Bryant Wright, Founder
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” John 10:27
Most of us think of prayer as talking to God. And it is. But if that’s all it is, it’s incomplete—because a real conversation goes both ways.
You’ve slowed down.
Your heart is beginning to align.
You’ve learned to stay, even when nothing seems to change.
Now the question shifts. Not, “Why isn’t God speaking?”
But, “Am I actually listening?”
God is not silent. His timing is not always our timing.
We rush into prayer with a list, say what we need to say, and move on. No pause. No space. No expectation that He might respond. And yet Scripture is clear—His people hear His voice.
Not audibly. Not always instantly. But consistently—through His Word, through conviction, through a settled clarity that aligns with who He is.
Listening requires something most of us resist: stillness and patience. It means opening His Word and letting it speak before you speak. It means sitting in quiet long enough for your thoughts to settle. It means being willing to let God say something different from what you were hoping to hear.
Here’s the tension:
You can’t hear God… if you never stop talking.
Sometimes the problem isn’t that God isn’t speaking.
It’s that we’re only listening for answers we already agree with in our time frame.
So rich prayer includes a willingness to wait on God. His timing is not always our timing. But He’s always on time.
DIG DEEPER
Read “How Can I Know What God’s Timing Is?” at GotQuestions.org
