Date: Friday,
June 26, 2015
Chapters: Psalms
86-89
Message Title: When We Do
Not Hear From God

Hello My Friend,

God
loves to hear His children talk to Him, He loves to hear praise,
adoration, confession, our complaints, and our pleas. There are times
in our lives when we talk to God and hear Him right away, and yet
there are times when we do not hear from Him for days or even months.
It's during the times we do not hear Him that we need to be remind
ourselves that He is working and to never stop praying. “For
we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a
man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see
not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as
we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered.” - Romans
8:24-26.

Sometimes we do not hear from God because there
is something in our lives that is hindering Him from speaking. Now,
this does not have to be sin, it could be something that He wants us
to do, but has not. God never leaves us, He's always on stand by
waiting for us to come to the realization that we are hindering Him.
Stop and think about the things that are going on, is something or
someone hindering God, if we can honestly admit that, it's time to
make things right with Him. “Bow down thine
ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul; for
I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. Be
merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul
of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For
thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy
unto all them that call upon thee. Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer;
and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble
I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. Teach me thy way, O
LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.”
- Psalms 86:1-7,11.

I am going to be honest and tell you
that I had been conversing back and forth with my ex-boyfriend for
years, praying and hoping that God would bring us back together. That
stopped God from hearing me, He was not going to let me fall into
that trap again. Well, I can say now that October of last year I
finally came to that realization and now God has increased my work,
made me a Sunday School teacher, and even brought a new man into my
life. We must let go of things that hinder us if we want to see Him
work in our lives. “I know it is so of a
truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with
him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and
mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath
prospered? Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also,
but I perceive him not. Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?
who will say unto him, What doest thou?” - Job
9:2-4,11,12.

Sometimes we do not hear from God because we
may not be serious about what we are asking, perhaps we are
half-hearted about it or a lack faith. Don't give up, God knows our
needs well before we ask, He just wants us to cry out to Him
whole-heartedly. “O LORD God of my salvation,
I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before
thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles:
and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that
go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among
the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest
no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. But unto thee have I
cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. LORD,
why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am
afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy
terrors I am distracted.” - Psalms 88:1-5,13-15.

While
we only need faith the size of a mustard seed to see God move
mountains for us, if we have any doubts that He cannot or will not do
it, He won't. He wants our complete faith in Him, even if it is the
size of a mustard seed. Until He knows we have faith, He will not
hear us. “Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the
elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear. But without faith it is
impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that
he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
- Hebrews 11:1-3,6.

Perhaps the most important reason that
God will not hear us is because we may not be saved. In order for God
to even acknowledge our prayer, we first need to know His Son Jesus
Christ, as our Saviour. He'll wait until we bow our heads and ask Him
to save us, believing, before He will hear our prayers. This is not
something new, even in Old Testament days they had to believe in the
Saviour, whom by the way is mentioned all throughout the Old
Testament. One being God describing His Son coming through David's
seed, and the promise He makes to all who believe. “Also
I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My
mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his
throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and
walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my
commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and
their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I
not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My
covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my
lips.” - Psalms 89:27-34.

This is the promise God
makes to all who believe in His Son, eternal life, He will never
leave them nor forsake them. Of course, we suffer for sin should we
back off from Him for a time, but He will never destroy us. That my
friend is what God's mercy and grace is all about, it's the favor of
God with only one string attached, His Son, who died for us to save
us from our sins, death, and hell. Only when we are saved can God
hear our prayers and even our confessions. “Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that
loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By
this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and
keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith. And we know that the Son of God
is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him
that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus
Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.” - 1 John
5:1-4,20.

Today's Prayer:
God, Thank You for loving us so much that You want constant contact
with us, You want to hear or pains, our sorrows, our joys, and
praises to You, and You definitely want to hear our pleas. Sometimes
we hinder You from hearing us as well as speaking to us, Lord, lead
us and guide us, reveal anything that hinders You from speaking to
us. Give us the wisdom to figure out anything that might be keeping
You from listening to us, and the strength to walk away from it. In
Jesus” name, Amen.

God Bless You, I am praying for
you,
Christina

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