Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God

by Mark Batterson

Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.3

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

“Quiet is a think tank of the soul.”17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we’re quietest.

Silence is anything but passive waiting. It’s proactive listening. The noted author and professor Henri Nouwen believed that silence was an act of war against the competing voices within us.

If you want to hear the heart of God, silence is key. If you want the Spirit of God to fill you, be still.

Did you know that embryologists have recently captured the moment of conception via fluorescence microscopy? What they discovered is that at the exact moment a sperm penetrates an egg, the egg releases billions of zinc atoms that emit light.4

Did you know that the electron shell of the carbon atom produces the same harmonic scale as the Gregorian chant?17

“I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.”

So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty,

but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

when God gives the vision, He makes provision.

I don’t believe you can outgive God either.

When Jesus was on the cross, he felt farthest from the heavenly Father, yet that is when He was closest to accomplishing God’s purposes. We shouldn’t be deceived. When it seems as if God is letting us down, He is setting us up for something that may be beyond our ability to comprehend at the present moment.

I can promise that He who began a good work is going to carry it to completion.