One of my greatest passions is to encourage women to pursue a deep relationship with God. One where they hear his voice and respond with obedient trust.
Interestingly, hearing from God was a source of GREAT frustration to me for years.
My book, "What Happens When Women Say Yes to God," came out of my own intensive journey to find the heart of God. I was desperate not to just know facts about him but to really know him.
I found something terribly wonderful in the crucible of trust. It was terrible because it required me to change- let go of- give up- and release. Hmffff… who likes that?
But it was wonderful because I finally understood that to be a person OF faith you have to be willing to live a life that actually REQUIRES faith. In studying Scriptures that described people of courageous faith in the Bible, I started feeling inklings of what might could be God.
It was like a little trickle that finally sprung forth in my hardened soul. Just a slight breech in the dam I'd so carefully constructed to keep everyone, even God at arms length. After all, keeping people at a slight distance meant they can't hurt you as much.
And I'd been hurt.
I'd been hurt by people and if I dare be brutally honest, I allowed my heart to believe I’d been hurt by God as well.
But God's love eventually wears down even the most rigid of souls. So, the slightest opening allowed the slightest trickle.
Instead of working myself into a fearful tizzy trying to patch the opening, I finally let it have its way. The glorious erosion that took place eventually caused my dam of resignation and hesitation to burst wide open.
If it can ever be said that a flood is good, the flood that ensued engulfed my parched soul in the best way.
So, if there is one bit of encouragement I could give to anyone desperately trying to hear the Lord, it would be to let it happen.
Don't try to manipulate it or fabricate it. Ask for the trickle and then let it have its full way until every reservation you've had about growing closer to God is drowned out by His undeniable voice.
It will be there.
Isaiah 30: 21-22, "Your own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say, 'This is the way you should go,' whether to the right or to the left. Then you will destroy all your silver idols and your precious gold images. You will throw them out like filthy rags, saying to them, 'Good riddance!' "
Interestingly, hearing from God was a source of GREAT frustration to me for years.
My book, "What Happens When Women Say Yes to God," came out of my own intensive journey to find the heart of God. I was desperate not to just know facts about him but to really know him.
I found something terribly wonderful in the crucible of trust. It was terrible because it required me to change- let go of- give up- and release. Hmffff… who likes that?
But it was wonderful because I finally understood that to be a person OF faith you have to be willing to live a life that actually REQUIRES faith. In studying Scriptures that described people of courageous faith in the Bible, I started feeling inklings of what might could be God.
It was like a little trickle that finally sprung forth in my hardened soul. Just a slight breech in the dam I'd so carefully constructed to keep everyone, even God at arms length. After all, keeping people at a slight distance meant they can't hurt you as much.
And I'd been hurt.
I'd been hurt by people and if I dare be brutally honest, I allowed my heart to believe I’d been hurt by God as well.
But God's love eventually wears down even the most rigid of souls. So, the slightest opening allowed the slightest trickle.
Instead of working myself into a fearful tizzy trying to patch the opening, I finally let it have its way. The glorious erosion that took place eventually caused my dam of resignation and hesitation to burst wide open.
If it can ever be said that a flood is good, the flood that ensued engulfed my parched soul in the best way.
So, if there is one bit of encouragement I could give to anyone desperately trying to hear the Lord, it would be to let it happen.
Don't try to manipulate it or fabricate it. Ask for the trickle and then let it have its full way until every reservation you've had about growing closer to God is drowned out by His undeniable voice.
It will be there.
Isaiah 30: 21-22, "Your own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say, 'This is the way you should go,' whether to the right or to the left. Then you will destroy all your silver idols and your precious gold images. You will throw them out like filthy rags, saying to them, 'Good riddance!' "
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