Speak Lord, for your servant is listening!
January 14, 2026
Dear Family of Mary!
Again today, we have an amazing reading from the Old Testament. It is about Hannah’s little boy, Samuel, who was serving in the temple under Eli. Hannah was the woman who was barren and prayed with all her heart for a child. Samuel was the child she received! And in this reading, the Lord began to speak to Samuel, but the little boy had no idea who was speaking. Here is the account:
Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20:
During the time young Samuel was minister to the Lord under Eli, a revelation of the Lord was uncommon and vision infrequent. One day Eli was asleep in his usual place. His eyes had lately grown so weak that he could not see. The lamp of God was not yet extinguished, and Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was. The Lord called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.”
Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.” “I did not call you,” Eli said. “Go back to sleep.” So he went back to sleep. Again the Lord called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said. “You called me.” But Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son. Go back to sleep.” At that time Samuel was not familiar with the Lord, because the Lord had not revealed anything to him as yet. The Lord called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am. You called me.” Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the youth. So Eli said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” When Samuel went to sleep in his place, the Lord came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, “Samuel, Samuel!” Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”
Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect. Thus all Israel from Dan to Beersheba came to know that Samuel was an accredited prophet of the Lord.
The word of the Lord.
The Lord began to speak to Samuel in his heart, but Samuel had no idea who was speaking!! It took the guidance of Eli to make it clear to Samuel that it was the Lord!
Most of us have prayed our whole life long and have not ever expected the Lord would speak to us. But I think we should expect it. In this message which Our Lady gave to Mirjana in 2016, Our Lady encourages us to listen for the voice of Jesus in our hearts. She wants us to recognize the voice of Jesus and follow Him.
Here is the message:
October 2, 2016
“Dear children, the Holy Spirit, according to the Heavenly Father, made me the mother – the mother of Jesus – and by this alone, also your mother. That is why I am coming to hear you, that I may open my motherly arms to you; to give you my heart and to call you to remain with me, because from the top of the cross my Son entrusted you to me.
Unfortunately, many of my children have not come to know the love of my Son; many of them do not want to come to know Him. Oh, my children, how much bad is done by those who must see or interpret in order to come to believe.
That is why, you, my children, my apostles, in the silence of your heart, listen to the voice of my Son, so that your heart may be His home, that it may not be dark and sad, but that it may be illuminated with the light of my Son.
Seek hope with faith, because faith is the life of the soul. Anew I am calling you: pray, pray to live faith in humility, in spiritual peace, and illuminated by the light.
My children, do not strive to comprehend everything immediately, because I also did not comprehend everything immediately; but I loved, and I believed in the divine words which my Son spoke – He who was the first light and the beginning of redemption.
Apostles of my love – you who pray, sacrifice yourselves, love and do not judge – you go and spread the truth, the words of my Son, the Gospel, because you are the living Gospel; you are the rays of the light of my Son. My Son and I will be with you to encourage you and to test you. My children, always implore the blessing of those, and only of those whose hands have been blessed by my Son, of your shepherds. Thank you.
There is so much in this message, but I believe she truly wants us to take her advice about hearing the voice of Jesus. I believe that Jesus wants to speak to us, but we just don’t listen. We are not quiet enough inside to let Him speak! And we don’t believe that He will speak to us. Personally!!
“That is why, you, my children, my apostles, in the silence of your heart, listen to the voice of my Son, so that your heart may be His home, that it may not be dark and sad, but that it may be illuminated with the light of my Son.”
May we be like Samuel, and respond to the voice of Jesus like he did, saying:
“Speak, for your servant is listening.”
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
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