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Dec11— Week Five: Hearing God Again

Mandi
Dec 11, 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

Exodus 4:14-16

Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and wen he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you both what to do.

Acts 9:10-18

Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias", And he said, "Here I am, Lord." And the Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight and at the house of Judas, took for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, and he has seen in a vison, a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight. But Ananias answered, "Lord I have heard from many about this man how much evil he has done to your saint at Jeruselum, And here he has authority from the cheif priests to bind all who call on your name." But the Lord said to him, "Go for he is chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Isreal. For I will sow him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name. So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came he sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight.

Reflection

God often speaks through people, not always dramatically, but through conversations, encouragement, correction, or even unexpected moments that hit deeper than they should.

Moses needed Aaron. Saul needed Ananias. You are not meant to discern everything alone.

Sometimes God uses:

a friend’s sentence
a sermon line
a stranger’s kindness
a conviction you feel during a conversation
a hard truth spoken gently

Hearing God again often includes hearing Him through the people He places in your path.

One of the clearest signs God is speaking through someone? It aligns with Scripture. It produces peace, not confusion. It draws you forward, not backward.