Take Heed What You Hear

There is something speaking to you all the time. Every thought you have comes from hearing something. God has a voice, the devil has a voice, your body has a voice, your bank book has a voice, everything in and around you has a voice. It's all trying to tell you something.


Jesus has told the believer, "take heed what you will hear." (Mark 4:24) We hear every voice that is speaking to us, but we have a choice of what we will listen to. It's what you heed (pay attention to, give ear to) that will impact your life. It's what you permit yourself to listen to that will direct your life. If the devil is the father of all liars (and he is, Jn 8:44) and Jesus is the God/Man who has told you the truth which He heard from His Father (Jn 8:40); who then are you going to listen to? You'll hear both voices, but which one will you choose to listen to? Whatever you listen to, that is what you will follow and if you follow it long enough, you will believe what you are following. You'll either end up believing the lie of the devil or the Truth of the Son of Man, Jesus.


Now we come to the place of learning and understanding what part of you is doing the listening. It's your spirit that hears God and His Truth for He is Spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. (Jn 4:23) But it is your body of flesh that hears the devil and his lies. Man was created by God as a three part being; spirit, soul, and body. Your soul (which is your mind, will and emotions) is neutral in hearing. Your mind will agree with either your spirit or your body. Which ever is the stronger of the two, the mind will agree with it. You must have this understanding to be able to make the choice on what you are going to listen to and heed. Here is why it is so important for you to develop your spirit man by feeding on the word of God daily so that your spirit man becomes stronger than body (flesh). Why? you say!


Here is a good example. One morning you wake up and your body says to you, "I'm sick". Now if your mind has not been renewed by the word of God, it will agree with your body and give your body all the reasons and facts why the body is sick. Then your body will say, "I feel sick, I look sick, I sound sick, I smell sick, therefore I must be sick. Then if you continue listening to this voice , you will eventually heed it and accept the fact that you are sick.


Now I want it perfectly understood that this sickness is real. It's a fact that your body is sick. We don't deny this fact, but rather look at the Truth. What does the Truth say? What is the Truth? John 17:17 says, "Your (God's ) word is Truth." Therefore whatever God says is "Truth". It's your spirit that will hear God's voice and if you have been feeding on the word of God daily, your mind will have been renewed to think like God thinks and it will agree with what your spirit is hearing from God. So, what is your spirit hearing from God? "I am the Lord God who heals you" (Ex 15:26), "I will take sickness away from the midst of you" (Ex 23:25-26), "it will be well with you" (Deut 11: 9 & 23), "I have healed you" (Ps 30:1-2), "I will strengthen you on your bed of sickness" (Ps 41:3), " I am the health of your countenance and your God" (Ps 43:5), "I heal all of your diseases" (Ps 103:3), " I sent My word and healed you" (Ps 107:20), " I (Jesus) took your infirmities and bore your sicknesses" (Matt 8:17), " by My (Jesus') stripes you were (past tense) healed" ( 1 Pet 2:24), okay, you get the point. There are hundreds of verses in the bible that speak to your overall wellness and healing.

If you are not feeding your spirit the word of God daily, then your spirit will be weak and will not be able to hear God's truth, because your body of flesh will be more alive than your spirit and your body will clearly hear the voice of your enemy, the devil, and he will say that you are sick and you will agree with him instead of agreeing with God. This is the reason God has told His children, "the just shall live by faith." God has told us that we must live our lives differently than those in the world. To live by faith, you must be able to hear the voice of God in the midst of your circumstances and this will only happen if your spirit is stronger than your body (flesh). Your mind will go either way depending on which is stronger. The good news here is that you are the one who has the choice in which will be stronger, spirit or body. You are the one who chooses what you will feed the most. You'll either consume what God is saying or you'll consume what the world is saying and the truth is, "you are what you eat".

I encourage you this day to begin strengthening your spirit man so that you can hear God when He speaks to you in the middle of that mess you find yourself in, so that you can heed His voice and follow the truth as your way of escape which will get you to the very place that God promised you He would, but the most important thing here is, you must be able to hear Him. Tune in God, tune out the devil. Live out the life God desires for you. What does that look like? It's all in His word. I highly recommend we get into that word and see what it says!