White Noise

The Sovereign Lord says: “Do not allow yourself to lose focus and become distracted by the noise around you. Stop listening to white noise, for it blocks out my voice! When you focus on the noise around you can end up following something else you have heard or seen that is not from me.

Such a focus weakens your spiritual attention and your ability to connect with Holy Spirit will grow patchy. Do not allow the white noise to cause your mission to be blurred, your effectiveness as my prophet to be compromised, or your growth towards fullness to be stunted.

Don’t even consider listening to whispers which question your calling because you have become codependent on such seductive intrusions. Trust in such constant commotion is misplaced. Since when did you set aside my still small voice of revelation?” says the Lord.

“As I spoke through the voice of the prophet Malachi, I say to you: ‘Return to me and I will return to you’. Cast aside worthless messages which the world so loves and which the enemy is so eager to have you consume. Tune them out and tune back into the sound of my voice. I have so much to tell you – but I need you to listen.”

Activation: As Jesus would withdraw to a solitary place to be with His Father, set aside some time in the day to be alone in a quiet environment with God. Use scripture like noise-cancelling headphones – listen to an audio translation rather than turning on background noise. Or repeat a favourite Bible verse over and over in your head or under your breath to gain the focus you need to move into a place where you can reconnect with the Lord and quiet the other voices that seek to pull you away.

Turn off all devices. Come just as you are before the Lord – without any agenda or need for blessing or help or support. In stillness, turn off the white noise. And listen…

Malachi 3:7 (ESV)

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Proverbs 4:20-22 (NIV)

My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.

Mark 4:18-20 (ESV)

Others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.