“Live out what God has already spoken, and you will not find God silent.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment (Kindle Locations 2144-2145). Kindle Edition.

It is so interesting how people want to know God’s direction for their life. But they haven’t spent time reading the Bible or going to church and hearing God’s word through His messenger or opened a book that some Godly inspired writer has written. And they are saying they don’t know what God wants. It seems that they are waiting for a direct voice from God to them personally but the problem is they are looking in the wrong place.

Now I have had God speak to me directly today. It was as I was reading in the Acts of the Apostles early this morning. He then spoke to me as I was reading from the Gospel of Matthew. It was also from my time of prayer and then as I was reading this book by Erwin MacManus. I heard Him personally because I was spending time in the areas where He has already spoken and He applied it personally to my life.

There is another aspect that we need to see in this area of God's guidance. I heard of a story of a man who came in for counseling with a Godly man about the man’s confusion of what God wanted him to do. The Godly man listened to the confused man and then asked him if he ever knew what God wanted him to do. And the man said, “Yes.” "Then did you do it?” And he then had to say, “No.”

“Live out what God has already spoken, and you will not find God silent.”

Is God silent to you?

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