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Well, we are doing the sermon today, God of the Whisper. And you know, I've had this one on my mind for a long time. And then of course, it's on Snowmageddon weekend. I'm like, all right, thank God for online. All right, but so today we're gonna talk about God of the Whisper. We'll get there in a minute. But I wanna let you know, next week is our first Selah service. We talked about this, which means to rest. And so it's gonna be a different service. All right, now don't check out. You're like, ah, I don't wanna come if it's gonna be different. No, come, because it's going to be different. And there's gonna be more extended time of worship in there and it'll be all of your campus pastors speaking at all the campuses. But you're gonna wanna come for the salah. Then the week after that, I'm doing a sermon called Seven Levels of Forgiveness. And I wanna talk to you about the journey God has done in my life of how to forgive people and truly mean it. Then we have Easter and then we're going into a four part series on First Samuel. All right, so I'm just letting you know what's coming up. But today, God of the Whisperer, and we're going to First Kings 19. If you're wondering where we're going, you can open up your Bible there. First Kings 19. But I wanna let you know I've just been reading all sorts of books about God speaking and I wanna give a couple shout outs. Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola wrote a book, Jesus Speaks, which I love. And then Ashley Watts, who's part of our church, wrote a book, God Still Speaks. And I've been reading those and others like just. But I wanna give them shout out because I feel like I'd almost have to say another thing. They said another thing. So I'm giving them plenty of shout out here in the beginning. And I just wanna let you know this as we jump into this with God of the Whisperer. God is always speaking. Jesus is speaking to us all the time. He is speaking to us all the time. And we need to learn to hear his voice. But he's speaking. He's speaking. And if we're not hearing him, it could be because our antenna is facing the wrong direction. All right, Keith and Kristen Peterson are our church. Keith's one of our elders and he was telling me about they have a cabin or cottage, whatever they call it, and they said they had an Antenna on the top of it. And they weren't getting any reception. And they called a guy out, like, you know, we're at the cabin. We don't watch a lot of tv, but we want to watch some occasionally, you know? And the guy goes up on the top of the house, and he said, it's facing the wrong direction. He said. He said, you probably think it's facing it's the wrong direction. Like, it's not even the right. Like you can't hear anything that you can't receive. And they said, besides that, like, your cord here, it's all corroded. And he said, you need a new cord and you need to turn. And as soon as he turned it, HD Revelation. Some of you are like, I don't think Jesus is speaking. You're probably facing the wrong direction. Okay, we just need to turn the antenna and he's speaking. All right? The second thing, the very word disciple means the one who listens and learns the very word. Like, we're disciples. We're the Lord's disciples. We should be listening and learning. And if I just have a confession, I don't think I've talked about this enough in pastoring 30 years, I don't think I've talked enough about us hearing the voice of God, listening to his voice, being able to discern it. And so I'm grateful that we have this year of speak, Lord, we're listening. And then the third thing I wanna say is, if Jesus is speaking, he asks us to hear him. And he's like, in Revelations 2. 7, it says, Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. All right? So he's saying, I'm saying something. Listen with your ears. It's not automatic. We have to tune in. We have to tune in and listen to what the Holy Spirit's saying. Listen to what Jesus is saying. And people have been asking me, as we've been in this speak, Lord, we're listening. How do I know God's voice? How do I know? Like, I think I hear things. And the first thing I tell people that are Christians. Cause you really need to be a Christian to hear his voice. And the first time you hear his voice before that is when he's saying, now's your time to give your life to me. That's the first time you heard his voice. When you could feel the Holy Spirit saying at an altar moment, like, this is your moment when you felt that conviction of your sin. And you're like, I need to do this. I. That's the first time you are hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit or the voice of Jesus saying, I want to forgive you. But people say, like, what does it sound like? And Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola said in their book, they said the voice of the Lord is like a voice, but it's not really a voice. It's more of an impulse or an instinct or a guided intuition. It sounds like our conscience. I was telling some people this. It sounds like your conscience, but it's not your conscience, okay? It's Jesus is speaking to you and you say, well, is