The Lord teaches us everyday, if we do listen. He can use anything because He made all things. Today He gave me this little teaching about "If we all hang on to every word of His"
I tell people to listen to Him because I know by experience that listening to Him makes be a better person. I hear from Him everyday, but not like I should. I usually hear from Him about a dozen different times during the day. Yet Isaiah wrote about hearing a voice behind us every time we turn to the right of to the left. (Is 30:21)
Sadly, I confess that I get busy, sidetracked, and start going my way instead of hanging on to every word that comes from His mouth. That creates openings for the wrong things in this world to get at me. So I tell myself that I need to listen to Him more, and that winds up showing up because what is on my heart comes out my mouth, or in my writings if I have to write instead of speak. It is on my heart that I, and so everyone, would listen to Him more. I would that we all would hang on to every word of His, remembering that He never leaves us.
Anyway - this is what He talked to me about this morning:
Luke 19:46-48 saying to them, "It is written, 'AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER' but you have made it a Robber's Den. And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him, and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said
We know that we are the temple of God. So we should know that we are to be a "House of Prayer". Prayer is supposed to be communication between you and Him - both ways. And since He is the Teacher and He never leaves us we should be getting teachings. If we hold on to every word He says then those other leaders in this world who are trying to destroy Him in our lives and not do anything! So if all the people were hanging on to His every word, what could the devils do? Nothing!
I tell people to listen to Him because I know by experience that listening to Him makes be a better person. I hear from Him everyday, but not like I should. I usually hear from Him about a dozen different times during the day. Yet Isaiah wrote about hearing a voice behind us every time we turn to the right of to the left. (Is 30:21)
Sadly, I confess that I get busy, sidetracked, and start going my way instead of hanging on to every word that comes from His mouth. That creates openings for the wrong things in this world to get at me. So I tell myself that I need to listen to Him more, and that winds up showing up because what is on my heart comes out my mouth, or in my writings if I have to write instead of speak. It is on my heart that I, and so everyone, would listen to Him more. I would that we all would hang on to every word of His, remembering that He never leaves us.
Anyway - this is what He talked to me about this morning:
Luke 19:46-48 saying to them, "It is written, 'AND MY HOUSE SHALL BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER' but you have made it a Robber's Den. And He was teaching daily in the temple; but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy Him, and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said
We know that we are the temple of God. So we should know that we are to be a "House of Prayer". Prayer is supposed to be communication between you and Him - both ways. And since He is the Teacher and He never leaves us we should be getting teachings. If we hold on to every word He says then those other leaders in this world who are trying to destroy Him in our lives and not do anything! So if all the people were hanging on to His every word, what could the devils do? Nothing!