AFTER GOD’S SILENCE – WHAT?

     When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode
     two days in the same place where he was.

     — John 11:6

Has God trusted you with a silence – a silence that is big with
meaning? God’s silences are His answers. Think of those days of
absolute silence in the home at Bethany! Is there anything analogous
to those days in your life? Can God trust you like that, or are you
still asking for a visible answer? God will give you the blessings
you ask if you will not go any further without them; but His silence
is the sign that He is bringing you into a marvellous understanding
of Himself. Are you mourning before God because you have not had an
audible response? You will find that God has trusted you in the most
intimate way possible, with an absolute silence, not of despair, but
of pleasure, because He saw that you could stand a bigger revelation.
If God has given you a silence, praise Him, He is bringing you into
the great run of His purposes. The manifestation of the answer in
time is a matter of God’s sovereignty. Time is nothing to God. For a
while you said – “I asked God to give me bread, and He gave me a
stone.” He did not, and to-day you find He gave you the bread of
life.

A wonderful thing about God’s silence is that the contagion of His
stillness gets into you and you become perfectly confident – “I know
God has heard me.” His silence is the proof that He has. As long as
you have the idea that God will bless you in answer to prayer, He
will do it, but He will never give you the grace of silence. If Jesus
Christ is bringing you into the understanding that prayer is for the
glorifying of His Father, He will give you the first sign of His
intimacy – silence.

On this day…

• Galatians – 2024
• Passion – 2024
• Daniel 5 – 2023
• Daniel 4 – 2023
• Elijah and the Secret of His Power – Chapter 4 – 2011
• Elijah and the Secret of His Power – Chapter 3 – 2011
• Elijah and the Secret of His Power – Chapter 2 – 2011
• Elijah and the Secret of His Power – Chapter 1 – 2011
• Emerging Church – Part 3 – 2011
• Emerging Church – Part 2 – 2011