it my conscience? No. Because the Bible tells us in First Timothy 4 that we can have conscience that is seared so you could have a conscience. And how many know your conscience is like that alarm inside of you? You know, it's that alarm that says, out of bounds penalty. I'm throwing the flag. That's your conscience, that's not God. But his voice sounds a bit like that, all right? And I just wanna say this, the thing that I've been explaining to people, like, what does the voice of God sound like? It's a voice with a presence. How many know what I'm talking. There's a presence to it. There's something bigger than Just like, that's a good idea. I just have lots of great ideas. And, you know, it's beyond that. There's a presence that is there. And so we wanna lean into hearing his voice. And in 1 Kings 19, we see the God of the Whisper. I'm gonna start in verse nine. And it's talking about Elijah. And I want you to know Elijah has just had a great, incredible experience on Mount Carmel. He's called Down Fire on the Mountain. God consumed the whole sacrifice. Elijah wins, the prophets of BAAL lose, and they are put to death. It's an incredible victory that's going on. And then after that, they. Jezebel says, I'm gonna kill you, Elijah. Elijah gets totally depressed, which. There's a whole, like, sermon series there. How in the world can he call down fire and taunt the prophets of baal? I mean, if you don't even know, he's like, perhaps your God's out taking a bathroom break. I mean, he's totally taunting them. He's like, trash talking the prophets of baal, you know, and then Jezebel gives him a death threat and he's like, I'm miserable, God, I might as well die. Matter of fact, I wanna die. I mean, think about that. And so this has just happened. And then God's like, no, I still have plans for you. Lay down, Take a nap. And then he's like, eat something. Take nap, Eat. You go back and forth, back and forth. And then we pick up here where God is speaking to Elijah. It says there he went into the cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him. What are you doing here, Elijah? He replied, I've been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too. The Lord said, go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by. Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and he went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, what are you doing here, Elijah? He replied, I've been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with a sword. I'm the only one left, and now they're trying to kill me, too. The Lord said to him, go back the way you came and go to the desert of Damascus. And then he says, go ahead and anoint all these people. And he says, I reserve 7,000 in Israel whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him. God says, you're not alone. I've got a plan for you. I want you to go anoint this king. I want you to anoint your successor. And I want you to realize that there's 7,000 people that are standing there with him. It's amazing. You think that God was gonna show up in the wind, and Elijah probably saw the wind and was like, okay, here comes God. And then it's like, nope, it's not him. And then you think God's gonna show up and speak to him in the earthquake? And it says, nope, not in the earthquake. And then the fire. None of those. It's the whisper. It was not earth, wind, and fire that spoke to him. All right, some of you are old enough to get that one. All right? Or you're into music. And There's a whisper there. And in this moment, Elijah's like, God, I see you. I hear you. It's not the way that I thought it was gonna be, which is loud. It's in a whisper. And it's an incredible thing that whispers don't compete with the other noise. Whispers require closeness. And I wanna look at a few things of how people get close enough to hear the whispers of God. And the first thing, if you're gonna hear the whisper of God, you've gotta come into his presence. You. You've gotta get close to him. Some people say, I don't hear the whisper of God. I don't hear it. Well, how close are you getting to him? Are you getting into his presence? Are you leaning in? How many know you don't whisper across the room? You're like, hey, I gotta whisper. You gotta get close to hear a whisper. And if we wanna have God speak to us in the whisper, we've gotta be close. Matter of fact, there's a pattern that. That I see in the Bible for who God speaks to and who he whispers to. And there are people that get close to him, but there are people that are humble. They're humble. And God whispers to people that are humble. Isaiah 57, verse 15, it says, for this is what the high and exalted one says, who lives forever, whose name is holy. I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit. To revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite or the humble. God speaks to people that are humble. And some people say, I don't hear the whispers of God. Many times it's because we're too prideful. And think about Elijah could have said, like, God, I want an earthquake. God, I want the wind. God, I want the fire. And God's like, you get the whisper. And so we're like, God, you could speak to me the way I want you to speak. And God's like, just be humble. Listen, some of us are so prideful. We're so independent. We've stockpiled so much where we don't even rely on God anymore. Some of us don't obey the things that he's told us to do. We're like, I'll do it my way. And God's like, no, if you're humble, you're gonna hear me. I'm gonna speak to those that are humble. Another thing that he speaks to those that are, like, seeking him, that are really seeking him. Jeremiah 29:13. