If you want peace and quiet, you might visit the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota. It’s designed to be silent—so silent that background noise is measured in negative decibels below the threshold of human hearing. It’s one of the quietest rooms in the world, and visitors report it’s so still they can hear the sound of blood pumping in their heads or passing through their veins.

We all need a reasonable facsimile of that room in our lives. Our world is loud and noisy, and it’s difficult to find stillness. Can you imagine what it was like for Joshua and the people of Israel to march around the walls of Jericho for six days in utter silence? But God was teaching them, and being alone with God in the quiet is important.

Make time today to go somewhere quiet with no distractions. Be still and know that He is God. As you do so, the Lord will enable you to encircle your problems in prayer like the Israelites did to Jericho.

When you are praying, let there be intervals of silence, reverent stillness of soul, in which you yield yourself to God, in case He may have aught He wishes to teach you.
Andrew Murray