When God Whispers

When God Whispers

By Lori MorganReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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When God Whispers episodes

  • September 30 - Exodus 20:8-11

    This commandment is so

    often misunderstood, I believe.  The
    leaders of that day took it to an extreme where it was unlawful to help people
    who were in desperate need of help.  I
    believe God gave them this commandment not only to remind them to take one day
    a week to worship and praise Him, but they had come out of Egypt where they
    were working 7 days a week and God wanted them to take time to rest.  He wanted them to be able to rest and to
    worship Him, two things they hadn’t been able to do freely in many years.  Jesus later tells His followers that the
    sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath, and I believe that is what
    He was trying to get them to see.  It was
    for their benefit, not punishment as it had become for many.

    How do you treat the

    sabbath?  Before Jesus’ resurrection, the
    sabbath was on Saturday, but once Jesus came out of that tomb on that first
    Easter Sunday morning, Christians have celebrated Sunday as the Lord’s Day.  Unfortunately, due to our need to have
    everything at our fingertips constantly, many have to work on Sunday, but we
    can still honor and worship God no matter where we are. 

    Do you take a day to rest

    and worship God even if it isn’t on Sunday?

    Why do you think God gave

    them double manna on Friday, so they didn’t have to gather it on Saturday, the
    sabbath?

    What makes a day holy to

    you?  How do you like to spend days with
    God? 

    Take time with your family

    this week to talk to them about taking one day a week to focus on God and
    family.  It is so rewarding to take a
    step back and enjoy our Creator.

    5 min
  • September 29 - Exodus 20:7

    This one verse says so

    much in so few words.  I don’t know many
    people that haven’t crossed the line with this one.  It doesn’t even mean using His name as
    profanity, but using His name when it isn’t in reverence.  Anytime we misuse His name or use it in a
    lighthearted manner, we take His name in vain. 
    This one is often a heart issue. 
    How reverent and serious are we about who God is and how we represent
    Him?  Sometimes I wish for the days when
    I was growing up when we stayed in the foyer until we were ready to go in the
    sanctuary and be serious, quiet, and reverent. 
    But I know God loves us and wants us to enjoy life too, but I think
    often we just don’t see Him as God. 
    Sometimes I forget who He is and give Him my prayer list and move on
    with my day, but He is our Creator, our Lord, our Defender, our Comforter, our
    Healer, our Savior, and yes, our Father. 
    I could take pages and pages to list who He is to us, but I think you
    get the idea.  He is so much to us, and
    how much time do I give Him where my focus is Him and not just getting through
    the prayer, or the ss lesson, or the sermon, or finish reading this chapter so
    I can get my questions for Bible Study done and move on with my day.  I have to believe I am not alone in this.

    Please pray today and ask

    God to reveal Himself to you in a new way. 
    Ask Him to help you see His majesty and his glory.  I pray you are able to have a new
    relationship with God once you open yourself up to who He is.

    5 min
  • September 28 - Exodus 20:3-6

    Now that God has reminded

    Moses of who He is and what He has done not only for Moses, but for the Israelites,
    God is ready to give Him the ten simple commandments for them to follow.  The first commandments God gives them is
    about their relationship with Him.  Then
    He goes into how they should treat and respect each other. 

    These first two

    commandments are extremely serious, and I know we break them daily.  How can we expect to have the relationship we
    could and should have with God if we daily are disobedient to the first two
    commandments He gave us. 

    When I make a list of

    things I must do, I always put the most important ones first.  I feel God did the same with these two
    commandments coming first.  We are to
    have no other gods before Him.  What
    things do you hold as more important than God? 
    Anything can be a god to us. 
    Work, our home, our children, our spouse, our reputation, our looks, our
    possessions, our cars…literally anything that keeps you from being completely
    with God and worshipping Him as You should, can be a God.  I believe TV and entertainment easily becomes
    our God.  I know many times I have to
    stop and evaluate how I am spending my time. 
    It’s not that we aren’t supposed to have fun, but so often we say, “I
    just didn’t have time to read my bible and pray today.  I didn’t have time to study this week’s bible
    study.” But what did we do instead of spending time with our Creator and
    Savior?  I know I play games on my phone,
    I watch TV, I read, I find many things to do with my time that has nothing to
    do with God and has nothing edifying for me, yet I often don’t find time to be
    with God.  Pray today that God guides you
    to things you might have put in place of Him without realizing it.   Pray
    for Him to prompt you to pick up His love letter to you and read how much He
    loves You and how He wants to spend time with You, rather than the many other
    things that the enemy is prompting you to do with your time.

    6 min
  • September 27 - Exodus 20:1-2

    I know it might seem like

    there are just a few words in our verses today, but how profound those words
    are.  The fact that God spoke to Moses at
    all is a miracle in itself. 

    He reminded Moses who He

    was and what He had done for the Israelites. 
    My first thought it that Moses could look around and see they weren’t in
    Egypt, but it was more than that.  It was
    a reminder that what Moses might at times think he himself did, was completely
    God’s doing.  Moses was the mouth moving
    but the words and the influence was God and God alone. 

