To HEAR with the HEART is essential.
Most people do not hear with the heart.
They read and do not understand what they read.
They hear teachers, preachers and singers proclaim life changing truths but they are never transformed.
People attend good churches with good preachers, but they do away without hearing from God or hearing all that God wants them to hear, because they do not listen with their hearts.
God gave us ears with which to hear, yet most people still do not hear. Jesus is recorded several times as saying...
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Mt. 11:15, 13:43; Mk. 4:9, 23, 7:16; Lk. 8:8; Re. 2:7, 11, 17, 29, 3:6, 13, 22).
Listen to the preacher with the heart. Expect to be enlightened; blessed; and changed from glory to glory (2 Co. 3:18), taken from faith to faith (Ro. 1:17), increasing from strength to strength (Ps. 84:7) and moving from grace to grace (Jn. 1:16).
Listen to the preacher/pastor as an angel/messenger sent from God with a message for you (Re. 1:20). The preacher is God called, God equipped, God anointed. The preacher may be altogether unremarkable in himself, but he is the vessel of God's message to you.
To neglect or disrespect God's preacher is to cut off God's messenger. To cut off God's messenger is to cut off God's message. To cut off God's message is to cut off God.
Read the Scriptures with expectation and listen to the messenger with an eager, hungry, thirsty heart.
Don't allow the meager morsels of this mortal realm deaden your desire for heavenly and eternal fare. Open your ears, eyes, heart and be filled with truth and life, so that you may open your mouth and hands, in Spirit filled service to others.
God gave us ears with which to hear, yet most people still do not hear. Jesus is recorded several times as saying...
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Mt. 11:15, 13:43; Mk. 4:9, 23, 7:16; Lk. 8:8; Re. 2:7, 11, 17, 29, 3:6, 13, 22).
Listen to the preacher with the heart. Expect to be enlightened; blessed; and changed from glory to glory (2 Co. 3:18), taken from faith to faith (Ro. 1:17), increasing from strength to strength (Ps. 84:7) and moving from grace to grace (Jn. 1:16).
Listen to the preacher/pastor as an angel/messenger sent from God with a message for you (Re. 1:20). The preacher is God called, God equipped, God anointed. The preacher may be altogether unremarkable in himself, but he is the vessel of God's message to you.
To neglect or disrespect God's preacher is to cut off God's messenger. To cut off God's messenger is to cut off God's message. To cut off God's message is to cut off God.
Read the Scriptures with expectation and listen to the messenger with an eager, hungry, thirsty heart.
Don't allow the meager morsels of this mortal realm deaden your desire for heavenly and eternal fare. Open your ears, eyes, heart and be filled with truth and life, so that you may open your mouth and hands, in Spirit filled service to others.
