God is a God of communication and He unequivocally enjoys conversing with His people. Psalm 50:3 confirms, “Our God approaches, and He is not silent…..”
So the million dollar question of the day is why are there times when God seems silent in a believer’s life? I guarantee you 90% or more born again-dip in the Holy Ghost fire believers have asked this question (myself included).
Undoubtedly, there will be times in our walk as born-again believers, when it may seem that God is silent, but God is never silent. What looks like silence and inactivity to us is God allowing us the opportunity to listen to “the still small voice” and to see the provisions that He has made for us by faith. God is involved in every area of a believer’s life–the very hairs on our heads are numbered (Mark 10:30; Luke 12:7). However, there are times when we have to walk in obedience to the light that God has given us before He sheds more light on our path, because in this age of grace God speaks to us through His Word.
That being said, let’s flip the script and ask the question in another way—is God ever silent when your Bible is consistently opened and your prayer life is consistently on point? Well, if you can testify to doing both of these things, but still feel like God is silent let’s briefly take a look at what happened to Elijah
In I Kings 19 we find that Elijah got himself in a little bit of of a pickle…. when the word reached him that Jezebel had threatened his life, he ran! When I say he ran, I want you to picture Elijah sprinting like Usain Bolt running the 100 meters.
Elijah prayed to the LORD and in effect complained about how he was being treated: “He replied, ‘I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too’” (1 Kings 19:10). The LORD’S answer to Elijah is thrilling: “The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper” (1 Kings 19:11-12).
We can clearly see in these passages of text what Elijah thought was not true. Elijah thought God was silent and that he was the only one left. God was not only “not silent,” but He had an army waiting in the wings so that Elijah was not alone: “Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him” (1 Kings 19:18).
My brothers and sisters, you may feel like Elijah today, but I encourage you to rearrange the letters in the word silent so that you can spell the word listen. Anytime God seems silent to us as born-again believers, it may mean that we have stopped listening to His voice, we have allowed the cares of this world to plug our spiritual ears, or we have neglected His Word. God may not speak to us today in signs, wonders, fire, or wind, but His Spirit will always speaks to us through His word, prayer, and intentional listening (meditation)!
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