Pump Up The Volume (Part 3 of 3)

Pump Up The Volume

3-part series

Part 3 of 3

“And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.”

‭‭Joshua‬ ‭6:10‬

Have you ever sat and watched television and people start talking and you’re trying to watch and you can’t hear. You can see it, you can hear some noise, but you can’t really listen because you can barely hear it. Then something important comes on and someone says, “Hey! Can you turned that up?”

Yesterday we talked about turning the volume on to God so that you can hear Him in your life. 

So many of us have the volume on, but are we ready to turn it up in our lives?  For the past two years I turned the volume on, but I hadn’t turned it up, yet.

Six months ago I began praying to God that I would be in His Will. Not mine. His. 

I prayed to God and told Him I would do whatever He wanted me to, no matter what it was. I was ready. But was I?

When I turned my life over to Christ two years ago I thought my volume was up. I was reading my Bible, doing devotions, going to church, being discipled, praying and bringing God into my life every way I could. But I wasn’t listening. I definitely wasn’t hearing. It was background noise. 

I prayed to God one week that I was available. I was ready and I was making myself available for His Will. I was ready this time. Seriously. This time, this was it. 

The problem was, I really wasn’t. I was still working part time, I was still trying to grow my metal business, I was still flooded with personal emotion and physical issues. I was centering myself on me. That is unto I requested His help through prayer. 

I knew I was struggling because I was trying to make myself available to Him, through me, not Him. 

I then became available by Him and it became clear. 

Sometimes God will make some noise in our life so we can start to listen. And then when we start to listen, we aren’t really listening.  We turn up the volume so we can really hear what He is trying to tell us. 

His volume needs to be higher than everything else in our lives. His is the one voice we need to listen to through prayer, our Bibles, preaching, conversations and life. 

God will show us the way - we just have to stop trying to go our own way. 

In the passage below, God had already told Moses to go down the mount. This sharp rebuke from God shows that Moses wasn’t listening the first time. 

Are you turning the volume up yet?

“And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭19:24‬