Morning Whispers: Tuning into God’s Voice at Dawn

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There’s an awful lot of talk about prayer and listening for God’s voice.

Yet most of us are terrible at it. Our default is to wake up, grab our phones, and start scrolling through social media before our feet even hit the floor.

But here’s the weird truth: there’s something special about those early morning moments between sleep and full consciousness.

The veil between this realm and the other realm is thinner in the early morning.

The still, small voice of God that gives us promptings, impressions, and new thoughts is often “speaking” to us in those quiet dawn moments.

Yet most of us completely miss them. We simply ignore.

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The Voice of God in the Morning

Isaiah wrote: “The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed” (Isaiah 50:4).

Ezekiel said: “In the morning the word of the LORD came to me” (Ezekiel 12:8).

And then the Lord: “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” (Mark 1:35)

They were all onto something.

That first impression you get when you wake up? Pay attention to it.

Before your brain gets cluttered with to-do lists and work stress and whatever dumpster fire is happening on Facebook or X (the latter which I now avoid), there’s often a clear signal trying to get through.

Sometimes it’s a nudge to fix a mistake you made. Sometimes it’s a push toward something new. Maybe it’s telling you to reach out to someone or pray for a specific situation in a specific way.

But here’s how you know it’s legitimate: it always aligns with treating others the way you’d want to be treated. That’s the litmus test.

As Jesus put it, “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the Law and the prophets.”

In other words, a genuine insight or prompting from God will always involve you benefiting someone else, sometimes at your own expense. That’s the mark of authentic guidance — it’s about giving, not getting.

The problem is, we tend to ignore these morning impressions. We roll over, grab our phones, and drown out the signal with noise.

We miss the moment when our spiritual reception is clearest.

The challenge, then, is simple but not native: pay attention in those morning moments. And then – this is the important part – actually do something about what you hear.

Next Thursday, I hope to finish a series I started last year. That is, if I don’t “hear” something else one morning this week to write about.

Until next Thursday,

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