Dec10— Week Five: Hearing God Again

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

Isaiah 55:12

For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Colossians 3:15

And he let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, And be thankful.

Reflection

God’s voice doesn’t only come through words or feelings, sometimes He leads through peace. Not the emotional high kind, but the quiet, steady, grounded peace that stays even when circumstances don’t change.

Isaiah says God leads with peace. Paul says peace should “rule”, meaning peace becomes the deciding factor. When you’re hearing God again, decisions feel less frantic. You stop obsessing. You stop spiraling. You feel settled in your spirit, even if the situation isn’t perfect.

One clear sign that God is speaking is this:

• Fear quiets down.

• Clarity rises.

• Peace becomes louder than anxiety.

  
  

This doesn’t mean life becomes easy. It means you’re no longer led by inner chaos.

If peace is returning to you, slowly, subtly, you’re hearing God again.

If This Spoke to You

Reply/comment below and tell me which part you’re waiting on right now. I’d love to pray specifically over you this week.

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Wishing you a Great Day Ahead,

Mandi 🤍