Sometimes you can feel like a lone voice in the wilderness. You may wonder if anyone listens to anything you say. This can make us feel insignificant and small. Everyone has something to say, though. However, getting other people to listen can sometimes be a challenge.
What do you do when you feel like no one listens? It can be easy to just shut up and not say anything. This can be the easiest thing to do. Yet, it’s probably not the healthiest thing to do. I believe that when we hold in what we have to say, it can have a negative impact on our health. I read somewhere that the feeling of not being heard can manifest in liver issues. The body is a complex mechanism. All these things in life and the experiences we have affect us and how we feel, not just emotionally, but physically as well.
When you look at some famous people, like celebrities, it can be easy to be envious. Since they have all this fame and notoriety, they have a platform from which to voice their concerns and ideas. That’s the interesting thing—they can talk about whatever they want and they don’t necessarily have to know anything. Just having the platform itself seems to give them the credibility to speak their voice. Many celebrities speak their voice, and feel free to, for this reason. Some use it for good purposes, while others use it to make some inane comments about things nobody cares about. We see some of them use their voice to bring awareness to some issue or charity, and can bring in millions of dollars for that reason. So, that’s admirable. At least their using their celebrity to do some good. I suppose the downside is the other people who have been given a voice, due to celebrity, and they use it for their own self-promotion, or in some other negative way.
Then, of course, there are people who have both celebrity and credibility. People like Presidents or other political leaders. And depending on whether your guy is in office or not, we might end up in a debate on whether or not they’re credible. Regardless, these people have usually accomplished something meaningful to achieve their position in office. Presidents have a great platform from which to speak their voice. They may have the strongest voice of all. And they have the power to affect change on a scale the rest of us can only imagine.
What about the rest of us? We don’t have a powerful platform from which to speak. Well, it can be easy to underestimate us. But if you look down through history you can find people with humble beginnings who ended up having a positive impact on their societies. They didn’t have a powerful voice, but they just started using the one they had. That’s encouraging for the rest of us. But even if we never impact millions of lives around the world, we still have the ability to speak to our own little world around us.
I was thinking about this topic, and naturally, I made this transition in my mind. I started to move from thinking about how much people listen to me, to how much God will listen to me. I asked the question, “What is the degree to which God will listen to me?” That’s a good question isn’t it?
I thought of the Old Testament where Moses had just led the Israelites out of Egypt. God was angry, though, at their disobedience and unwillingness to listen. God spoke to Moses that He would destroy them. But Moses stood in the gap for the Israelites. And it says in AV Exodus 32:14: “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” That’s an amazing thing to me. Now, I won’t get into all the theological issues on this. But what stands out to me here is that God heard Moses. I believe that was a reflection of the relationship He had with Moses. I also believe that’s a reflection of the relationship He wants to have with us.
AV Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” God desires us to communicate with Him. He wants an open line of communication. He’s saying, “Just talk to me, and I’ll answer you.” I believe God wants to engage in an open dialogue with us. He wants to reveal more of Himself to us than we currently know. We just need to call out to Him.
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AV 1 John 5:14 it says, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” I believe in the power of prayer to affect change. Prayers that move the heart of God. We can have confidence when we pray that He hears us. Not only does He hear us, but He grants our requests when we believe and ask according to His will.
AV James 5:16 “Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” Also, in AV Proverbs 15:29 it says, “The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.” The prayer that comes out of a clean and pure heart have the power to move God.
I believe God wants us to have confidence, when we pray, that He hears us. This is evidenced by the whole of scripture. God has repeatedly asked us to petition Him, but not only that, just communicate with Him. Talking to Him throughout your day will, not only make a change in your world, but make a change in you.
AV Exodus 32:14: “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”
AV Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
AV 1 John 5:14 it says, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”
AV James 5:16 “Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
AV Proverbs 15:29 it says, “The LORD [is] far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.”