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  <strong>Does God hear when we grumble about the weather?</strong><br />
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&quot;The Lord hears your <em>murmurings </em>which you <em>murmur against Him!&quot;</em> Exodus 16:8<br />
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This is startling! Does God really hear every discontented word we speak? <br />
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<strong>Does God hear when we grumble about the weather</strong>, about the hard winter, about the late spring, about the dry summer, about the wet harvest, about the high winds, about the storms?<br />
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Does God hear when we complain about our circumstances, about the hardness of our lot, about our losses and disappointments?<br />
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If we could get into our hearts and keep there continually, the consciousness that<strong> every word we speak </strong>is heard in heaven, and falls upon God's ears before it falls upon any other ear — <em>would we murmur as we now do?</em><br />
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&quot;The Lord hears your <em>murmurings </em>which you <em>murmur against Him!&quot;</em> Exodus 16:8<br />
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&quot;And I tell you this, that you must give an account on judgment day of every idle word you speak!&quot; Matthew 12:36