LISTEN!

“LISTEN!” What do you hear? God is speaking to you in various ways but if you do not listen you will not hear. Many people pray and especially in crisis, but if you do not listen to God why should He listen to you? Most of the problems we pray about could have been avoided if we had just listened to God in the first place. And even now the solution is probably not to do more talking but listening. Prayer is talking and listening. People have the blabbing part down but they seem to be hard of hearing. It’s easier to talk than to listen, but you never get any smarter by telling everyone else what you already know. It takes humility to listen because you have to admit that someone else might know more than you. And God surely does, but the less you hear more deaf and dumb you will become. On the other hand the more attention you give to God the more He seems to attend to you. He desires to bless everyone but He still talks more to people who listen – wo imagine that. And it makes perfect sense; does anyone enjoy talking to people who don’t listen? So I suggest that since the Almighty Himself wants to help you that at least once in a while you SHUT UP AND LISTEN! This is really the solution to so many complex problems. You can run around like a rat in a maze consulting and confiding in all the other rats conspiring, concluding, concurring and continuing in your ignorance. Or you can simply listen to and follow the One who sees everything from above and soon be out of your “complex problem.” Then you can go on your way with joy, laughing and free because you have access to information from a Higher Source. So, “LISTEN!”

Job 35:13
13 Surely God will not listen to empty talk,
Nor will the Almighty regard it.
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Ps 81:13-16
13 "Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14 I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the Lord would pretend submission to Him,
But their fate would endure forever.
16 He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you."
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Prov 8:32-36
"Now therefore, listen to me, my children,
For blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction and be wise,
And do not disdain it.
34 Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains favor from the Lord;

Isa 55:2-3
2 Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline your ear, and come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you —
The sure mercies of David.
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Jer 6:16-19

16 Thus says the Lord:

"Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
17 Also, I set watchmen over you, saying,
'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!'
But they said, 'We will not listen.'
18 Therefore hear, you nations,
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people —
The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but rejected it.
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Jer 6:16-19

16 Thus says the Lord:

"Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
17 Also, I set watchmen over you, saying,
'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!'
But they said, 'We will not listen.'
18 Therefore hear, you nations,
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people -
The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but rejected it.
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Mark 4:24
24 And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure[of thought and study] you give [to the truth you hear] will be the measure[of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you — and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.
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