finally what I’ve been feeling about listening prayer. I had always wondered why I couldn’t “hear” God’s voice when I was told to do listening prayer in high school, but I still complied to sometimes (albeit VERY scarcely) to at least try on my own. But because I so failed and never ‘heard’ the voice of God, I never felt inclined to do listening prayer anyway and it was more of a struggle to keep my mind open/ not fall asleep. Now that I know that it really is SOLA SCRIPTURA that is truth truth truth, it’s freeing to know that I was not a failure (hah jk..but seriously), but that there was a reason that I felt in high school that God really spoke (and speaks) in scripture and not in an audible voice. I definitely say there is a difference to meditate on God’s word and just be still and know God as good and powerful is a thing we are called to focus on:

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.  

Philippians 4:8

focusing and meditating on scripture explaining the Gloriousness of God is certainly a glorifying pursuit.