and still listening. “Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’” (Isaiah 30:21) To me, it’s saying trust in the voice of God, however you hear it. In my reading post-prayer time, I’m on day 5 of Mark Batterson’s 5-day devotional “Whisper: How to hear the voice of God.”
“God wants us to hear what He’s saying, and we must heed His voice. But much more than that, He wants us to hear His heart. So He whispers softer and softer so that we have to get closer and closer. And when we finally get close enough, He envelops us in His arms and tells us that He loves us.
We’ve been deafened by the voice of conformity, the voice of criticism, and the voice of condemnation, and the side effects include loneliness, shame, and anxiety.
The good news? You not only bear God’s image but you know His voice. It’s His voice that knit you together in your mother’s womb. It’s His voice that ordained all your days before one of them came to be. It’s His voice that began a good work and His voice that will carry it to completion.”
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Keep moving and listen…
Peace! G.