I’m serving as an associate staff worker of the Fellowship of Evangelical Students (FES), under whose care the various Christian Fellowships in the polytechnics and universities come under.
I never fail to be amazed by how God has worked in me and my life to the point where He has provided me opportunities to serve His people and also the necessary grace and strength to serve them faithfully. Just a mere four years ago, I was walking the wastrel’s path to destruction and decrepit in character and person.
He’s simply, just simply, amazing.
Yesterday, at my favourite café in town, I met up with Aaron, a brother in Christ and the chairperson of the Sheares Hall fellowship. It was good to be talking about plans for the ministry in the year ahead, sharing our hearts and conviction for God’s people and His Kingdom in Sheares and also just enjoying each other’s company.
I was glad that we managed to share our thoughts on greater intimacy with God – a true, burning desire for Him – and the consequent subject of prayer and hearing God’s voice.
I realise that the term “hearing God’s voiceâ€? carries a lot of baggage with it but, in my perspective, it means no more than prayer – true, vital prayer with the living God.
It always starts off with a yearning, a groaning deep, deep within the soul to know Him, to have more of Him in your life – a cry sounding out to the deep. And we cannot fail but to be pointed to the saints of old and to see how Abraham, Moses, David and our Lord Jesus Himself conversed and walked with the Father.
What intimacy! What bliss in the presence of the Father! What a satisfaction of the soul to meet the creator and lover of our souls!
“Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend�
Exodus 33:11
Hearing His voice – still and gentle – is to seek His face, to cry out for His glory, to be filled with His Spirit, to live in His presence manifest.
And we talked.
We prayed, humbling ourselves before the Father. We asked of Him that both of us might know Him more, that we might, like Moses and our forerunners, know Him face to face, that this entire generation of God’s people might know that too.
You know what?
God answered our prayers.
Aaron heard and saw like never before. And our Father’s presence was heavy upon us and in the corner of the café. He was with us! Gloriously, gloriously with us!
“…but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands me and knows me…�
Jeremiah 9:23
If we would but call upon Him.
