When the angel appeared to Mary and she responded with "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true," did she really know what she was agreeing to? When the angel said, "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you," was the Lord really with her? In all the trouble, in the heart-break? What about our own lives? Are trials and trouble a sign that God is not with us? Au contraire! Quite the opposite! They are there to prove the genuineness of our faith if we too are favoured by God.
Hearing God is more often than not a matter of attention. More often than not we need to have our ears unblocked to hear...
Even in the best of families there are messy situations, or people who enter a room and change an atmosphere. From God's word, Dara...
Tom Burke
