MAY 2025 NEWSLETTER

 MAY 2025 NEWSLETTER

ROBERT LINDENBERGER

405 INDIAN RIVER AVENUE

TITUSVILLE, FL 32796

God is good all the time; all the time, God is good!

LISTENING FOR GOD’s VOICE

In the early 20th century, New York City had become a noisy place.  With an overhead train, cars, trolleys, newsboys yelling, and people rushing around – life was loud!  Yet, one day at Broadway and 34th St., a man named Charles Kellogg declared to his friend, “Listen, I hear a cricket.”

“Impossible,” his friend answered.  “With all this racket, you could hear a tiny sound like that.”  Yet Mr. Kellogg insisted and eventually found the cricket, chirping in a window of a bakery.  “What astonishing hearing you have,” his friend proclaimed.  “Not at all,” Mr. Kellogg replied.  “It’s a matter of where you focus your attention.”

Elijah was a prophet of God who’d just seen him perform an amazing display of his power, but now the prophet was hiding in a cave for fear of the pagan Queen (1 Kings 19:1-9).  This time, however, God didn’t want to communicate in a powerful way.  Even though He had sent a great wind, an earthquake, and even a roaring fire (VV 11-12).

Today, there’s a surplus of noise in our lives, yet God still speaks in a quiet voice through the Scriptures and by His Spirit.  Taking time to prayerfully focus our attention on God will help us tune into his comforting, guiding voice.  

Prayer: Dear Father, I thank you that I can listen for your Spirit to speak to me quietly.

                                                    -- Our Daily Bread, Brent Hackett, May 1, 2025.

A Prayer to Make a Difference in a Hurting World.

Blessed, heavenly Father,  All your promises are trustworthy.  All life’s questions are answered in you.  You are the Sustainer of all things.  I watch it, you, the Fountainhead of all blessing, the source of all life, the Wellspring of wisdom, the Key to knowledge, the Foundation of faith, the Doorway to glory.  I worship you, the One who supplies strength to the weary, increases power to the faint and offers escape to the tempted.  I worship you.  The One who synthesizes with the hurting, shields the defenseless, it enriches the poor, sustains that helpless, and shelters the homeless.  You give purpose to the aimless, comfort the lonely, fruit to the barren, beauty to the meek, a future to the hopeless, and life to the lifeless!

The Lord, I confess that I too often overlooked the people who need Your love and healing.  Consumed with myself and my schedule, I don’t make time to listen to Your leading and to watch for opportunities to give Jesus to those around me.  Forgive me, Father.

In a world of lonely, frightened people, give me a heart that is broken for the things that break Your heart.  Give me compassion for the lost and dying world, for people You love.  Give me an unquenchable love for Your gospel, for Your Son, for Your Word, for You.  Use me to make an eternal difference in the lives of people around me.  I humbly, boldly ask that you give me the attention of my friends, neighbors, coworkers, classmates, and even my enemies so that they may see my example and . . . 

      want to know You because they know me.

      place their faith in You because I am trustworthy.

      believe You because of what I say and the way I say it.

      know that you love them because I love them.

      note that You can give them victory over sin 

      because my life demonstrates it.

      have hope because I am genuinely confident.

      go to you for the freedom from power of sin 

      because I speak the truth in love.

      have peace because I am not afraid.

      look to You as a solution for what’s wrong,

      because I am looking to you.

Now, I asked You to grow me into someone who reflects You in all I say and do.

For the glory of your name – Jesus, Amen.

                                        --Anne Graham Lotz, The LIGHT of HIS PRESENCE, 55