When God Hears — E.A. Johnston

We are in a series of messages on faith friends and our lesson today is entitled when God hears. We must ask ourselves. Do we really believe in a living Lord who is vitally interested and Involved in our lives.

God Hears the Prayers of His People

Does the creator of the universe take a active interest in our lives on a daily basis. Does Almighty God actually hear our petitions and prayers that we send up to him? Do we really believe he does. I believe he does friends and I can find a text to prove that God hears us when we pray to him and speak to him.

Psalm 40 and God’s Inclination Toward Our Cry

My Bible declares in Psalm 40. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. Here David is in adversity and he needs deliverance from his trouble and the imagery used in this verse is striking.

The God Who Leans Down to Listen

When David says he inclined unto me. This is a picture of God on his throne and he leans over to hear our cry. And if I may so say he cups his hand to his ear to listen to what we have to say. It's a vivid imagery of a God high and lifted up who is interested in the most minute requests of man.

Remembering God’s Faithfulness in Personal Trials

I'm sure friend. If you look back on your own life with Jesus You can point to numerous occasions where you felt God heard your cry. This has been a reality in my own life time and time again. My mind goes back to many years ago.

A Writer’s Unused Gift and a Prayer for Direction

I was driving home from my office and I was sad because I knew that God had gifted me as a writer. But I wasn't given an opportunity to use that gift. I had written several secular books in the past that never found a publisher.

All I ever received were Rejection slips in the mail with the return type manuscript now. This was in the days of typewriters. Some of you have never even seen the typewriter. I had a Manual royal typewriter that I pounded out my written works on.

Some of you older Saints will even recall what onion paper was. Anyhow, I was now a Christian and I was driving home thinking about my Unused gift as a pen man. And as I drove I began to pray and let God know my feelings on the matter.

Told him Lord, you gave me a talent and I haven't been able to use it. Oh, why why won't you use my talent? And I began to cry. And as I drove through my tears, I knew deep down that God had heard me.

That weekend I was in my church bookstore and I asked the lady clerk if there was a biography on Chase it'll Baxter. She answered. Sadly. No. Perhaps someday someone will write one. I went home and I told that to my wife.

I said, can you believe there's no biography on syllable Baxter? He sold millions of Christian books. He's known all over the world. My wife looked at me and said you used to write. Why don't you write it and I laughed at such an incredible remark?

God used those remarks of the clerk in the store and my wife's remarks and he put it in my heart to write syllable Baxter's biography. In less than a month's time. I was flying out to Santa Barbara, California.

To meet with J. Sidlow Baxter's widow who had just given me written permission to write her husband's authorized biography. Everything fell quickly in the place. Adrian Rogers wrote the foreword Stephen Oldford wrote the preface and Baker books sent me a publishing contract as I drove down the street that particular afternoon with Tears streaming down my face and my heart poured out to God in prayer.

God’s Timing and the Purpose of His Gifts

About why he hadn't used my gift as a writer. Little did I know what I know now. For by his grace, I am the author of 18 published Christian books when God hears You can believe friends that he is up to something that will result in the good of his kingdom and his glory.

Let us pray.