Even if our mouths are not speaking, we are not good at listening.

• There is too much noise inside our heads, thoughts running rampant.

• There is too much external noise, incessant chatter, blocking our ears.

• Silence makes us uncomfortable. Waiting is not a popular discipline.

• I’ve too high an opinion of my “sayings”, too low an opinion of other’s.

As to listening for God’s voice

• We must know His language—the more fluent, the more we hear.

• Our hunger to hear Him must cause us to strain with alertness.

• We must silence other voices, meaning we recognize the difference.

• Our imagination, part of the image of Creator God, must be used.