Sometime last year when I started digging further into my bible and felt like I was being called to write, I kept coming up on the same passage. In Joel 2:28-29 NIV ‘And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.’ As I was just searching for the passage, I realized it was also restated in Acts 2:17.
There have been many times over the course of the almost year that I’ve been woken up in the middle of the night with a thought to share after I went to bed with nothing on my mind except the prayer of ‘Lord, if you want me to share something, please provide.’ There have been many times that I’ve said, ‘Lord, I don’t know how I’m going to get through this and I can’t do this on my own’, only to be woken up in the wee hours with a passage of scripture or a song that answers the very same question that I had presented to God. I’ve shared before – God has used to stillness that I have carved out in my life for Him, to whisper to me what He needs me to hear.
Yesterday, a young man that I’ve known for a very long time shared a beautiful testimony publicly. Like me, he’s a very private person, but his verse for yesterday was that when God had done something for you, you need to tell others, and so he did. Many were blessed by this young man’s experience of seeing God move and speak to him first hand. There were so many situations he was facing and he cried out to God, and God answered. He woke him up in the middle of the night to speak to his heart and assure him that He was working things out. He provided songs through worship and specific messages through a sermon that made him know that it was only God answering his prayers.
I don’t know what questions you are asking God, but I want you to know He is listening. Many times we can’t hear the response because while we ask, we quickly get up and move on to the next task without waiting for a response. God wants us to ‘be still and know that I am God’ Psalms 46:10. While we are yet speaking, God is answering, but we need to listen.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the stillness you provide, even if you have to wake us up in the wee hours of the morning for it. Please help us to listen more than we speak, even in our relationship with you. Help us to be still and know that you are God and nothing is impossible with you, even when we can’t see. You’ve promised us that you know the beginning from the end, and we just need to trust you.