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. God's presence is not accidental, it's pursued. It's when you're seeking him that you hear the whispers. And I wanna say this as I've been looking about, where does God speak to us and speak to us with the whisper? I think there's actually two times of the day that he actually speaks, like clearer than other times, if this makes sense. When I look in the word of God, I see people that God would speak to them in the early of the morning. In the morning, they would speak to God would speak to them in the morning time. But I also see that he would speak to them right at the nighttime. I look at Jesus and I see that he was up early and God was speaking to him and he was out late and God was speaking to him. Now, he wasn't out late like some of us might think of it. He was out late just with God. And I can tell you some of the greatest times in my life have been in the early morning with God or late at night, late at night, everybody else is asleep. I remember when the kids were young and the kids would go to bed and I'm up and I'm like, I still wanna be in his presence. And I put my, you know, noise canceling headphones. I'd be walking around the house and I'd be late. And it's just like a closeness of like hearing God's voice and being there early or light. There's a pattern that is there, that those that are worshiping, those that are abiding in him, they're the ones that hear his voice. And in this humility of like worshiping, you hear his voice and you've got Elijah. Like, I'm desperate, like I'm pouring this out, like I'm done. I got nothing left. He wasn't going in like God did you see what I did on Mount Carmel? He's humble, he, he's broken, he's desperate. And he's there and he's saying, God, I'm worshiping you and I'm abiding in you. I just, I need you. And I believe this. When we're in his presence, in a time like church service, I love that even in this service that there were moments of speak, Lord, we're listening. What a great thing to have happen on the day that we're talking about the God of the whisper, that God's whispering to people. Go ahead and speak that out. Some of you are probably terrified to do it. Others were like, I got this. You know? But we're speaking out. And in the presence of God, as we're worshiping, he's speaking, and we can hear his whispers. And I believe God wants to whisper us in church. Like, I was just at the Maple Grove campus and was during worship the other day, and I said, there's a lot of joy in the room, but I can't help it. God kept telling me, there's somebody here that you're facing, like, a struggle right now. You're sad. Everybody else is happy, but you're sad there's something going on. And a couple came up and said, it's us. It's us. We haven't been able to have a baby. We just lost our fifth one. Like, we want a baby. That was us. We came into church, and we're like, where are you, God? And I'm over there in joy, worshiping. And then the Lord's like, can I interrupt this right now? You're worshiping me, and you're close. I want to speak to you so we can minister to this family. God speaks to us when we're worshiping, when we're abiding. I'll give you another example. Years ago, my mom was worshiping. And if you don't know, I mean, obviously, my mom is very prophetic, very tuned into the Lord. And she's. We're doing communion. We're doing communion. And she's just worshiping the Lord. And the Lord says, hey, I need you to interrupt this right now. I need you to put these elements down and go put your arm around that guy right over there on that row. And she's like, okay, Lord. You know, for most of us, we'd be like, lord, I need a fleece. You know, I need a test. I need a test. Cause I don't know if I'm gonna do that right, you know? And she's like, okay. So she puts down the communion elements and goes over and puts her arm around this guy. And she goes, The Lord just said a little whisper. She said, tell him we love him and we love his son. She does it. Okay. Lord wants me to tell you I heard a little whisper from God that he loves you and he loves your son. He starts crying in worship. He's like, you have no idea. He said, my son just was put in jail. And he said, I came to church today, and I thought, do they even care? Does God even care about me or my son? And yet God does a little Whisper to my mom to set down her communion home. And even then, she could have been like, I gotta take communion. I can't do, like, is that really you, Lord? She listens, goes over. That guy has a total break. I believe God speaks to us when we're worshiping, when we're abiding, when we're drawing close to him. He's like, all right, now you're drawn close enough for