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Step Aside & Listen

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Habakkuk
“I will take my place at the watchtower. I will stand at my post and watch. I will watch and see what He says to me.
 I need to think about how I should respond to Him 
When He gets back to me with His answer” Hab.2:1
“We do not learn by experience. We learn from experience by reflecting” –Anonymous. This is so true. Things happen to us every day, if we learn by experience, everybody will be so smart. But most of the time, we are not even paying attention. We do not even take time out to reflect on the things that happen to us daily. A whole lot has happened in this year already. God is saying to you, Solitude! You need time out and reflect. You need to!

The third thing is Listening. Why listening? It is because tuning is a relative activity. You can only tune a guitar when you hear the “proper pitch” of the original note. You may not be a musician but you can tell when musical instruments are out of tune and when they are in tune by just listening. Many things are happening in our lives but we are not listening. I pray that you will set out time to listen to what God is saying concerning this day, this month, and this year in Jesus Name. God has a lot to say but you have to listen.

So stop blaming and start listening. Many of us are not listening to our spouses. Some husbands are not listening to their wives. Your wife has only been talking to you for three minutes but you have dozed off. When you are not dozing off on her, you are reading the newspaper or your attention is tuned to soccer. Some husbands even pretend to listen but they are not actually listening. Some wives are also not listening to their husbands. The man is pouring out his heart to you and instead of listening you are thinking of what to say to him.

There are parents that are not listening to their children and children that are not listening to their parents. For some of us, our businesses are speaking to us; they are speaking and we need to listen. Even the firmaments are speaking. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge” [NKJV] “They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard. Yet their message has gone throughout the earth,
and their words to all the world” [NLT] Ps.19:1-4. Even though the sun is not shouting, it is speaking. What are you listening to? What are you supposed to be listening to? You can tune your life easily by just listening.

Prayer: Lord, teach me to step aside and be alone with You. I ask that you give me a listening heart, in Jesus Name
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