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1 Samuel chapter 3, verse 9.

Therefore Eli said to Samuel,

Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say,

Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.

So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

This is such a beautiful verse in this chapter where God speaks to Samuel while he is lying down to go to sleep. And Samuel keeps thinking

Eli is calling him, but it's the audible voice of God that is speaking to him.

And Eli encourages him to listen.

And it's such a good reminder as I'm just reflecting on this verse of the need for us to say the exact same thing to God.

And to listen.

Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.

We need to stop and listen to God.

This is what we do when we read the Bible.

But if we're not careful even in reading the Bible, we can kind of just read to get

through it or kind of to check off a box, kind of what we're supposed to do, what we want to do,

but we just kind of go through it instead of pausing before we even open up the Bible,

before we start to read any words and just say speak Lord for your servant hears

we want to hear from you we're your servant we are coming to this book unlike we come to any

other book we are coming for instruction on how to live encouragement we need in our lives we are coming to this book

as an authority over our lives whatever this book says to do we will do however this book says to think

we will think so we need to approach this book with this kind of 1st Samuel 3-9 heart. Speak, Lord,

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