    He also reminds Moses here

    of the circumstances the Israelites had been under in Egypt.  They had been in the house of slavery.  Everywhere they went in Egypt they were under
    Pharaoh’s thumb.  They couldn’t sleep,
    eat, travel…anything without Pharaoh’s permission and all they had, as far as
    food and clothing wasn’t theirs, but provided by Pharaoh.  Of course, it wasn’t much, but God is
    reminding Moses here of all that had taken place as part of the process of
    getting them out of Egypt.  The plagues,
    the Passover, the Egyptians giving them goods to take with them.  None of it came about naturally.  It was all God. 

    5 min
  • September 26 – Exodus 19:16-25

    Why do you think God

    wanted Moses to tell the people again the guidelines He had set up for them
    regarding the mountain and trying to come up the mountain?

    Why do you think He would not

    let them even touch the mountain? 

    Do you ever find yourself

    tempted to take just a little more and a little more until you have totally
    gone against what you intended?  God
    knows us better than we know ourselves. 
    His rules are to keep us out of trouble, yet we seem to do everything
    possible to defy Him. 

    Pray today that God would

    help you be obedient to Him so You can stay in a place of repentance and
    love. 

    4 min
  • September 25 – Exodus 19:7-15

    God gave the people many

    rules about what they could do and couldn’t do to prepare for Him to speak to
    Moses as well as what to expect when He was speaking to Moses and what was
    allowed during that time.

    Why do you think He was so

    specific with His instructions to them?

    What would have happened

    to those who chose not to obey?

    What significance do you

    see in the reference to “the third day”?

    I have heard the phrase as

    a child, “The devil made me do it!” when someone got caught doing something
    they shouldn’t have done.  My parents
    were a little over the top, at times, at least as far as it appeared to me, but
    I see in hindsight what they were doing with their protectiveness. 

    Have you ever realized

    after the fact, what you griped about to God in the past was actually something
    that God was using for your good?  I know
    back in July of 2020 my husband was informed he was going to be laid off in
    exactly one month.  The law requires them
    to give a month notice to those who are over age 60.  Doug had turned 60 the prior fall, so he
    received notice of his job being eliminated. 

    Here we were in the late

    summer of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, and Doug has no job.  Being that he was over 60, and the pandemic
    had certainly not helped grow his field, we felt it would most likely take many
    months of searching for Doug to find a company that would hire him.  We prepared for a long period of time with
    little to no income.  But God had a
    special place in mind for Doug as He knew what was ahead for us. 

    God used some of Doug’s

    work contacts to bring us a miracle and He gave Doug a really great job where
    he could work from home. 

    In November of 2020, Doug

    found out he had bladder cancer, and his new company was amazing in the way
    they treated and cared for him.  Although
    the law would have allowed them to terminate Doug when they found out he had a
    medical situation in the first year of employment, that never was discussed,
    and they treated him extremely well.

    God knew what was ahead for

    us when we didn’t, and He took care to bring Doug to the right job, with the
    right people at the right time.  I’m
    pleased to let you know that Doug is now cancer free and doing well.

    6 min
  • September 24 – Exodus 19:1-6

    God took them to Mount Siani

    to talk to them.  Do you see God moving
    you to a place where He can talk to you? 
    Sometimes we are too distracted to listen, and God has to move us for us
    to hear Him.  Have you ever felt God
    moving you to a place where You can listen better to His instructions?

    In verse 5 we see we are

    considered a treasured possession of God when we obey Him and keep His
    covenants.  What a wonderful thing to be
    a treasured possession of God. 

    As God is moving you and

    bringing you to a new place don’t forget that He considers you His treasured
    possession, and what He truly wants is a relationship with You.  Don’t resist His promptings.  Move as He guides and listen to His voice so
    He can bring you to the absolute best place to grow in Him.

    4 min
  • September 23 – Exodus 18:14-27

    Moses made a mistake by

    attempting to take on more than he was able to do.  Have you ever been tempted to do that?

    God sent suitable people

    to help him.  They had always been
    available, but until Moses was willing to accept help, he didn’t see it. 

    Who has God placed in your

    life who would help you in any way you asked?

    5 min
  • September 22 – Exodus 18:1-12

    Moses protected his family

    while he was in Egypt by sending them to be with his father-in-law.

    How do you see your

    Heavenly Father protecting you daily? 

    What do you see He has

    protected you from?

    Moses’ father-in-law was

    thrilled to hear about the work of the Lord in Moses’ life.  Do you celebrate when you see God working in
    someone’s life? 

    In what ways can you

    celebrate with them?

    4 min
  • September 21 – Exodus 17:8-16

    God is always the one to

    win our battles for us.  It’s nothing in
    us that is truly capable of winning because we are fighting an enemy that is a
    very conniving and strong enemy.  I’m
    grateful that our God is stronger.  There
    are many times I’m weak in my fight and I reach out to God and He sends me help
    by way of a friend.  That is what He did
    here.  He had Aaron and Hur hold up Moses
    arms when He became too weak.  What we
    must remember though is that the strength is in God, not the friends.  If we start thinking the friends are the ones
    with the strength rather than God, He will show us the truth.  He gives us godly friends to help us, but I
    have had times where I depended on my friends more than I was depending on God,
    and He removed those relationships.  The
    one we can always count on is God.  There
    might be people in our lives that support us and help us but make no mistake
    that they are only there as long as God allows them to be.  We need to gain our strength from Him.  Pray to Him today to help you lean on Him and
    Him alone.

    5 min

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