What happens when God is silent?
When you hear God’s silence and feel his absence, trust his presence. But the story behind the story of Christmas is that you can trust God because he literally moved heaven and earth to bring the message of his grace and his forgiveness and his presence to you. God is with us and God is active even when God is silent.
What to do when you feel God is silent?
When God seems silent, bare your heart before him. Let us bare our hearts before him, even when our hearts are filled with questions and distress about what seems like the silence of God. As David writes in Psalm 62: “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
When the Lord seems silent?
Isaiah 65:24 (KJV) declares, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; And while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” Remember when God is quiet, He is up to something.
How do you know if God is calling you out of a relationship?
Here are 7 signs God is telling you to end that relationship:
- The relationship is against God’s word.
- The person encourages you to disobey God.
- You have no control when you’re with them.
- You are being treated poorly.
- The person is more important to you than God.
- The relationship has become toxic and overbearing.
What to do when God seems to be silent?
5 Things to Do When God Seems Silent. 1 1. Examine Your Life. Begin by asking yourself, Is there any unconfessed sin in my life? Make sure nothing is blocking you from being able to hear 2 2. Accept God’s Authority. 3 3. Listen to What God Is Saying. 4 4. Recognize That Silence Can Be Intimate. 5 5. Keep Talking to God.
Why did God remain silent when Satan approach job?
For Job, God’s silence was also a result of the depth of their relationship. When Satan approached God, God said, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” (Job 1:8, ESV). God chose Job because He trusted him. 5. Keep Talking to God
What is the Silence of God?
The silence, the absence is phenomenological. It’s how it feels, it’s not how it is. You are not alone. God is with you ( Psalm 23:4 ). And he is speaking all the time in the priceless gift of his objective word so you don’t need to rely on the subjective impressions of your fluctuating emotions.
What is the difference between God’s silence and chastisement?
Chastisement is the experience of God’s discipline in our lives. God’s silence and God’s chastisement are very different things, and certainly not synonymous. If God is silent to us, it does not automatically mean that He is disciplining us.