Are You Listening

Psalms 81:11-12

11 “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel did not obey me.

12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own plans.

Every failure in life can be attributed to not listening to and obeying God. Listening means we hear what God has to say and we do it. The reason it is a challenge to listen to God is because we often filter what we hear by what we want or what we think. His ways are not our ways, and we will have to deal with our flesh to submit to Him. You need to always remind yourself that His ways are always better.

Believers often think they are listening to God but if we are, then many times our flesh will feel uncomfortable, and we as humans don’t like that. But every time I have ever failed in any area of my life as a believer, it was because I was not fully listening to God. I was either not taking the time necessary to do so, or I was not willing to deal with my flesh to do what God had said. What often seems right to us is not right with God.

Every time I have listened to God, which almost always included me having to crucify my fleshly man to accept God’s way of doing things, I have seen victories in my life. God has never had anyone in the Bible who truly listened to Him walk in defeat. It has never happened. So the question becomes are we really listening to God? If we are, there will most certainly be an uncomfortable part of our flesh to deal with, but the result will always be success.

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