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What if God is a Safe Place? How Hearing His Voice Taught Me He Is

• Mukkove - The Mom Mentor

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I'm going to share this story of how learning to hear God's voice happened for me so that you can get to know me a little better and just have understanding of where I've come from. We haven't yet met yet. I'm McCove, and I help Christian women learn to hear God's voice so that they can ask him questions and get answers and learn that having that relationship with him is really what changes everything. For me, the journey started well, really forever ago. I have always believed in God. I grew up in a Christian home and can remember thinking as an adolescent, if God talked to Moses like a friend, why doesn't he talk to me? Like, why not? Why, if he says that, you know, he's not a respecter of persons, then why doesn't he talk to me? And I believe that that was just a God-given faith and even audacity, maybe, that well, if he talked to Moses, like in a way I'm not any different than Moses. And obviously I'm very different than Moses. But why wouldn't God talk to me like he talked to him? And I didn't have an answer to that for a long time. I just kept asking why. And let's see, if that was at an adolescent, then probably 10, 15 years later, I had three little kids. I was still asking that question. And I heard someone teach on what they called soaking. And they were talking about just spending time in God's presence to just spend time with him, not to read the Bible, not to study, not to list off prayer requests, just to spend time with him. And somehow I connected that idea with asking him questions when I spent time with him. So I brought home my three little kids. I think they were all still preschoolers. And we started a daily time of we would sit on my bed and we would ask God a question. Like, God, what do you want to do with me today? What do you want to show me? What do you like about me? What are you thinking about right now? Just a simple question. We would pray, God, we believe that you're speaking, believe that we can hear you. Here's our question. And I told the kids, like, to be quiet. Like we're gonna we're gonna ask the question and be quiet. And then, you know, when you've heard something or seen something or whatever, because when I say hearing, I don't mean like there's this audible voice that we hear. I was like, then let me know. Well, I had to change that pretty quickly because they all instantly heard something, and they were going on adventures with Jesus, they were you know going up into the mountains, they were going on picnics, they were doing all kinds of things, and so I was like, okay, we're gonna have to change this, and you guys are gonna have to be quiet until I hear something, because I'm not having a chance to listen because they're instantly hearing things and wanting to share what the Lord is showing them, and so as I got them to stay quiet longer for me to hear, I would like hear a song running through my head, and I got annoyed because I'm like, I don't kind of want a song, like I want to hear from God, I want to hear what he's saying, and he's like, I am talking to you, like I'm using a song, something that you know is true, to teach you my voice. So when I bring a song, when I bring a scripture to memory, like that's me talking to you, and that's how I'm helping you learn my voice is by bringing stuff you already know to be true. So if that's happening for you as you begin this journey of asking God questions, and you're having songs or scriptures pop into your head, that's the Lord. He's saying, This is what my voice sounds like. This is how you feel when you hear from me. And you can begin paying attention, and as you get more comfortable and more familiar, then he can start talking more. We start hearing more. I don't know that he's talking anymore, but we start hearing more. And something else that I did with my kids, I went to something where somebody led us on. I've never come up with a good name for it, like a listening prayer journey. Maybe that's what I should call them. And this particular presenter played the piano and had us close our eyes and described a scene of like walking through the woods and then like listening for what the Lord was saying in that. I don't remember exactly how it went, but it's something I started doing with my kids. Today we're gonna go on a on a journey. I don't know what I told them. We're gonna call it a listening prayer journey. And so I'd have them close their eyes and I would describe something, some kind of journey that we were doing. I like to do walks through the woods, walks on the beach, uh, something where you're moving and you're taking in your environment. And I did one of these on a recent video. Try and remember to link it. But the idea is you're engaging your senses, you're feeling, smelling, hearing, and then you come to a spot where there's something to open. And so one of the journeys that I did with the kids over and over again is we would walk through the woods to this clearing where we kind of had a picnic spot. And again, this is inner imagination, but so we would come to the clearing and there'd be a picnic basket there, and so like open open the picnic basket and what's inside, and there would be like fruit and food to share, and like, or sometimes there was armor and weapons, and um, sometimes we didn't stop at like the picnic spot. There was it was by a creek, and we would go to the creek and find things in the creek, and like so we went there again and again as a place like this is where God speaks to us, and we just continued to practice. I didn't continue to practice with my kids near as much as I wish I would have, but it still laid a foundation for them to know that they could hear from God and could experience things. And there's things from those times that I still draw on to this day, of lessons that he taught through, like in the stream, when we went and looked at the stones, they were like tools, but they had scriptures on them of like his treasures are his promises, it's his word, and it's there for us to find and things like that that um he kind of teaches me in pictures and words and and things. And so it might look different for you, but there's a way that he communicates with you and that he's wanting to answer your questions. And I had somebody ask me today, which I'd never really thought about, I guess. They asked, What changed for me? Like, what was the impact of starting to have these conversations with God? And I guess I've looked at the that of like, well, I finally started actually changing, you know, like I felt like the changes that I was trying to make in my patience or my perspective or whatever, like was actually sticking. I was actually starting to change. But the way the question was asked today made me think actually the difference is it started to make God feel like a safe place. I wasn't just coming to God as like the dutiful servant of like, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to know? How do I be pleasing to you? How do I stay out of trouble? How do I change my behavior so that I'm not disappointing you all the time? Coming helped me see he was a safe place that he wasn't disappointed in me in the first place. He wasn't frustrated with how my change was going. He didn't think my questions were dumb. He was okay listening to my heart, my questions, my fears. So starting to have that conversation where I can ask him questions and get answers. And they're not always the answers that I want. They're not always direct answers, but he answers. And so that started building trust of like, oh, you're a safe place. And these things that I thought about you that aren't true, his opportunity to disprove them because I have an opportunity to experience him as he is instead of as I thought he was. And so I think that's really my heart in inviting you into this is when you start to have conversations with God and expect him to answer you, you'll start to see he's a safe place. And he has amazing things in store for you. And if you'd like to hang out with me more, you can join me in my school community. The link is in the descriptions. You can subscribe to the channel so that you can get more videos as they come out. And just pray that you will be blessed in Jesus' name. See you next time.