listening...

I was asking my colleagues this week if they knew of any rain song that I could use for my story telling presentation this Friday. The first page was an old lady walking home in the rain. So I thought it would be nice to sing a song at the start. Almost everyone gave me the all time favourite childhood rain song, "Rain, rain go away". I wanted something more musical and less commonly sang.
This morning, I woke up with a melody in my heart..."Rain drops on roses..."
Wow :) There's the word rain in the song! Haha..It's from the musical Sound of Music I watched many times when I was a child. I did a search on the full lyrics and it fitted perfectly well with the idea I had in mind.
I just felt that I should write a post on listening to His voice. This whole week I've been thinking of ways to do my storytelling. And i'm amazed at how the Lord has pop up ideas I would never have come out with myself. I realised how much there is to storytelling and how much i've grew to like it. Thanks to my lecturer who has made it so interesting for us that it makes me want to buy up all the cd's and book and tell them to my kids =) amazingly, my boss is sending me for an international storytelling workshop that many have commented to be very good next Saturday. How timely.
Another time was when I had this thought of having an email account for the teachers. Something really rare in pre-school field. The next week, we were told about the change. We were all given a personal email account to apply for our leave and every other matter. That's when I realised there are over 500 staff! How advance it has become. I really like the idea of it as I know Childhood Education will not remain as it is now and will be a field that is internationally recognized and well paid as well! =D
The thoughts or ideas that we have is His way of speaking to us too. You may ask, then how do I know if it's from the Lord or our flesh. You'll know it when the Father speaks. There's no rule to it :) In the area of asking Him for wisdom in a situation, you'll realised that when you obey His voice, there'll be a feeling of joy and peace in that situation.
I ask the Lord for a right book to read just before I wrote this so that it'll tie in with what I wrote and He always never fail to give an answer. Here's a little excerpt from "Just Like Jesus" by Max Lucado :
"Scripture has always placed a premium on hearing God's voice. Indeed, the great command from God through Moses began with the words, "Hear, O Israel : the Lord our God is one Lord". "Happy are those who listen to me" is the promise of Proverbs 8:34. Jesus urges us to listen like sheep...."He who has ear, let him hear what the Spirit says..."
The Lord showed me this when I asked Him something a few days back. Why was the thing you once showed me and I was sure that it came from you, became uncertain anymore. And the answer was because I started to reason.
The answer to many of our problems lies in not talking and hearing from Him. Stop asking what should I do, what if this happens, when or how...but just be still and hear what He has to say. Your father's voice is not too hard to hear and when he speaks, listen and not doubt :)