Since coming off all social media except for a monthly update on Facebook and YouTube, I have downloaded the morning and evening and night time prayer app from the Church Of England. Not only has regular prayer in this way reduced intrusive thoughts, but it has made the ability to hear from God much clearer.
Gods voice is unique to each of us and the way in which He speaks can differ from person to person. Without the noise of a thousand voices from social media clogging up my spiritual arteries God's still small voice has been much more profound. I dont ever want to go back to social media now I have found a way to listen to God and to hear back from Him as a result.
The noise in my head has also gone, those horrible intrusive and fearful thoughts have paled into insignificance. I always was a woman of prayer but now I have tasted true prayer and what walking with God is truly like. The noise of social media gives you a hundred or so voices all clamouring for your attention, with the ability to ruin your joy just in one persons thoughtless post.
I am not going back to that, I'm fine with this blog where my focus is needed only for a fraction of the day and helps me finely tune what I want to say without a barrage of comments from random strangers. To be free of those strangers individual judgements is also a surprising blessing. Comments on here may come but I don't have to respond whereas with social media you have to go along with your 'right to reply' to get your point across, or those laughing emojis will come out.
I recommend quitting all social media and drawing close to the Lord. The prayer app is good if like me you enjoy spoken word as much as written word. You wont regret having a clearer mind and closer relationship with God today.
The devil is pissed.
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