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Greetings to you my dear friend. I hope you are very very well. You and your family.

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And all of this by the sustaining grace of God. We serve a God who is merciful, loving,

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forgiving, long suffering, kind. He's all of these things and much, much more.

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But he's also a talkative God. There are friends we have who are very talkative and we avoid them.

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You may be surprised to learn God is a talkative God. In Genesis 1 verse 1, the Bible says,

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in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And that chapter proceeds to tell us how he did it.

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And God said, and God said, God is a talkative God. The universe is sustained by the word of God.

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God is a talkative God. Jesus Christ who represented the Father on the earth. He healed by His word.

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By His word He cast out demons, by His word. He opened the eyes of the blind. The Son Jesus Christ is a talkative Savior.

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Because it is through the word of God that God does everything that He does.

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I have said that to bring this point to your attention. I have often heard people say,

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God is silent in my life. My listening friend, God cannot be silent.

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Because if God goes silent, it means he isn't speaking. And it is by the word He makes and sustains,

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God cannot be silent. What that person probably means without knowing it is that I cannot hear the word of God.

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And not that God is silent, but God speaks most loudly through His word. Genesis to Revelation.

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Let me say that again. God speaks to us. Genesis to Revelation.

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So if your Bible is eternally closed on the shelf in your house, how then can you expect to hear the word of God?

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He speaks through His word. God is not silent. We need to go to the word in faith, child-like faith.

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And in the study and obedience to God's word, God will speak to us.

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As we contemplate and as we actually keep the Sabbath holy, the Sabbath is a reminder that creation was done by the word of God.

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Consequently, the Sabbath reminds us we serve a God who loves to talk. He loves to speak because everything He does, He does through His word.

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God is not silent in your life, my friend, in the sense that he does not speak. He may be silent in the sense you do not hear the word of God.

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You do not go to the source where God's voice is heard, where it echoes and re-echoes in His word.

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As you keep the Sabbath holy, I urge you to go to the creative word. Genesis to Revelation represent the creative word of God.

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Go to the creative word, study it and as you read, say to God, speak to me. He will speak to you through His word, because the creator who created by His word is a talkative God.

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May the Lord bless you, my dear friend, as you hear the voice of God, in the word of God. May the Lord bless you as you keep His Sabbath holy, a Sabbath that commemorates creation brought about by the word of God.

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Happy Sabbath and God bless you.