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Stop Saying, ‘Yeah, but....’
Proverbs 4:20 gives us another key to clearly hearing God’s voice. It says, “Incline thine ear unto my sayings.” In other words, lean into His WORD, listen to it and receive it by faith. Don’t draw back from it and say things like, “Yeah, I know what the Bible says, but it just doesn’t work for me...I know it says to tithe, but I can’t afford it...I know it says to forgive, but you don’t know how badly I’ve been mistreated.”
The minute you say, “Yeah, but...,” you’ve stopped inclining your ear. You’ve shut out God’s voice and started listening to the devil and he’s going to rob you of your BLESSING.
Peter found this out the first time he went fishing with Jesus. You remember the story. Jesus had borrowed Peter’s boat and spent the morning preaching from it to the crowds on the lakeshore. When He finished, He said to Peter, “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught” (Luke 5:4).
Instead of inclining his ear to what Jesus said, however, Peter argued with Him. He said, “Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net” (verse 5). Then, because he’d already washed his good nets and didn’t want to get them dirty again, he pulled out one rotten net and halfheartedly did what Jesus instructed.
What happened? Peter missed out!
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WORDS ABOUT FAITH
It’s so important for us, as believers, to listen to God’s voice on the inside, with the ears of our spirit. Faith comes when we hear what God is saying through His written WORD directly to us.
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