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“If He [the Lord] call thee…thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth” (1 Samuel 3:9).
We may all know the story of the little boy Samuel who was taken to the temple to live with Eli the priest. His mother had prayed for a child, and when her prayer was answered, she dedicated him to the Lord. Here he is now, a young boy, having the Lord speak to him in a very direct way. Eli gave Samuel good advice as to how to answer the voice that called him in the night.
We will not likely have such a direct encounter with the Lord, but He still does speak to us through reading His Word, and sometimes through circumstances. How wonderful if we, too, can answer as Samuel did. Let the Lord know we are listening! The Lord also speaks to us by His Spirit, and if you are a true believer in the Lord Jesus, then the Spirit of God lives in you. He is able to show you what to do when you have a question as to which way to go in your life.
This became a wonderful pattern in Samuel’s life. Verse 21 of this same chapter tells us, “The Lord appeared again…for the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel…in the word of the Lord.”
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