The Word to Wisdom

The Art of Listening

This episode is all about how we listen to God's word and bear fruit.  

Mark 4:10 & 13 (NKJV)

10. But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.

13. And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?  

Mark 4:24-25 (NKJV)

24. Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. 25. For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

Mark 4:24-25 (TPT)

24. Then he said to them, “Be diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you hear, for as you do, more understanding will be given to you. And according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more will be added to you.  25. For those who listen with open hearts will receive more revelation. But those who don’t listen with open hearts will lose what little they think they have!

Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV)

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. 

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The True Message of the Gospel

This episode is about the essence of the gospel message that Paul taught in his letter to the Romans, and in almost all of his letters.  This very gospel message was given to Paul by Jesus.  As we meet and listen to the many beautiful people that we know love Jesus, we also see a need and a hunger to have this message of the gospel made even more clear.  This gospel is the centerpiece of our lives, and it should remain the centerpiece in all that we do.

Romans 5:1-2
1. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2. through whom also we have obtained our introduction (access) by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult (rejoice) in hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:1-2 (Emphasis mine)

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Let your words be few

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 (NASB)
1 Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know they are doing evil. 

2 Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few. 

3 For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

Hosea 4:6 (NASB)
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Mark 4:24-25 (TPT)
24 Then he said to them,  “Be diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you hear, for as you do, more understanding will be given to you. 

And according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more will be added to you. 

25 For those who listen with open hearts will receive more revelation. But those who don’t listen with open hearts will lose what little they think they have!”

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This is not a time for fear

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Isaiah 41:8-16 (NLT)

8 “But as for you, Israel my servant, Jacob my chosen one, descended from Abraham my friend,

9 I have called you back from the ends of the earth, saying, ‘You are my servant.’  For I have chosen you and will not throw you away.

10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.  Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.

13 For I hold you by your right hand—I, the LORD your God.  And I say to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you.

14 Though you are a lowly worm, O Jacob, don’t be afraid, people of Israel, for I will help you.  I am the LORD, your Redeemer.  I am the Holy One of Israel.’

15 You will be a new threshing instrument with many sharp teeth.  You will tear your enemies apart, making chaff of mountains.

16 You will toss them into the air,  and the wind will blow them all away;  a whirlwind will scatter them. Then you will rejoice in the LORD.

You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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Loving God

John 14:15 (NASB)
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 14:15 (AMP)
15 If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.

Note: keeping God’s commandments will not produce love for God, but rather, loving God will produce a pattern and ability of keeping His commandments—and keeping His commandments is an action of love. 

1 John 4:19 (NKJV)
We love Him because He first loved us.

What are His Commandments?

1 John 3:22-23 (NKJV)

22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

Matthew 22:35-40 (KJV)

35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

37 -- Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

John 13:33-35 (KJV)

33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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Speak the Living Word

Verses to keep on hand while listening

Matthew 18:19-20 (KJV)

19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Ephesians 6:17

… and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 

Isaiah 55: 11

So will my word be which goes forth from my mouth; it will not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.  

Faith Speaks God’s word
(From my book, Faith that Gets Results) - See it here:  https://johnandlisa.faith  

To pray in agreement together, start to speak and pray things like:

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want (lack).” Psalms 23:1

“No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Isaiah 54: 17

“I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.” Psalms 118:17”

“No plague will come near my dwelling.” Psalm 91:10

“He who has begun a good work in me will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6

“For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 ”

You have to believe your prayer or decree

Mark 9:23-24 (KJV)

23 -- Jesus said unto him, (If you can? All things…) If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes. 24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

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Are You Thriving?

We will thrive when we are deeply rooted in God's Word.

Scripture to have on hand while listening:

John 6:63 (NASB)
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.


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Jesus the living Word

John 1:1-5

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Verses 14-17 

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Romans 1:1-4 

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 

2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 

3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Verses 16-17

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Hebrews 1:1-4 

1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 

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We Are One with Him

"But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." 
1 Corinthians 6:17

This amazing verse says so much about our relationship with the Lord. Listen to this episode and be blessed and comforted in the fact that when you are born again, you and God are one.

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You Are Forgiven

Scriptures to have on hand while listening:

Luke 23:34
Jesus said, Father forgive them for they know not what they are doing. 

Luke 23: 44-46 NLT
44 By this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock. 45 The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle. 46 Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last. 

Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 

33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 

34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

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