(August 14, 2024) Norman and Margaret Moss share another precious meditation…

Through the years we’ve been blessed with good hearing.

Recently I (Norman) have noticed that my friends have a tendency to mutter and this led me to experiment with a redundant hearing aid belonging to someone else. I was surprised to find that wearing this device attracted a number of song birds to sing beautifully outside my window. 

I recalled the old story of the elderly lady who had just been fitted with a hearing aid. She returned to report to the audiologist.

‘Are you finding it helpful?’ she was asked.

‘Oh yes!’ she reported happily ‘I’ve changed my will three times already.’ 

I hope that this is a joke story, and I certainly have no sinister intentions about my will,  but I think the birds are calling me to do something about my hearing.

Good Timely Words
We were meditating on Proverbs 15:23, ‘A man finds joy in giving an apt reply — and how good is a timely word!’

And we felt the Lord was saying:
‘As you wait on me and listen to me throughout the day so I will speak in your inner ear. I will give you joy in your conversations and I will cause you to bless people in your speech.

‘So come close to me and listen and speak as I give you what to say and I will bless you in your saying. For in speaking my people should bring joy and a lifting up of the downcast. So watch your words and listen for my voice and follow me in this.

‘For words can bring life and death and I would have my people bring life in all its fullness and joy. Seek to make connection between my Holy Spirit within you and the person to whom you are speaking. For the appropriate word for one person is not necessarily the word for someone else.

‘If your heart is truly a kind, loving, and unselfish heart, then good words will come from your lips. Silence itself can be the best word for some situations, but a silence that is an outpouring of love and concern, not a dead silence of incomprehension.

‘Ask me for prophetic words and believe that they will be given to you, learn to listen and then to speak. For I am with you and I will and do bless you. Do not be afraid.’ 

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Norman and Margaret Moss – Link: charlesnmoss@gmail.com – pastored Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Wimbledon for over 30 years, experiencing charismatic renewal since the 1960s. Desiring still to encourage ministers, churches and groups hungry for more of the Holy Spirit, although ‘retired’ they preach and teach by Zoom, and contribute to Dr. Ayodele Afuye’s Vessels of Virtues Fire Ministries. They recommend Vessels of Virtues’ YouTube weekly presentations.
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