(And Why the Stillness Is Actually Surround-Sound)
“We met at a Lagos bus stop.
Seven years later we met our daughter in a delivery room.
Between those two stops, God said nothing—and everything.”
— Lady K, 15-year marriage veteran
1. The Mute Button That Broke Our Hearts—Then Rebuilt Them
Most people think waiting is passive.
God thinks waiting is construction noise wearing silence as a mask.
- Year 1: Excitement—“We’ll be pregnant by Christmas!”
- Year 3: Theology—“Maybe we’re being tested.”
- Year 5: Silence—“Hello? Heaven, this is long-distance. Do you copy?”
- Year 7: Resignation—“Let’s just adopt the cat from next door and call it a day.”
Then the pregnancy test turned positive on a random Tuesday when we’d stopped staging Instagram announcements.
Plot twist: The miracle wasn’t the baby.
The miracle was who we became during the mute season.
2. Science Says Silence Can Kill; Scripture Says It Can Heal
Neuroscience shows that unanswered anticipation floods the brain with cortisol, the same chemical released during torture.
Yet the Bible brags about a God who “will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him”—while He says nothing.
3. Three Lies You Believe When Heaven Goes Quiet
Conclusion:
Peace is not the absence of noise;
it is the presence of Person even when the Person is mute.
| Lie | Truth |
|---|---|
| “I’ve been forgotten.” | Silence is often evidence of deep memory, not amnesia. A wine left alone in a dark cellar is not abandoned—it’s being aged. |
| “My timing is better.” | Timing is God’s signature miracle. He arrives precisely late enough that only He can get the credit. |
| “More faith = faster answer.” | Faith is not currency to bribe God; it is currency to buy stability while He finishes the backstage work. |
4. The Night We Almost Divorced the Prayer—But Stayed Married
Mr. G walked into the bedroom and found Lady K ugly-crying into a pillow embroidered “Joy comes in the morning.”
“Baby, what is it again?” he sighed.
The word “again” felt like sandpaper on her soul.
He walked out.
Then he walked back in—tears in his eyes, voice cracking:
“If you keep breaking, you’re breaking us.
I want this baby more than you do, but I also want you when the baby never comes.”
That night they didn’t pray for a child.
They prayed for oneness.
Something shifted.
Nine months later something else shifted—a heartbeat on a sonogram.
Coincidence?
Ask the calendar: 7 years + 9 months = the gestation of a marriage + the gestation of a miracle.
5. The Sound of Mute: A 30-Day Challenge That Will Ruin You (In a Good Way)
Rules:
- Pick one unanswered prayer.
- For 30 days, do not ask for it again.
- Instead, ask to see the Requester (God), not the request.
- Keep a “Silence Journal”:
- Day 1: “I feel abandoned.”
- Day 14: “I feel addressed—just not answered.”
- Day 30: “I want Him more than I want it.”
Warning: This challenge has 100 % side effects:
- Old idols will die.
- New patience will ache.
- You may stop measuring God by His outputs and start measuring Him by His proximity.
6. The Microphone Is Reversed—He’s Waiting for Your Silence
We think prayer is talking until God caves.
Scripture whispers prayer is listening until we cave.
“Be still and know…”
Stillness first, knowledge second.
Silence is the only soil deep enough to grow a miracle that can’t be explained away.
7. What Happens After the Mute Button Clicks Off?
Spoiler alert: You’ll miss the silence.
Because in the silence, every small act of obedience felt like a sonogram:
- Choosing not to snap at your spouse = a heartbeat.
- Budgeting for tithe while IVF bills pile up = a kick.
- Worshipping at 2 a.m. when the pregnancy test is negative again = full-term faith.
When the real cry of a newborn finally filled their house, the Aanos cried louder—not for the baby, but for **every night they thought heaven was empty and later realized it was crowded with angels holding construction blueprints.
Epilogue: Your Prayer Is Not on Hold—It’s on Mute
Hold music loops, annoys, then disconnects.
Mute records, refines, re-mixes—and when the volume finally rises, you won’t just hear an answer, you’ll hear a symphony of who you became while God refused to shout.
Question That Will Haunt You (In the Best Way)
If God never speaks the word you’re dying to hear, will you still bless the silence—or will you divorce the process and miss the person He was sculpting inside the quiet?
Drop your answer in the comments.
Then share this with the one person who’s stopped praying because it feels like heaven hung up.
Let them know:
Mute is not rejection—it is the womb where faith learns to breathe before it ever sees daylight.