Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
7 16 2025
The Silence is Getting Louder. Hearing from God.
1st Kings chapter 19:11-13 said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake,
but the Lord was not in the earthquake”.
The Lord shared a word this weekend, that talks about what that means. Let’s dive into it
“The silence is getting louder. Lend your ear. Signs are everywhere. Peace is a word and a direction. Courage is a word and a direction. The silence of your prayers is disheartening. Press in and be obedient. My voice is quiet, but it is shouting volumes, but you must be still and enter into my spirit. ..My presence … to hear and know what’s coming. To know my peace. Come, embrace the quiet, for I am ever present, ever guiding and directing those who love me first. I am never late, rest in the peace of my sovereignty, and walk in the confidence that comes through trusting in what can only be seen in the spirit. I am not quiet in my silence. I am forever the way maker”.
God is speaking—but not in the way the world shouts. And maybe not even in the way you once heard Him. We are trained by the culture to look for flashing signs, loud voices, and emotional highs.
But often, God is not in those. He is in the stillness. The whisper.
As a former worship leader, I recognized that silence between songs always made people uncomfortable. Have you ever felt that? But silence isn’t empty—it’s sacred. Think on those other times we embrace the quiet…the silence. A sunset or sunrise in all its glory reminds us of the beauty of God and His creations. We mark those moments, pausing to feel the peace of its beauty. But in church, in prayer, or on a quiet walk, we can find ourselves searching in the silence for direction or insight. In contrast, society constantly provides us with stimulation through continuous activity. Movies that are a constant adrenaline rush, being pulled by a boat on a tub, the rush of deadlines, and the needed creativity to pull it together…Our minds are constantly spinning, so it’s no surprise that silence can feel awkward and uncomfortable when all we know is this constant roar of duty, noise and distractions.
It’s no wonder silence feels foreign—yet, it’s in that very silence that God is waiting.
“Be still and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10
That stillness isn’t passive. It’s an active posture of listening.
“The silence is getting louder. Lend your ear. Signs are everywhere.” I have read this word 10 times searching for what he is saying… I have been writing about the signs everywhere, but the noise of life is trying to blind us and drown out the knowledge of seeing them and the urge to return to God’s word and search these signs out for myself. Have you not felt that urge? That calling to draw closer to God, but we know we can only do that in the spirit. “Peace is a direction.”
The world says follow the money, it clamors peace, peace where there is no peace. God says follow my peace. Is 30:15 says, “For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.’ But you would have none of it.”
Look again at the prophecy, “The silence of your prayers is disheartening. Press in and be obedient. My voice is quiet, but it is shouting volumes, but you must be still and enter into my spirit. ..My presence … to hear and know what’s coming. To know my peace. Come, embrace the quiet, for I am ever present, ever guiding and directing those who love me first”.
First Kings chapter 19:11-13 And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake”.
Let me give you the context: the Prophet Elijah was serving God by proclaiming His Word, even when it was not popular. There was a bounty on his head, so he fled and hid. Elijah felt alone.
He even told God that “Everyone wants to kill me and I’m alone.”
God told Elijah to go stand on the mountain. Why?
He needed to get quiet before God and edit out the noise.
He needed a personal encounter with God. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with Elijah’s theology or his walk, but at the time, something was lacking in his experience. “Behold, the LORD passed by: God brought His presence before Elijah, but first, to show where He was not”. All the noise and the distraction keep him from God’s presence and His calling. Enter into my peace, because there you will find your clarity and direction, in the stillness of my presence. God is trying to tell Elijah (and us), “I’ve got this.” Don’t worry about things you cannot control, get back to doing the good I called you to do. Elijah, get back to work. Be my disciple. Tell them about me and my word.
Tell them what these signs mean, repent and return to me.
“The silence is getting louder”. He never stops calling us. Never stops pursuing us and forever pours out his grace to draw us back to the mountain of peace and quiet. That quiet is a heightened awareness of what God has for us. Silence helps to quiet the incessant chatter of the mind and be more attuned to the “NOW of his presence, so we can hear the peace he offers is indeed a direction. Jesus was always slipping away to pray and speak to His father. He was pursuing the peace of his presence in solitude and reverence. We too need to seek the silence of his presence to discern what really matters and to grow in hearing the stillness of his voice that calms the seas.
The loudness of Silence is the call to the deeper waters of God…the door to deeper conversations and insights, to living the life he has called you to, just like he did Elijah.
Lastly, Habakkuk 2:2 “But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.”
Can’t you hear the emphasis on God’s sovereignty and holiness, urging reverence and awe in His presence? It suggests that when God speaks, His people should listen and be silent. This is not passive silence. It’s reverent. It’s expectant. It’s the kind of silence that tunes your heart to hear the next divine instruction, the next whisper of peace, or the courage to keep going. I think, when the silence “gets louder,” it implies that the spiritual dimensions of our existence are becoming more prominent …the scales are falling off. I think it means that we have surrendered more of the adrenaline of our days… for the peace of His presence, and the direction that he always reveals there.
It’s not absence—it’s awareness. So when the silence gets louder, don’t resist it.
Embrace it.
Enter into it.
Because it just may be the very mountain where God speaks your next calling.
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