In My Silence

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them? - Luke 18:7

I have sometimes grown weary praying for a certain person or situation to change. I have even gotten so frustrated that I have considered giving up. You might say I was "prayed out." Interestingly, it was usually about this time in the intercession process that true prayer for me began.

You see, I know that God cares, but sometimes I wonder if I really care about Him. I am often so busy informing Him of what I want that I fail to listen to what He wants. Persistence in prayer leads to frustration, which eventually leads to silence, and it is then that my ear is finally tuned to hear His voice.

It is in my silence that God usually speaks the loudest, because my voice is no longer competing with His.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. - Leonard Ravenhill