{"id":17317,"date":"2014-01-25T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=17317"},"modified":"2014-01-25T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T05:10:01","slug":"one-hears-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/25\/one-hears-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Who Hears Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Come and hear, all you who fear God,<\/span>
\n And I will declare what He has done for my soul.<\/span>
\n I cried to Him with my mouth,<\/span>
\n And He was extolled with my tongue.<\/span>
\n If I regard iniquity in my heart,<\/span>
\n The Lord will not hear.<\/span>
\n But certainly God has heard me;<\/span>
\n He has attended to the voice of my prayer.<\/span>
\n Blessed be God,<\/span>
\n Who has not turned away my prayer,<\/span>
\n Nor His mercy from me!<\/span>
\n Psalms 66:16-20<\/span><\/p>\n

The kids are sitting in front of the tv…I call their names several times…nothing. A glaze covers their eyes.
\nI\u2019m talking to my husband…no response…I look over and find him engrossed in his computer.
\nThe lady at Walmart is blocking the aisle…she turns to the side and I see her phone to her ear…she doesn\u2019t hear the \u201cexcuse me\u2019s\u201d being directed to her.<\/p>\n

So many times during the day, there are instances of not being listened to\u2014not out of being ignored\u2014but because we, as people, find it hard to focus on more than one thing at a time and we get tunnel vision.
\nThrough all of this noise and busyness, and not being heard by so many, I know that there is One Who hears me. One Who listens to me whenever I call, and wherever I may be, and wherever I need Him. \u201cGod has heard me\u201d (verse 19). How great is it to know that with everything going on around us and all of the busyness, He hears me…and He hears you. \u201cHe has attended to the voice of my prayer\u201d and He \u201chas not turned away my prayer.\u201d We don\u2019t have to repeat ourselves, we don\u2019t have to raise our voices. He is ready to listen when we are ready to talk, and He even listens to our hearts when we can\u2019t find the words to say. So yes, \u201cBlessed be God!\u201d Blessed be the One Who listens to us when it feels as if no one else is. Blessed be the One Who hears us when we need to be heard.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0~ \u00a0* ~ \u00a0* ~ * ~ *<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Let\u2019s Pray: Thank You, Father, for being the One Who listens, for hearing our voices despite of all the noise surrounding us, for attending to our prayers and for not turning away from us when we need to be heard. In Jesus\u2019 name we pray, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come and hear, all you who fear God, And I will declare what He has done for my soul. I cried to Him with my mouth, And He was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear. But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3173,1287,425,5214,5156,3174,1075],"class_list":["post-17317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-daily-devotional","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-god-always-hears-us","tag-psalms-6616-20","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-tonya-ellison","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4vj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17319,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions\/17319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}