Our Daily Devotional Today 28 October 2021 – Is God Listening?
Welcome to today Thursday 28 October 2021 devotional of Our Daily Bread titled Is God Listening? This message will be a source of encouragement and hope.
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Our Daily Devotional Today 28 October 2021
Topic: Is God Listening?
KEY VERSE:
If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 1 John 5:14
Today’s Scripture: 1 John 5:13–15
INSIGHT
When I served on my church’s congregational care team, one of my duties was to pray over the requests penciled on pew cards during the services. For an aunt’s health. For a couple’s finances. For a grandson’s discovery of God. Rarely did I hear the results of these prayers. Most were anonymous, and I had no way of knowing how God had responded. I confess that at times I wondered, Was He really listening? Was anything happening as a result of my prayers?
Over our lifetimes, most of us question, “Does God hear me?” I remember my own Hannah-like pleas for a child that went unanswered for years. And there were my pleas that my father find faith, yet he died without any apparent confession.
Etched across the millennia are myriad instances of God’s ear bending to listen: to Israel’s groans under slavery (Exodus 2:24); to Moses on Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 9:19); to Joshua at Gilgal (Joshua 10:14); to Hannah’s prayers for a child (1 Samuel 1:10–17); to David crying out for deliverance from Saul (2 Samuel 22:7).
First John 5:14 crescendos, “If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” The word for “hears” means to pay attention and to respond on the basis of having heard.
As we go to God today, may we have the confidence of His listening ear spanning the history of His people. He hears our pleas. By: Elisa Morgan
REFLECT: Pause to consider what you’ve most recently asked of God. What motivated you to ask? How can you know that God hears you?
PRAYER:
Father, I come asking and trusting You to hear me because You say that You do.
Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 15–17 2 Timothy 2
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