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Welcome to “When God Whispers”   I hope you are blessed by our verses, questions, and conversation about our love for Jesus. Please let us know how we can pray for you. Feel free to send us a private message or email me at the email below. We want to minister to you, and the best way we can do that is through specific prayer. If you would like to be invited to join our Facebook group, please reach out to me on Facebook. My name is Lori Welch Morgan. Friend me and let me know you want to be in our group, and I will invite you. Please feel free to email me at LoriTheDisciple@gmail.com, or call or text me at 918-344-5656 We do ask that you help us out by following a few simple requests: We want everyone to feel safe to share their thoughts in this group. We ask that if you have a different philosophy from someone else that you share your thoughts, but please do not insinuate someone else is wrong. Acceptable statements start with: What I have seen in scripture is... I feel that th

October 8, 2024 - 2 Samuel 15:13-23

October 8, 2024 - 2 Samuel 15:13-23   13  And a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.”  14  Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”  15  And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”  16  So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.  17  And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house. 18  And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.  19  Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back

October 7, 2024 - 2 Samuel 15:7-12

October 7, 2024 - 2 Samuel 15:7-12   7  And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.  8  For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the Lord.’”  9  The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went toHebro n.  10  But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”  11  With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.  12  And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.   How tricky handsome Absalom was.   The king showed him favor by allow

October 6, 2024 - 2 Samuel 15:1-6

October 6, 2024 - 2 Samuel 15:1-6   15 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.  2  And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”  3  Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”  4  Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”  5  And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.  6  Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.   Absalom was not only handsome, but showed he had some wealth.   He was such

October 5, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:25-33

October 5, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:25-33   25  Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.  26  And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.  27  There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman. 28  So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king’s presence.  29  Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.  30  Then he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.  31  Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to

October 4, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:18-24

October 4, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:18-24   18  Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”  19  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.  20  In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.” 21  Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom.”  22  And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage and blessed the king. And Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the requ

October 3, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:12-17

October 3, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:12-17   12  Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Speak.”  13  And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.  14  We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.  15  Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.  16  For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’  17  And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’

October 2, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:1-11

October 2, 2024 - 2 Samuel 14:1-11   14 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom.  2  And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.  3  Go to the king and speak thus to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4  When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, “Save me, O king.”  5  And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.  6  And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.  7  And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his broth