Excuse Me God...Did You Say Something?

Ps 106:13-14

13 Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done!
They wouldn't wait for his counsel!
14 In the wilderness, their desires ran wild,
testing God's patience in that dry land.
NLT

Ever been in a conversation where some one wouldn’t let you talk. You were full of words or had a great story to share, but the people around you just wouldn’t stop talking long enough for you to get a word in.

As I sat praying quietly and alone in the darkened room upstairs in our apartment, I came to the point where I stop talking and listen for a reply from God. How often does that point turn into a recap of the day, or even a rabbit chasing adventure? My mind began to wander. Thinking about the police car passing by with sirens blaring, the truck up the road down shifting, and the trains whistle blowing accompanied by the ruffling of the tracks and shifting of the cars the train carried. Wandering further to the chores I had left to do, hang the pictures, hang the shelves, empty the dishwasher…wait a minute!!!! What am I doing? At what point did I lose absolute total focus on the importance of that moment? Surely of all of the blabbering and talking that I had done for the past 20 minutes, the most important part of that prayer was the response from God. We have all done this and have probably experienced it several times in the past 5 days. Those moments of silence that we set aside to hear from God turn into the “Honey Do list” on the refrigerator, or the recap on the day’s experiences. In many cases our prayers are left unfulfilled and without response. Our prayers are concluded with no answer and no added life. I challenge you all to be strong willed in these 21 days of prayer. Concentrate on hearing a whisper from God. Do more than just focus on these prayers and petitions. Focus on the voice of who you make those petitions known. Because more important than any words that we can speak, are the words that He speaks to us.