The Power of God’s Voice
Week 37, Weekend
Beth Ann Meek
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.
Psalm 29:4
God once spoke to me about a problem I had been struggling with for several years. His exact words to me were, “Satan is trying to destroy you.” Wow! Those words were so clear and overwhelming to me that I had tremendous success against my longstanding stronghold. Over the course of the following weeks, however, I must admit that I neglected the intensity of those words and eventually let the fleshly stronghold take its iron-like grip on me again. I came to a point of desperation and depression over this stronghold, and God, in His infinite wisdom, led me to Psalm 29 one day in my quiet time.
Psalm 29 is an incredible depiction of the mighty power of God’s voice. I was amazed as I repeatedly read the words describing the force and intensity of God’s voice. “Thunders,” “is powerful,” “is majestic,” “breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon,” “strikes with flashes of lightning,” “shakes the desert,” “twists the oaks,” and “strips the forest bare” are all vivid descriptions of the powerful strength occurring when God speaks.
God deeply impressed upon me that there is nothing comparable to His voice and that I should take notice when He speaks, not just for that moment, but forever. While God may speak to us in a still small voice, He never speaks inconsequentially with wasted words. Nothing He speaks will ever return void. Everything God says has deep meaning and is meant to transform my life into Christlikeness. He desires for me to seek His voice in every detail of my life, and to manifest His words in my heart.
Initially when God spoke to me about Satan’s attempts to destroy me, I did not completely understand the full impact of His voice. Now, when I hear a word from God, I know I can stand firm in total reliance upon it.
Father, please never let me underestimate the power of Your voice. May I never let a word You have spoken escape me. I desire that my heart shall be full of Your words. How grateful I am that Your voice, which thunders and breaks and strikes and shakes and twists and strips bare, speaks to me so that I may be transformed! Amen.
I once read that God and Satan has a plan for our lives…we must be wise enough to follow the right one and to be aware of it. The last few months I have felt so alone in my struggles, while praying one day I realized that I was praying without any faith. I had kept on asking Jesus to be with me through my down times…my realization was He is always with me, no matter what! I should be praying that I don’t take this for granted and to open my eyes and ears for Him to speak to me.
I struggle daily with many things. God provides my daily needs and I still struggle to find a balance between motherhood, being a wife and a full time nurse. I am renewed after reading this to try harder to seek God’s will for me and allow him to help me delete unfavorable things from my life.