A Prayer to Seek the Quiet Voice of God

A Prayer to Seek the Quiet Voice of God

From Your Daily Prayer by Your Daily Prayer

May 29, 2026 · 8 min

About this episode

Lia Girard explores the importance of seeking God's voice in quiet moments, contrasting it with the loud and spectacular.

Wind tearing mountains apart. An earthquake. A raging fire. And then — a gentle whisper. In this episode, Lia Girard draws us into one of Scripture's most stunning contrasts: the moment on Mount Horeb when God passed by the exhausted, terrified prophet Elijah and chose not to speak through the spectacular, but through the still and the soft. It's a passage that stops us in our tracks, because most of us spend our lives listening for God in the loud places — and missing Him in the quiet ones. God's voice is not always thunder. Sometimes it arrives as a hush of intuition, a steady sense of conviction, or a wordless movement from within. In a world of cortisol overload and constant noise, Lia invites us to do what Elijah did — and what Jesus Himself modeled in Luke 5:16 — and retreat to a lonely, solitary place to listen. God's whisper is not a lesser word. It carries the same power to lift, refine, and redirect as any wind, quake, or fire. And He is always speaking — sometimes we simply need to go seek Him in the quiet. Bible Verse "And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood…

People in this episode

Host: Lia Girard

Topics covered

  • listening to God
  • quietness
  • spiritual guidance
  • Elijah
  • faith
  • introspection

Keywords

  • God's voice
  • quiet prayer
  • Elijah
  • spirituality
  • introspection
  • faith
  • listening

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 1 Kings 19:12-13

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