How and Where God Speaks - when we are so busy with life, we sometimes forget that God's hand is still there, gently leading our path. The plain is one of those appointed times of one-on-one communication with our heavenly Father. The plain can also be a place where we discover afresh that God's hand has been on us all the time. No distractions, no people, no beautiful surroundings to capture our thoughts. It is a barren place designed to allow us to seek and hear clearly. When He speaks, we need to be able to listen. We hear much better in the plain

"The hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, 'Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.'" - Ezekiel 3:22

God speaks in many different ways to His children. 

He spoke through a bush to Moses. 

He spoke through a donkey to Balaam.

He spoke through prophets to His kings. 

He speaks through other believers. 

He speaks directly to us through the invisible Holy Spirit. 

And He speaks even through circumstances.

When God wants to speak a very important word directly to us without interruption from the noise of our busy lives, he will take us "into the plain."

The plain is a place of no distractions and no other persons.

It is a place of silence. 

It can be a place of great need as it often fails to have the normal provisions we are accustomed to. 

It can be a place we go to voluntarily to seek His face, or we can be moved there without choice by His supernatural ability. 

More often, it is the latter method that brings us into the plain. 

In modern times, it often means a separation from our normal activities such as jobs or families.

The plain can also be a place where we discover afresh that God's hand has been on us all the time. 

When we are so busy with life, we sometimes forget that God's hand is still there, gently leading our path.

When our lives get so busy that we are not listening or responding to His gentle touch, He must take more aggressive measures to get our attention. 

Thus, the plain is one of those appointed times of one-on-one communication with our heavenly Father. 

No distractions, no people, no beautiful surroundings to capture our thoughts.

It is a barren place designed to allow us to seek and hear clearly. 

When He speaks, we need to be able to listen. 

We hear much better in the plain.

Do you need to hear God's voice today? 

Is your life such that you cannot even hear His voice?

Each day God calls us to our own mini-plain in order to speak to us and for us to hear. 

If we neglect this time of open communication, we may be invited to His plain in order to hear without distraction.

Pray that you might make time to hear.

Os Hillman

TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman

Os Hillman  is Founder and President of Marketplace Leaders Ministries, an organization whose purpose is to train men and women to fulfill their calling in and through their work life and to view their work as ministry.

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