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Dec08— Week Five: Hearing God Again

Mandi
Dec 8, 2025
3 min read

Learning to recognize God’s voice after seasons of silence, doubt, and spiritual exhaustion.

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Introduction

Healing is often talked about in terms of food, supplements, routines, and protocols. Those things matter. But they are not the whole story.

Chronic illness affects more than the body. It affects confidence, identity, hope, and faith. It changes how we see ourselves and how we relate to God.

For many of us, the hardest part of healing isn’t what we eat, it’s learning how to keep trusting when our bodies don’t cooperate. It’s learning how to stay hopeful when progress feels slow. It’s learning how to feel safe in a body that has scared us.

That is why these devotionals exist.

Daily Bread is a space to check in with your spirit — not just your symptoms. It is a place to remind yourself that God is near, that you are not alone in what you’re walking through, and that healing is not something you have to force.

This Week’s Focus: Hearing God Again

There are seasons where God feels silent, not absent, but quiet in a way that leaves you unsure if you’re being guided at all. But eventually, something shifts. Not loudly. Not dramatically. It begins with a nudge, a reminder, a moment of clarity, a verse that hits differently, a peace that wasn’t there before.

This week is about those moments. The ones where you begin to sense God’s voice again after a season of uncertainty. Hearing God again isn’t always about receiving instructions or dramatic revelation. Often, it’s about becoming sensitive to His presence in the middle of ordinary life, in Scripture, in conviction, in peace, in doors closing, in doors opening, in the quiet assurance that you are being led even if the path still feels unfamiliar.

Hearing God again is not about perfection. It’s about awareness. Softening. Turning your ear toward Him with expectancy rather than fear, because even when His voice feels faint, He is still speaking, and you are still His.

Today's Scripture

1 Samuel 3:1-10

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli, And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. At that time, Eli, whose eyesight had begyn to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel and he said, " Here i am!" and ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me. But he said, "I did not call, my son, lie down again." Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time, And he rose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am for you called me." Then Eli perceived that the Lord was calling the boy. Therefore, Eli said to Samuel, "Go lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, 'Speak Lord, for your servant hears'" So Samuel went and lay own in his place. And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel! And Samuel said "speak for your servant hears."

John 10:27

My sheep, hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Reflection

Samuel didn’t grow up in a spiritually vibrant environment. Scripture says “the word of the Lord was rare” in those days. That means silence wasn’t just his experience, it was the entire nation’s reality.

But when God finally spoke, Samuel didn’t recognize His voice at first. He mistook it for something familiar. That’s how it often works when you come out of a spiritually quiet season. God’s voice doesn’t always feel dramatic or obvious. Sometimes it feels like a thought you second-guess, a nudge you almost ignore, a conviction you can’t shake, or peace where there used to be anxiety.

John 10:27 reminds us that hearing God is not about spiritual performance, it’s about relationship.

Sheep know their shepherd’s voice because they’ve walked with him, not because they’re perfect at discernment.

If you’ve been through a season where God felt silent, don’t be surprised if hearing Him again feels subtle. He often reintroduces His voice gently, not to overwhelm you, but to rebuild your confidence in recognizing Him.