If you have ears to hear the Spirit, use them.

Victorious Christian living requires the courage, honesty, and humility to open wide your heart to the risen Jesus and to other believers. If you will read the Bible with an open heart, what God has said in the past will come alive within you and you will hear Him speaking directly to you.

Near the beginning of the book of Revelation the risen Jesus proclaims numerous times that the Spirit of God is speaking to His people. Are you listening and hearing what the Spirit is saying to your heart? To be led by the Spirit, Christians as members of Christ’s body need to open wide our heart to God’s Spirit and focus our attention on directly hearing what He is now saying inside of us. It’s not enough just to hear a human voice tell us about God. We need to personally hear the present voice of the Spirit speaking within us. It’s urgent that you open your heart to continually hear His “still small voice” and begin to say and do what God tells you to.

If you’re not confident that you’ve been forgiven, you won’t have the courage listen to God’s direct voice. If you will ask for and receive God’s forgiveness whenever you resist His will, then you’ll have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying. Jesus is the reason that forgiveness is always in season!

The Bible never calls the proclamation or teaching of the Good News of Jesus a sermon. A sermon should never be a substitute for hearing what God’s Spirit is saying directly to you. We need to listen to God more than to men.

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