I went to the children’s parent’s evening at school this week. It is always revelatory! One of the sentences I found most amusing when reading through Sam’s creative writing book was about our house.

“Our house is messy. It is too small and there is lots of noise.”

Interesting…
He has a point. There is always a lot of noise, but funnily enough, much of it accompanies his presence!

Notably, quiet and silence only happen when he and his brothers are absent or asleep.

Revelation 8:1 begins with an extraordinary verse.
“When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.”

Silence in heaven??
Why would there be silence in heaven? I thought it was the place of eternal praising.

Well the answer is this. Heaven stops to listen to something. Do you know what it is? The following verses show us.
Heaven is only silent for one reason; to listen to our prayers, the prayers of the saints.

Do you feel as though you are praying and praying and seeing no change in your situation? Do you feel as though God is not giving you revelation right now? Are you desperately straining to hear from Him?

Perhaps the reason is this: that He and all of heaven are waiting to hear the sound of YOUR voice in lifted up, intentional, active and believing prayer.

They say silence is golden. Now I get why.