me to whisper another thing that he speaks to us. And we see this in Elijah. We hear God when the noise fades and our heart becomes attentive. Some of us. You need to turn off all the noise going on. You're listening to so many other things. You are. And I'm just as guilty. I think the smartphone has, like, stolen more of my quiet time than I want to admit. You wake up and you turn that thing on, and the voice of the world, all the things on X, that's like. My wife's like, why do you go there? I go to Instagram. The voice of X just sucks me in on the morning, and it pulls me in, and I'm. Next thing you know, I'm down a rabbit hole three conspiracies deep. I gotta wake Becca up. Which is funny. I'll say, did you know? And Becca goes, why do you say that? I don't know any of the things you see on X. I don't know any of that. But you hear God when the noise fades. You hear God when it's not booming, when you're just quiet. Matter of fact, the Hebrew phrase for the still, small voice or the whisper that Elijah heard, it's kind of actually a mysterious phrase. The actual way the Hebrew says the way that God was speaking was in a sound of a thin silence. In the sound of a thin silence. Don't turn your phone on. Live in that thin silence and be there and let the noise fade out. There's a silence that's filled with presence when God whispers to us. It's beautiful that Elijah's. It's not in the fire. It's not in the earthquake. It's not in the wind. It's not in that. It's in the still sound of thin silence that God's speaking. And I believe he's speaking to us in that same way he's speaking to us. And we need to be leaning into these still moments, these quiet moments, so we can hear his whispers. Something interesting about whispers, especially Whisper of God, but our whispers, okay, when you whisper, you realize your vocal cords are not engaged right now. My Vocal cords are engaged. But when I whisper, my vocal cords are not being used right now. Just breath. God's like, that's how I want to speak to you. I want you to be close enough to hear my breath. I don't know. As a Pentecostal, I kind of get excited about that too. Like, it's the breath of God, it's the Holy Spirit. Like, I want to hear the whisper of God, that sound of thin silence that's there. I've been looking at the whispers of God, not just with Elijah, but in Mark 4:39, when Jesus stills the storm. He's with the disciples, and they're like, he has to calm the storm. And the way I always thought he did it was that he got up and went, peace, be still. You know, like, none shall pass. You know, like, that's like, kind of how I thought he, like, peace, be still. And as I looked at this and looked at the way that the Bible actually records it, he really got up, like, peace, be still. Or maybe he whispered it, peace, be still. How many know? The toughest guys whisper, go ahead, make my day. How many know like that? He just does it. He just, wow. Jesus doesn't answer the storm with more chaos. He answers the storm with the authority of a whisper. Some of you are looking for big crashing things. And God's like, will you get close enough to me to hear the whispers that I have? It's beautiful, beautiful thing. These whispers are impressions to do good. And some of you are like, I think I hear God's whispers. Let me just give you a couple examples of some things. They're like, impressions, and you feel like, I should do this and it doesn't leave you. How many know what I'm talking about? You feel it and you can't shake it. And it's God whispering to you. And he's like, I just wanna do something simple. I want you to do this. It's very simple. It's a whisper. And you're kinda like, is that you, God, or not? And it's an impression that's there and you just can't shake it. Here's what I would recommend. If you're still arguing with it, you just write it down. Like, God, I think this is you. I'm gonna come back to this. If I still feel it, I'm gonna follow through. Or sometimes you're just like, you're agitated. You just can't shake it, and you can't shake the whisper. I've shared this story before, but there was a guy that was visiting our church years ago. It was around 2008. We had just gone through a little bit of financial crisis at the church. And we'd ask everybody to step up and give a little extra at that time. And. And Becca and I gave our landscaping money. We just felt God whisper, give your landscaping money. And so we gave our landscaping money. We didn't have much. We had just stretched ourself and bought a new home. And we didn't have much, but we had just a little bit set aside to maybe do a little landscaping in the front. But not much after that. And the Lord said, give your landscaping money. So we did it. We obeyed that whisper. And then a guy was visiting our church, wasn't part of our church at the time. He just said, I'm visiting today. And he said, I'm standing here. And I just keep hearing this during worship. Go talk to Pastor Rob about his landscaping. He's thinking, this is the dumbest thing. Like, he needs landscape, you know? So he comes up and he goes, hey, I'm here. And I think I'm hearing God. I think he's just kind of like whispering to me over and