“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
~-Bernard Baruch
And listening to God is the most constructive listening of all.
Listening better than talking
February 22, 2016 | 9 comments
Spiritual ideas that inspire healing
Thanks Evan! More and more I’m learning to both “hear” God and then “listen”.
Sometimes I hear God as loudly “as when a lion roareth” (S&H, pg 559). Other times to hear God I have to be quiet and “silence the material senses” (S&H, pg 15). But I’ve come to trust that God is always communicating to me and if I’m not hearing Him I know it’s because I’m too busy listening to something else.
Learning to hear (recognize) God is the first step. The next step is listening and obeying. When I’m able to set aside what I think is right and trust what I’ve heard God tell me, I’m never disappointed.
Below is a link to a daily lift that I think does a great job of illustrating both how we hear God and how to listen.
http://christianscience.com/prayer-and-health/inspirational-media/your-daily-lift/intuition
Listening for God’s directions is such a blessed thing. If we make prayer a two way communication i.e. by praying for guidance and then quietly listening for God’s directions, we will never go wrong and life becomes meaningful and good. Mrs Eddy puts it so beautifully in her text book “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.” Thanks Evan for daily spiritualizing our thoughts.
Often people recoil at the mention of the word God. I understand how loaded that word can be. But if I tell them that my praying is getting very still and listening for intuition and following the suggestion, they nod their head in agreement as this is something that has happened to them and they understand the value of it.
Brian thank you for the link to Daily Lift. I had missed that one.
An Irish Proverb goes something like this:
God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we ought to listen twice as much as we speak. 🙂
Thanks, Evan, and Brian, for the link! Lately I keep hearing in my thought, “Speak, Lord, for they servant heareth.” I think the main thing that blocks our hearing and listening is: “tho’ human will and woe would check our upward soaring way…..”!! Not my will, but Thine……
A very personal problem touched my family this week. We all turned to God in er. We all wanted to know.that. God heard our prayers. THERE WAS OVERWHELMINGLY proof of it! We were all so grateful! I always love to work with God but best of all I love to watch God work!
Thanks Evan and all the other commenters. I’m learning to listen more, both to those I’m talking with and for the answers from divine Mind to be better in responding. Ps 85:8 says “I will hear what God, the Lord, will speak for He will speak peace unto His people.”
Many thanks, Brian, to that link to a former Daily Lift and what an inspiring message it has.
Many years ago I was driving with other students of Christian Science in my car and we had just finished reading the Bible lesson for that week. My gas indicator showed close to empty so I turned into the next gas station. But, I received a clear message to pull out which I did, much to the doubts of my passengers. As I drove a short distance down the road a tornado came through wiping out all of the gas tanks, but not the station where the attendants were – so there was only property damage. Listening and following God’s direction saved everyone from harm. I’ve never ceased being grateful for this experience and God’s protection for all.
No wonder most C/S Practitioners are quiet. They have to since quiet enables humans to hear God speaking to them through their spiritual senses which must quiet the material senses to hear what God is telling them. The quiet is never meant to insult but to heal. The best healer are the quiet ones.