One of the challenges parents face as it pertains to their children is listening. Children do not listen well or listen at all sometimes. Listening is a sign of maturity and children struggle to listen. They may hear what you say, but listening has more to do with hearing and obeying than just acknowledging something was said.

The children of God struggle with the same thing as natural children do. The children of God struggle to listen to God. They may sit in church and hear a sermon, they may watch a video, or hear a podcast, but to do what they heard is not something the children of God are known for.

People can be in church for decades and not change, because they are not listening with the intent of doing anything different. God is our Father, Jesus is our older brother and Savior, we are their children. The Holy Spirit is tasked to bring all things to our rememberance, so we can do what we have heard.

Mark 8:18 says, “Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?” Isaiah 55 says, “Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.”

Friends we must get past spending money on what is not bread. We give so much money to things that do not satisfy, to places that do not produce bread (the word of God in truth). We need to stop laboring just to feel like we are doing something. We must repent of not being listeners.

God has work for us to do; finances for us to enjoy and sow; but it all starts with listening or we are going to be shadow boxing and that is exhausting. The invitation from the Lord is to come to Him, listen, and then you will live. You will produce more than before with less labor because you chose to listen and do what the Lord says to do. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org