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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? - Numbers 23:19 KJV
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. - Isaiah 55:11 KJV
The Message For Today (June 10, 2026):
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In a generation that is hungry to hear the word of the Lord and hungry to hear the voice of God, tapping in and hearing God is harder than ever. The noise of the world, the chaos, the confusion, the news, the alerts, even our own fears, are all speaking more loudly than that still small voice of the Lord.
When God speaks, it is a move.
Yet the unbeliever, the one who is natural in thought and carnal in mind, cannot perceive and cannot hear the things of God. To sit, to listen, to be still, and to know that he is God is essential. We see in 1 Kings 19 how Elijah was sent into the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights after fleeing from the threat of being murdered by Jezebel.
In this growth, in this season, in this transition, he wanted to die. He was done after one of the greatest miracles in scripture. God sent fire from heaven to be a demonstration of his glory, which resulted in 850 false prophets, the prophets of Jezebel, and the prophets of the grove, to all be slaughtered in one fatal swing.
This victory should have left Elijah feeling elated. But even after doing the work of God, Jezebel was able to intimidate him into running. The voice of Jezebel was greater. The voice of Jezebel scared him more. So when he went into the wilderness and sat under a tree, he sat and decided that he no longer wanted to live. And in 1 Kings 19:4, it states:
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. - 2 Kings 19:4 KJV
As he lay under the tree and prayed that he would not wake up, the angel of the Lord came and woke him not once but twice, and gave him meat to eat, that he may endure the journey in the wilderness. And after enduring that journey and entering into the mouth of a cave, Elijah was in the cave and wrapped about. And the Lord said to him in verse 11 of 1 Kings 19:
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks 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:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. - 1 Kings 19:11 KJV
The mountains shaking and breaking into pieces was not the voice of the Lord. The earthquake was not the voice of the Lord. He was not in the earthquake. And the fire was not the voice of the Lord. The voice of the Lord is described in this Scripture as being still and small.
Nevertheless, when the Lord spoke what He spoke inside of this chapter of Scripture, Elijah was given the edict by the Lord to anoint two kings and to choose a prophet that would be the next prophet of Israel. When the Lord speaks, it is quiet. It is in the stillness. But it has intangible impact. Generational change.
When the Lord speaks, He’s not speaking just to you. He’s speaking through you, the will of the Father. He’s speaking into generations. He’s speaking into your children. He’s speaking into your grandbabies. He’s speaking into communities.
When the Lord speaks, it is still.
It requires stillness, patience, pressing into his presence, and awaiting, tarrying the way that the prophet did when he sat on the ramparts and he waited. And Habakkuk received the word of the Lord. He waited. He tarried. That’s what he did in Habakkuk 2. In his waiting and in his tarrying, the Lord sent a message and said, Write these things upon tablets. So Habakkuk had to wait. He had to press and wait to receive what he would hear from the Lord.
That is like what we must do now. We must wait, and we must see. We must press, and we must hear. We must have a relationship through prayer, and through fasting. We must be intentional about hearing. When God speaks. He’s not in the chaos of this world. He’s not inside of the shaking. He’s not inside of the wars. He’s not inside of political mechanisms. The Lord is greater.
He is here waiting on us to get before Him, that we may hear the word of the Lord clearly. That we may hear the desire of His heart, and that we may operate in that desire in our lives and in the lives of our children and our families. Our spouses, our ministries, and our businesses are waiting.
The same way that Israel waited for three years in a famine for Elijah to be told to go and show himself to Ahab in 1 Kings 18. Likewise, people are waiting. Your family is waiting on you to hear when God speaks. To seek His voice, to seek His heart for your family, to seek His heart for your children. To seek His heart and know that He loves you and that He speaks true.
And that whatever He says is the word, and it will not return to Him void.
It will not return to Him unfulfilled.
It will accomplish what He said, the same way Elijah experienced in 1 Kings 19, the changing of the guards that would be the next prophet, Prophet Elisha. And who would be the one who took down Jezebel, King Jehu. These were the ones that the Lord anointed when he said to Elijah on that mountain with a still, small voice: Go and anoint. Go and find the next prophet.
When the Lord speaks, he gives us an opportunity to experience the power of Him, beyond the tangible wind, rain, earthquakes, and fire. He gives us the chance to hear His heart, to hear His voice, and for us to know His voice when He speaks.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My prayer for you:
Father, in the name of Jesus: thank you. Thank you, God, that your mercies are new every morning. Thank you, Lord God, that your compassions fail not. You know what you have for this mighty woman of God. You know what’s in store for her. You know the battles that she has been facing, the warfare that she has walked through.
You know the things that she’s overcome in her life, in her business, in her endeavors, in her desire to walk with you in her life and her career. O God, she’s been walking with you for years, O God, on her godly assignment. For that, Lord, I bless you. And I thank you, God, that in the midst of her assignment here and now, that the mighty woman of God will press into your presence and that she will hear your voice again.
That she will seek, O God, that she will knock and that she will listen so that we may experience, O God, the grace of God. Answers in difficult situations, breakthroughs in impossible situations, O God, and circumstances. It happens here when we press and when we listen for the voice of the Lord.
When we listen for your will and your way, when we listen, O God, you speak. You speak through your scriptures. You speak through your Word. You speak, O God, through prayers, through fasting. You speak, O God, and you are clear. There’s no confusion in you, God. You are clear about our next steps.
You are clear about our divine assignments. You are clear about our purpose, O God. You are clear. And so, Lord, I thank you for that clarity. I thank you for the voice of the Lord sounding clearly, O God, cutting through the confusion and all of the chaos in the earth. All the things that may be happening in her life, all of the needs, the people pulling on her, demanding of her.
O God, let your grace go forth, O God, now, that she will hear through all of it. She will hear your voice. Lord, I thank you and I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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