Your Servant is Listening

In I Samuel 3 is the story of Samuel who hears a voice and thinks it is Eli calling him. But Eli tells him, " Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, 'Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening,'" The story goes on and God speaks and it is not an easy word for him to receive. There is a whole message in this chapter that could be preached but I will leave it for you to read and ponder. I have been thinking of all the times God has spoken to me at the beginning of the New Year. I always ask what is He saying for this coming year for me. Following are the years I have recorded. They all have scripture with them but I will not add them as it will be too lengthy.

• 1996 Feed on His Faithfulness - Love, Laugh, Trust and Pray
• 1997 Ruach - Be A Mary soaking in His Presence
• 1998 Release
• 1999 Guard the foundation
• 2000 Rest in the Lord
• 2001 Restoration - Restore to me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me by your glorious Spirit. The Message: Bring me back from gray exile. Put a fresh wind in my sails!
• 2002 Command ye Me
• 2003 Trust in Me in 2003
• 2004 Hear the sound
• 2005 ??
• 2006 Behold I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth. Thou shalt rejoice and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
• 2007 Whatever He says, do it - Let it be according to your Word.
• 2008 In Him I live and move and have my being.
• 2009 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

Listening for the Lord to speak each year has been very important and He has been faithful to me. I have journaled for years and looked back at the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005...a lot of things were happening that year and I evidently heard other voices....especially what was going on in the world and my personal life. The Tsunami hit on Dec 31, '04 and killed thousands and I was battling a very bad attack of asthma. I wonder how many times He tries to speak through the "stuff"and we do not realize it is Him.

I felt led to take this years scripture from the NIV translation. I normally use the New King James Version and most of my memorization is the King James Version. A new thing??? I wonder what it is!