Do you like voicemails? Truthfully, I am not a huge fan of getting voicemails, however, I know that sometimes it makes it easy for the caller.
How easy is it to let calls "go to voicemail," telling ourselves we'll deal with it later? I can't tell you how many times I have heard people say, "I'll just let voicemail take this call.....I don't have time to talk to them right now." 👀 👀 👀
The truth is......there are Many times that I don't even have my phone ringer turned on, which means that calls will automatically go to my voicemail. I will admit....I sometimes just delete them and never even check them out....especially if I don't recognize the caller's number.
What about God's call? He speaks to us and I wonder how many times we just let HIS call go to our voicemail.....(Not literally to voicemail) How often are we distracted and not really listening to His call. I'm guilty!! I am!!
The other night, I woke up around 2:45.... for No reason at all. A few things came to my mind and I knew that it was God placing a need before me. I did begin to pray, but the next thing I knew, it was 6:30 in the morning. I had put this "God call" on hold. I FELL ASLEEP!
Did I miss the opportunity to pray for someone? Did my laziness delay a Blessing meant for others? I certainly hope not. Sometimes God calls us to stand in the gap for others and HE expects us to be obedient.
I am thankful that HE does not stop calling me.
"First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayer, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people."
1 Timothy 2:1
This post reminds me of a song I love to hear...
"Jesus on the Main line, tell Him what you want."
Shug.....📞
looks like your first comment of the day is spam. not me the other one. ha ha.. I don't take calls on my cell phone, except for places like docs that insist on calling. friends and family know not to call the cell. I can't hear people on the cell unless its on speaker, I don't answer calls on landline or cell unless I know the caller. I barely know how to check my email and once a doctor called it and when I did not call back, called the other number. I did no know she left a VM until a month later when I found it..
ReplyDeleteI do have a phone that when they leave a message I can hear it in all 3 rooms and decide to pick up or not pick up. I never let someone I know go to voicemail
I often let calls go to voicemail if I don't know who it is. It seems those are often spam calls. I do check my voicemail though and keep it cleaned out.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked in the Dr office we were very thankful for voicemail, because it's so frustrating to be calling someone about results and not have them answer over and over again! :)
I love this post because you did it in such a clever way, and yet it is so thought provoking. I have had those nights, like you, where I wake up for no seemingly apparent reason, but I try to stop and ask, "Lord, who is it that needs prayer?" I found, after having our daughter, son-in-law and grandson on the mission field, and the times that He awakened me to pray for them and then later finding out what was going on in their lives at that exact time, that those are divine appointments and definitely worth my obedience to His call. Hugs to you, my friend.
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