Q and A with K: Can You Hear Me?

Hello Everyone! Here is the first of my “Q and A” blogs. I will be going through all the comments as time goes by and I will pull out questions and comments that really stand out to me and present them like this with my thoughts. After they are posted others can feel free to comment and encourage and give whatever words might be lying on your hearts.

“My faith has wavered many times in my life. I get frustrated because I want answers immediately. Sometimes when I pray, I think to myself, how do I even know He is listening to me. I think you are right; maybe I don’t give Him full control. I’ll try that. Thanks for sharing.”

“What you’ve written sounds good about Him caring and all that, but I must be stupid or something because I got tired of looking for Him because I can’t find Him. Maybe He’s not interested in everybody. Can you tell me why I can’t find Him? I need to understand why He doesn’t hear me.”

When it comes to G-d answering prayers, He does it in His own time and His own way and sometimes this doesn’t match what we have in mind. As frustrating as it can be, we have to have faith that He is there and He is listening. Easier said than done, that is absolutely true. Especially when you might fear that you aren’t getting the answer that you are hoping for. Sometimes He feels you need to wait, sometimes He feels that there’s something better up ahead, sometimes He feels that what you are asking for just doesn’t have a place in His plan for you, sometimes there’s a lesson to be learned before you can move on...there’s limitless possibilities.

I know how it feels to wonder if you are even being heard. It took a while but after some struggles of my own, I finally found my way to a place where I was able to see His light, feel His warmth, and understand His love for me. Unfortunately, I can’t tell anyone else how to find it. It’s a journey that is taken between you and G-d, no one else. When you are ready to fully listen, fully trust, and obey whatever He has to say, you will find yourself in a position where the question of “Are You hearing me?” stops. For me personally, after I hit that point, my questions changed to “What more needs to be done?”, “Where do I go from here?”, or “What do You have to teach me in this?”

I don’t know that there is anything that I can actually say to anyone that is going to instantly bring a sense of peace to their hearts when they are struggling with hearing G-d or feeling His presence. It’s something that has to come from you. It’s finding the ability to just have faith in His presence and His Will. When you find it in yourself to let go of whatever you are holding on to that is keeping you from allowing Him to fully guide you, there’s such a weight that is lifting. It’s a sense of freedom that cannot be described by anyone and cannot be experienced through anyone but Him.

He hears everyone and everything. He knows our thoughts and sees straight into our hearts. He feels what we feel, He knows what we know, and that will never change. As I have said in the past, when He feels distant, it’s not because He’s stepped away from us, it’s because we have stepped away from Him; even if we don’t realize it right away. There is nothing you can do to make Him turn His back on you...NOTHING. That’s the beauty of His very existence. And no matter where your roots may be, no matter what choices you have made, He’s right there every step of the way; even if you don’t want Him to be. As imperfect humans, grasping this fully is impossible. I believe that we can certainly try and imagine it and describe it, and no matter how incredible of a picture we paint or a feeling we get, I believe it won’t even begin to compare to what we will experience when we have the opportunity to be in His presence when our time in this reality ends. And when we step forward and face Him, He will let us see that He’s been there every step of the way, through good and bad. But for now, we have to choose to have faith in His Word and His promises. It’s not something anyone else can convince us of. It has to come to each and every one of us individually. And it will if you allow it.

Something else that comes to mind while on this subject is actually something from my youth. I had to stand before a group and talk about a certain experience. And to be honest I really wasn’t sure what to say until I was standing before the microphone. When the words finally came to me, I explained that I had learned that when we are looking for G-d to reveal Himself, sometimes it’s done in a whisper. Life would be so much easier if all His messages to us were bound with bells and whistles wouldn’t it? And in His Word, you will read about such miracles where He presented Himself in ways that moved even the most skeptical person to drop to the ground and bow. But while I was hoping and praying for my amazing miracle of a confirmation, I wasn’t hearing Him whispering what I needed to hear. He quieted Himself in order to teach me that I need to quiet myself at times. While looking for your answers, don’t close your mind to one certain way of getting them, open yourself up to all possibilities and all way in which they could be presented.
So I am going to use this to start a discussion. Give your opinions, share a time when G-d answered a prayer and revealed Himself to you, tell us how you learned to open yourself to Him, or whatever else comes to heart. I think the feedback will be interesting and enlightening.

G-d Bless.

K