The Voice

I was in a supermarket and my mind was focusing on buying groceries. I did not have a baby all my children were teenagers and were at home. “Mummy, Mummy” the voice of a little boy screaming made me look, then my heart started beating in response to wondering what was happening to the child. When I looked at the back and saw the boy I smiled, and it dawned on me that the reason I responded to the voice was because I am a mother. Even though my children are older I related to the voice because it was a familiar voice, I had responded to such a voice when my children were younger.

John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me.”

In 1 Samuel 1:1-28 Hannah is in pursuit of being a mother who knew the voice to follow and the voice to ignore. Hannah was loved by her husband but did not have a child of her own. Peninnah provoked her and she did not eat but despite her being hurt and in bitterness, she knew there was a voice greater than the voice of the enemy so year by year she went to the house of the Lord. As she continued praying Eli saw her moving her lips, but her voice was not heard because she spoke in her heart. When you know the shepherd sometimes you do not have to scream for Him to hear your voice because He understands the voice of the heart.

In my book “The Dream!” I state that “When you know the voice of the Lord, no other voice can convince you to lose your dream. When you have perceived and possessed your dream, you will eventually follow the voice that whispers the dream that the dream giver has placed in your heart, despite the negative voices around you.”

Hannah had a dream to also have her children call her “mummy, mummy” like Peninnah or any mother who has raised children. Hannah surrendered Samuel before he was even born because she knew who owned the child and understood she would just be a steward. A mother who is wise knows the voice of the Lord who owns her children. She will go to the Lord and sometimes, like Hannah, she will only move her lips and speak from the heart so that her children will know and understand the voice of the Lord. Mothers who know the voice of the Lord know that their children need to know the voice to whisper to them when they are exposed to wrong counsel. She desires that when the voice of the world is loud that the voice that speaks life in dead situations will speak louder to her children.
As we celebrate Mother’s Day may the voice of the Lord be audible to every mother who depends on Him like Hannah.

If you know the voice like me in the shopping mall as much as I was not expecting to hear from my children, I responded to the child because the voice was familiar.

May the voice of the Lord be familiar, Happy Mother’s Day!!