Settling Principles: 

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• God has much to say, if we will listen. Repeatedly He calls us to be silent. 

• God’s speech is far more valuable/profitable than what we have to say.  

• If we hear Him first, then often what we had to say becomes unnecessary.  

• Prayer is a two way conversation. Leave plenty of space for Him to speak.  

• Walk as close friends, who do not need to fill every silence with words.  

• Our enemy Satan vigorously opposes silence before God, so expect difficulty. 

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Screwtape, the senior devil in C.S. Lewis’ book, The Screwtape Letters, divulges one of the reasons the world is so polluted with noise and silence is so hard to find.   “Music and silence – how I detest them both!...no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by Noise – Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless and virile…  We will make the whole universe a noise in the end.  We have already made great strides in this direction as regards the Earth.  The melodies and silences of Heaven will be shouted down in the end.”  He fears the “listening” prayer more than any other because the possibility of hearing God is so great.    Read less . . .