i am so tired.. it's 4:24pm and i've just gotten home from school.. aah! darned extra classes! we hardly even learn anything. i can't believe i'm able to function on only 7 hours of sleep every night.

several of my friends are going through some things.. it's all a bit confusing and overwhelming when you're asked for advice. all i want to do is tell them about the love of God but i'm worried about what they might say. i know thats not what you call faith, but i can't help it. i've got issues of my own myself. i don't want to be a hypocrite either, preaching what i don't practise.

How many times have we asked for something in prayer, gotten the answer from some human source, and not even remembered we asked God. Once, in the Old Testament, God uses a donkey to speak to a prophet, because the prophet was no longer listening to God. Most of the time, the issue isn't that God isn't talking, it's that we're not listening. We ask Him and then ignore His answers…or we don't ask him at all.

We can't complain that God isn't talking if we don't want to hear Him. One of the ways we hear Him is through the Word He's already spoken, recorded in the Bible. If we're not spending time trying to receive the Word He's already recorded for us, we can't really expect Him to fill us with a bunch of new revelations. Want to hear God? Read and study His Word.

God uses lots of things to talk to us. But actually hearing from God isn't so much a matter of if he's talking, but rather, whether we're listening.