There will always be voices speaking and trying to shape your identity – the question is, whose voice are we listening to? Because can easily get confused if we listen to all the "voices" around us, especially when we miss taking time to seek to hear God's quiet voice speaking to us.
Plus, someone will always tell us what we want to hear if we look hard enough. This is why it's a good idea to watch our hearts remain uncluttered from our motives, issues, unforgiveness, or fears so that we aren't deceived into hearing, doing, and acting outside of what is God's best for us.
What is shaping your thoughts about your life, who you are listening to regarding your future, and how much you are loved and valued?
Recently I felt Jesus speak to me and say, “my people must get free of this tendency to care about what others think and choosing to listen to others voice more than mine”.
He will always speak hope, love, and the future we have in Him and becoming all we were created to be. He continually encourages us to have an overcomer mentality.
When we understand who and how God has formed and created us and the plans He has for our lives, the more focused on the positives and what matters, we will be. A great key to doing that is to spend time in God’s presence and read His words in the bible, telling of how He feels about us.
Today take a few moments to check in on whose voice you are listening to and how much you may have been limited by your concern of what others think.
Jesus speaks in many ways; through the bible, through miracles, supernatural means, natural means, our circumstances, through our experiences, trials, visions, dreams, and trances, by impacting our mind with a part of a sentence or just a single word that we may not even understand at the time.
Write what you are “hearing” and seeing down. I practice listening to the little things as well as the more important issues of life.
When you choose to listen to Jesus speaking actively, you will suddenly realise just how much He has been wanting to talk with you and also how different His words can be from what others around you are saying.
Listen up to Jesus today because He wants to talk with you!
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“Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD”. (Jeremiah 29:12-13)
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:10)
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Romans 8:37)
Prayer: Lord, please help me to grow to listen to your voice and what you say and think more than anyone else. Thank you that I hear your words to me today. In Jesus' name Amen.
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