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"God's Soft, Gentle Voice" (posted March 10, 2015)

   The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
   - Psalm 29:4

What really is God’s power? You can read about it in 1 Kings 19. Elijah was not satisfied with the manifestation of God’s power. Then God said to him, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.”

When the Lord passed by, “a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

“So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’” (Read 1 Kings 19:11-13.)

The natural man or the carnal (that is, fleshly and self-pleasing) believer would have said of the strong wind, the earthquake, and the fire, “How awful, how great, how consuming is the power that is able to dispose of the elements like this!” But although He used them, the Lord was not in these things.

Of the soft gentle voice, the natural man would have said, “How weak!” But God was in it. It was this soft gentle voice that caused Elijah to come out of the cave and made him hide his face in his mantle. It humbled him and made him truly submissive, so that the Lord could teach him and instruct him as to the future. “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6).

Hendrik L. Heijkoop



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