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A Liturgy for When it Feels Like God is Silent

Giovanna Bovero
Giovanna Bovero
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Father, I long for your voice.

 

When I fail to hear You, help me remember that Your Word is Your breath on a page. 

Through meditating on these stories of old,

help me rejoice over how You spoke to the

unexpected,

unkept,

unworthy,

and unloved.

May I hold onto hope that you are still speaking.

 

God, remind me of the power of Your voice. 

Help me to remember how You

set free captives,

healed the hurting,

and brought people from death to life.

 

In Your Word,

we read of creation in the existence of light, the separation of skies and waters, and humanity’s form from dust.

In Your Word,

we heard of the freedom in the Israelites’ leaving bondage and slavery. 

In Your Word,

we witnessed the promises of generations coming to pass through the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

 

Whether through the rumble of a thunderous storm or the quiet and most gentlest of whispers, your voice reckons. Disrupts. Changes.

 

Jesus, you said that if we ask, it will be given to us.

If we seek, we will find,

If we knock, the door will be opened.

So, God, I am asking to hear You.

God, I am seeking Your voice.

God, I am knocking.

 

In your silence, may I remember you are never silent. 

 

Help me listen closely for

Your still, small voice in Scripture,

in the sound of You in the rustling of trees,

Or in the echo of Your declarations in the mountains and the valleys.

 

Empower me to continue seeking Your voice all the days of my life and grant me the patience that comes with pursuing relationship with You wholeheartedly.

Scripture References

3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
8So the
Lord
brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders.
19Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
7
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
8
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
12After the earthquake came a fire, but the
Lord
was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
13When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”


Giovanna Bovero
Giovanna Bovero
Giovanna Bovero is the Coordinating Editor for Passion Equip. She graduated from the University of Central Florida and has a bachelor's degree in Communications. Giovanna has served at Passion City Church since 2019 and faithfully leads a young adult family group on Tuesday nights. She loves reading books, spending time with friends, and discovering new coffee shops.