Christmas Eve

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CHRISTMAS AT SAF 2017

 

God Is Whispering To You At Christmas

 

1 Kings 19:11-12a NLT

“Go out and stand before me on the mountain,” the Lord told him. And as Elijah stood there, the Lord passed by, and a mighty windstorm hit the mountain. It was such a terrible blast that the rocks were torn loose, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.

 

1 Kings 19:12b-13 NLT

And after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And a voice said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

 

whis.per

/'(h)wispər/

verb

1. speak very softly using one’s breath without one’s vocal cords, especially for the sake of privacy

 

1. God’s whisper is powerful

 

Genesis 2:7 NLT

Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. The Lord God breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

 

2. Sometimes God whispers to get our attention

 

3. Few forms of communication are more intimate and personal than a whisper

 

4. God’s whisper is heard with the heart

 

5. You will miss God’s whisper if you are constantly surrounded by noise

 

“I neglect God and His angels for the noise of a fly.”  - John Donne, English poet

 

Acts 17

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’