Silence - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Silence

“I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good, and my sorrow was stirred up. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned.” (Psalm 39:2-3, NKJV)

While sitting on our front porch swing in the early morning hours, the cool breeze blew gently across in the quiet moments. While others continued to rest in bed, or prepare for the new day, I enjoy these times in prayer and listening to our Lord’s heart and voice. He enjoys it too, I believe, as time is given with Him and His Holy Spirit.

Then within my spirit, I sensed a weeping build up, as if I was interceding for another who was softly crying out to the Lord. I continued in prayer, and He spoke, “Silence.”

Not one but several I understood were crying out to the Lord in this hour. I was interceding for them. As they sought the Lord, knowingly or unknowingly, He was having me join them in prayer. His heart was being shared with me, for them.

Throughout the ages, the Lord has called upon His people to stand up and speak up for those who cannot. We are being asked to intercede for the unborn, the prisoners lost in deep, dark cellars, the believers in closed nations that are being persecuted for following the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Jesus, Yeshua. We are being called upon to speak up, and not remain in silence, for those who can’t.

As many are left alone, having no mouth to speak for themselves for the world to hear, we must be the ones who rise and speak for them. For many, it is us, the believers of the only Savior, who know the truth, who are the ones who need to speak for those who have been silenced, or whose mouth has not even been allowed to breathe the air of life for the first time outside the womb.

Every opportunity you get, every moment you have been given, to intercede, to write, to speak…do it. Those of us who know the truth must now speak it. Boldly, loudly, and with the confidence that Truth, His truth, will be heard.

Now think of this,

Ahava and shalom,

Steve Martin

Founder/President

Love For His People, Inc.

P.S. As I was writing this, my WORD document kept shutting down. No obstacle must keep us from speaking up. 

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Now Think On This #427 - in the year of our Lord 06.07.19 – “Silence” – Friday, 5:30 am

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Andrew Garfield: To Fall in Love With Jesus Is the Most Remarkable Thing - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

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Andrew Garfield: To Fall in Love With Jesus Is the Most Remarkable Thing

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First audiences saw him as Seventh-day Adventist and war hero Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge. A few months later, they saw him as Rodrigo, a Jesuit missionary persecuted for his faith in Silence.

Actor Andrew Garfield says he fell in love on the sets, but not in a way he expected.

 "What was really easy was falling in love with this person, was falling in love with Jesus Christ. That was the most surprising thing," Garfield tells America Magazine. "God! That was the most remarkable thing—falling in love, and how easy it was to fall in love with Jesus." 

The interview with America isn't the first time the amazing Spider-Man talked about his faith.

"It was difficult to live up to that goodness, that purity, that guilelessness and childlikeness," Garfield told Relevant of his Hacksaw Ridge role. "It's hard to hang around with him because I would disappoint myself when the day was over. I would fall back into my own flawed nature, my own jealousies and insecurities, my own irritations that just weren't present as I was inhabiting Desmond." 

Of his role in Silence, Garfield says he studied the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. These routines began to grow his faith.

Upon completion of the Exercises, Garfield was "was filled up with all this information and all this longing to spread the teachings of Christ, which I truly started to adore." 

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God Often Speaks In Silence by Wayne Sutton

God Often Speaks In Silence by Wayne Sutton

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The life of a prophet is one with many visions, deep impressions of the soul, and often 'silence.'

Why does "one who hears" find silence from the Lord?  I believe that silence itself is one powerful way that our Father communicates with his children.

A silence, a soft wind, a hush among the noise...How do you hear God?

As one of my children may ask me a question, I do not always verbally answer. My answer may be a look that corrects or affirms their question or actions.  My silence is not a place of rejection or distance from my children - instead it's an act of pure love.

Silence Will Demand Wisdom

Often when we receive an instant answer for every question we ask, we tend to lose our own identity and assurance in our ability to make decisions.  I love when my children ask me questions, yet I also desire to see them mature into a child that will learn to allow wisdom to grow within their life and be displayed in areas where decisions are required. Silence is communication.

Silence Will Create Attention

"Are you listening to me... hello....?"

When we speak and 'feel" like we have not been heard (even though God always hears), it refocuses us and directs our attention back to the Lord.  Many times we will begin a fast or spend time in worship and prayer. Silence often aligns our heart back into the spirit realm we are created to live and thrive in! Silence is communication.

Silence is Only for a Season

Knock and it will be opened for you.  A knock is a call - the reply comes from the one that has the power to open the door. Silence is for a season, and if you are not hearing God in this season, or about a certain situation, then trust that God is still hearing you.  Trust that the spirit of wisdom comes upon us and we live from that reality even when we do not "hear" a clear voice from God.  Silence is communication.

Seek Counsel in Times of Silence

A few years ago a great friend of our ministry came to me and asked to me to seek the Lord for her about a situation in her life.  I diligently prayed and sought the Lord on her behalf. 

Yet, I heard nothing from the Lord. 

This was very unusual, and so I prayed and sought the Lord yet again, and yet again.  Several days later in our next meeting I apologetically explained that although I minister prophetically almost every day, in her case I had heard nothing.  "Amen!" she shouted...then she admitted that she had asked God for my silence as a prophet - so that SHE could be sure that even the silence was from God. We both learned the importance of silence in that season. Silence is communication.

God always hears his children and God speaks in many different ways - even through prophetic silence.  Always seek and trust the Lord in your life!

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7

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