Understanding God's Silence In Your Life

Psalms 13:1-6

After reading these six verses and reading I Samuel chapters 16-17, you wonder if you’re talking about the David. How did David move from Too Anointed To Be Disappointed to Too Disappointed To Believe You’re Still Anointed? It’s important to remember that David was out in the field minding his own business when God asked for him, according to I Samuel 16:11-13. It is at this time God is speaking and David is “Silent”. David wasn’t aware of God’s Plan and Purpose for his life at the time he was caring for his father’s sheep. Never despise “small beginnings”. Your education qualified you to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, but your anointing has you herding sheep. In life, we tend to get it twisting, thinking God is calling us to “greatness” when He is calling us to BE FAITHFUL, whatever our assignment may be.

When God called and had David anointed, He was mindful of his strengths and weaknesses at the same. He knew the very date of his fall from grace with details to spare. All of David’s failings and shortcomings were considered when God called him to the throne of Isreal. Look at the twelve disciples Jesus called. Each one had unique character traits that God could use, simple because they were HUMBLE and TEACHABLE! For three and a half years, they walked and talked with Divinity wrapped in humanity in the person of Jesus. Just knowing you’re in the presence of the Absolutely Sinless One who veiled His Glory that they might share in His story. They had day to day contact with Jesus, yet Peter was still swearing and cutting off ears, cursing and denying Jesus to His face.

So what made the difference in these individuals lives? God’s Timing is everything! When God called them, He spoke WITH THEM, but when He got ready to transform them for use and His Glory, He spoke TO THEM. The tenor of His messages to them were more direct and challenging. The Lord wanted to make sure they could disc discern His voice under ANY and ALL circumstances. Knowing ABOUT Him wasn’t enough! The assignment God prepared them for required more than book knowledge. They had to know Him through EXPERIENCE. Testifying in church is one thing, but PRAISING Him in the lion’s den is another thing altogether. In the Four Gospels, you read about twelve disciples who were in the very presence of Jesus, but were not transformed by the power of Jesus. The crowd around Jesus did not benefit from Him like the woman with the issue of blood did. God is moved when He is touched by faith. After the four Gospels, you don’t read about the shortcomings of the disciples anymore, why? When you get to the book of Acts and beyond, you read about men who were filled with the Holy Ghost and anointed.

Let’s sum it all up now. In Psalms 13:1-6, David felt the “silence” of God over his soul like the palls of death. The main reason for God’s Silence in David’s soul was because God was listening now! God afforded David an opportunity to get it all out of his system. The Lord NEVER left David, but His silence felt like it. God wants you to recognize what you’ve done that’s outside of His will. In order to bring us face to face with “TRUE SELVES”, we need to think things through. God wants us to be in touch with our feelings. When it looks like He’s no where to be found, He’s right there! David concluded in verse that the Lord had dealt “BOUNTIFULLY WITH HIM. This word “bountifully” comes from the Hebrew word “GAMAL”, which means, “to treat a person well, or “to do him good and not evil”. If God had chosen to interrupt David while in His pain and hurt, we wouldn’t have Psalms 51. When God speaks, we listen, when we speak, God is listening!

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