Voice of a Prophet: The Dynamics of Experiencing God 2

Voice of a Prophet 

By A.W. Tozer

The Dynamics of Experiencing God 2


Be Still and Know that He Is God


We live in a society that has seeped into the church. It is full of all kinds of activity and noise. From the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night, there is activity and noise and chatter. In all of that, we cannot come to the place of getting to know God.


As long as we are satisfied with the status quo, we will never come to the point where we truly experience God as He desires to be experienced. The experience is always on God’s terms, not ours.


It is not popular, but it is powerful. That is, we need to get still in order to experience God. David the psalmist understood this when he wrote, 

“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth” (Ps. 46:10). 


It is in that stillness that we truly experience His presence.


Elijah discovered this. 

“And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12). 


All the noise kept Elijah from hearing that “still small voice” speaking to him. 


How many of us are missing that voice because of all of the commotion in our life?


If we are willing to surrender that commotion and offer it on the altar, we might have a chance of hearing that “still small voice” speaking to us today.


Those men who were mightily used of God, who became a voice of God in their generation, heard that voice in the stillness and quiet of their own hearts. 

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