21 Day Fast Day 15
At the start of our 3rd week of fasting and prayer let’s be ready for God to speak. I think of Samuel after hearing God call his name 3 times without recognizing that it was him. On the 4th time Samuel was ready and expecting to hear the voice of God again! The answer he gave in response to God's call floors me every time. “And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”
1 Samuel 3:10 ESV
As we quiet our hearts before the Lord this week, remember that you have God’s attention. The God who created everything is interested in speaking to you and he knows you by name. I love that God initiated that prayer of Samuel by first calling his name. “Samuel! Samuel!”
Take a moment and put your name where Samuel’s name is and feel in the depths of your heart God calling you. Realize in a fresh way today that you matter to him and what would bless his heart the most is our response. Speak, your servant hears. Send me!
The prophet Isaiah also responded to the Lord in Isaiah 6 with these words “Here I am, Send me”. This response was only after a burning coal from the altar was brought to touch his lips and purify him, taking away his guilt and marking his sin as atoned for. This means his sin was paid for! God replied back to him, “GO”…
God speaks through his Word, by the Holy Spirit in us, in dreams and visions, through the preaching of his Word and prophetically through our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Jesus paid the price to purify us and sent the Holy Spirit to baptize us and gave us the command “GO into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation” Mark 16:15. Let’s allow the YES of Samuel and Isaiah to be the prayer and posture of our heart in this season.
- Angelo
1 Samuel 3:10 ESV
As we quiet our hearts before the Lord this week, remember that you have God’s attention. The God who created everything is interested in speaking to you and he knows you by name. I love that God initiated that prayer of Samuel by first calling his name. “Samuel! Samuel!”
Take a moment and put your name where Samuel’s name is and feel in the depths of your heart God calling you. Realize in a fresh way today that you matter to him and what would bless his heart the most is our response. Speak, your servant hears. Send me!
The prophet Isaiah also responded to the Lord in Isaiah 6 with these words “Here I am, Send me”. This response was only after a burning coal from the altar was brought to touch his lips and purify him, taking away his guilt and marking his sin as atoned for. This means his sin was paid for! God replied back to him, “GO”…
God speaks through his Word, by the Holy Spirit in us, in dreams and visions, through the preaching of his Word and prophetically through our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Jesus paid the price to purify us and sent the Holy Spirit to baptize us and gave us the command “GO into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation” Mark 16:15. Let’s allow the YES of Samuel and Isaiah to be the prayer and posture of our heart in this season.
- Angelo
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