Thursday’s Thought

      A Mid-Week Inspirational Message

    © 2003-2009 Ron Adams

COMMUNICATION

The life blood of a relationship.

     Most of us have experienced a problem with connections on the phone. Sometimes it may be that we can hear the other person but they can't hear us, or maybe we can't hear them. Unless there is a speaker and a listener there is no communication.

     Communication is important in relationships such as marriage, family, with brethren, and with God. Each person needs to be a good listener as well as good communicator. Both are necessary. (Experience seems to indicate that being a good listener is the harder of the two: "... my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak ..." James 1:19.)

     Communication is important in our relationship with God. We speak to God through prayer. He speaks to us through His Word. These avenues of communication need to be kept open and used frequently.

SPEAKING TO HIM

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have

the petitions that we have asked of Him.

1 John 5:14-15

Pray without ceasing.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

 LISTENING TO HIM

"He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Matthew 11:15

 "This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!"

Mark 9:7

     Be a good listener as well as a good speaker. God has promised to hear our prayers and we need to be willing to hear Him. We expect Him to answer our prayers; He expects us to heed His words. We need to be doers, not just listeners.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who

built his house on the rock."

Matthew 7:24

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers

who delude themselves.

James 1:22

Be a good communicator with others, with brethren, and with God!

Remember communication is the life blood of a relationship.

Quotations from NASB