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First 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

tended to check off a box kind of what we're supposed to do 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 First Samuel 39 Heart. Speak, speak Lord for your servant hears and amidst the busyness of

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