Notes of Faith November 25, 2025

The World’s Quietest Room

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.

Hebrews 11:30

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

Rearrange the letters of the word silent and you get the word listen. Being still takes discipline. We must quiet our minds to focus on God and truly listen to Him. He will speak to us through His Spirit, through His written Word and through quiet reflection on who He is and what He desires for our lives each day. May you be able to find such a still and quiet place today and hear God speak clearly to you!

Pastor Dale