"I ANSWERED YOU..."

While in our quiet time tonight, when the kids are in bed and the house is for a moment in time SILENT, I was led to these particular scriptures. I pray that whoever may take the time to read this will be encouraged and reminded of the faithfulness of God!

"Restore us, O God of hosts,

Cause your face to shine,

And we shall be saved" ~Psalm 80:3, 7, 19

"You called in trouble and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder" ~Psalm 81:7

The phrase italicized JUMPED off the page!

I ANSWERED YOU IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THUNDER!!

WOW!

This is beyond profound. One of the revealed mysteries of His word. I believe we get so focused on "answered prayer" being so obvious and blunt that we forget that God speaks constantly. The problem rests in our ability to hear him clearly. God is faithful to respond to our cry, to our prayers, to our requests. Even in the most tumultuous moments in our lives, God is faithful and His affections are set on hearing and responding to His children's call! Life can be a little rocky at times, and the storms of our lives may rage on a DAILY basis yet in still there rests in between the crackling and rolling thunder, a stillness, a quiet confidence and secure strength that God is God.

Papa! I praise You! For You are God, You reign supreme...beyond our storms, beyond our circumstances! You are greater, you are stronger...God you are higher than any other. For even in the thunder of our storms Your still small voice beckons to the depths of our spirit, calling us, captivating us and inspiring us to come...close!

~ AMEN ~