over again to ask you about landscaping. Do you need landscaping? And I said, just stay right there. I went and got Becca. I said, say that again. And he said, I just. I'm visiting. I don't even go to your church. Do you need landscaping? And she starts to cry. Yeah, we gave our landscaping money. He goes, okay, then I know I'm hearing from God. And he goes, I'm gonna do your landscaping. And he does all of our landscaping. I mean, we didn't say. We didn't hint up there, like, you know, we're taking a special offering for some landscaping. You know, sure wish I had a tree in my yard. You know, Nothing. Nothing. God spoke to him in a whisper. And he comes up and obeys it. He's like. He said, I even was arguing with God when the offering went by. He's like, should I just. I'll just write out a check for $500. That's what I'll do. I mean, it's gonna be crazy to go up and ask Pastor Rob if he needs landscaping. I'm a visitor. I'm just gonna give a check. And he said, I almost did that. I'm grateful that he listened to the whisper. Cause I got nine trees and a French designer to do the whole landscape. Yeah, true. Our neighbor came over and said, that's pretty cool. You do my yard. And he goes, I don't usually work in your neighborhood. All right, so, yeah, seriously, true story. God of the whisper. He couldn't shake it. See, here's the thing I've learned about God's whispers. God's whispers are usually there to meet needs, to reach people, to lift the load, to bring refreshing, or to bring realignment. And God's whisper does this for Elijah. And so my last point in this is, is God's whispers that he gives us bring us into action and then obedience. Elijah hears this whisper from God, and then God's like, all right, now you know how I speak. And I'm just gonna whisper to you little things here and there. He says, no, I want you to go anoint this king. I want you to go anoint your successor. I want you to go find these 7,000 prophets. There's action that is there. And I want you to know that the whispers from God come with action. Why would God speak to you? Some of you are like, I don't hear these whispers. Why would he speak to you if you never obey him? You're like, speak, Lord. And I'll take it under advisement. That doesn't work. It's speak, Lord. We're listening, and I want you to whisper. And when he whispers, and then he gives it, some of us, I'm just telling you right now, as God starts to whisper to us, there's only one response. It's yes, Lord. It's obedience to the whisper of God. That's it. It's yes. Leonard Sweet said this in the book. He said, once you've heard Jesus, not to obey him is to betray him. So if God's gonna whisper to you and tell you what to do, if you don't obey him, it's like, you're betrayed. Don't do that. Don't do that. If we're gonna lean in and say, speak, Lord. Whisper to us. I'll give you a few action things of whisper. I was teaching in New York and doing generosity accelerator. The team was with us. Logan was on that one. And this guy comes up to me as we take a break, and he says, hey, I just wanna ask you something random. Kind of felt it like while you were speaking, I was supposed to ask you this. He had a whisper, and he said, do you know anybody that wants to adopt? He said, we have $10,000 for anybody that wants to adopt. And I just felt like I was supposed to talk to you about adoption. And at that point, Logan and Mack had just said, we think that we're gonna adopt. We think that we're pretty sure this is God's plan for our life, that we're gonna adopt. And I was like, again, stay right there. I got Logan. I go, come here. I said, say that. What are you. Just say the same thing. Say the same thing. And he goes, we got $10,000. I looked at Logan and I said, I think you're supposed to adopt. All right? And then I walked away. They gave the first 10,000 towards Vincenzo Ketterling. Praise God for them. Listening to the whisper, huh? Yeah. We have had two homes that have had whispers attached to them, where the sellers had whispers that God spoke to them for two different homes that we've had. And I'm like, praise God for whispers to home sellers. Praise God. We've had, like I said, the landscape, the global team. I had written it in my prayer journal. God, I desire to go on a global team with my family. Not just me, not just me and Becca. We want to bring Logan and Connor on their very first global team. I started praying about that, and a guy came up to me and he said, hey, I think you're supposed to go on the global team to China. I said, I kind of feeling that too. He said, I think you're supposed to bring your whole family. I said, I've been praying for that. And he goes, I think I'm supposed to pay for it. I was like, amen, yes, you are. Thank you for the whisper. And he paid the way he didn't know that I had written it down and had prayed that and done that again. It wasn't like Saul's been a dream. Take the family didn't do that. There was no spiritual hints that were going on. Here's something that somebody said that blessed us in one of the whispers. They said, it's a joy to hear the whispers of God. And they said, the whisper is meant for the listener. And then the obedience