05 - Friendship and Listening

Throughout Scripture, the people who knew God best were not always the ones who talked the most in prayer — they were often the ones who learned to sit quietly and let God speak first.

Samuel, as a boy, had to be taught how to respond to God’s voice: “Speak, for your servant hears” (1 Samuel 3:9–10).

And David, after receiving a staggering promise from God through the prophet Nathan, did something remarkable: he did not immediately respond with a list of requests. “Then King David went in and sat before the Lord” (2 Samuel 7:18, AMPC). He sat in awe and wonder, letting the weight of who God is settle over him, before he ever opened his mouth to ask for anything.