Who do you listen to….who do you take advice from….who is the person that when they say something to you, you take pause and listen, even if you don't initially agree with what they are saying???? Do you listen to anyone, do you listen to only people that tell you what you want to hear?
Amos 3: 7 Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
Recently I have had a sense about a situation in a persons life and I could tell they just would not listen to what I had to say. Now don't get me wrong I'm not upset if they don't agree with me! What I am upset about is, if they just totally disregard what I have said and maybe miss out on what the Lord is doing for them! I am convinced that the Lord always warns us about things in our life. The key is to listen. I am speaking to myself as much as I am speaking to anyone else.
In the last year I have been praying this passage out of Job over a person
Job 33:12-18…..
12 “But I tell you, in this you are not right,
for God is greater than any mortal.
13 Why do you complain to him
that he responds to no one’s words[a]?
14 For God does speak—now one way, now another—
though no one perceives it.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they slumber in their beds,
16 he may speak in their ears
and terrify them with warnings,
17 to turn them from wrongdoing
and keep them from pride,
18 to preserve them from the pit,
their lives from perishing by the sword.[b]
and guess what God gave me a dream last week that scared the devil out of me….and it was a warning to me…about me ….and for me….do I like it NO! But I will when I obey the Lord because he is saving me from something bad to bring me to something far better…
Well tonight Lord I'm listening….thank you for the people that you have put into my life to help guide me….thank you for the Holy Spirit that leads me into all truth…I know that I have to get better at listening and even better at not replying….Because you can't listen if your talking.
If you took the time to read this, I pray that God puts wise people around you and that he gives you EARS to HEAR! I'm going to start pursuing LISTENING like my dog Mia Angeline pursued a steak bone…she was pretty intense over a good bone!
Isaiah 49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
He knows your name and he knows what's best for you….come into agreement with him!
Acts 28:27 For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hearwith their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.
Love and prayers
Cathy
