Listening for God’s Voice

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In the early twentieth century, New York City had become a noisy place. An overhead train, cars, trolleys, newsboys yelling, and people rushing around—life was loud! Yet, one day at Broadway and 34th Street, a man named Charles Kellogg declared to his friend, “Listen, I hear a cricket.”

“Impossible,” his friend answered. “With all this racket you couldn’t hear a tiny sound like that.” Yet, Mr. Kellogg insisted, and eventually found the cricket, chirping in the window of a bakery. “What astonishing hearing you have,” his friend proclaimed. “Not at all,” Mr. Kellogg replied. “It’s a matter of where you focus your attention.”

Elijah was a prophet of God who had just seen Him perform an amazing display of His power, but now the prophet was hiding in a cave for fear of the pagan queen (1 Kings 19:1-9). This time, however, God didn’t want to communicate in a powerful way. Even though He had sent a great wind, an earthquake, and even a roaring fire (vv. 11-12), now it was time now for Elijah to commune with God personally and quietly. God wanted to speak to the prophet in “a gentle whisper” (v. 12).

Today, there’s a surplus of noise in our lives, yet God still speaks in a quiet voice through the Scriptures and by His Spirit. Taking time to prayerfully focus our attention on God will help us tune in on His comforting, guiding voice.

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0:00.0	After the fire came a gentle whisper.
0:03.9	First Kings 19, verse 12.
0:09.5	Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.
0:13.8	Our reading titled, Listening for God's voice, was written by Brent Hackett and read by Stephen Tabor.
0:21.5	First Kings chapter 19, verses 8 through 14.
0:26.2	So he got up and ate and drank.
0:29.7	Strengthened by that food, he traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached Horeb
0:35.3	the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night.
0:40.4	And the word of the Lord came to him. What are you doing here, Elijah? He replied, I have been very
0:46.9	zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars,
0:52.6	and put your prophets to death with the sword.
0:55.1	I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too. The Lord said,
1:00.5	Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.
1:07.2	Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord,
1:12.8	but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not
1:20.0	in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after
1:27.1	the fire came a gentle whisper when Elijah heard
1:31.6	it he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave
1:36.5	then a voice said to him what are you doing here Elijah he replied I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty.
1:47.7	The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death
1:53.4	with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.
2:01.8	Listening for God's voice, written by Brent Hackett.
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