There are going to be times in the life of every Christian person when it seems as though as they
say the heavens are brass when it seems as though the prayers go to the ceiling and bounce back
to the floor it just seems as though God is not listening and I want to suggest again that there
are times when even though God is always listening and always attentive to our prayers there are
times when he does not indicate it there are times in fact when he would have us to press a little
harder and to push a little farther and so there are times when he will seem to be silent and hope
seems to be hidden sometimes for you and for me it's hard to believe in a promise when it seems so
far away I read all this in the scripture about the strength of Christ's love for me
I read the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ
so why is it then that as a child of God I have known what it is to feel that I cannot
find him at precisely the time when I feel that I need him most why is it that God sometimes
seems so very far away when he has promised his presence to me so very very clearly
and when God hides his face one of two things will happen
either like Job and like David we will long for him and we will seek him and we will hunger
and thirst for him and the sense of his distance will be distressing to us until it is resolved or
we'll just settle and carry on
when God is silent and everybody has those seasons
in your life if you haven't had one yet hang on you're going to have one
and there are seasons and times in the lives of every one of us who believe in Jesus Christ
where it seems like all the promises that God has ever given us are dissipating we were so filled
with faith we so believed that moment that God spoke and said things like I'm going to
bring your family home to me I'm going to deliver you I'm going to give you freedom I'm going to use
your life for my glory and we were so filled with faith and so filled with hope and in this season
in these times when we go through these things it's important that you and I learn to stay strong
when we feel that God's voice has become silent stay strong when god seems to be silent for the
victory is still yours it's not been taken away from you no matter what your eyes see
there's a little Sunday school song that they used to sing in church years ago all is well
all is well no matter what my eyes may see no matter what my ears may hear all is well all is
well for God shall fight for me all is well all is well the Lord sent me this morning I believe
in my heart to tell you that all is well all is well you're not cut off from the life of God no
sir you belong to Jesus Christ no ma'am you belong to Jesus Christ his victory is still your victory
your future is the future he has prescribed for your life
you've not lost it because of a few mistakes along the way no no no that's not the way God operates
stay strong my brother stay strong my sister stay strong in the promises of God don't let
any voice or any circumstance take that from you stay strong stay strong
sometimes a silent heaven is just inviting you and me to fight harder
to push just a little bit further
with man it's impossible with God all things are possible
can I trust God when he's silent or do I have to have something do I have to have some some
indication that he's listening can I trust him that when he's silent he hasn't changed and so
silence sometimes is his way of teaching us to trust him that I don't have to see it I don't
have to feel it and most people's religion is by their feelings their Christianity is by their
feelings if i feel like he's here then he must be here well I haven't felt like God was with me
listen you may not have felt like God was with you at times in your life but what does he say he says
I'll never leave you nor forsake you so can you trust him when he's silent can you trust him when
he appears to be absent can you trust him when you don't feel anything but when he says in his
word that I'll never leave you nor forsake you we all go through times where it doesn't feel
like we're making progress we're praying but our prayers aren't being answered we're being our best
but not getting good breaks the problem hasn't turned around seems like God went on vacation but
the silence is not a sign that God is not working he may not be changing the circumstances but he is
changing us God uses the seasons of silence to get us prepared when we're not getting our way
we're doing the right thing but we're being overlooked our friend got married but we're still
single we're working harder than our co-worker but they got the promotion we feel overlooked
undervalued forgotten these times of isolation where you're not being celebrated are extremely
valuable nothing may be changing on the outside but something's happening on the inside
your character is being developed you're learning to not depend on people
you're gaining experience maturity strength that you'll need to go where god is taking you
when God is silent that doesn't mean he's not concerned silence is not a sign that God
has forgotten about you just the opposite it's a sign that he's closely watching you
he's getting you prepared for new levels but if he brought you out before you were ready
it would stop your purpose now you may be in a season of silence you feel like you're hidden
but the silence doesn't mean God has forgotten about you he's heard every prayer he's seen
every tear and at the right time God is going to bring you into what he's already prepared God
is not preparing the blessing for you he's preparing you for the blessing the promised land
was already in place he had to get the Israelites prepared favor is already in your future there are
blessings that already have your name on them the right people divine connections already lined up
you keep passing the test in the silent seasons you keep getting prepared and you're going to
come in to more than you can ask or think it may look like it's never going to change the truth is
it's a season of silence not a lifetime of silence what god has spoken over you there is an appointed
time for it to come to pass keep growing keep improving the silence is only temporary