May 2020 Voice of Triumph enewsletter

TRANSPARENCY: STAY ABREAST OF YOUR STILLNESS AND QUIETNESS

The following examples in the Old Testament are four women whose story help us to more transparent about our own quietness and stillness. First, Eve who was misled by satan never exhibited quietness or stillness in Genesis 3rd chapter. She was drawn in by the lust of the eyes—the forbidden fruit looked appealing. She was allured by the lust of the flesh—she craved to taste the forbidden fruit. She was seduced by the pride of life—she coveted the forbidden fruit that only gave her the wisdom of the world. Everything Eve desired more than anyone and anything else, God had already given them. Adam and Eve already had 100% of God, all that He is and all that He has. Because she believed the lie she told herself was the absolute truth, they lost their inheritance. Secondly, the Shunammite woman was quiet yet not still in 2 Kings 4th chapter. After her son died, she remained extremely careful to watch every word proceeding from her mouth. That was her assurance, she nor anyone else could bury what she only planted for a brief time. What she believed leaped from just expectantly hoping to receive to deliberate faith in action for the miracle she refused to live without. Her confession transitioned from “It shall be well” to “It is well” in anticipation of receiving her son back to life again. The word “well” is translated in Hebrew is shalom, i.e., “peace.” That proved her quietness. However, she did not just sit still, which was the most appropriate response. She transported his lifeless body to the room built for Prophet Elisha. Even though her husband questioned her, she never revealed the reason for her visit to the prophet. She saddled her own donkey and told her servant to drive the beast high-speed. A donkey is most comfortable traveling between 8-9 mph, but she raced him at an inconceivable speed of 40 mph. Even after Elisha gave his servant Gehazi his staff to lay it on the boy, he remained dead. After the Shunammite woman vowed she would not leave Prophet Elisha’s side, he accompanied her and raised her son from premature death. Thirdly, Sarah was still but not quiet in Genesis 18th chapter. Abraham received the Lord and His messengers, who confirmed Isaac’s birth. Now decades later, Abraham was almost a hundred and Sarah ninety years old. After hearing the Word of the Lord this time around, Sarah laughed in her heart. She no longer believed that even God could supernaturally reproduce through Abraham’s seed and her womb. Since the Lord always looks at the heart, He confronted the situation to dissolve all doubts because He needed to find faith in her heart when He arrived with the delivery. The Lord inquired of Abraham the reason why Sarah laughed because she mocked His Word. She then lied to protect herself of being exposed as an unbeliever. However, it challenged her to receive the impossible as confirmed by the Lord Himself. In the end, Isaac was born at the set time the Lord pronounced that day. Fourth, Hannah was neither still nor quiet from the onset in 1 Samuel 1st chapter. By the close of her story, she exhibited both stillness and quietness. Hannah was barren so her husband Elkanah married Peninnah who was quite fertile. Being barren was sorrowful enough without Peninnah adding to Hannah’s pain by provoking her. Because Elkanah had no reference for Hannah’s misery, he further upset this overwhelming situation by his arrogance. By faith, Hannah made a conscious decision to move past her pain by dedicating her firstborn to God before she ever conceived him. Her heart was so frayed that even the priest thought she was intoxicated until she confirmed she had not been drinking. Even then she never voiced her petition aloud to him. Verse 18 shows he agrees with her. “Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace [shalom]: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of Him.” After returning home, the Lord opened her womb and Samuel was born. Just as Hannah vowed to the Lord, she brought Samuel to Eli to live before the Lord once he was weaned. In his stead, Hannah birthed three sons and two daughters. The conclusion of her story demonstrated both quietness and stillness. May you find real rest in Abba Father’s arms.

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