is for them to follow through on. And then the blessing goes to both. It's amazing. Cause the recipient of the gift or the encouragement or the word or the kindness, it's not just money. It's kindness. It's God told me to come talk to you. God has something for you. It could be just you go and sit by somebody who was alone. And you followed that prompt that God said, don't sit in your normal seat. Go over there and sit with them. Sit next to that person. Let them know they're not alone. Those things. All of a sudden, there's a. There's a blessing for the person that listens Blessing is they're obedient. And then the blessing gets on both people as we listen to the whispers of God. I'm telling you, God is whispering, he's speaking, and he's leading and guiding us. And I close with one last story. There's more. I could go on and on, but this one just is incredible. Heath Adamson is a friend of mine. He works for Convoy of Hope. Okay, I'll show you how close he is. We actually were gonna hire him to be over all of our youth ministry years ago. Years ago. We're like, heath, we're gonna hire you. We want you to be over the whole youth ministry department. Years ago, he was like, I think this is God's will. We left that interview, and we thought that we had hired Heath. And the next day, he called. He said, I was praying. I think I was supposed to say, no. As much as I want to come to River Valley, I don't know why. He went on to be the national youth director, and then he went on to work for Convoy of Hope. So this man hears the voice of God. He's led by the Lord. Love him. Good guy. And he said he was going through some discouraging things in his life. And almost like Elijah, like, God, where are you? I'm leaning into you. I'm doing all that I can. And I'm trying to hear your voice, and I'm listening for your whisper. And I don't think you're there. I don't even think you see me. Sometimes you can get like that, where you just feel like, God, where are you? And he was like, God, I don't see you. I don't feel you right now. And I'm here in Africa. I'm in Tanzania, and I'm handing out food to people with Convoy of Hope. And I'm trying to be the leader of this whole outreach for this week. And I don't think you see me. I need a sign from you, God, that you see me. And so he continues to pass out the food and do this, and all of a sudden, he sees a guy walking towards him in Tanzania. And this guy stands out because he's got a cane as he's walking. Matter of fact, we got a picture of this guy that was walked up to Heath. This guy's walking up to him. He's walking up with this cane. And he sees this guy in Tanzania in a small little village. And this guy's walking up, and he's got the cane. And then Heath realizes the guy is blind, and the Guy walks right up to Heath, stops and puts his hand on Heath and says, God asked me to walk for two days to find you, to tell you that he sees you, he knows you, he's concerned about you, and he sent a blind man to walk through the jungles of Tanzania to tell you. I heard a whisper. And Keith's like, yeah, come on, give God praise for that. Like, that's incredible. Keith just starts weeping, starts weeping. He's like, who am I to dealt God that you see me? You sent a blind man who heard your whisper and walked for two days to let me know that you're the God that cares. Guys, we serve the God of the whisperer. He says, take care of this need financially. He says, set down your communion elements and go to this person. You're waiting for a crash or an earthquake. Or you say, if you write it in the sky, God, no. He's like, I'm gonna whisper it to you. I'm gonna whisper to you an amount, a thing to do. A global team. Can I speak to anybody that's afraid to go on a global team? Or you think God can't provide for you? You're like, I'm not one of the junior high, or I'm not one of the juniors or seniors. I don't get to go for free. We want 400 people to go on a global team for the first time, and some of you are letting money stand in the way. He's the God of the whisper. He's the God of the whisper. He's the God of the whisperer. Lord, I just pray right now that we'd realize that you're speaking to us and you whisper to us. Sometimes we just want it to be big and bold and loud. But, God, you just whisper to us and I thank you, that we can get close enough to you to hear your breath, to hear the whisper. Lead and guide us. Lead and guide us. Lord, I just pray right now. There's people that need to lead out in prayer in their family. They're not leading out in prayer. They need to do it. Lord, there are people that you're whispering to them. They've had an impression and they can't shake it. I'm supposed to start this. I'm supposed to do this. I'm supposed to do that Bible study at school. Lord, I'm supposed to speak up. Lord, I pray they'd be obedient. There's people with resources. They know causes and concerns and different missions and things. Lord, speak, Lord. We're listening. May they obey those whispers and may lives be changed. God, speak to us down to the very detail of walking. Two days. Two days just to tell someone you love them. Lord, let us be tuned into your whispers. In Jesus name we pray.