Last night I went to bed wondering how it was ever going to be possible for me to find the time to begin writing the website and blog I really want to do and feel God is calling me to do. Every part of my day is allocated from early morning until late evening.
This morning, however, I wasn’t thinking about that, as I sat in my prayer room meditating. I was focusing on finding that still, quiet place where my spirit connects with God.
Over the past week I have made an amazing discovery. Previously, in my meditations, I sometimes had days where I didn’t have any “tangible or physical” experience to prove that I had met with God. However, I always believed that even when I didn’t “feel” it, I knew that simply by making the time to sit in His presence, a supernatural exchange had taken place between my spirit and His spirit. I knew this to be true because there would usually be evidence in the following days that an encounter had taken place, for example, a prayer answered etc.
However, more recently, God has shown me that even when we have quieted ourselves to connect with Him and yet don’t feel like we’ve made that connection, sometimes we need to become even more quiet and more still in His presence.
Sometimes His presence is so soft and so gentle we have to “come down another level”, so to speak, in our stillness to connect and hear from Him.
So as I sat with God in that very quiet, gentle place the Holy Spirit brought to my mind the story of Elijah. 1 Kings 19:9-13 tells how God told Elijah to go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord because the “Lord is about to pass by”. Then came a great and powerful wind, but the Lord was not in the wind. Then came an earthquake, but God was not in the earthquake.Then came a fire, but God was not in the fire. Then, the bible says, came a “gentle whisper” and God was the gentle whisper.
I love the beautiful sense of peace this image of God being in the gentle whisper brings. To experience this gentle whisper is like heaven on earth.
Gill’s commentary says this about it: “and all this may be considered as showing the difference between the two dispensations of law and Gospel; the law is a voice of terrible words, and was given amidst a tempest of wind, thunder and lightning, attended with an earthquake, but the Gospel is a gentle voice of love, grace and mercy, of peace, pardon, righteousness and salvation by Christ…. Blessed are the people that hear this still, small, gentle voice, the joyful sound”
How beautiful is that! I love it!
As I sat there contemplating the beauty of this still small gentle voice, as always with God, there was more.
I have discovered that as I meditate on God and experience him the gentle whisper he always answers the questions of my heart.
I will leave you to meditate on the “joyful sound”, the gentle whisper of the Holy Spirit and tomorrow in Part 2 I will share the rest of the story.
Have a beautiful spirit-filled day!
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