From the Maker of Words

#58     Nov. 20, 2012, Tuesday, at home

I have much to share.  And I know that it may appear repetitive, yet it is not.  So rest assured you have not heard this message said this way before. 

Put down your pen…………….  Pick up your pen.

This is the kind of obedience I ask you for.  Because of course you may think ‘ He has called me aside to write, then says put down your pen.’

You see, it is all about obedience.  If you are obedient in small things even when they don’t seem to fit the situation, then you will be more willing and able to be obedient in large things, even when they don’t seem to sync.

It is not always easy to hear My voice.  I know that.  But the more that you take time to listen, listen with your heart the more you will hear it. 

I came to speak to your heart.  I want My heart and yours to converse.  Yet it will not happen if you find yourself always praying to Me.

I am not knocking prayer at all.  We all have to begin somewhere in a relationship.  But as the relationship grows, you can’t remain a beginner.  Or said otherwise, if you remain a beginner, the relationship can’t grow.

I DO NOT say anything against usual prayer.  I would never condemn the praying of the rosary – they are prayers devoted to My Mother – yet even she will tell you that if I call you aside even during this prayer, be very attentive to My call.

What do you think Our Lady did when she was called aside by the Angel to become My Mother?  Perhaps she was already praying, but when the Almighty steps in, it outshines all other prayers. 

Prayers are marvelous sources of comfort, and help us to stay focused on our faith and our faith journey.

Yet when I call you aside, stop your routine prayers and go very still and listen for My voice.

I want to speak with you.  Your prayers speak to Me, but I want to be the subject of this sentence.  You smile because your mother loved English grammar.

But I want to set you straight.  When you are praying to Me – who is in charge of this conversation???  I find it hard to even jump in and say Hello, you are so busy with your prayers.

Ache, yes ache to know My heart.  The only way to do that is to come aside and sit with Me and be o so still.

Still your tongue, still your thoughts.  Throw them on Me.  Tell Me you desire to be still and hear My voice, not hear yours in constant supplication.

Again praying is not bad, but I want you to know that it is so much better when you let Me pray in and through you.  My prayers will put a whole new meaning on your prayer life.  You won’t abandon the others as much as realize with thanks that they have brought you this far into My presence but now the road changes.

Instead of you telling Me the road signs, I want to show you the truly important road signs.  You will be amazed because you have opened your heart to My directions, My words. 

Yours will seem so lacking, when you hear the Maker of Words.  Yours will make you smile in realization that there is more to prayer than your words. 

My words come from My heart.  Your words do not necessarily come from your heart and even if they do, they are limited by the limits of your human heart.

Don’t hesitate and try to compare My prayers with your prayers.  I know your good intentions – yet they so often just keep you trying to do better on your own.

Maybe if I say 10 more Hail Mary’s.

That is how you measure your prayer life.

I want you to measure your prayer life by daring to come aside and sit with Me --  looking for nothing from Me, bringing nothing to Me. 

I dare you to sit quietly in My presence.  It is not easy – at first --  but what a great satisfying challenge.  Come aside and partner with Me in being in the universe – with nothing to complain about, brag about, whine about, feel sorry about. 

I want your heart open to hearing from My heart.  I may say something.  Many times I won’t.  And that is the true test.

Does He even know I am here because He isn’t saying anything to me?

So right there you have put the boundaries on our heart to heart time together.  If you don’t hear from Me you are disappointed and may fall back into “I will have to pray harder to get His attention.”

So you are back to your words, and not your heart listening and waiting.

What if I never speak to you?   What if you don’t hear My voice?

Is all lost?  NO, NO, NO.

If I don’t give you time to just come aside and sit with Me and listen and wait patiently, you will think it is all magic and that it is like switching a light switch off and on.  That I come at your beckoning.  No, no it does not work like that.

You can’t force Me.  Yet I know and see a heart that is willing to ‘be’, almost like in a desert, pining for My nourishing words, yet willing to endure the heat of not hearing, not being refreshed.  Yet knowing I am the only One in the desert who can ever refresh your heart and soul.

You have to ask yourself this question.  “Do I want to know God’s will for me?  Do I want to sit in His heart and just ‘be’ with Him – seeking no answer, asking no questions?”

If so, then ask God to grace you with the time to be able to come aside and sit with Him.

Then, if He asks you to come aside, what blocks do you throw in front of Him showing Him that this time He has chosen doesn’t quite fit into your plans. 

If you ask He will grace you with the time, but He warns you that nine times out of ten it will be on His timing and His schedule and not yours.

So, we are willing to give God prayer time, BUT, on our schedule.  So we really aren’t open then to come aside whenever He calls us, and sit with Him.  If your heart aches for this, He will give you the time.  So be sure your heart aches for this more than a tv program or a good book because He will call you when you least expect it. 

Now just sit with Him.  Listen to His heart beat, ask Him nothing.  Offer Him nothing but your aching heart.

Let Him work in you so that you don’t feel or see anything, yet miracles are taking place.  His ways of fine tuning our souls are divine and we won’t necessarily recognize them right away because we don’t think or expect the divine in our lives.

Come aside and just sit with Me. 

( I just noted to God that He goes from talking in the first person, to talking about Himself in the 3^rd person.  He smiled and said ‘it is all the One Person”.  And He can talk about Himself, or in the first person – it is He who is speaking, the words are all His, so I am not to worry if He talks to us, or talks about Himself to us.)