August 20, 2020 Rick Warren Devotional :- Step One in Crisis: Listen and Let God Speak
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“It was the first year of the reign of Darius the Mede, the son of Ahasuerus, who became king of the Babylonians. During the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, learned from reading the word of the LORD, as revealed to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years.”
Daniel 9:1-2 (NLT)
You need to hear the voice of God. He will always make the first move in your life. He never expects you to do something he doesn’t do first. The Bible says we love God because he first loved us. We serve him because he first served us.
God initiates. Then, we respond.
So how do you listen to God? You read the Bible. We talk to God because he first talked with us through his Word.
Daniel did this: “It was the first year of the reign of Darius the Mede, the son of Ahasuerus, who became king of the Babylonians. During the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, learned from reading the word of the LORD, as revealed to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years” (Daniel 9:1-2 NLT).
You will never pray effectively until you study Scripture and listen to God. The more you know the Bible, the more effective your prayers will be.