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God whispers

This is from our family devotion last night.  We most often use the reading plans from bible.com, and this one is taken from Mark Batterson’s book  Whisper . I pray this will encourage you has it has me… God has an outside voice, and He’s not afraid to use it. But when God wants to be heard, when what He has to say is too important to miss, He often speaks in a whisper just above the absolute threshold of hearing.  My dictionary defines  whisper  as “speaking very softly using one’s breath without one’s vocal cords.” The use of breath instead of vocal cords is significant. Isn’t that how God created Adam? He whispered into the dust and named it Adam.  Adam was once a whisper. So were you. So was everything else. Whispering is typically employed for the sake of secrecy. No form of communication is more intimate.  So why does God so often speak in whispers? When someone speaks in a whisper, you have to get very close to hear...