Listen!

By Betty Sue Eilers

Will the voices clamor around you, Drowning out the whisper of Mine? Will you hearken to My voice, To listen all the time? Do you feel overwhelmed by the cares of everyday life? Author, mother and grandmother Betty Sue Eilers has learned to listen to the voice of God, and to lay down the burdens she was not meant to carry. The heavenly Father has an endless supply of comfort and encouragement to refresh His children during times of uncertainty, if we will spend time in His presence and listen to His voice. Don’t let the burdens of life get you down. God will fulfill every promise. This collection of poems straight from the Father’s heart will inspire you to spend time with God each day. Be free to cast your cares upon Him, rest in His presence, and Listen!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Creation House
• Release date: Jul 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781616389345

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BETTY SUE EILERS

LISTEN! by Betty Sue Eilers

Published by Creation House

A Charisma Media Company

600 Rinehart Road

Lake Mary, Florida 32746

www.charismamedia.com

This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy

Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984.

International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from the New King James

Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas

Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

Design Director: Bill Johnson

Cover design by Nancy Panaccione, texture by Caleb Kimbrough of Lost and Taken, and book title hand drawn by Leanne Thomas

Photographs courtesy of Photo Ranch

Copyright © 2012 by Betty Sue Eilers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 2012931524

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61638-933-8

E-book International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61638-934-5

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ASPECIAL THANK YOU and I love you to my dear husband, Lowell, who has stood by me and consistently encouraged me in my journey; my children and grandchildren, Brian and Christy, and Hunter, Fischer, and Trapper Poston; Jeremy and Sarah and Madelene, Raymond, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Alissa Eilers; and Justin and Julie, Emily, Annabelle, and Dennis Dail Eilers; my own sisters, Denise Gabel, Charlene Jett, Iva Lou Dunn and Delores Currier, and Judy McGuire; my church family at New Covenant Church, and friends Lucille Blasdel, Joyce Hunter, Vicki Kee, Carolyn Smith, and many others who have encouraged me to share what God has given me!

I also owe a debt of gratitude to my dear friend Ova Jean Siemens, who provided financial backing for the publishing of this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

IAM A RETIRED public school teacher who is happily married to my husband, Lowell, and we have three wonderful children who also have three great spouses; Christy, her husband Brian Poston; Jeremy, his wife, Sarah; and Justin, and his wife Julie. In August of 1997 I began a journey of dramatically increased prayer time. My goal was to pray at least an hour in the Spirit in the early morning hours before my day began. I served as a teacher in another community in the public school system about twenty-six miles away. The motivation for this increased prayer time was the terrific concern I felt for Christy, Brian, and their little son, Hunter, who was not quite two years old that August. I knew that they needed tremendous help from heaven to accomplish what they had undertaken.

Christy had been accepted into the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center’s physical therapy program, which was for her a dream come true. Brian postponed his college degree to work while she went through the program. They were moving away from family and friends to the city where Brian found a job that involved working weekends and evenings. While discussing this with a neighbor, I voiced my concerns for them, including the fact that I couldn’t see how Christy could study, and how I could help with them a two and one-half hour drive away. My neighbor said, You’ll just have to keep her little boy on weekends. So that is exactly what we did! We met midway on Friday evening as early as we could to pick up Hunter, and we met again on Sunday evening to return him to his parents. My husband and I did this for nearly two and one-half years.

But that wasn’t all! Soon after Christy’s enrollment that fall, she discovered that she was pregnant again and when the new baby, Fischer, was four months old, we began taking both the boys for weekends so she could study. I can tell you now that the hour I spent praying and communing with God was so vital to my physical and spiritual health that we simply could not have done what we did without the help and strength that we received from our heavenly Father. On weekends, our sons, Jeremy and Justin, also helped when they were home.

After consistently praying each day in this manner for about a year, I began to receive wonderful words of encouragement, comfort, edification, and instruction by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Because they were so unusual, anointed, and in rhyme, I faithfully wrote them down. One